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Guildhall School of Music & Drama • Annual Report 2010/2011
Student Successes (cont’d) Peter Foggitt (MMus Piano) won the Croydon Concerto Competition
Raphaela Papdakis
Ben Schoeman (DMA Piano) won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music in South Africa Alexandra Dariescu (Piano Fellow) was awarded the Romanian Ambassador’s Award for Musical Achievement
Other prizewinners included: Jonathan Bloxham (BMus Cello) won 1st Prize at the Weiz Conducting Competition 2010
Raphaela Papdakis (Postgraduate Voice) won 1st Prize at the CourtneyKenny Award of the Association of English Singers and Speakers
Jennifer Lee (DMA Piano) and James Sherlock (PACC) both won prizes at the Maurice Ravel International Music Academy
Liz O’Brien (BMus Bassoon) won Ireland’s top woodwind competition – the McCullough Cup and RTÉ Lyric FM Award
Jessica Zhu (MPerf Piano) won 1st Prize at the Hastings International Concerto Competition
John Paul Ekins (AIS Piano) won 1st Prize in the Christopher Duke Piano Competition 2011
Martyna Jatkauskaite (Piano Fellow) won 1st Prize in the Giorgos Thymis International Piano Competition in Greece Eleanor Laugharne (Opera Course) won the Maggie Teyte Prize 2011 along with a recital at the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House and a Miriam Licette Scholarship.
the Spotlight Prize 2011, awarded each year to the best actor graduating from one of the Conference of Drama Schools, was won by Kurt Egyiawan. In Junior Guildhall, a string chamber group made up of Didier Osindero, Scarlet O’Shea (violins), Millie Ashton (viola) and Georgina Lloyd-Owen (cello) and coached by Darragh Morgan, won the ‘12 years and Under’ category of the Pro Corda National Chamber Music Festival 2011. A further four groups from Junior Guildhall progressed to the semi-finals. In October 2010 two Junior Guildhall Jazz ensembles – Blue Shift and Friendly Bacteria – were invited to perform at the 606 Jazz Club in Chelsea as a result of their success in the
Joshua Miles in Bully Boy
Kurt Egyiawan
In the Drama department, two final-year actors left the Acting programme early to take up roles: Joshua Miles won a part in twohander Bully Boy written by Sandi Toksvig, staged at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton; and Dani de Waal took on the role of Sophie in Mamma Mia! in the West End. Meanwhile
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Yamaha 2010 National Jazz Competition. Three Junior Guildhall pianists, Chantal Osindero, Imy Luc and Maria Luc, were selected through the Jaques Samuel Piano Festival 2010 to perform at the Wigmore Hall in December 2010.