Prizewinning Ability in Performing Arts
Accolade | Awarding Body | Date | Notes |
Rowley Elliston Prize for Fourth Form Reading | Ipswich School speech day prize awarded by HM John Blatchly | May 1993 | 2 Legs : Selected in Class heat, then read my own love poem in the final. Unanimous verdict. |
Senior Singing Competition and Cup | Ipswich School in the Lower Sixth awarded by adjudicator Peter Crompton Master of Music at Royal Hospital School Holbrook | Spring 1995 | Good win this against stiff competition the young star Tom Fletcher was in my final and won the year after and scholar and undisputed champion Tim Kiddell. I sang He Was Despiséd from Handel’s Messiah |
Junior Piano Competition | Ipswich School in the L6 | Spring 1995 | Playing Krieger Minuet in A with my own ornamentation in my first year of playing |
Regional Nomination for Best Young Actor | North East Essex Amateur Dramatic Guild under Jean Jones (Sir Ian McKellen’s Sister’s direction) | Easter 1996 | Alongside my fellow teenager Tamsin Sebba playing Fluer I played John in John Galsworthy’s The Forsyth Saga |
Special Mention for Concert Piano | London Classical Music Competition (Online) | December 2021 | Mozart Sonata Facile K.545 Movement III Rondo |
Honourable Mention for Concert Piano | Birmingham International Music Competition (online) | December 2022 | Bach C Major Prelude form the Well Tempered Clavier BWV846, Allegro con Spirito from Clementi Sonata in C Op.36, and Allegro IV from Haydn Sonata Hob VIII |
Honour Prize for Concert Piano | Euterpe Music Awards Berlin (online) | December 2022 | Bach French Suite in C Minor BWV 813, Minuet II, Clementi Sonatina in C Op.36 III Vivace, Christmas Day Secrets, T.Dutton, Lullaby Alex Gretchmaninoff, and Magyr Tanç by Hugh Waldock |
Honourable Mention for Concert Piano | London Classical Music Competition (Online) | December 2022 | Playing with Fire from Piano Sonata 12 Hugh Waldock, Verso by Dominic Zipoli and Anja’s Birthday by Hugh Waldock |
Honourable Mention for Concert Piano | Cleveland International Music Competition (online) | May 2023 | Clementi Sonatina in C Op.36 |
Honour Prize for Concert Piano | Amadeus International Music Awards (online) | September 2023 | Haydn Sonata Hob XVI/8 complete |
Honour Prize for Concert Piano | Euterpe Music Awards Berlin (online) | December 2023 | The Child That was Born on the Sabbath Day Richard Rodney Bennett, Minuet Anh.144 Christian Petzold, Minuet BWV 822 in G Major J.S. Bach, Waltz Op.179 Nr.21 Cornelius Gurlitt, Rustic Waltz, Franz Schubert, Andante K.14 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Minuet K.6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hungarian Dance 1 Ferenc Farkas , Hungarian Dance 2 Ferenc Farkas. |