Kingshill schoolgirl takes home top musical prize (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Kingshill schoolgirl takes home top musical prize

CIRENCESTER Kingshill schoolgirl Lizzie Lester, 15, has won first prize in the woodwind heat of the Rotary Club of Great Britain Young Musician of the Year.

This year Lizzie played the flute, in 2004 she was the overall runner up, playing the recorder.

She is no stranger to performing in public since last year she was also invited to play the recorder in a professional capacity in two performances of Handel's Acis and Galatea with two period instrument orchestras, the Bristol Sinfonia and the Corelli Orchestra.

And she is a regular performer at the Cirencester Early Music Festival of which her father, Richard, is director.

Aged only 11 Lizzie was awarded the Guildhall School of Music and Drama performance diploma with honours, and last year she made a CD called Lizzie Live, the proceeds from which will be donated to Kingshill School music department for a new keyboard.