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38 Merchant Taylors’ Prep School Newsletter - 09.02.2023 MTP Music The Spring Term saw the return of our annual Merchant Taylors’ Young Musician of the Year Competition. Over 70 boys across the Prep and Senior schools entered this year’s Preliminary Rounds, with 22 entries making it through to the Final on Wednesday 25th January. The boys competed in seven classes (strings, woodwind, brass, drums and percussion, voice, guitar and piano), with one winner from each class and an overall winner selected by our adjudicator for the evening, Dan Watson. The final results are listed below. Each class winner received a prize, with the overall winner also taking home the trophy. However, we are hugely proud of all the boys who took part in the various stages of this year’s competition, and we have awarded each of them either a finalist’s or participant’s certificate. Young Musician of the Year Winners, 2023 Strings Class: Alexander Zhang, violin (MTP) Woodwind Class: Iain MacMillan, clarinet (MTS) Brass Class: Kabir Bhatt, trombone (MTS) Drums Class: Amar Dahele, tabla (MTP) Voice Class: Prem Pandya (MTP) Guitar Class: Jack Barratt (MTS) Piano Class: Thomas MacMillan (MTS) Overall Winner: Prem Pandya (MTP) Young Musician of the Year