Strings

Head of Strings Sarah Drury conducts the Chamber Orchestra, regularly works with the Sinfonia and coaches chamber music on a weekly basis. The opportunity for strings players to become involved in music making at Sherborne is extensive: whilst the string quartet and two of the piano trios have entered the National Pro Corda chamber music competition in 2010, the Chamber Orchestra is busy giving performances in local churches and as part of the annual Prep Schools' Orchestral Day, the cello quartet features regularly in lunchtime recitals and the electric string quartet played in the RocSoc Concert in the Courts in 2009.

There are a large number of guitarists at Sherborne. A 41 piece guitar group was formed in 2009 for a strings competition: this has become a popular ensemble and will feature in the grand opening of the new music school in July 2010. There are also two classical guitar ensembles, electric guitarists have the opportunity to join RocSoc and form a band, and acoustic guitarists participate in two annual Unplugged concerts. A 2009 innovation was the forming of a bluegrass group who have recently made a CD.

A string quartet.

A guitar group.