THREE pint-sized musicians left audiences spellbound at a concert in St Mary's Church, Barton this week as they raised hundreds of pounds for good causes.
Nine-year-old violin prodigy Orchid Harvey, from Barton, appeared onstage alongside fellow violinist Skye El-Shirbiny, 11, and cellist Zak El-Shirbiny, 13, playing a pitch-perfect array of Bach, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky on Monday afternoon.
The trio were received with ecstatic applause and returned for an encore with Brahms' Lullaby.
About £680 was raised at the event, which will be split between the church in Bayswater Road and the Tariro Christian Technical School in Mozambique.
Sarah Porter of Beecher Acoustics Ltd, which provided instruments for the event, said: "It went very well.
"We had a full house and it was a lovely opportunity for the youngsters to play. They really rose to the occasion.
"Everyone was a bit gobsmacked by how wonderful it was."
Orchid, who goes to Sandhills Primary School, is the youngest member of the Oxfordshire Schools’ Symphony Orchestra and a Leverhulme Scholar with the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain, a special honour granted to only 20 children in the country.
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