Alison Balsom,
who opened our 2007-8 season, is continuing to enjoy
enormous critical acclaim combined with great popular
interest. She is one of the performers in the 2009
Last Night of the Proms. Earlier in 2009 she won the
artist of the year award in the Classical Brits.
She was a previous winner of the Young Performer
category in the same awards. I
We are
delighted that the violinist
Ruth Palmer, who played for us at our
concert in December
2006 won the Classical Brit Award for Young British classical
performer,
2007 in March 2007.
This award has raised her profile and
her success has continued.
For our Countess of Munster Trust concert
in
March 2007 we
were privileged to hear the young soprano
Elizabeth Watts
perform for us the programme she subsequently sang at
the Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in June
2007.
Elizabeth Watts won
the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize and
made it to the final round of the BBC Cardiff Singer of
the World 2007 competition. We were delighted to see her
successful in this prestigious competition