EALING Music Festival was another resounding success as performers impressed organisers with their talents and brought joy to the ears of many residents.

The contests ran from late April until last weekend, finishing with the concerto competition at St Mary's Church, Perivale.

The adjudicators struggled to choose a winner thanks to the quality of the performances and awarded the prize jointly to pianists Andrew Yiangou, who studies at the Royal College Junior Department, and 14-year-old Nuron Mukumiy who studies at the Purcell School. They each won £100 and the opportunity to play with the Ealing Symphony Orchestra next season.

The festival, now 70 years old, encompassed a wide range of disciplines covering strings, woodwind, brass, dancing, speech, drama, piano and vocal.

It was held at various locations throughout the borough and six schools took part in the junior sections.

One of these was Notting Hill and Ealing High School, which scooped both the under-18s choral trophy and recorder ensemble trophy.

Other winners included barbershop singers, Capital Chorus who won the over-18s open choral class.

More than 1,000 performers competed in the different events.

Professor Alan Gillett OBE, chairman of the festival, said: "I was very impressed visiting all the sections, the standard seems to improve every year.

"It was a wonderful festival with such a wide range of talented people taking part, we had performers as young as four in the dance section to senior citizens in the vocal section."