TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 12 October 1922, Page 4

TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

LOCAL EXAMINATIONS The following are ' the successful candidates at the Nelson local centre practical examinations conducted by Mr Gro. F. Vincent, F.T.C.L. yesterday. PIANOFORTE Senior: Gertrude A. Teece (HoAotus) (Miss L. Hulbert, A.T.C.L.). Intermediate: Merle 'lnwood (Honours) (Miss L. Hulbert, A.T.C.L.). , Intermediate: Helen Mary Prowse (Miss Sunley, A.T.C.L.). Junior: Ellen Grace Riley (Miss Sonley, A.T.C.L.). . T _ First Steps: Evelyn Milne; Lorna K» Robb; Reginald McKay (Miss Sunley), Isla Claughton- (Mrs Claughton, A.T.C.L.). * VIOLIN Preparatory: Mavis A. E. Claughton (Mr H. S, Claughton, L.T.C.L.). The .examiner expressed himself par(icularly pleased with the senior 'And intermediate candidates. The local centre -which has been re-opened after a lapse of years, promises to be, of increasing usefulness. Throughout the various centres in the Empire there are 53,000 candidates this year. The New Zealand examiner has a very substantial (ask, Christchurch alone providing over 400 candidates and other larger centres similarly. CONVENT RESULTS , The examination in connection with the Trinity College of Music, London, was conducted by Mr Vincent, F.T.OTi., at the local Convent yesterday.. The ! result was 1 most satisfactory, all the i candidates presented being successful. MV Vincent expressed himself particularly pleased with Miss Beryl Mitchell for obtaining honours in two divisions, also Miss Ethel Sigley -and Phyllis Non d, who give promise of becoming j very clever players. ~ I Associate: Singing, 1 hernia Dui’DTidgQ 1 73 marks; Associate piano, Mary Might 173 Winifred Flower 72. 1 Intermediate: Piano, Ethel Sigley 191 marks (Honours); Constance Neatling 82 marks (Honours); Bernice Houlb 'SO marks (Honours); Hazel Sigley "6;; [Alice Lablow 75, ! Junior; Singing, Beryl Mitchell 82; (Honours). Piano, Beryl Mitchell, 8a i (Honours) ; Phyllis Ivy Boese 80 (Honours); Nancy McTaggart 77; Nora Graham. .69 ; Eileen O’Keefe 67; ; Eileen ■ Sutton 60. Preparatory: Violin, Valda Kierooz, 75. Piano, Maureen Sullivan 75; Marjory Skyring, 70. _ First Steps; Piano, Tliecla Turner, 80; Rona Day 76 marks. Meg Cimino, who is also a pupU_Ol the Convent, was. obliged to go to. Wellington Friday' night; and, sat for^ her exam the following day at the Sisters Centre, Petoire, Reiving 77 marks for her first steps examination.