News
Student Successes
This academic year saw Guildhall School students triumph in prestigious award ceremonies, competitions and auditions across the globe. Here are some of the highlights: Raphaela Papadakis (Opera Course) won 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Clonter Opera Prize, while Joshua Owen Mills (Opera Course) won 2nd Prize at the National Mozart Singing Competition. Adam Sullivan (MMus Vocal Studies) won Best Male Performer in the Buxton International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, and Bethan Langford (MMus Vocal Studies) won the John Fussell Trust Award. Duo Alessandro Fisher (MMus Vocal Studies) and Ricardo Gosalbo (MPerf Accompaniment) were winners at the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. Sophie Dee (left)
Over in the Keyboard Department, Minjung Baek (Artist Diploma Piano) won 1st Prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Intercollegiate Piano Competition and also 1st Prize in the Premio Salieri International Piano Competition in Italy. Sophie Dee (BMus Piano) also had a successful year, winning the Piano Section of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League Competition and 1st Prize in the Christopher Duke Piano Recital Competition at the Watford Festival, where fellow Guildhall pianist Mihai Ritivoiu (MMus Piano) was awarded 2nd Prize. Jonathan Morris (BMus Piano) took two prizes in Ireland – the Hamilton Harty Cup and the Anthony Glavin Trophy and Award. Meanwhile, Guildhall pianists swept the board for the second year in a row at the Oxford Music Festival, where BMus pianists Misako Osada, Kristiina Rokashevich and Drew Steanson took 1st, 2nd and 3rd Prizes respectively. Last year’s Gold Medal winner Ashley Fripp (MPerf Piano) won the Prince’s Prize from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and doctoral student Richard Rovirosa (DMus Piano) won 1st Prize at the Emanuel Trophy Piano Competition. Antonina Suhanova (BMus Piano) triumphed at the Jurmala International Piano Competition in Latvia.
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GUILDHALL SCHOOL NEWS
• AUTUMN / WINTER 2013
As part of the increasingly successful Busch Ensemble, Jonathan Bloxham (MPerf Cello) won the Tunnell Trust Award, the Philharmonia MMSF Ensemble Award, the Kirckman Concert Society Award and 2nd Prize in the Schumann International Chamber Music Competition. Classical guitarist Francesco Scelzo (MPerf Guitar) won the Maisie Lewis Young Artists Award and will perform a Wigmore Hall recital next year as a result. Jenny Lewisohn (MMus Viola) was awarded joint 1st Prize in the Kenneth Page Foundation Competition, and Mara Lobo (BMus Cello) won 1st Prize at the Marília Rocha Cello Competition in Portugal. Guildhall ensemble Trio Isimsiz (Pablo Hernan, Michael Petrov and Erdem Misirlioglu) won second prize at the Cavatina Piano Trio competition at the Royal Academy of Music and were selected for management by YCAT. The trio’s cellist Michael Petrov was also successful at the YCAT auditions as a soloist, and was additionally selected as an ECHO Rising Star this year. Guildhall School harpists celebrated successes this year with Rita Schindler (MMus Harp) winning 1st Prize at the Central England Ensemble Concerto Competition, and Solenn Grand (BMus Harp) winning 2nd Prize in the Camac Harp Competition. Zuzanna Olbrys (MMus Harp) won 1st Prize in the Polish National Competition for Duos with her fellow Erasmus student and duo partner Anna Caban (MMus Violin). The Wind, Brass and Percussion Department toasted Sophie Creaner (BMus Recorder), who won the Senior RTE Lyric FM bursary competition, winning the wind section and then going on to win the overall prize. Daniel Harding Israelsen (BMus Percussion) won the Jazz Prize
Sophie Creaner (centre)