Cork Leaving Cert student will use €15k music bursary to fund study at Juilliard

He has yet to sit his final Leaving Cert exam but an 18-year-old student from Cork has received the single largest annual classical music in Ireland.

Cork Leaving Cert student will use €15k music bursary to fund study at Juilliard
Tue, 18 Jun, 2019 - 17:56
Jess Casey

He has yet to sit his final Leaving Cert exam but an 18-year-old student from Cork has received the single largest annual classical music in Ireland.

Piano virtuoso, Kevin Jansson, from Wilton, is the recipient of this year’s RDS music bursary, valued at €15,000.

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