47 minutes | Monday, 2 May 2022
Our final report from the 2022 Manx Music Festival - in PART ONE you can hear the children who won their individual solo singing classes, and in so doing earned a place in the Sheffield Plate competition - the Festival's highest award for the most promising young voice.
They are:
Penny Lavery - winner of the solo class for age 10 & 11 singing The Jaguar, accompanied by Madeline Kelly
Zac Colligon - winner of the solo class for age 12 - 14 singing The Wizard, accompanied by Frank Woolley
Theo Hills - winner of the solo class for age 5 - 9 singing Pirates, accompanied by Wendy McDowell
Cara Rowles - winner of the solo class for age 8 & 9 singing The Little Spanish Town accompanied by Wendy McDowell
Breesha Kelsey - winner of the solo class for age 12 & 13 singing Friend of the Ocean, accompanied by Frank Woolley
Kirsten Loach - winner of the solo class for ages 14 & 15 singing The Water Is Wide, accompanied by Wendy McDowell
Lyla King - winner of the solo class for ages 6 -7 singing Out In The Garden, accompanied by Wendy McDowell.
Lyla is this year's winner of the Sheffield Plate. Her teacher is Mrs Olivia Landels and this is the first time Lyla has taken part in the Guild !
This is followed by three of the six contenders for the Cleveland Medals:
Mezzo soprano Debbie Gooding singing Art Is Calling For Me by Victor Herbert, accompanied by Frank Woolley
Soprano Morag Withey singing Laudate Dominim by Mozart, accompanied by Madeline Kelly
Baritone Matthew Quinn singing Eri tu from Un Ballo in Maschera by Verdi, accompanied by Patricia Cullen
Select Today at The Guild - The Finals Part Two for the rest of the Cleveland Medal Test, and other winning performances from the concluding days of the Manx Music Festival
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