Helen Crayford made her concert début as a cornet soloist, aged three, and one year later won Hughie Green's 'Opportunity Knocks', broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. This led to an invitation from Jack Hylton to appear on his TV show, recorded in a Britannia aircraft, mid-air, en-route for New York. At the age of eight Helen won a scholarship from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, enabling her to become the youngest ever student at the Guildhall School of Music. Her South Bank début was as trumpet soloist in Shostakovich's Piano and Trumpet Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall, when she was still a member of Kent County Youth Orchestra.
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