TWO YOUNG SINGERS WIN AWARDS
Garsington Opera is delighted to announce the winners of two awards to support the development of young artists from the Company. The 2013 Simon Sandbach Award has been won by Jan Capinski and the Helen Clarke Award by Alice Rose Privett.
Jan Capinski said: Garsington Opera has been a turning point in my career and development as a singer and I learnt so much singing in the chorus and understuding a principal role. To be offered this prestigious award will enable me to continue my training both musically and dramatically. I am particularly delighted to be returning in 2014 not only to sing in the chorus but to perform in Fidelio as 2nd Prisoner and in the Young Artist revival of Hänsel und Gretel as the Father at West Green. Jan began his singing training at the Academy of Music in Kraków (Poland), and went on to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama where he graduated in July this year.
I am thrilled to receive this bursary said Alice Rose Privett. I will soon be leaving full time education and this will enable me to really focus on polishing my audition arias and pay for the expensive process of getting to auditions in all corners of Europe. Last season I was lucky enough to sing Gretel at the dress rehearsal, the major role I understudied. I also sang in the chorus and will return in 2014 to do that and perform the role of the Cock in the Cunning Little Vixen. Alice graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011 and is now studying at the Royal Academy of Music.