INSTILLING a love of music is the aim of piano teachers the length and breadth of Ireland and in his latest film, Co Laois documentary maker Ken Wardrop gives an insight into the difficulties, humour, ...

After impressing audiences with family-based documentaries His & Hers and Mom and Me, Irish director Ken Wardrop has taken on a different subject for his new film, Making The Grade. It certainly has ...

For most of us, taking an exam beyond age 50 is not on the agenda. Imagine then, taking the highest-graded practical music exam at the age of 88, and not only passing but achieving a distinction! That ...

Ray Eveleigh, an 88-year-old retired reverend from Kilham, East Yorkshire, has passed the Grade 8 piano exam with distinction, 67 years after taking his grade 7. Grade 8, the highest level of graded ...

Curtis Elton, eight, is thought to be one of the youngest people in the country to pass a Grade 8 level music exam on the piano. He is set to go on a tour of schools and nurseries around the country ...

After he was booted off Britain’s Got Talent, eight-year-old Curtis Elton’s dreams could have been shattered. But the piano-playing child prodigy has just shown his determination after he became what ...