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’200 YEARS YOUNG’

Young musicians from the 2024 Competition came together to perform celebrating the bicentenary of St John’s Church on Saturday 29th March with proceeds in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research. It was a wonderful evening of superb music. Congratulations to all performers.

District Round held on 9th February

Xiao Xi Hill ( Harpist) and Theo Kendrick (Singer) performed well. In the event Xiao Xi Hill was chosen to go through to the Regional Round. Congratulations to Xiao Xi and commiserations to Theo, although he can take comfort from the fact that the vocal winner of this round went to win the national final.

The 2024 Competition

Photograph of the competition winners by Helen Tabor Photography
RIPON YOUNG MUSICIANS OF THE YEAR 2024

The 2024 Ripon Young Musicians of the Year Competition, organised by the Rotary and Inner Wheel Clubs of Ripon and Ripon Rowels respectively, was held at St. John’s Church, Sharow on 8^th& 9^th November . It was adjudicated by Alasdair Jamieson and the winners were :-

CLASS 1 (up to and including Year 4)

Section 1: Rose Hirst (Voice) – Class winner;

Section 2 no entries

CLASS 2 (Years 5 & 6)

Section 1 : Oliver Han (Piano) – Class winner;

Section 2: Henry Burr (Voice)

CLASS 3 (Ensembles)

Section 1 (Years 4 to 8) : Florence Barnes & Nancy Jenkins (Piano duet);

Section 2 (Years 9 to 13) : Riya Nair & Laurie Roberts (Piano duet) – Class Winner;

CLASS 4 (Two skills)

Section 1 (up to Year 8) : Xander Galloway-Gee (Voice & Piano) ;

Section 2 (Year 9 upwards): Jamie Tabor ( Voice & Piano) – Class winner ;

CLASS 5 (Years 7 & 8)

Section 1: Gerard Tam (Piano) – Class Winner;

Section 2: Elsa Williams (French Horn );

Section 3: Scarlett Richardson (Voice);

CLASS 6 (Years 9 & 10)

Section 1: Amy Viner (Violin) – Class winner ;

Section 2: no entries

Section 3: Benjamin Freeman (Voice) – Class Winner ;

CLASS 7 (Years 11, 12 & 13 )

Section 1 : Xiao -Xi Hill (Harp)) – Class winner ;

Section 2: ——

Section 3: Theo Kendrick (Voice).

The following performers were highly commended by the Adjudicator : – CLASS 1

Section 1 : Lewis Todd (Piano) ;

CLASS 2

Section 1 : Thomas Webster (Violin) ;

Section 2: Lowery Adkin (Voice) ; Emilia Wright (Voice) ;

CLASS 3

Section 1 : Thomas Webster & Felix Fletcher (Violin duet) ;

Section 2 : Sebastian & Sophia Konfortov (Piano duet) ;

CLASS 4

Section 1 : Beth Massey (Tuba & Piano) ;

Section 2: Ethan Kendrick ( Voice & Piano) ;

CLASS 5

Section 1 : Lucas Wong (Piano) ;

Section 2 : Evalyn Webster (Flute) ;

Section 3 : Sophie Holton ( Voice) ; Tallulah Barrington – Wells (Voice) ;

CLASS 6

Section 1 : Anstice Williams (Violin) ;

Section 3 : Poppy Rogerson (Voice) ; Isabelle Wilson (Voice) ;

CLASS 7

Section 1: Hannah Wallace (Violin) ; Section 3 : Lily Sadler (Voice) .

The European Piano Teachers Association trophy for Piano Performance was awarded to Gerard Tam ;

The Scullion Cup for Singing was awarded to Lily Sadler ;

The Founders’ Cup for The Most Promising Instrumentalist was awarded to the Violinist Hannah Wallace .

Two of the above-mentioned winners , Xiao Xi Hill ( Harpist) and Theo Kendrick (Singer) have been chosen to go forward to the Rotary District Competition.