ROSL Music Competition announces wind, brass & percussion section winner

The first section final winner of the Royal Over-Seas League’s (ROSL) Annual Music Competition was announced this week. Recorder player Daniel Scott will receive a cash prize of £5,000 and a spot in the competition’s Gold Medal Final at Wigmore Hall.

Scott beat three other soloists to win the final of the Wind, Brass & Percussion section held at the ROSL’s Princess Alexandra Hall in London: Patrick Bolton (bassoon), Aaron Akugbo (trumpet) and Lewis Graham (clarinet). Scott was also awarded the Dyers Company Award for Wind, Brass & Percussion in memory of Lady Barbirolli.

The competition jury, composed of saxophone and trumpet player Sarah Field, conductor and trumpet player Gavin Henderson CBE, Saxophonist Gerard McChrystal and ROSL Arts artistic director Geoff Parkin also awarded two further prizes. Aaron Akugbo received the Philip Jones Memorial Prize and Lewis Graham was awarded the Sussex Prize for Woodwind.

After graduating from the Royal College of Music with a degree in both flute and recorder, Scott recently completed his master’s at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has also won awards at the Moeck/SRP Recorder Competition, London International Festival of Early Music and Grachten Festival.

ROSL Annual Music Competition section finals continue each Tuesday evening at Over-Seas House in London, with the Gold Medal Final taking place on 7 July at Wigmore Hall.

The ROSL Annual Music Competition grew out of a series of concerts inaugurated in 1947 and became competitive in 1952. A list of past competition winners can be found here.

You can find more information about the ROSL Annual Music Competition at the ROSL website.