Felix Hughes (‘cello)
Felix was born in 1998 and started playing the cello at the age of four years. He studied for many years with Richard May, during which time he joined the Royal Academy of Music Primary Department and has since progressed to the Junior Department. Currently studying with Guy Johnston, Felix most recently won the South [...]
Keri Tsang (harp)
Keri was born in 1998 and dreams of becoming a music teacher when she is older. She lives in Leeds and has been playing the harp for the last four years; however her progress was being hindered by her instrument which was too small and did not produce a big enough sound to enable her [...]
Joy Becker (violin)
Joy plays the violin and had approached Future Talent when she was 14, at a time when she was trying to rebuild her musical life. She had very little confidence in her abilities as a musicians and performing in front of an audience was proving to be a huge challenge, with a concert platform reducing [...]
Helena Buckie (violin)
Helena began playing the violin aged three and ever since then, music has been Helena’s passion and given her the greatest enjoyment. Her first ever concert was in West Road, Cambridge at the age of three. Here she demonstrated to a packed auditorium how she could handle her bow with a hula hoop balanced on [...]
Pilsun Eu (violin)
Pilsun began to learn the violin at the age of six and being awarded a bursary from Future Talent has enabled him to join the Oxford Central Music School and become a member of the Oxfordshire Schools’ Symphony Orchestra, where he leads the second violin section. Playing in a more advanced orchestra has enabled Pilsun [...]
Georgina Bloomfield (violin)
Georgina Bloomfield is 9. She loves music and performing and had her first violin lesson when she was nearly 6. When she was 7 she gained a distinction in her grade 5 exam. She is a member of the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain for the third year and she has performed as a [...]
Laura Newey (violin and piano)
Laura was born in 1999 and began to play the violin when she was three and the piano three years later. She won a place in the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain aged six – their youngest ever member and has won places in the Orchestra in each subsequent year, including Leverhulme scholarships for [...]
Hannah Allaway (harp)
Hannah is 14 and is from Herefordshire and currently holds Grade 8 on piano and clarinet and Grade 7 on the harp, each with distinction. Future Talent has been supporting Hannah since July 2009, when we provided funding towards the cost of her own harp, which replaced the smaller borrowed instrument she was using previously. Owning [...]
Sam Armstrong (electric guitar)
Sam was given his first guitar when he was 14 and has been in love with music ever since. He taught himself to play using the internet, watching local musicians jam and with help from friends. Owning a guitar clearly unlocked a hidden talent in Sam and since then he has not stopped playing! Despite [...]
Carl Austin (viola)
Carl started learning the viola at the age of ten, initially using a violin, restrung with viola strings. Shortly after beginning lessons, Carl joined Chetham’s School of Music, where he was advised that he was too old to learn a string instrument; however Carl persevered. Less than five years later he was accepted into the [...]
Martha Bagnall (‘cello)
Martha is 14 and began playing the cello when she was eight years old, after hearing her cello teacher give a demonstration in front of her class at Bishop Loveday School in Banbury. “I knew what I wanted to achieve: being able to play as well as my cello teacher.” (Martha Bagnall) Martha started learning [...]
Nicola Beazley (folk violin)
Nicola started playing violin while she was at primary school and quickly showed a natural talent for performing live. Over the years she has greatly extended her repertoire adding flute, piano and voice to her list of graded instruments. Having won the Future Talent Champions Gold award in Rochdale in 2010, Nicola used her prize [...]
Daniel Bovey (classical guitar)
Daniel began playing guitar at a young age playing bass and electric guitars in rock and jazz styles. At the age of 16, he changed his focus to classical guitar, after which he was accepted into the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Daniel’s achievements to date include an ATCL recital diploma, 1st place [...]
Jordan (violin)
Jordan is from Perthshire. He was receiving violin lessons at school, where he was also a member of the Elementary String Orchestra. Jordan was in need of some funding to enable him to receive individual lessons, which would help him to develop his talent. Future Talent awarded funding to enable Jordan to receive private violin [...]
Edward Tomanek-Volynets (violin and piano)
Edward was born in 2002 and used to spend hours in front of the television watching classical concerts, imitating the violin with his tennis racquet. Edward received his first violin lesson at the age of three. Future Talent has been supporting Edward since the age of six when he received funding towards his violin lessons. The [...]
Prishita Maheshwari (violin)
Prishita, had only been playing the violin for two and a half years when she approached Future Talent for support. She was a member of the Junior Academy of the Royal Northern College of Music, where she played in the JRNCM String Orchestra and quartet, and also studied advanced aural and harmony. Prishita was also [...]
Richard (‘cello)
Richard is from London and had been studying at the Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama for three years when he applied to Future Talent for support. Future Talent was able to provide funding to enable Richard to continue his studies at Guildhall and also lent him a cello, which he used until he was [...]
Melissa Mayer (‘cello)
Melissa started to play the piano at the age of three and when she was seven she also began to learn the cello. She made excellent progress and quickly progressed through all her graded exams. Melissa played in baroque chamber groups, string orchestras and the Oxford Sinfonia. She also successfully auditioned for the Oxfordshire County [...]
Alice (‘cello)
Alice has played the cello and piano since the age of five and is a former Principal cellist of the Bolton Training Strings Orchestra and Bolton Junior Youth Orchestra. Alice is also a member of New Century Strings – Bolton’s advanced youth string orchestra. Funding from Future Talent enabled Alice to increase her weekly 30-minute [...]
Molly Becker (violin)
Molly is from Bolton and having three string-playing siblings, there was never any doubt to what she would do … as Molly declared when she was just two years old: “I am a violinist!” Molly started lessons when she was four and has been playing with Bolton Music Service ensembles ever since and is currently [...]
Jack Foster (folk guitar)
Jack began playing brass and drums at primary school at the age of eight, thanks to a school visit from Rochdale Music Service. His interest in music quickly grew to cover all different kinds of music so that by the time Jack started secondary school he gave up brass to focus on percussion. He also [...]
Toby Hughes (double bass)
Toby started playing the double bass when he was nine years old due to an initiative within his county to offer free lessons on the ‘not so popular’ orchestral instruments. When he was twelve he auditioned and was offered a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and three years later he became [...]
Mark Reinski (violin)
Mark was born in 2001 in London. Under the tuition of his mother, Lydia, Mark began to show signs of real musical talent. From the age of Four, Mark has performed as a soloist in The Russian Choir Rosinka led by his mother Lydia. At the age of 5 Mark started learning the piano and [...]
Willard Carter (‘cello)
Willard started learning the cello when he was 4 years old, with Liz Anderson. When he was 8 years old, Willard became a chorister at Wells Cathedral School and continued to learn the cello with Liz at Wells. Willard’s love of singing, and specifically of choral music, has meant that despite the long daily commitments [...]
