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OXFORD ORGAN SCHOLARSHIP FOR DURHAM SCHOOL PUPIL

A Sixth Form pupil (and Head of School) at Durham School, David Quinn, has been offered an Organ Scholarship at St. Peter’s College, Oxford.

After attending for auditions and interviews in September, David heard the good news by letter from Dr. Roger Allen, the Music Tutor at St. Peter’s College. The place, which is for October 2010 is conditional only upon David’s achieving the requisite grades in his A-level exams next summer and will enable David to take a GAP year and thus broaden his experiences before going up to Oxford.

The omens for David seem promising – he already achieved four Grade As in his AS examinations in the summer!

David said: “I am absolutely delighted to be offered the scholarship and will now be concentrating on getting the grades required to make this happen.”

In the summer, David was one of only two awarded an Organ Scholarship to the RSCM (Royal School of Church Music) Bath Summer School where he studied choral directing with Adrian Lucas of Worcester Cathedral.