ROSL Annual Music Competition awards strings and keyboard ensembles prize
Florence Lockheart
Friday, March 25, 2022
The Paddington Trio has won the competition's first ensemble final, winning a £10,000 prize.
The Royal Over-Seas League has announced the Paddington Trio as the first ensemble winners of the organisation’s Annual Music Competition. The ensemble’s performance of Shostakovich earned them the category’s £10,000 cash prize.
At ROSL’s Princess Alexandra Hall saw the Brompton Quartet, Paddington Trio and Heathcliff Trio compete for the section prize in front of a panel of adjudicators including: ROSL Arts artistic director Geoff Parkin, pianist Carole Presland, Maggini Quartet violinist Ciaran McCabe, and conductor and trumpeter Gavin Henderson CBE.
Founded in 2020, the Paddington Trio is made up of violinist Tuulia Hero, cellist Patrick Moriarty and pianist Stephanie Tang, all of whom are currently students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The trio’s other recent achievements include a win at the St James Chamber Music Competition 2020 Chamber Prize as well as second prize plus the Special Prize for Best Interpretation for an Estonian work at the Tallinn International Piano Chamber Music Competition.
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.
