2019 Fine Music Young Virtuoso Award Winner - Justinn Lu!

Introducing our 2019 Young Virtuoso Award winner….Justinn Lu! As part of the award, Justinn has won $3000 cash and a performance opportunity with the North Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He will also represent Fine Music 102.5 at the 2019 National Fine Music Network Young Virtuoso Award next month! Congratulations Justinn!
 
Congratulations also to Sako Dermenjian who placed 2nd and won a cash prize of $1000!

Well done to Leanne Jin, who won the $500 Audience Choice prize!

A huge thanks our other exceptionally talented finalists, Calvin Abdiel, Leanne Jin, Michelle Ryan and Anna Stephens, all of your performances were remarkable! Thank you to our adjudicators, Stephanie McCallum, Steven Hillinger and Alan Hicks, we know it couldn’t have been an easy decision!
 
Last but not least, THANK YOU to YVA coordinator, event producer and our all-round main woman Maureen Chaffey who has worked tirelessly for weeks to deliver the event today, we couldn’t have done it without you!

If you missed the live broadcast, tune in on demand!

In Conversation
​with Michael Morton-Evans

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When the legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne offered a scholarship for aspiring opera singers at The Music Academy in Santa Barbara, California no fewer than 550 singers from around the world rushed to put their names forward. Only 23 were chosen, among them the Australian-Mauritian singer, Stacey Alleaume, who has gone on to become one of Opera Australia’s principal sopranos.

​Hers is indeed a rare talent and she’ll be telling Michael Morton-Evans just how her Mauritian musical family set the course for her successful career on In Conversation at 2pm on Wednesday, October 23rd.

Scholarship Recipients Announced at the 2019 Celebration of Fine Music!

Congratulations to composer Harry Sdraulig who was announced as the 2020 Fine Music Stefan Kruger Scholar and Jazz singer Kate Wadey who was awarded the inaugural Ken Weatherley Jazz Scholarship!

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