Yehudi Menuhin School

Yehudi Menuhin School

Established	1963
Type	Independent day and boarding school Music school
President	Daniel Barenboim
Headteacher	Richard Hillier
Founder	Yehudi Menuhin
Location	Stoke d'Abernon Cobham Surrey KT11 3QQ England Coordinates: 51°18′23″N 0°22′36″W / 51.30641°N 0.37666°W / 51.30641; -0.37666
DfE URN	125428 Tables
Students	73
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	8–19
Houses	Harris House, Music House, White House and Middle Block
Website	www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk

The Yehudi Menuhin School is a specialist music school in Surrey, England, founded in 1963 by violinist Yehudi Menuhin.^[1] The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, Wells Cathedral School, the Purcell School and St. Mary's Music School, Edinburgh.

The school aims to give pupils the best musical education possible, with internationally renowned teachers including Simon Fischer, Natalya Boyarskaya and Ruth Nye. The current Director of Music is Malcolm Singer.

Notable former pupils

References

External links

Official website
Profile on the ISC website

Schools in Surrey

Primary

South Farnham School

Secondary

Special

Pond Meadow School

Sixth Form College

Independent

ACS International School The American School In England Box Hill School Caterham School Charterhouse School City of London Freemen's School Claremont Fan Court School Cranleigh School Dunottar School Epsom College Ewell Castle School Frensham Heights School Greenacre School for Girls Guildford High School Halliford School Hurtwood House King Edward's School Lingfield Notre Dame School Notre Dame School Prior's Field School Reed's School Reigate Grammar School Royal Grammar School Royal School Haslemere St Catherine's School St George's College St James Independent Schools St John's School St Teresa's School Sir William Perkins's School Tormead School Woldingham School Yehudi Menuhin School

Preparatory	Aberdour School Aldro Amesbury School Barfield School Barrow Hills School Belmont Preparatory School Bishopsgate School Chinthurst School Danes Hill School Downsend School Edgeborough School Feltonfleet School Hazelwood School Kingswood House School Lanesborough School Milbourne Lodge School Oakhyrst Grange School Priory Preparatory School Ripley Court School Rydes Hill Preparatory School St Edmund's School

Special	Burys Court School Knowl Hill School St Dominic's School

Former

Category
Commons
List

Music schools in the United Kingdom

Music school

Secondary	Berkshire Maestros Chetham's School of Music City of Edinburgh Music School Kimichi School North East of Scotland Music School Purcell School St Mary's Music School Wells Cathedral School Yehudi Menuhin School

Tertiary	Academy of Contemporary Music Birmingham Conservatoire British & Irish Modern Music Institute Cardiff University School of Music Guildhall School of Music and Drama Iain Tomlin School of Music The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance Leeds College of Music Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts London Centre of Contemporary Music London College of Music London School of Musical Theatre National Opera Studio Point Blank Music College Royal Academy of Music Royal College of Music Royal College of Organists Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Royal Northern College of Music Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama School of Sound Recording Tech Music School Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Wales International Academy of Voice

Military	Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming Royal Military School of Music

Associated organisations	Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Conservatoires UK European Association of Conservatoires

Category

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 228741584 LCCN: no2012000179

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