ROBERT Foster, a percussionist with the Mount Charles Youth Band in St Austell, Cornwall, won The TES Bursary of pound;1,000 on the last night of the Schools Prom last week.
The 16-year-old is studying A-level music at St Ausell College and hoping to gain a BTech National Diploma in popular music.
His ambition is to play timpani with a top orchestra.
The bursary will help him to attend percussion workshops across the country.
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