Anthony Marwood violin, Alison Baker piano, Jane Webster soprano, Pauline Dowse cello, Helen Knief viola
Gregory Bennett Walmsley cello, Nikos Zarb viola, Zoë Mather piano, Sarah Barnes cello, Siân Philipps violin
Rachel Barnes bassoon, James Scannell saxophone, Joseph Tong piano, Anthony Woollard cello,
Tammy Se violin, Clive Carroll guitar, Janey Miller oboe, Jane Stoneham marimba, Thomas Oxley bassoon
Benjamin Grosvenor piano, Victoria Goldsmith violin, Suzanne Thorn oboe, Sophie Biebuyck soprano
Timothy Wayne-Wright counter-tenor, Tamsin Thorn bassoon, Joanna Marie Skillett soprano, Sarah-Jane Lewis mezzo-soprano, Matthew Lewis trombone
John Lill, C.B.E., the distinguished Essex-born pianist and President of the Club has generously agreed to the Awards in his name being presented to the finalists in this annual competition.
The winner will receive £650 (the Marie Korf Memorial Prize), the John Lill Awards trophy and the offer of an engagement with the Ongar Music Club.
The candidate in second place will be presented with a prize of £350 together with the Musgrave Trophy.
Two additional prizes will be awarded to the two most promising performers aged 18 or under on the 1st July 2012 – having not been awarded one of the above prizes in this year’s competition.
The Competition takes place at the Budworth Hall in Ongar over two Sundays at the end of June each year.
2012
THE JOHN LILL AWARDS
The dates for the 2012 competition will be:
SUNDAY 24th JUNE at 2.00
Preliminaries
SUNDAY 1st JULY
Semifinal at 2.00
Final at 7.30
All stages of the competition take place in the Budworth Hall, High Street Ongar Essex CM5 9JG
Full details and an application form are printed in the Competition Brochure which will is now available.
This can be obtained either from the competition Administrator, Ms. Janet Pope, White House, Noon's Folly, Newmarket Road, Royston, Herts. SG8 7NG (Tel: 01763 248342) or by download from this site.
Click below to download a copy of the 2011 Brochure
ONLINE APPLICATION
Applications may now be made online by following the link below. This will enable you to provide all the necessary information about yourself and your performances. However, you will still need to send certain items to the Administrator by the closing date - 31st May 2012.
These are detailed on the entry form.
It is particularly important that you download the competition brochure and read thoroughly the competition requirements are well as the Conditions of Entry. Submitting your entry online will be your indication of acceptance of the requirements of the competition.