A MUSIC student from Barrowford has been named as Pendle’s most promising young musician in a competition.
Cellist Ruth Hallows, 21, was given the lion’s share of the Pendle Young Musician’s Bursary after impressing judges at Colne’s Municipal Hall with renditions of works by Mendelssohn and Bruch.
She is in the final year at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff and after first picking up her instrument at the age of 12 is now studying under some of the country’s leading exponents.
Other finalists – singer Georgina Parker, 17, bassoonist Sarah Hoyle, 18 and 19-year-old vocalist Jack Herbert – will also share in the £12,000 bursary prize, according to their future study needs.
An added bonus for the audience at The Muni came when the four young musicians who performed at the first-ever bursary competition, two years ago, returned to perform.
They included saxophonist Emma Johnson, with her jazz quartet, Jade Brett and Laura Schofield from The Ardenettes singing group, and singer Samantha Oxborough, who is studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
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