AUSTRALIAN STUDY
Musician Wins Award J ennln Bs. • young vmstjcnurch musician, has won an Australian award under the Commonwealth scholarship and fellowship plan, which wffi enable him to study for two years at the University of Sydney for a master’s degree in music. He will leave on February 21. After four years at the University of Canterbury, Mr Jennings has completed a bachelor of music degree with honours. He also holds the licentiate diplomas of Trinity College, London, and the Royal Schools of Music. Mr Jennings was a pianoforte pupil of Mr Ernest Empson, he was pianist while at the Christchurch Boys' High School, and has since played at many lunch-time concerts at the university. Recently he has been organist at St. Thomas’s Church, Fendalton, and assistant organist to Mr C. Foster Browne at the Christchurch Cathedral, where two of his compositions have been performed by the choir. Mr Jennings has won the university prizes of the Union of Graduates in Music, Alabaster and Knowles, and J. C. Bradshaw, and last year he was senior scholar in music. At present he aims to take up university teaching in music. He is 21.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30984, 14 February 1966, Page 7
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