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
1st.
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