Advanced PSP Music - Excelsa by Playful Scholarship Portfolio - Curriculum

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Advanced PSP Music - Excelsa

Playful Scholarship Portfolio - Curriculum

Excelsa students demonstrate outstanding musical capability, originality, and leadership. Their performance work reaches diploma level or above, showing virtuosic technique, deep interpretative understanding, and stage presence. Their compositions are ambitious, coherent, and innovative — potentially exploring extended tonalities, unusual instrumentation, multimedia elements, or conceptual structures. Their writing and analysis reveal academic sophistication, drawing confidently on wider musical literature and critical theory.

They are central to the school’s musical life, leading ensembles, directing performances, curating events, or composing original works for public showcase. They engage beyond the curriculum — in masterclasses, national competitions, and advanced music theory study — and leave a lasting legacy through their mentorship, scholarship, and artistic excellence.

Criteria

Students of Wimbledon High School GDST

Artistic Distinction and Technical Mastery - Performs with authority, flair, and interpretive insight at diploma level or equivalent. Leads through rehearsal and performance with professionalism.

Creative Innovation and Conceptual Ambition - Produces a highly original and technically accomplished composition or portfolio that demonstrates clear conceptual thinking and audience awareness.

Subject Leadership and Cultural Impact - Shapes the school’s musical culture through event leadership, composition for ensembles, outreach, or national competition success. Models intellectual passion and artistic generosity.