Music prizes to Chch

Press, 17 August 1983, Page 5

Music prizes to Chch

Christchurch groups won the two prestige prizes at the final of the Westpac schools music competition held in Wellington on Saturday. The Moravia Trio, comprising Allister Bush (violin), Robyn Cormack (cello), and Adrienne Vogan (piano) won the final for small groups of three to six players, with the Pamiers Piano Quartet, from the Christchurch Conservatoire of Music, second. It consisted of Allister, Robyn, Tony van Buren (viola), and Danielle Wood (piano). The Christchurch Conservatoire String Orchestra, of which the Pamiers quartet were members, was first in tlie large-group section, and Adrienne Vogan also came second in the section for original composition.

The contest attracted 297 instrumental groups, and 96 entries in the vocal section. A Christchurch group has won the large group competition every year since 1966. The winner of the choral section was the Waitakere College Harmony Group. Both sections were judged by Professor Peter Godfrey, of Wellington, who said that the standard was again high. This year a group from Timaru, the Ebony trio of Carmen Wilson (piano), Peter Wilkinson (basoon), and Denis King (flute) was also in the final, and performed a trio composed for the competition by Richard Francis, an itinerant music teacher with the Education Department in South Canterbury.