2 recent successes from our Genesis Sixteen alumni 🏆

🥇 Matthew McKinney won 1st prize at this year’s The Ferrier Awards.

🥈Charlotte Bowden has been awarded joint-2nd prize at the LondonHandelFestival International Singing Competition.

Congratulations to these wonderful singers! 👏

🏆 Matthew McKinney receives first prize at the 2024 The Ferrier Awards

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Our April news includes success at the The Ferrier Awards; Samling Artists at BBC Proms (including The Glasshouse International Centre for Music); a look at the new Royal Opera House season; a recording from Gabrieli with Samling Artist soloists and Academy Singers - and lots more. samling.org.uk/news/news-from…

💫Massive congratulations to Matthew Mckinney, one of our Bridging the Gap alumni, for being awarded first prize at The Ferrier Awards. ✨

Huge congratulations to Charlotte Jane Kennedy for winning the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize in this year’s The Ferrier Awards!

We’re so excited to have Charlotte covering the role of Amor in Platée as well as being in the chorus for both Platée and Un giorno di regno this summer!

Congratulations to Matthew McKinney for his win at the The Ferrier Awards this weekend🎉🎶 A well deserved honour for great artistry - we can’t wait to have Matthew on tour with us this Autumn👏⭐️

Congratulations to NYCOS Alum Matthew Mckinney who won First Prize at The Kathleen Ferrier Awards on Friday!

Well done on an amazing achievement!👏✨

📷: Sofia Yang Martinez

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Toi toi toi to our three brilliant Opera Studies students Karima El Demerdasch, Mariana Fernandes and Steven van der Linden, who have all made it to the final of the prestigious The Ferrier Awards Wigmore Hall tonight. We're very proud of you all!👏

Well done Maddie!

How lucky are we performing on occasion amongst such esteemed talent as one of these prize-winning soloists? Congrats Maddie. Well deserved! 🙏🏽👏🏽👌🏾

Congratulations to RCS alumnus Matthew McKinney for winning First Prize at this year’s The Ferrier Awards #RCSAlumni 👏👏🎉

Congratulations to former Dunblane Cathedral Choir chorister and Dunblane Cathedral choral scholar Matthew Mckinney

Did you catch this years The Ferrier Awards winner on BBC Radio 3 this morning? 🎶

Listen back if you missed it 🎧

The Kathleen ⁦The Ferrier Awards⁩ 2024 have been won by the tenor Matthew McKinney; second prize went to the soprano Madeline Boreham, the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize to the soprano Charlotte Jane Kennedy and the Help Musicians Accompanist's Prize to Firoze Madon.