Tom Acton Memorial Trust

2007 Award Winners announced

Judy — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:38:26 +0000

We are delighted to announce the 5 winners of our awards for 2007 made last month. Anthony Camillo an 18 year old pianist from Waltham Abbey is about to start his undergraduate studies at the Royal Northern School of Music. Oliver Farrant is a 13 year old cellist from Brentwood who is about to take up a place at Chetham’s school of music in Manchester. Timothy End is a 24 year old piano accompanist from Goodmayes who is currently taking a postgraduate performing course at the Royal Academy of Music. Elma Appasswamy is a 22 year old trumpeter from Ilford who is also currently studying for a postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy Sophie Biebuyck is a 21 year old soprano from Brentwood who won the Essex Young Musician Award in 2006 and will thus be giving a recital for us on 15th September as part of her prize - after which the awards will be presented to all the winners. She is currently studying for a degree at Trinity College of Music.

2006 Award Winners

Judy — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:39:40 +0000

In July we auditioned six very talented young musicians who had applied for financial help from the trust. This is always a great delight and privilege to us to hear such excellent performances and we only wish we could support all six of them.

However in the event we chose the following three:-

Dide Siemmond, an 18 year old violinist from Maldon.

Howard Hutt from Woodford Green who went to university to study music playing the trumpet, and was there
discovered to have a most impressive tenor voice - he is now going to do further study to develop this.

Richard Rayner, a 12 year old drummer from Howe Green.

Come to our Essex Young Musician 2005 Recital at Felsted on September 16th and support them when they receive their awards and keep a lookout for the concert by these three exciting young musicians for the Trust in Spring 2007

Letter from the Essex Chronicle

Judy — Sat, 13 May 2006 14:47:45 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of attending a concert given by the four winners of the 2005 Tom Acton Memorial Trust bursaries, which was held at the King Edward VI Grammar School.

In a world where children are constantly bombarded by pop music, it was an uplifting and heart-warming experience. These talented young classical musicians were brilliant. I would like to pay tribute, not only to them for their hard work and dedication, but to their parents and teachers for their love and support. We should be incredibly proud of them and I look forward to next year’s concert.

Barbara Wright (address supplied)

Penelope Cave to Perform at Ingatestone

jaduncan — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:18:46 +0000

We are excited to announce that Penelope Cave will be performing at Ingatestone on June 24th, extending her association with the Trust.

Penelope Cave studied at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music. She won the Raymond Russell prize, the National Harpsichord Competition at Southport and was a laureate of Bruges International Harpsichord Competition. She has given solo performances at the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall and at music clubs throughout Britain and festivals have included Flanders, Edinburgh, York, Winchester, Ryedale, Presteigne and Greenbelt. She has recorded for Hyperion, Naxos, Pace Recordings, Belgian Radio, Classic fm and BBC Radio 3. Well known for her educational work, she has given masterclasses, workshops and courses in France, Italy, Germany and Mallorca and throughout Britain, including the universities of Ulster & Stirling, Benslow, Jackdaws and Dartington International Summer School.

Welcome to the new web site

jaduncan — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:49:50 +0000

Welcome to our new site! We are excited to launch our new design, complete with a new newsletter so you can keep in touch.

More features will be arriving in the next few days.