Marlowe Young Musician of the Year crowned!

Wed 22 Feb 2012

Ana Vandepeer, a 16 year old music scholar from St Edmund's School, Canterbury, was crowned the 21st Marlowe Young Musician of the Year at last night's keenly contested final.

This year's final featured some of the region's most promising musicians, backed by the Kent Concert Orchestra and conducted by John Perkins.

Ana (pictured with Kentish Gazette editor, Leo Whitlock) won the competition with her performance of Bruch's Violin Concerto. She is a music scholar at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and has been playing both the violin and piano since the age of four. She was a violinist in the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain for eight years, playing venues such as Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

The Paul Neville prize went to Barton Court Grammar School student, Summer Alp.