Tom Acton Memorial Trust

Bethany Davis writes :- I am in year 10 at Colchester County High School. I started learning the cello at school when I was seven, and began bassoon at Tendring Music School when I was nine. This September I started at the Junior Guildhall School of Music with both instruments. At school, I play cello in the orchestra and sing in the senior choir, and I have just started piano lessons. I play bassoon in Essex Young Peoples Orchestra and Essex Youth Symphonic Wind Orchestra, and sing with Essex Young Singers. I often have very busy school holidays with various music courses and tours, but I love it! I hope to study music at university, and use music in my career if at all possible.

Dominic Skingle aged 11 is from Walthamstow. He is a music scholar at Forest School, Snaresbrook where he studies jazz piano, singing and the harp. He has also just started at Junior Guildhall in London last September where he studies violin and classical piano.

Joseph Ataman aged 15 is from Brentwood. He plays piano and clarinet and at 8 years old he began 5 years as a chorister at Westminster Cathedral. In 2006 he joined the City of London School where he started to learn the organ. He is also a member of the London Youth Wind Band and is junior organ scholar at Brentwood Cathedral.