Music Department
The Music Department aims to provide all girls with the opportunity to expand their knowledge and experience of all musical genres. At North London Collegiate, we place strong emphasis on the classical western music tradition, both within the curriculum and through concert performance.
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The Department has four fulltime members of staff.
Mr Lawrence Haigh - Director of Music: BMUS Hons Edinburgh University; Post Graduate studies in trumpet at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music; PGCE at Homerton College, Cambridge. Studied Composition and Harmony and Counterpoint with Professor Kenneth Leighton, Head of Music at the City of Ely Community College, 1988. Assistant Director of Music at North London Collegiate School from 1991 and Director of Music from 2003.
Mr John Haythornthwaite (Director of Music, Junior School) BMus LRAM, is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he studied singing with Elizabeth Ritchie. Since graduating he has appeared as a soloist with the London Mozart Players, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Northern Chamber Orchestra and has performed Opera & Oratorio in Switzerland, Germany and Ireland as well as all over the UK. He has taught singing at Italia Conti, Millennium Dance 2000, Liverpool Anglican Cathedral and at the Cavendish School in Camden. He is Artistic Director of the Music ‘n’ Motion Performing Arts Courses for Children at the Royal Academy of Music and is a singing adviser to the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In 2008 he was appointed as Director of Junior School Music at North London Collegiate.
Mr David Lawrence - Class Music Teacher and Piano Teacher: BMus London, LRAM piano teaching, ARCM in piano accompaniment. Rehearsal pianist for the LPO. Head of Department at Peterborough and St. Margaret's School 1993.
Mr Steven Berryman – Assistant Director of Music : BMus (Hons) Cardiff University; MMus Advanced Musical in Studies, Royal Holloway (London); Studied composition with Simon Holt and Phillip Cashian; Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. Currently pursuing a PhD in Composition with Anthony Powers and Judith Weir (Old North Londoner) at Cardiff University. Assistant Director of Music at Clayesmore School 2004, and Assistant Director of Music at North London Collegiate School since January 2009