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A soundtrack song for the blockbuster Titanic was one of the numbers performed in a school contest.
And the performance by Tisean Crichlow led her to her winning the Senior Musician of the Year Contemporary category at the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Dover.
Tisean had sung Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On from the 1997 film about the tragic going down of the "unsinkable" liner.
She was one of many students performing to students and staff at the school's Nye Hall Performing Arts Centre for its annual Musician of the Year competition.
Another winner was pianist Anton Nogotkov who played Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu and was named Senior Musician of the Year Classical category.
Runner-up was James Thompson playing saxophone to Ronald Binge’s Romance from Concerto.
Runner-up in the Senior Musician of the Year Contemporary category was guitarist Toby Thorne who played Electric Gypsy by Andy Timmons.
Other awards given were:
Elementary category winner Parisha Rai on clarinet, runner-up Iona Boyd on trumpet.
Intermediate vocal winner Georgina Trimby, runner-up Cherish Mgbejiofor.
Intermediate instrumental winner Harriet Higgs on drums, runner-up Imogen Thorne on flute.
Visiting judge was Steph Godwin who is director of music for the RAF Air Cadet National Concert Band and director of music training for all RAF Air Cadets.
Assisting was Year 12 student Ethel Tendo who is school arts captain.
Alex Foreman Duke of York's principal, said: “Music is at the heart of our school and is taught and played to an extremely high standard, so well done to all the winners.”
My Heart Will Go On, a love power ballad, was released in December 1997, sold more than 18 million copies worldwide and twice became a UK number one in early 1998.
Titani, an epic romance and disaster movie about the 1912 tragedy, starred Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.
It was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and became the highest grossing film of all time for 13 years.
