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KINGS SCHOOL ELY – NEW GIRL CHORISTERS ADMITTED TO CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION

Watched by families and friends, five pupils of the King’s School Ely have been formally admitted as members of Ely Cathedral Girls’ Choir and welcomed as the newest members of the Cathedral Foundation.

The five, Oona Gradwell, Georgia Schneider, Anna-Rose Sliwinski, Anna Hamilton and Emma Jones were presented to the Dean, the Very Rev Dr Michael Chandler, by the director of the Girls’ Choir, Louise Reid.

The Girls’ Choir was established in September 2006 following the appointment in 2004 of musician, Sue Freestone, as the first female head of King’s, East Anglia’s oldest independent boarding school.
Girl choristers, aged 13-18, are all boarding pupils in the Senior School. The school funds the girls’ choral bursaries and all associated staffing costs so there is no drain on the cathedral’s resources.

Photo: The Dean, the Very Rev Dr Michael Chandler, and the Head of the King’s School Ely, Mrs Sue Freestone, with from left, Oona Gradwell, Georgia Schneider, Anna-Rose Sliwinski, Girls’ Choir Director Louise Reid, Anna Hamilton and Emma Jones