Music plays a unique and important part at Somervale School and is taught in a splendid purpose built Music Centre opened by Michael Eavis in July 2003. The Centre has two classrooms, four practice rooms and a large store. The department boasts a suite of powerful mini-Mac computers with recording and sequencing software and students are able to make sound recordings.

Students are taught Music as part of the National Curriculum and there are plenty of opportunities to learn a musical instrument from flute and violin to electric guitar and drums.

There are numerous extra-curricular activities in Music including a choir, string group, fusion band, rock groups, DJ-ing and Sixth Form Senior Choir.

The Music Department is also a Yamaha teaching school and 60 students have keyboard, electric guitar and drum lessons with our trained Yamaha school teachers. Members of the wider school community are welcome to these lessons which take place after school. The school also offers all Year 7 students the opportunity for Yamaha lessons within the curriculum.

There are lots of opportunities for students to perform in public - these include concerts, our annual carol service, the spring concert and numerous performances in the local community.



Somervale students have enjoyed a very high level of success in Music and have gone on to study at, amongst other places, the Royal Academy,  Sir Paul McCartney’s School of Music in Liverpool and a scholarship at Oxford University.