Yehudi Menuhin School

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Yehudi Menuhin School

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Established
1963
Type
Independent day and boarding school
Music school
President
Daniel Barenboim
Headteacher
Kate Clanchy
Founder
Yehudi Menuhin
Location
Stoke d'Abernon
Cobham
Surrey
KT11 3QQ
England
51°18′23″N 0°22′36″W / 51.30641°N 0.37666°W / 51.30641; -0.37666Coordinates: 51°18′23″N 0°22′36″W / 51.30641°N 0.37666°W / 51.30641; -0.37666

DfE URN
125428 Tables
Students
73
Gender
Coeducational
Ages
8–19
Houses
Harris House, Music House, White House and Middle Block
Website
www.menuhinschool.co.uk

The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin.[1]The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh.


Yehudi Menuhin founded the School to provide an environment and tuition for musically gifted children from all over the world to pursue their love of music, develop their musical potential, and achieve standards of performance on stringed instruments and piano at the highest level. The Director of Music is Òscar Colomina i Bosch. Notable teachers include Natasha Boyarsky, Boris Kucharsky, Akiko Ono, Ruth Nye, Richard Wright and Thomas Carroll.


The school is a registered charity under English law.[2]



Notable former pupils


See also: Category:People educated at Yehudi Menuhin School

  • Levine Andrade


  • Nicola Benedetti[3]

  • Halli Cauthery

  • Bobby Chen

  • Beverley Davison

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

  • Tasya Hodges

  • Timur Ibragimov


  • Alina Ibragimova[4]

  • Aleksey Igudesman

  • Hyung-ki Joo


  • Tasmin Little[3]

  • Jacob Shaw

  • Wu Qian

  • Alexander Sitkovetsky

  • Valeriy Sokolov


  • Kathryn Stott[4]

  • Marius Stravinsky


References




  1. ^ Ivan Hewett. "Yehudi Menuhin: the violinist who changed the world". The Telegraph. 


  2. ^ Charity Commission. YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL LIMITED, registered charity no. 312010. 


  3. ^ ab "New Headmaster at The Yehudi Menuhin School". Get Surrey. Retrieved 2017-07-01. 


  4. ^ ab "Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School set to wow audience in Bridport (From Bridport and Lyme Regis News)". Bridportnews.co.uk. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01. 




External links


  • Official website


  • Profile on the ISC website







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