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Guildhall alumni win Kathleen Ferrier Awards with 1st, 2nd & accompaniment prizes Baritone Njabulo


Madlala, who studied at the School from 2002-2009 on its Opera Course, Postgraduate Vocal Studies and BMus programmes, won the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2010, taking a prize of £10,000. Second prize was awarded to Sarah Power, soprano, who studied on the School’s


Opera Course from 2006-2008 and who wins £5000. In addition, Accompaniment Fellow and graduate Anna Cardona Esteva won the Accompanist Prize, sponsored by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.


The Kathleen Ferrier Award is widely recognised as the country’s most prestigious classical singing prize, bringing the winner international recognition as well as a generous cash award. The final takes place each April at the Wigmore Hall, and this year boasted four Guildhall singers: Anna Patalong, who was in the first year of the Opera Course at the time of the competition, and Duncan Rock, who was in the second year, also made it through to the final round.


Celebrating 75 years of


Acting at the Guildhall 2010 marks 75 years since the School became Guildhall School of Music & Drama, having previously been known as Guildhall School of Music. On Sunday 28 November, we will hold an event to celebrate 75 years of training in Speech & Drama (as the course used to be known) both for Performers and Teachers and Acting (the current course).


With the help of a small team of alumni volunteers, this event is taking shape and promises to be a fantastic opportunity to meet up with old friends, reminisce, discover things you didn’t already know about your department and make new connections.


Booking forms will be mailed out in September. If you are not currently receiving mail from the School, but are a Speech & Drama or Acting alumnus/a please get in touch to be added to the mailing (alumni@gsmd.ac.uk or 020 7382 2325).


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