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The 2010 Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year Competition was held on Sunday 14 March at the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks. Ten competitors, aged between 12 and 21 years, each gave a 15-minute recital before an appreciative audience. It was a wonderful day and the standard seems to get higher every year, so picking a winner could not have been an easy task for the two professional adjudicators Vanessa Latarche and William Bruce.
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| The final result was a win for 21-year-old violinist Martyn Jackson who received the Sevenoaks Town Council Prize of £500 plus the opportunity of a concerto performance with the Lydian Orchestra at their July concert; second prize, the Sevenoaks Amherst Rotary Club Prize of £250, went to pianist Gamal Khamis ; and third was violinist Florian Rago , who won the Reid Sohn Prize of £100. The two runners-up also receive £50 each from Sevenoaks Music Club plus the chance to play in their Concert at the Ship Theatre in December. |
The Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year Competition, presented by Sevenoaks Three Arts Festival, was the brainchild in 1995 of June Clements, a long-standing member of the Festival's Executive Committee, and has grown in stature and prestige, moving in 1998 from its beginnings at Bradbourne School as part of the Festival in June to its present venue, Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks. |
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