Editing Eton College (section)

=== Music ===
The current "Precentor" (Director of Music) is Tim Johnson, who took over from [[Ralph Allwood]] in September 2011. The School has eight organs and an entire building for music (performance spaces include two concert venues: the Parry Hall and the Concert Hall). The Salata Auditorium (School Hall) is the largest concert venue in the school, seating about 700 people. The [[Eton College Chapel|College Chapel]] and Lower Chapel also act as a centre of choral music.

The School has a variety of musical groups, including two chapel choirs, a symphony and chamber orchestra, jazz bands, a marching band, a pipe band, a gospel choir, a pop choir, two [[a cappella]] groups and numerous rock bands who regularly perform at open gig nights and more. Music production and technology, as well as musical theatre, have also grown in popularity in recent years. The College Chapel Choir (the main chapel choir of the School) perform three times a week in regular services in College Chapel on top of a rigorous rehearsal schedule. They often perform at other large events such as at [[St. Andrew's Day]], the "Fourth of June", [[Ascension Day]], the [[Carol service|Carol Service]], [[Remembrance Day]], and joint [[evensong|evensongs]] with other chapel choirs, such as those of [[Winchester College]] and [[St. George's Chapel]]. The Symphony Orchestra performs at the end of every term in a large School Concert, which always includes a piece featuring a large solo number performed by a boy. The Summer term School Concert also consists of the "Vale", the [[Eton Boating Song]], which is sung by the most esteemed singers in B Block as they prepare to leave the School. Both the choir (and its complementary boy-run a cappella group, the "Incognitos") and the orchestra regularly tour internationally to countries such as France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Latvia, the USA and Hong Kong. Many instruments are taught, including obscure ones such as the [[didgeridoo]].

The School participates in many national competitions; many pupils are part of the [[National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain|National Youth Orchestra]] and [[National Youth Choir]]. The School gives scholarships and exhibitions for dedicated and talented musicians, as well as honorary exhibitions for boys who have proven their musical ability throughout their time at Eton, though these provide no financial benefit directly. Those with a scholarship or exhibition are entitled to have the [[post-nominal letters]] ''MS'' or ''ME'' depending on what form of award they have. Every year a choral scholarship is also awarded to someone who has proven exceptional choral and singing abilities, but then not in other fields of music. Recipients of this award have typically been choristers at top collegiate and cathedral choirs across the country, such as those of [[Westminster Cathedral]] and [[St. Paul's Cathedral]]. Many boys go on to continue singing in choirs as choral scholars or playing the organ as organ scholars at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]]. Former Precentor Ralph Allwood set up and organised Eton Choral Courses, now the Rodolfus Foundation, which run at the School, as well as at Oxford and Cambridge amongst other venues, every summer.

Every two year, Eton employs a 'Composer-in-Residence', an external professional composer on a two-year contract who normally commissions new music for the main choir, as well as teaching Music GCSE and A Level to most year groups. In 2009, the School's musical protégés came to wider notice when featured in a TV documentary ''A Boy Called Alex''. The film followed an Etonian, [[Alex Stobbs]], a musician with [[cystic fibrosis]], as he worked toward conducting the difficult ''[[Magnificat (Bach)|Magnificat]]'' by [[Johann Sebastian Bach]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1177981/|title="Cutting Edge" A Boy Called Alex (TV Episode 2008)|publisher=IMDb|access-date=4 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/cutting_edge/alex/ |title=''Cutting Edge'' |publisher=Channel4.com |date=26 May 2009 |access-date=3 September 2011}}</ref> Other notable musical prodigies at the School include piano prodigy [[Ryan Wang]] who joined the school in September 2020, now under the guidance of Ms. Jennie-Helen Moston. The School has produced many famous musicians in its history, including [[Hubert Parry]], the writer of the hymn "[[and did those feet in ancient times|Jerusalem]]" and the coronation anthem "[[I was glad]]".