Musician of the Year Competition Final

MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR COMPETITION FINAL BOYD CAMPBELL HALL WEDNESDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2022

6PM Adjudicator: Mr Bob Chilcott

Musician of the Year All category winners of early February’s House Music Competition compete this evening for the prestigious title of Musician of the Year.

2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

Past Winners 2015 Jake Gelernter Kassem Azzawi Samuel Smith 2014 Thomas Prower Jude Hedges-Robinson 2013 Stephen Bennett Lewis Johnston 2012 Sevan Keoshgerian Lewis Johnston 2011 Stephen Bennett Samuel Singleton 2010 Joe Wadsworth The Musician of the Year winner is presented with the de Mello Cup named after Mr Joe de Mello, a long standing supporter and former member of the supporting staff here in this department.

Adjudicator, Mr Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, first as a chorister and choral scholar in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and for 12 years as a member of the King’s Singers. He became a full-time composer in 1997, and has produced a large catalogue of music for all types of choirs which is published by Oxford University Press. His most often performed pieces include Can you hear me?, A Little Jazz Mass, Requiem, and the St John Passion.

Bob has conducted choirs in more than 30 countries worldwide and has worked with many thousands of amateur singers across the UK in a continuing series of Singing Days. For seven years he was conductor of the Chorus of The Royal College of Music in London and since 2002 he has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Singers. In 2017 Bob was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Royal School of Church Music and in 2019 took up the role of Principal Conductor Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by leading British choirs and groups Newer recording projects are with the BBC Singers, Houston Chamber Choir, and Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir.

Thanks to Mr Bob Chilcott for his adjudication and for presenting the de Mello Cup to tonight’s winner.

Aaran Parmar 8EJG - guitar Classical Guitar Grades 1 - 4 Allegretto

Niccolò Paganini

John Vazquez-Torrez 10KS - bass guitar Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar Grades 1 - 4 Runaway Baby

Bruno Mars

Krish Singh Magar 10JNL - dhol World Music Grades 1 - 4

Freestyle

Own composition

Milo Huntington 8BG - drums Drum Kit Grades 1 - 4 Cold Pants

Luke Aldridge

Tzu Yi Kuo 10JNL - cello Strings Grades 1 - 4 Spring Song

Frank Bridge

Marwan Fairclough-Elkhalil 11LHF - French horn Brass Grades 1 - 4 See, the Conquering Hero Comes!

George Frideric Handel

from Judas Maccabaeus

Giritharan Krishan 10NMB - alto saxophone Woodwind Grades 1 - 4 Lambada

Pinduca

Aly Azzawi 7MLT - piano Piano Grades 1 - 4 Erster Verlust, Op. 68

Robert Schumann

Amaroo Brown 7MLT - voice Voice Grades 1 - 4 Time to Say Goodbye

Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

Kassem Azzawi 11MRF - guitar Classical Guitar Grades 5 - 8 Capricho árabe

Francisco Tárrega

Rahul Renganath U6NGA - electric guitar Electric Guitar and Bass Guitar Grades 5 - 8 So Excited

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Giritharan Krishan 10NMB - mridangam World Music Grades 5 - 8 Thani Aavarthnam

Own composition

Patrick Colson U6REM - drums Drum Kit Grades 5 - 8

Some Skunk Funk

Brecker Brothers

Soma Subramanian 7ADH - violin Strings Grades 5 - 8 Gigue from Partita No. 3

Johann Sebastian Bach

Harsh Hingorani U6ND - trombone Brass Grades 5 - 8 Dances with Bears

Jim Parker

Patrick Colson U6REM - clarinet Woodwind Grades 5 - 8 Romanza

Francis Poulenc

from Sonata for clarinet and piano

Sumeet Shah 9CEP - piano Piano Grades 5 - 8 Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67, No. 2

Frédéric Chopin

Samuel Smith L6PWM - voice Voice Grades 5 - 8 Come away, Death, Op. 6, No. 1

Roger Quilter

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