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26 September 2011
This month has seen some impressive achievements for alumni winners of the NZCT Chamber Music Contest.
Soprano, Phoebe Sparrow whose group (Menagerie Trio) won the Statham Award for best performance of a NZ work in the 2011 Chamber Music Contest has recently been named the Forsyth Barr Esam Cushing Hawke’s Bay Young Musician of the Year at the Lindisfarne College Performing Arts Centre.
16-year-old Phoebe’s performance of Handel’s Rejoice Greatly, Purcell’s Sweeter Than Roses, Schubert’s Fischerweise and Mozart’s Dove Sono won her the title and $1500 prize money which she is going to put towards her trip to Greece with the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir.
In addition to winning Young Musician of the Year Sparrow has performed in Nelson’s Operatic Society’s season of 42nd Street, and as a member of the Girls’ High Choir during Kiwi opera singer Anna Leese’s homecoming concert at the Hawkes Bay Opera House.
Across the ditch in Melbourne, 16-year-old bassoonist Todd Gibson-Cornish who was a member of the 2010 NZCT Chamber Music Contest winning group The Genzmer Trio has won first place in this year’s Australasian Double Reed Competition, Senior Section (Under 30).
This year Todd was accepted by special admission to study Bassoon Performance and Chamber Ensemble at the University of Cantebury and plans to one day gain a BMus (Hons) continuing on to postgraduate study in one of the world’s major music institutes.
For more information on the NZCT Chamber Music Contest visit: http://chambermusic.co.nz/music-contest/