Xenia is a 2013 Tait Memorial Trust Awardee, She is due to begin a Masters degree in Violin at the Royal Academy of Music. The Trust are delighted to be supporting Xenia and wish her the very best for the 2013/2014 academic year. Xenia Deviatkina-Loh studies violin with Alice Waten. She has performed with the…
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Sabina Im, Concert Pianist – Royal College of Music, Master of Piano Performance Degree
The Tait Memorial Trust was created by Isla Baring OAM to support young emerging Australian Performing Artists who wish to study in the UK. I am listening to a recording of Sabina Im, the Tait Memorial Trust representative at the 2013 London Masterclasses where she met and worked with Norma Fisher and sat in on masterclasses with Benjamin Zander,…
Sky Ingram, A young soprano on her way
Tait Awardee, Australian Soprano, Sky Ingram has just completed a year at the prestigious National Opera Studio. Highlights included the Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera residencies, the song project with Ian Burnside, and working with Keith Warner and Nicholas Cleobury on the Contemporary Opera Scenes – where she was lucky enough to work with composer Jonathan Dove; who re-wrote…
Sydney Chamber Opera, Owen Wingrave
The new production of Benjamin Britten’s television opera, Owen Wingrave is getting rave reviews from the press in Sydney. Above a lovely article from the Sydney, Daily Telegraph and a review from Limelight here The cast includes Tait Awardees, Morgan Pearse and Simon Lobelson. We are delighted to read the attached reviews and look forward,…
John Preston Amis (17 June 1922 – 1 August 2013)
Dear Friends Darling John died peacefully last night at the Chelsea and Westminster – I was with him at the time. His last two months have been a struggle – Scotland for a month, then in London for 5 weeks. The doctors and nurses gave him wonderful care and support. I will miss him enormously,…
Helena Dix to sing the title role in 'Cristina, regina di Svezia' at Wexford Festival Opera
Delighted to hear that Tait Memorial Trust awardee, Helena Dix is to sing the title role in Cristina, regina di Svezia at Wexford Festival Opera Performances on the 25th, 28th, 31st October and the 3rd of November 2013. Helena Dix biography from her website Having won the Wagner Society’s 2012 Bursary Competition, Helena Dix has…
Jayson Gillham to play for Tait Performing Arts Association
Jayson Gillham is to play in concert in Melbourne at the Savage Club on the 12th September 2013 for our sister organisation in Australia, the Tait Performing Arts Association After reading the review below by eminent critic and Tait Patron, John Amis, how could you miss it? Concert details info here Jayson Gillham by John…
John Amis – Critic, Broadcaster and Patron of the TMT
John Amis has lived a life surrounded by the greats of modern British music. At Dulwich College, South London he was close friends with the satirical/ witty composer, Donald Swann. In his professional life Britten, Tippett and Walton, to name a few, were his friends and contemporaries. He followed and nurtured their careers, wrote about…
Duncan Rock – Baritone on his way
Since being awarded a Tait study award from the Trust in 2010 Duncan has gone from strength to strength. Winner of the 2012 Chilcott Award and John Christie Award at Glyndebourne, W.A baritone Duncan Rock has had a meteoric rise in the UK. Since jumping in as Don Giovanni at WNO the ENO have secured…
Valda Wilson – Australian soprano on the high seas
Delighted to hear that Valda Wilson, a Tait Awardee in 2008, has gone from success to success. Most recently she won the Public Prize of the Stella Maris International Voice Competition against other young singers from the best opera houses/ studios in the world including The Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, San Francisco, Hamburg, Munich etc….