LB Miller Trust Opera Aria Finalists

From left to right: Adjudicator Paul Person, Fiona Henry (sop.), Nicole Evans (sop.), Rebecca Keegan (mezzo.), Virginia Nichols (sop.), Claire Barton (mezzo.), Jamie Ling (sop.).

Results from the Christchurch Competitions

Held in The Chapel at the Christchurch School of Music (CSM), Barbadoes St 6th-9th July.
Missing information will be added as soon as possible.

Class 121: Gunner Memorial Prize - own selection 18 and under 25 years
1st. Michael Gray (What pow'r art thou - Purcell)
2nd. Chris Bruerton (The Vagabond - Vaughan Williams)
3rd. Benjamin Caukwell (Pilgrim's Song - Tchaikovsky)
VHC: Susan Townley (Usherette's Blues - Nicholas)

Class 122: 20th Century Art Song - 18 and under 25 years
1st.
2nd.
3rd.

Class 130: German Lieder - open
1st. Rebecca Keegan (Vor ewiger Liebe - Brahms)
2nd. Fiona Henry (Widmung - Schubert)
3rd. Claire Barton (Vergebliches Ständchen - Brahms)
VHC. Michael Gray (Waldesgespräch - Schumann)
HC. Genevieve Jenson (Seligkeit - Schubert)
HC. Nicole Evans (Hans und Grethe - Mahler)
HC. Virginia Nichols (Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer - Brahms)

Class 116: Robert Field-Dodgson Memorial - Novice Solo
1st. Chris Bruerton (It was a lover and his lass - Finzi)
2nd. Anna Argyle (Una donna a quindici anni - Mozart)
3rd. Nic Kyle (You raise me up - Graham)
VHC. Michael Rumping (Where e'er you walk - Handel)

Class 123: British Folk Song - Open
1st. Rebecca Keegan (She moved through the fair - arr. Padraic Colum)
2nd. Chris Bruerton (Brigg Fair - Trad.)
3rd. Fiona Henry (Logan Water - Trad.)
VHC. Genevieve Jenson (The last rose of summer - Trad.)

Class 124: Scottish Song -Open
1st. Rebecca Keegan (Caller Herring - Trad.)
2nd. Susan Townley (Bluebell Polka - Stanley)
3rd. Ingrid Fomison-Nurse (Whistle and I'll come to ye my lass - Trad.)

Class 125: Vernon Griffiths Memorial - Song by NZ Composer - Open
1st. Crystel Benton (Zhreye's Xmas Star - Ritchie)
2nd. Tamsin Braisher (Alas that Spring should vanish with the rose - Mason)
3rd. Jenny Marie Evans (At the Cafe - Jenny Marie Evans)

Class 126 - Duet - Open
1st. Claire Barton and Fiona Henry (Via resti servita - Mozart)
2nd. Ashleigh Watts and Elizabeth Harris (If my Celia could persuade - Blow)
3rd. Susan Townley and Virginia Nichols (Sound the Trumpet - Purcell)

Class 127: British Art Song - Open
1st. Nicole Evans (Blow, blow thou winter wind - Bridge)
2nd. Chris Bruerton (Youth and Love - Vaughan Williams)
3rd. Fiona Henry (Daphne - Walton)
VHC. Claire Barton (Sigh no more ladies - Warlock)

Class 128: Music Theatre Solo - Open
1st. Claire Barton (Bali ha'i - Rodgers)
2nd. Nic Kyle (This is the moment - Wildhorn)
3rd. Rebecca Keegan (Ah, que j'aime les militaires - Offenbach)

Class 129: Judi Pattison Memorial - Baroque Aria - Open
1st. Chris Bruerton (Revenge, Timotheus Cries - Handel)
2nd. Rebecca Keegan (Hence, Iris, Hence Away - Handel)
3rd. Fiona Henry (Care Selve - Handel)
VHC. Crystel Benton (Bless'd the day - Handel)

Class 133: The Christchurch Liedertafel Male Voice Choir Class - Open
1st. Michael Gray (Intermezzo - Schumann, Bonnie Earl o' Moray - arr. Britten)
2nd. Michael Rumping (Was ist Sylvia - Schubert, I will go with my father - Jeffreys)

Class 131: Civic Music Council Scholarship - European Song - Open
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2nd.
3rd.

Class 132: Oratorio - Open
1st.
2nd.
3rd.

Class 134: LB Miller Trust Opera Aria - Open

Finalists:

Virginia Nichols (Soprano)
Fiona Henry (Soprano)
Jamie Ling (Soprano)
Nicole Evans (Soprano)
Claire Barton (Mezzo)
Rebecca Keegan (Mezzo)

1st. Fiona Henry
Je dis, que rien ne m'epouvante from Carmen - Bizet
Se il padre perdei from Idomeneo - Mozart

2nd. Claire Barton
Di tanti palpiti from Tancredi - Rossini
Chacun a son gout from Die Fledermaus - J. Strauss

3rd. Virginia Nichols
Dove sono from Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart
Il est doux, il est bon from Herodiade - Massenet