Oxbridge Success for former CCCS Choristers
We are delighted to share that two former CCCS Choristers have been given places to study music at Oxford University in September.
Alex Somerville (an ex-Worcester Chorister, trombonist and current music scholar at The Oratory) will be studying at The Queen's College, and Luca Taylor (an ex-Cathedral chorister, harpist and current music scholar at Bradfield) will be at St Peter's College... where he will join the current organ scholar, ex-Worcester Chorister Sebastian Murray! Both Alex and Luca were also awarded Choral Scholarships alongside their academic places.
On a similar theme, anyone who watched 'Carols from King's' on BBC One at Christmas will have seen ex-chorister Alex Winnifrith on the back rows of the choir. Alex is in his first year at Cambridge as a choral scholar, and follows in the footsteps of Binath Philomin: another CCCS chorister who sang at King's whilst studying at Cambridge. Do spot their names on our scholarship boards when you are next in the dining hall!
On his success, Alex kindly shared the below with Ms Biddell:
'On Tuesday, I was delighted to receive an offer from The University of Oxford to read Music. This was the culmination of the development of my musical and wider academic abilities through study within school and outside of it. The foundations for all of this were laid here at CCCS, where I was introduced to a high level of music by being a Worcester Chorister and by participating in school choirs and playing trombone for the wind and brass bands and the school orchestra. Since moving to my senior school, The Oratory, I have nurtured these talents as I have continued my singing within the chapel choir and through numerous school ensembles. Additionally, I am excited to continue my choral singing as I have been awarded a Choral Scholarship at The Queen's College. I am grateful to both schools for the opportunities and teaching that I have received, particularly to the foundation laid by Miss Biddell at CCCS, as without it, I find it unlikely I would have developed such a passion for music at such a young age.'
We are thrilled and wish the boys every success!
