A gifted young musician who shines on both piano and violin has proved she can master more than just music by scoring top grades across the board in her GCSEs.
Ripon Grammar School student Yanxi Wang, from Ripon who has gained grade 8 in piano and grade 7 in violin, achieved 11 grade 9s and one grade 8 in her GCSEs.
She now plans to study chemistry, biology and maths with further maths or French and aims to study medicine after RGS.
The busy teenager has juggled her studies with music groups including chamber orchestra, senior girls’ choir and help out at with the junior strings. And recently, she helped set up a Ripon Youth Council along with volunteering at Ripon Library after school.
She is also a talented linguist, having impressed judges with her language skills in a prestigious national competition run by the University of Oxford when she was 14. She was runner up in her age category and invited to attend a ceremony at Oxford’s magnificent Bodleian library.
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