Private School News

CLARINET STAR AT NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL

Nottingham High School pupil and professional clarinet player, Jake Hinson, 15, has gained a professional clarinet performing diploma – an almost unprecedented achievement for a person of his age.
Jake, to gain the diploma, performed a recital which included the Stamitz Clarinet Concerto No 3, Weber Concertino and Finzi’s 5 Bagatelles. He was marked on his presentation and professionalism.
Now an associate of Trinity College of Music London and Junior Exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Music, Jake has been taken under the wing of Paul Harris, the UK’s leading clarinet educator and mentor while he focuses on preparing for further diplomas including a Diploma of The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music DipABRSM in November.
“I am thrilled that all my hard practice has paid off and I am reaching my goals,” said Jake. “I can’t thank my parents enough for their support.”
Jake, who has played the clarinet since the age of eight, has secured a number of other notable achievements including coming runner up in the Nottingham Musician of the Year competition in 2009 and winning a prize at the Royal Academy of Music in a major woodwind category in 2010.
In addition, Jake, along with fellow pupils from Nottingham High School, will be travelling to New York in October as part of a Big Band Tour. There he will play Artie Shaw’s clarinet concerto on the well known jazz musician’s original clarinet to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of this great musician’s birth in the spiritual home of Jazz and Big Band.