For the third year in a row former Cranleigh School teacher Mike Tomlinson, who now teaches at the Lebanese Evangelical School in Tyre, brought over a group of eleven pupils and a colleague for a three-week stay at the Horseshoe Lane boarding school.

Thanks to the enthusiasm of Mr Frank Hardee, a special Masters v UVIth Schools Challenge Quiz game was held at 5-30pm on June 19th in the Reading Room

The final evening of the Cranleigh Concert Series was the return visit of Tim Uglow’s period instrument group, Nuove Musiche.

The Meryon Trio took its Merriman Music School audience for an energetic European musical journey on a balmy summer evening.

The sung service included the magnificent Collegium Regale Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, known to all choristers as the ‘Coll Reg’, and Patrick Hadley’s beautiful anthem ‘My Beloved Spake’.

Cranleigh’s own ‘Young Musician of the Year’ competition was named in memory of the late wife of a former Bursar of the School and was held in the Merriman Music School on Friday 16th May.

Marcus Pashley introduced the concert as being one of music ‘on the lighter side’ and the balmy summer evening made this seem even more appropriate.

“A sense of the joy and fun of music-making” was the most striking quality present in the playing of all Cranleigh pianists who featured in the Dashwood Piano Competition.

Sixth Formers Tom Chevis and Edward Griffiths recently had the opportunity to sing in the famous acoustics of Birmingham’s Symphony Hall.

On Tuesday 22 April, two soloists, a string quartet and the Big Band went to Danes Hill and played a informal concert for the pupils and parents.