SINGER GOING TO U.K.
The Richmond baritone, Christopher Lackner, a Mobil song quest winner, who recently returned from engagements and tuition in Britain, has been granted a Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council award of $5500 to continue his training. The grant will cover his air fare to London and living expenses for a year while he attends the London Opera Centre, where he hopes to be accepted soon.
Mr Lackner visited Britain with the Dorian Singers last year, and remained to take tuition from a well-known London teacher, Erich Vietheer. He has also engaged with a Swiss youth orchestra for a series of concerts in Britain. His mother, Mrs R. D. Lackner, of Richmond, said that her son was now in Auckland, and was working as a bus driver to earn funds for his trip to Britain. He has announced his [engagement to Helen Bissett. an oboeist in the Auckland Junior Symphony Orchestra ■ who has attended university with him. They plan to leave for the United Kingdom later lin the year, for the beginning of the university year there in August.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34085, 24 February 1976, Page 10
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