Adjudicators
Sarah Walker CBE Ian Partridge CBE
Sarah Walker CBE Ian Partridge CBE
Sarah WALKER C.B.E., F.R.C.M., F.G.S.M. is an artist of international standing both on the opera stage and on the concert platform world-wide.
She has sung in opera houses all over the world including The Royal Opera House Covent Garden - Recent highlights included Pavarotti’s 60th birthday performances of Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment at the Met, Peter Grimes at La Scala and The Witch in Hänsel und Gretel for L'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
On the concert platform Miss Walker has worked with conductors such as Solti, Kleiber, Norrington, Masur, Rattle, Eliot Gardiner, Muti, Harnoncourt, Mackerras, Rozdestvensky and Haitink. Sarah Walker, however, has perhaps achieved her greatest critical acclaim on the recital platform for her interpretation of the Lied, Mélodie and Song repertoire.
Sarah Walker was made a C.B.E in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours.
English tenor, IanPartridge, was a chorister at New College, Oxford, and a music scholar at Chifton College before pursuing his training in London at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music. From 1958 to 1962 he commenced his career as a piano accompanist while singing in the Westminster Cathedral choir.
He is one of Britain's leading lyric tenors. His wide repertoire encompasses the music of Monteverdi, J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs with piano. He has performed some 450 recitals worldwide with his sister Jennifer
He made his operatic debut at Covent Garden singing the role of Iopas in Berlioz' Les Troyens conducted by Sir Colin Davis, subsequently recorded by Philips.
Ian Partridge was awarded the CBE in the 1992 New Year's Honours, for distinguished service to music.
He is one of Britain's leading lyric tenors. His wide repertoire encompasses the music of Monteverdi, J.S. Bach and George Frideric Handel, Elizabethan lute songs, German, French and English songs with piano. He has performed some 450 recitals worldwide with his sister Jennifer
He made his operatic debut at Covent Garden singing the role of Iopas in Berlioz' Les Troyens conducted by Sir Colin Davis, subsequently recorded by Philips.
Ian Partridge was awarded the CBE in the 1992 New Year's Honours, for distinguished service to music.