A 16-year-old musician is presenting a concert to raise cash for an expedition to Ecuador.

Isabel Brough, a pupil at the School of St Helen and St Katharine, Abingdon, has enlisted the help of some of Oxford's finest young musicians.

She needs to raise £3,000, and some of the cash will go to an orphanage in San Vincento, Ecuador, which pupils will visit during the school trip in July 2000. The concert will be at Merton College, Oxford, on Saturday, October 23, at 7pm. Isabel said: "I feel very privileged that Merton College is allowing me the rare opportunity to present this concert, and am thrilled so many of my friends who were with me at my primary school, Greycotes in Oxford, are willing to play and sing.

"The trip is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, and I hope the 16 of us who are going will be able to help those less fortunate than ourselves in San Vincento.

"Planning and organising this concert has been challenging and very exciting. It should be a wonderful event." The concert will include pieces by Bach, Liszt, Brahms and American composer Aaron Minsky.

The New Oxford Consort, which comprises pupils from Abingdon School and St Helen's, will perform a suite by Matthew Locke.

Performers include cellist Alice Faulkner, from St Edward's School, Oxford; organist Peter Siepmann, (Oxford High School); violinist Camilla Scarlette (Royal Academy of Music, London); pianist Alex Soddy, (Magdalen College School), and tuba player Jenny Craig, (St Helen's).

Tickets cost £10 (£5 for students). Call 01865 375085.

Story date: Friday 15 October

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