TWO GOLD MEDALLISTS
MISS J.' M. MATHIESON ANDj MISS B. SIMPSON. The Dumedin honorary secretary of the Associated Board of the Royal • Academy and Royal College of Musto, London has been advised that two gold medals have been awarded for the local centre m the advanced grade examinations which were held iti November last to the undermentioned candidates: — ' - Miss Jane Matthew Mathieson, advanced grade singing. ' Miss Roberta Simpson, advanced grade piano. •,, ... The allocation of two gold medals tt somewhat remarkable, but as each of these young ladies secured an.equal number of maiks the board decided that they should each receive a gold medal. u . Miss Mathieson, who is *-the eldest daughter of Sub-inspector _Mathieson, waa trained at the Roman Catholic Convent in Wellington. She has up to the present been a brilliant student. At the ag© of 14 she was awarded her L.A-B. diploma as a violinist. In 1917 she was a gold medallist for intermediate and advanced singing. She took her singing diploma in 1918, and last year she tied with Miss Roberta Simpeon for the gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music Miss Mathieson is now studying for a Bachelor of Singing examination. Miss Simpson, who has had much success at the piano, is a student at the St. Dominic's Priory, Dunedin. -
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Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 8
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