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PIANIST Lizzie Burgess lifted the 2013 GRAB title with an enchanting singing performance to win the Ribble Valle/s inter-schools talent show, writes Tony Dewhust.


The St Augustine's RC High School


girl, whose ambition is to be a professional musician or to forge a career in The Secret Service, wowed the sell-out crowd at Clitheroe's Grand with her own song. Packed Every Box in My Room, to land the £800 first prize. The talented 14-year-old Year 10


student said: "It means everything to me to win GRAB because this is such a special show.


"The acts were incredible - everyone


who took part Ih GRAB was a winner." Lizzie, a member of the Junior


Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where she is studying piano and voice, also sings in the Halle Youth Choir. She added: "I've sung in public


before, but this was the first time I'd performed my solo work to a live audience. I've been singing since I was five years old and I'd love to' make it part of my life when I leave school. "My other love is learning


languages, and I'm studying Spanish, German and French. I'm also trying to learn Dutch, Latin and Greek in my spare time!'


."You need multi-language


qualifications to stand any chance of being accepted for The Secret Service


and that's my goal if singing doesn't work out."


GRAB judge Gaynor Sutcliffe, who


stars in popular western swing band The Swing Commanders, said: "Lizzie would make an amazing recording artist, because of the purity of her voice ,and she has a gorgeous tone on the piano." Double Trouble, comprising Chloe


Jackson (14) and Emily Billington (15), from Ribblesdale High School, landed the runners-up prize with


their brilliant comedy choreographed


. dance routine. "Double Trouble was a fantastic


act - and much better than anything I've seen on Britain's Got Talent," said


fellow judge Lindz West. . Emily Blllington, whp was generous


in her praise for GRAB winner Lizzie Burgess, said: "Lizzie was brilliant- she deserved to win. To finish in the top three was a dream come true for


Double Trouble." Twelve^year-old Tom Muldoon, who


sang "Stie Said", by Plan B, carried off the third-placed prize, and Steven


l^ncaster. Director of The Grand, said: "It was an incredible night - the standard of the acts, once again, was brilliant. The talent seems to get better and better eveiy year." ' .


Last year's champion, Karen Wilkinson, proved a big hit with the


enthusiastic audience as she returned to The Grand to sing again 12 months after lifting the 2012 GRAB prize. Steered by the Grand's High School


forum members, with support from venue and schools' staff, GRAB 2013 vyill see charities The Solomon Project, which helps to provide school meals for children in Africa, Parkinson's UK and The Stroke Association, all benefit from money raised by GRAB.


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