A TAVISTOCK painter and decorator is celebrating after scooping not one, but three prestigious awards at the recent Plymouth Music Festival, held at the Athenaeum Theatre.

Peter Clement, who is chairman of Tavistock Musical Theatre Company, won two cups and a rosebowl in the annual event, which is hotly contested by the best amateur and ex-professional performers in the area.

Peter entered three classes ? opera, musical and Gilbert and Sullivan ? and won all three. He shared the Gilbert and Sullivan first place with Stephanie Kimble-Read, a well known Plymouth soprano.

Peter said he was delighted at his success.

?I went in it a couple of years ago, and last year I came second, which I was a bit gutted about,? said Peter, who said to win all three classes was ?a bit of a feather in the cap?.

The bass baritone is now in rehearsals for performances in Tavistock and Plymouth during the next two months. Tavistock Musical Theatre Company are holding a Christmas concert at The Wharf on December 17 and Peter is also due to appear alongside his co-winner Stephanie Kimble-Read in January, when they take the lead roles in Plymouth Gilbert and Sullivan Fellowship?s production of Yeoman of the Guard at the Theatre Royal.