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Gold Medal and Lutine Prize winners 2013 We are delighted to announce the winners of the School’s most prestigious prizes, the Gold Medals in Drama, Technical Theatre and Music and the Junior Guildhall Lutine Prize. 21-year-old Eva Feiler from Bristol is the recipient of this year’s Drama Gold Medal. During her time at the School, Eva’s roles included Feste the clown in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Patsy Rodenburg, and police officer Reggie Fluty in The Laramie Project directed by Wyn Jones. Eva also won the School’s Michael Bryant Award for verse speaking performed at the National Theatre. She is soon to star as Emilia and Dorcas in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale directed by Paul Miller at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. The winner of this year’s Technical Theatre Gold Medal is 21-yearold Charlie Smith from Clacton-On-Sea, who studied on the Theatre Technology pathway and gained the highest marks in his year. During 2012/13 Charlie was Sound Designer on Blood Wedding, Production Manager on Twelfth Night, and Sound No. 1 on Rags. He is currently working as Sound No. 1 on The Little Shop of Horrors at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
In May soprano Magdalena Molendowska, 32, won this year’s music Gold Medal, the prize for outstanding soloists. Magdalena studied at the Music Academy in Gdansk before joining the Guildhall School’s Opera Course to study with Rudolf Piernay. She impressed the judging panel – bass Sir John Tomlinson, The Observer’s chief classical music critic Fiona Maddocks, Music Director of the Royal Opera House Sir Antonio Pappano, Head of Music for the Royal Opera House David Syrus, and the Guildhall School’s Director of Music Jonathan Vaughan – with her performance at the Barbican Hall which included Dvořák’s Songs my mother taught me accompanied by pianist Catherine Norton, and arias from Puccini’s Tosca and Verdi’s Aida with the Guildhall Symphony Orchestra.
Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize went to 17-year-old Matilda Lloyd – the first trumpeter to receive the award. Matilda is the current holder of the Junior Guildhall Trumpet Scholarship and has won several competitions, including Woking Young Musician of the Year, Marlowe Young Musician of the Year and the Guildford Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist’s Prize. Matilda’s sister, Verity, 15, was the Lutine Prize runner-up on percussion.
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• AUTUMN / WINTER 2013