MUSICSIXTH form students approaching the end of their stay at Ryde School left on a high note with an impressive recital concert.
Organised for pupils to gain stage experience in front of an audience, the recital featured solo and group vocals and instrumentals.
Luke Johnson began proceedings with a piano solo of Joanna MacGregor’s Low-side Blues, before Amy Joyce and Amy Hart superbly performed a duet of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu.
Roberta Keating gave outstanding performances of Schonberg’s I Dreamed a Dream, as well as earning the loudest applause of the night, following her duet with music teacher Tressa Lambert of Time To Say Goodbye.
Gabby Warren-Smith superbly performed a piano solo from Liszt, while Charlotte Tobitt on the clarinet gave two studies of Wedemann and Rose.
More impressive vocal solos were delivered by Kathryn Wilkie, singing Nice Work, by Gershwin, and Abigail Pilkington, performing Where Is It Written? by Bergman.
Most of the students returned to the stage to perform other pieces, complimented by comical duo Oliver Gully and Kit Courage, who kept the audience entertained as hosts.
The biggest laugh of the night greeted the group vocal finale, as Oliver and Kit, dressed in costume, joined the other performers for Britney Spears’ Hit Me Baby One More Time and a medley from The Sound of Music.
Reporter: mattw@iwpcmail.co.uk