Having witnessed the college's musical talent in the spellbinding production of 'Cabaret' last year. The Rotary Club of Manchester Breakfast approached Loreto to perform as an opening to their prestigious Charter dinner at Hough End Sports Centre.

The Rotarians were thrilled to experience the ‘thundering’ sounds of Loreto’s Percussion Ensemble. The quartet, made up of Loreto AS and A2 music students, opened the evening with a confident and inspired show of technical ability and musical style.

The President of the society, Andrew Goodliffe said “everybody was delightfully stunned by their performance. They really are a credit to the College”.

"The Loreto drummers were a brilliant and stunning start to the Rotary Charter evening. At the end of the evening many people came up and were full of praise for the Loreto students professionalism and skill".

The students involved were incredibly proud to perform at such an event, one of the players commented that "it was such a great feeling to hear how they enjoyed our performance, our teachers prepared us really well for the event"
 
Mr Price, Head of Performing Arts had the opportunity to see the quartet perform on the night "they gave an electric performance that was incredibly professional. At Loreto we have such talented students and we believe that it is important for them to perform in the community as much as possible"
 
As well as developing a choir, chamber choir, string quartet and big band, the Department are now underway with their preparations for this year's musical theatre production: Little Shop of Horrors to be performed in the Ellis and Kennedy Theatre 7-9 December 2011 at 7.30pm. More information about the show will be released when tickets go on sale.