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Farrow Singing Competition 2017

Chantelle Duru (School) Helmore Prize and George Taylor (School) Farrow Prize

This year’s competition was hotly contested once again with the following pupils winning the various prizes:

Farrow Prize Winner (Senior prize)

George Taylor School

Helmore Prize Winner (Junior Prize)

Chantelle Duru School

Winner – Accompanist Prize

Zany Denyer McClure

Winner – Junior Pop/Jazz

Martha Abrahamson-Ball Weymouth singing Toxic

Winner – Senior Opera/Oratorio

Djantai Otorbaev Ridgeway singing O cessate di piagarmi – Scarlatti

Winner – Senior Pop/Jazz

George Taylor School singing All I Ask – Adkins

Winner – Ensemble Prize

Shanzé Naqvi Atkinson, Sona Visavadia Priestley, Daisy Martin School singing No – Trainor

Winner – Junior Art Song

Justin Jacobs Atkinson singing Caro mio ben – Giordani

Winner – Junior Music Theatre

Chantelle Duru School singing As long as he needs me from ‘Oliver’ – Bart

Winner – Senior Art Song

Ted Fetherstonhaugh Burton Bank singing Flow my tears – Dowland

Winner – Junior Opera/Oratorio

Ellen Baumring-Gledhill Murray singing Music for a while from ‘Oedipus’ – Purcell

Winner – Senior Musical Theatre

Helen Sceales Priestley singing Still hurting from ‘The last five years’ – Brown

Winner – Fourth Form Prize

Rita Cherchian Cedars singing Hurt – Aguilera/Perry/Ronson

Our thanks go to the whole team in our Music Department with special thanks to Guest Adjudicator, award-winning tenor Robin Bailey.