AESS Prize Winners' Concert

Song in the City is delighted to be hosting The Association of English Singers and Speakers for their annual Prizewinners' Concert.

The astonishingly talented young people who have won the prestigious prizes run by the AESS over the last year come together in a showcase concert. The AESS runs five competitions in a year: for singers in three age-ranges (13-18, 18-23, 23-34), for pianists, for young actors, and for young composers. These competitions are nation-wide and the young people who have won this year have achieved something very impressive. They're all fine performers. This will be a glorious event showing talented young people revelling in the glories of the English language in Speech and Song.

The AESS members comprise performers, teachers and those with an interest in our core aim, which is: ‘to encourage the communication of English words, in singing and speech, with clarity, understanding and imagination’. AESS WEBSITE

Participants:
From The Patricia Routledge prize:
Caroline Taylor (third prize winner, singing)
Jorn Quirijnen (winner, pianist prize)

From the Dorothy Richardson prize:
Archie Inns (first prize winner)
Alfred Fardell

From the Catherine Lambert Prize:
Isobel Davies (first prize winner)
Edward Harris-Brown

From the Sarah Leonard Composers’ Prize, work by:
Jack Wood (first prize winner)
Luke Birkett (second prize winner)
Brian Hughes (third prize winner)

From the Actors’ Prize:
Grace Dalgarno (third prize winner)

From WordSong (formally AESS)
James Gilchrist