AN audience in east Cleveland has been treated to a musical evening thanks to the piano brilliance of a local teenager.

Richard Simpson, a year 11 pupil at Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough, gave a piano recital at the school for pupils, parents, staff and friends, arranged with the help of his music teachers, Marjorie Oxley and Christopher Wilson.

Richard is a grade eight piano student who plays regularly at Gisborough Hall Hotel.

Lighting for the show was arranged by fellow year 11 pupil John Major and the proceeds of the evening went to the local branch of the Children's Society.