Twenty young Island musicians have been awarded grants to further their musical studies by West Wight Arts Association (WWAA) who run and fund a Bursary for this purpose every two years.
The recipients range from 11 to 18 and played a wide variety of instruments or sang to a panel of WWAA trustees last weekend.
They also answered questions about their music making and what they would spend an award on; their answers ranged from help with funding further music lessons, travel to lessons to better instruments or equipment.
The panel were treated to performances on piano, saxophone, drums, clarinet, violin, cello, trombone, guitar and voice from students from six different schools on the Island. The judges were deeply impressed by the standards achieved and the aspirations expressed by the musicians.
Organiser Pam Wedgwood said,
“We had a wonderful response to our initial appeal for Island music students and it was very hard to shortlist applicants to start with.
“Then on the audition day it was very difficult to decide who our major award winners should be as the standard was so high.”
News shared by Judith on behalf of West Wight Arts Association. Ed
