Due to the illness of one of the music section adjudicators, Dr John Bishop, another had to be found quickly for the currently-running Saltash music, speech and drama festival.
Fiona Chryssides stepped into the breach to judge the instrumental section, which began on Monday evening. Born in Scotland she studied the piano with Raymond O'Connell at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and became a piano accompanist for singers and instrumentalists. She moved to Plymouth in l972, and from l988-92 was director of the University of Plymouth's choral society and orchestra. She regularly examines for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in the UK and abroad.
Monday evening's results are as follows: Instrumental duet 11yrs and under: Kristina Braund and Joel Oliver 84; Instrumental duet 13 yrs and under: Matthew Pitt and May Wood 82; Instrumental duet 15 yrs and under: Coraley Medland and Lizzie Alcock 87, Richard Smith and Henry Wood 86, Dominique and Joel Oliver 85; Clarinet solo junior up to grade 3: Joel Oliver 86; Instrumental ensemble ll yrs and under: Tamar Players 88; Instrumental ensemble 13 yrs and under: Tamar Buskers 87, Tamar Players 85, Coral Higham, Emma Weatherhead and Kirstin McLean 82; Brass solo 12-14 yrs: Dominique Oliver 88, May Wood 87, Matthew Pitt 86; Brass solo 15-17 yrs: Henry Wood 89, Richard Smith 88, Alex Stanbury 84; Accordion solos 18 yrs and over: Hazel Jackson 88, Mary Knight 83, Mark Hawken 82; Accordion recital open: Mark Hawken 84, Hazel Jackson and Mary Knight both 83; Instrumental duet l8 yrs and over: George Roberts and Hazel Jackson 88.