Over 300 pupils receive individual lessons at school, and many study instruments privately. The department's extra-curricular programme is organised so that performers of all levels are catered for. Instrumentalists are given performance opportunities at every level. Players of orchestral instruments are welcome at either the Junior Orchestra, which rehearses on Mondays after school, or the Chamber Orchestra, which caters for our more advanced players and meets on Wednesday evenings. The Wind Band caters for woodwind players of Grades 3-4 while the flourishing Big Band, under its musical director Tim Redpath, offers opportunities to more advanced players of woodwind, brass, keyboards, guitars and drums.
Choral singing is taken very seriously at school.
All first years sing in the First Year Choir, which performs in concerts at school. Membership of the school's chamber choir, Cantores Roborienses, is by audition and the choir gives frequent public performances. A new lower voices group exists to encourage boys with mature voices to sing, and this group has already given several performances with the chamber choir. The school year has been one of immense achievement and activity for the Music Department. One of the most memorable events of the Autumn Term was Cantores Roborienses' visit to Worcester Cathedral to sing Choral Evensong on October 10th.