CAREER AIMS: Cornet player Phillip Tait hopes to become a professional musician
A YOUNG brass musician is celebrating a hat-trick of successes.
Cornet player Phillip Tait won prizes in the James Etherington Music Competition, Wansbeck Music Festival and Tynedale Music Festival.
The 16-year-old, from Durham City, said: “I would like to think I am playing at the top of my game at the minute.
“It is a psychological gain to win, playing against my friends.”
Phillip, who first picked up a cornet aged four and gained his Grade Eight aged 15, is a member of Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band and the National Youth Brass Band.
Currently a sixth form pupil at Durham School, he hopes to go to music college and become a professional musician.
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