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Harpenden Musicale

Harpenden Musicale Harpenden Musicale

Musicale – a very potted history

1977

Started in Gill and David Johnston’s front room

1978

Rooms hired out in the High Street Methodist Church

1979

Private houses used for visiting trainers

1982

Harpenden Musicale performs at a packed Royal Festival Hall, London

1983

Harpenden Musicale opens a retail shop

1984

First Musicale Holiday outside Harpenden takes place in Salisbury

1986

Harpenden Musicale becomes Musicale PLC and moves everything under one
roof, in the shape of a three storey Edwardian house with concert hall attached,
housing a three manual organ, all set in a beautiful garden.

1987

Harpenden Musicale performs to a packed Barbican Hall, London

1991

Harpenden Musicale forms Lyons Musicale Ltd and acquires the license to
manufacture and distribute the Lyons C Clarinet worldwide

1992

Harpenden Musicale performs again at the Barbican Hall, London

1993

Harpenden Musicale starts a Primary Schools’ Peripatetic Instrumental Scheme

2000

After 14 wonderful years with a board of directors ‘anyone would give a million
dollars for‘ , Gill and David Johnston buy out their shareholders and move the
whole operation to Homecroft, a derelict group of buildings on the edge of the
St George’s School site. After complete renovation, the building houses 12
music rooms, 3 offices, a library, a storage facility and the shop.

2010

Harpenden Musicale renews its lease with St George’s School and continues its
unique partnership with the school, which includes providing a peripatetic
service for the school’s pupils, and also hiring the schools facilities and boarding
houses for the Musicale Young Artists’ Programme and Summer Holiday Music Leisure

2013

And the story goes on - come and join us - music leisure for children and adults

View my website http://www.musicale.co.uk/

My Location

Harpenden Musicale

Homecroft
Sun Lane
Harpenden
AL5 4GJ

Telephone: 01582 713 333
Email: david.johnston@musicale.co.uk
Website: http://www.musicale.co.uk/

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