Ines Ferreiro's teaching week, 7 to 13 September

14:30 30 min · Studio 2

Ola played the Bréval through without stopping for the first time.

Student

Ola Adeyemi, cello, grade 4

Left with

Second movement to memory, scales in D and A

Entry

Grade 4 entry closes Monday 14 September

Taught

15:15 45 min · Studio 2

Marguerite Villanueva-Oyelaran is in the room now, on her last musicianship session before the aural paper.

Student

Marguerite Villanueva-Oyelaran, musicianship

Aural paper

on Friday 2 October at 09:30 in the Hall

Attendance

Eleven of eleven sessions this term

In progress

16:15 30 min · Studio 2

Amara moved to 16:15, third change this term.

Student

Amara Boateng, cello, grade 2

Moved from

15:15 on 28 August, then 16:45 on 4 September

Asked by

Kofi Boateng, by text, 09:12 this morning

Needs a time Confirm 16:15 Offer another time

17:00 45 min · Studio 2

Teodor's lesson and the Friday string sectional both hold Studio 2 at 17:00.

Student

Teodor Ilić, viola, grade 6

Also booked

String sectional, Dominik Reiss, 17:00 to 18:30, fourteen players

Free

Studio 4 from 16:45, and it holds a viola stand

Room clash Move to Studio 4 Ask Dominik

18:00 60 min · Studio 4

Bea has an hour rather than the usual thirty, for the Elgar she is playing in December.

Student

Bea Coughlan, cello, grade 8

Working on

Elgar concerto, first movement, from bar 68

Concert

on the evening of Saturday 12 December, in the Hall

19:15 45 min · the Hall

Nadia and Jonah play together for the first time since Nadia changed to the three-quarter cello.

Students

Nadia Farkas, cello · Jonah Reyes, violin

Working on

Handel–Halvorsen passacaglia, opening to bar 40

Note

Nadia's endpin is two turns shorter than last term

Not placed 30 min

Kwame missed 28 August, and his make-up has nowhere to go.

Student

Kwame Mensah, cello, grade 3

Missed

Friday 28 August, room flooded

Free here

Wednesday 16:30, Saturday 12:45

Needs a time Take Wednesday 16:30 Ask the office

16:00 30 min · Studio 4

Isolde started her grade 5 pieces and took the scale sheet home.

Student

Isolde Renner, cello, grade 5

Left with

Scale sheet, Fauré Après un rêve

Taught

16:45 30 min · Studio 4

Samir has now missed two of the last three Mondays.

Student

Samir Qureshi, cello, grade 1

Missed

the lessons on 24 August and on 7 September

Told

The office wrote to Aisha Qureshi on 8 September

Not attended

15:30 60 min · the Hall

Junior strings ran with eight players, two of them on school instruments.

Group

Junior strings, years 4 to 6

Borrowing

Hana Sato, quarter-size cello · Callum Byrne, half-size cello

17:00 45 min · Studio 2

Peter's shift pattern changed and Tuesdays now suit him better than Thursdays.

Student

Peter Nkemelu, cello, adult beginner

Moved from

the 18:15 on a Thursday, from 1 September

15:00 30 min · Studio 2

Hana's bow needs rehairing before her assessment on 25 September.

Student

Hana Sato, cello, grade 2

Assessment

on Friday 25 September at 16:00 in Studio 2

15:45 30 min · Studio 2

Callum is back after four weeks away with a broken wrist.

Student

Callum Byrne, cello, grade 1

Away

from 12 August until 8 September

Left with

Open strings only, ten minutes a day

16:30 30 min · Studio 4

Yusuf sight-read the whole of the grade 3 list piece.

Student

Yusuf Demirci, cello, grade 3

Left with

Squire Tarantella, first page

16:00 30 min · Studio 2

Marguerite Villanueva-Oyelaran read the Saint-Saëns down a tone and kept going.

Student

Marguerite Villanueva-Oyelaran, cello, grade 7

Left with

The swan, at pitch, from bar 12

16:45 30 min · Studio 2

Teodor brought his sectional part, and it reads in the treble clef throughout.

Student

Teodor Ilić, viola, grade 6

Left with

Treble-clef reading, eight bars a day

17:30 90 min · the Hall

Chamber coaching ran three groups, and the trio is a player short until Nadia's cello is back.

Groups

Two quartets, one trio

Short

Nadia Farkas, instrument with the luthier until 14 September

09:30 90 min · the Hall

Saturday strings is twenty-two players, the largest it has been since the school opened the junior group.

Group

Saturday strings, all ages

Playing

Warlock Capriol suite, movements one, three, and six

Chairs

Twenty-four set out, four stands short

11:15 45 min · Studio 2

Bea takes the Saturday slot as well in the eight weeks before the concert.

Student

Bea Coughlan, cello, grade 8

Extra until

Saturday 5 December

12:15 30 min · Studio 2

Isolde's mother asked to sit in on this one.

Student

Isolde Renner, cello, grade 5

Also there

Petra Renner