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2010 RICHARD TAUBER PRIZE for SINGERS - FINAL RESULTS


The final public audition for the 30th Richard Tauber Prize was held
at Wigmore Hall on 4 June.


153 young singers had competed in preliminary rounds in both London and Vienna, and, of these, ten were selected to sing before a jury consisting of Dame Anne Evans, Lillian Watson, Steven Naylor (Glyndebourne), David Syrus (Royal Opera House), Nigel Douglas, Franz Lukasovsky and Bernard Keeffe (Anglo-Austrian Music Society).

The Prizewinners are :

First Prize of £ 5000 and Public London Recital :

JUNG SOO YUN
a 30 year old South Korean tenor, currently at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice and previously at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, and Yonsei University Seoul.



Second Prize of £ 2500

DENISE BECK – a 28 year old Danish soprano, currently studying at the Universität für Musik in Vienna and previously at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.



Adèle Leigh Memorial Prize of £ 2500

LESLIE DAVIS - a 29 year old Canadian mezzo soprano, currently at the Royal Academy of Music Opera School, and previously at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Acadia University Nova Scotia Canada.



Ferdinand Rauter Memorial Prize for Accompanists of £ 1000

JOSEPH MIDDLETON



2010 RICHARD TAUBER PRIZE for SINGERS - FINALISTS


MONICA BANCOS soprano Romanian

DENISE BECK soprano Danish

MARY BEVAN soprano British

LESLIE DAVIS mezzo Canadian

SUSANA GASPAR soprano Portuguese

CAROLINE MACPHIE soprano British

ROBERTO ORTIZ tenor Mexican

LEVENTE PALL bass Hungarian

THOMAS TATZL bass baritone Austrian

JUNG SOO YUN tenor South Korean




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