A YOUNG performer is celebrating after being offered a place with a big musical company over the summer.

Taylor Alman will be joining the Youth Music Theatre of 2016 (YMT) and taking part in its new show The Legend of White Bear Lake, which he will perform at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth.

The 14-year-old, who attends Stonehenge School in Amesbury, will be on a two week residential during the summer and the performance will be at the end of August.

More than a thousand young people auditioned over the UK and Ireland and Taylor is said to be thrilled to have been offered such an amazing opportunity.

Taylor has been attending Starcast Performing Arts school for five years. He has performed at the Mayflower Theatre in The King & I, Winchester's Theatre Royal in Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs, auditioned in London for a West End show and also for a part in a Warner Bros film as well as performing in various shows at the Salisbury Playhouse and City Hall.