Pembroke Academy of Music was setup in 2002 with an aim to provide musical opportunities and education to the local and immediate surrounding community of Pembroke House. Since that time over two hundred local young people have unlocked their musical talents. The Academy now offers fifty-five student places and boasts an impressive roster of nine professional and three voluntary tutors. The tutors themselves are from varied musical traditions - Western Classical, Indian Classical, Cuban, Jazz and RnB – and most are highly recorded and/or successful concert performers.

Each Academy student is offered the chance to learn an instrument of their choice and theory tuition is taught to all students. The weekly subscription is still just seventy pence.

Whilst maintaining a strong local performing presence, the Pembroke Academy has taken projects and collaborations beyond the immediate area of Walworth. Performances have been held at St James’ Piccadilly, the Glaziers’ Hall and the Drapers’ Hall. In 2007 the Academy collaborated for the first time with Pembroke College Cambridge students on two joint concerts in London and Cambridge. Such was the success of the project that this collaboration was repeated with a very successful and well-attended concert at Pembroke College Cambridge in February 2008.

The Academy has been featured on the BBC World Service, in Classical Music Magazine and in the South London Press.

If you have any questions about the Academy or if you would like to see if you may be able to support the work it does in anyway please contact the Music Director:

Benjamin Ellin
Music Director
Pembroke Academy of Music
80 Tatum St,
LONDON SE17 1QR

+44 (0)20 7703 3803


For enquiries regarding financial donations, please contact:

Sam Fleming
Chairman
Pembroke Academy of Music
80 Tatum St
LONDON SE17 1QR

+44 (0)20 7703 3803

sam.fleming@tiscali.co.uk