House Music Competition

The House Singing Competition takes place on Saturday 10 October at 9.15am, in the Sports Hall, where each of the four senior houses will perform a part song and then a unison song, the latter involving every member of the house.Prep School pupils are not competing, however, the Prep School Choir (selected pupils in Years 7&8) and the St Nicholas Choir (Year 6 and below), will be performing at the event.The adjudicator for the House Singing Competition this year will be John Moore.

John read music at UEA before studying piano and piano accompaniment at The Royal Academy of Music with Sidney Harrison, Alexander Kelly and John Streets.

After teaching at The Edinburgh Academy for ten years, John became Director of Music at Shrewsbury School, a position he held for thirty-one years, retiring in 2020.John has written music for several BBC and Channel 4 TV series, including Torch, Moonacre, Sara and Silent Mouse as well as music for the Documentary series The Stamp of Greatness.

He has written twelve youth musicals, the latest, Brodie and Co, has just enjoyed a successful run at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as have all his earlier musicals, with Jekyll! winning a coveted Fringe First in 1995.

John is currently Artistic Director of the Shropshire Music Trust and on the committee of the Gregynog Competition for Young Musicians.The Friends of Christ College will be organising a retiring collection.Please note tickets for this event are strictly limited to 4 per family.