The young scholar
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Stephen Layton: 10 facts about the great conductor
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2. The young scholar
Learning the piano as a teenager, Layton also became a chorister at Winchester Cathedral. He won scholarships to Eton and then King's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar under Stephen Cleobury.