A composer has returned to his old East Yorkshire school to help fill it with music.
Jason Carr, a composer, pianist and musical director officially opened Pocklington School's new £80,000 music school.
Created from the school's assembly hall, the new music school includes a large recital room, seven practice rooms for individual instrumental teaching, a large keyboard suite equipped with 15 keyboards and four PCs and a room dedicated to GCSE and A-level composing.
Jason was a pupil at the school from 1980 to 1985. He won the Vivian Ellis Prize for young writers of musicals in 1988 and was invited by Peter Hall to compose the musical Born Again. Jason is currently associate composer at the Chichester Festival Theatre where his music and lyrics for a new musical of The Water Babies, by Charles Kingsley, will be directed by Jeremy Sams.
Updated: 10:01 Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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