Ballard-Cooper, Layla, 2003-

In 2019 Layla Ballard-Cooper(16) from Norwich had been a student at St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh for four year where she studied with Duncan Strachan.  Layla is also a member of the National Youth Orchestral fo Great Britain. In 2021 she won top prize at Edinburgh's St Mary's Music School, the prestigious Directors’ Recital Prize (DRP), presented annually by Scotland’s national music school.