Study success is music to Linda's ears

You'd be right to accuse Linda Crossley of blowing her own trumpet, but you'd have to add the tenor horn to that list. For the 21-year-old from Upper Cumberworth Village, near Huddersfield, is not only a trained musician but also a graduate with a 2i BA (Hons) Creative Visualisation degree from the Middlesbrough-based University of Teesside.

Linda's interest in music and computers started about the same time and she has been successful in both. As an eight-year-old Linda mastered the paint programmes on her home computer and took up the tenor horn. She played for Thurlstone Brass Band and as an 8th grade musician joined the National Youth Band.

Whilst at University Linda continued with her music and joined the Yarm & District Brass Band. Linda's computing and creative interests drew her to the University of Teesside's degree course in Creative Visualisation.

She said: "The course satisfied all my interests and I'm really pleased with my degree. It was a combination of computing, art and music which came together for my final year project where I had to animate a piece of music from the band REM story using images, photos and artwork, it was almost a pop video on a CD.

"The skills I now have will give me options of working in television, advertising, 2D computer or freehand graphics."

Linda is a former pupil of Shelley High School in Huddersfield and is the daughter of Peter and Rita of Crossley of Hollybank Avenue, Upper Cumberworth.

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