Vocal

Recent highlights

• Prize wins for students at the following 2011 competitions: First Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Competition; the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Award; Royal Over-Seas League Singer’s Award; Second Prize at the Junior Ferrier Competition; First and Second Prizes at the annual Association of English Singers and Speakers Junior Competition; First Prize at the International Vokal Genial Competition; Special Prize at the Second International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera Pietro Antonio Cesti; the Haidee Saretzky Prize for the Most Promising Singer under 26 at the Les Azuriales Ozone Young Artists' Competition; First Prize at the Ernest Bloch Music Competition
• Opera productions directed by eminent musicians including Sir Thomas Allen, Jude Kelly, Ian Judge, Jo Davis, Paul Curran, David Fielding, Lee Blakely; Alessandro Talevi and Jean-Claude Auvray
• Regular masterclasses with high profile visitors including Barry Banks, Susan Bullock, Sarah Connolly, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, David Daniels, Gerald Finley, Petra Lang, Ann Murray, Brindley Sherratt, Sarah Walker and Edith Wiens, Roderick Williams
• A 2011 collaboration with the EnglishTouring Opera – Britain’s largest ArtsCouncil supported touring company