Monday 17 March 2025
6pm
Silk Street Music Hall
Susan Longfield Award 2025
adjudicated by:
Brigadier Desmond Longfield
Ian Partridge
Linnhe Robertson
Kate Royal
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Silk Street
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Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chair of the Board of Governors
The Hon. Emily Benn
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Programme
Louisa Stuart-Smith mezzo-soprano
Alicia Hernández Huebra piano
Handel ‘Where Shall I Fly?’ from Hercules
Toldrá Madre, unos ojuelos ví
Mozart ‘Smanie implacabili’ from Cosí fan tutte
R. Schumann ‘Gebet’ from Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, Op 155 No 5
Rossini ‘Una voce poco fa’ from Il barbiere di Siviglia
Zoë Jackson soprano
Emelia Noack-Wilkinson piano
Brahms Liebestreu, Op 3 No 1
Wolf Mein Liebster singt am Haus im Mondenscheine
R. Strauss Schlechtes Wetter, Op 69 No 5
Mussorgsky ‘On the Hobby-Horse’ from Detskaja, ‘The Nursery’, No 6
Dorothy Parke Wee Hughie
Tippett ‘How can I cherish my man’ from A Child of Our Time
Manning Sherwin A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Georgie Malcolm soprano
Paul St-Georges piano
Grieg Gruß, Op 48 No 1
Sibelius Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte
Haydn ‘With verdure clad the fields appear delightful’ from The Creation
Fauré Arpège, Op 76 No 2
Poulenc ‘Violon’ from Fiançailles pour rire, FP101 No 5
Poulenc ‘Fleurs’ from Fiançailles pour rire, FP101 No 6
Walton ‘The Contrast’ from A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table, No 5
Hannah McKay soprano
Alicia Hernández Huebra piano
R. Strauss Cäcilie, Op 27 No 2
Handel ‘O thou bright sun’ and ‘With darkness deep’ from Theodora
Duparc L’invitation au voyage
Britten ‘Embroidery Aria’ from Peter Grimes
Traditional (arr. Harty) My Lagan Love
Grieg Ein Traum, Op 48 No 6
Susan Longfield Award
After the competition there will be a 25–30 minute interval whilst the panel confers. The award will be presented by Brigadier Desmond Longfield. Our thanks go to Peter Robinson and Linda Hutchison for adjudicating the preliminary round.
Susan Longfield, in whose memory the award was established, received her training at Guildhall School in the 1950s. She was awarded the School’s Silver Medal and left to begin a distinguished career in recital and broadcasting both for radio and television. Early in her career she became a member of the Linden Singers, so popular on television in the Max Jaffa programmes. Susan especially loved singing oratorio but was also an outstanding soprano ensemble singer; her own particular group was the Purcell Consort of Voices. Tragically, after a long illness, Susan died aged 35 in 1970 and her family and friends established the Susan Longfield Award in her memory.
Past winners since 1990 are listed below:
1990 Ruby Philogene
1991 Caroline Harrison
1992 Alison Buchanan
1993 Louise Mott
1994 Sarah-Jane Dale
1995 Amanda Boyd
1996 Miranda Keys
1997 Liubov Chuchrova
1998 Kimberley McCord
1999 Alenka Ponjavic
2000 Jenny Carlstedt
2001 Kate Royal
2002 Claire Platt
2003 Katie Van Kooten
2004 Anna Stéphany
2005 Leah Gordon
2006 Rebecca van den Berg
2007 Tania Mandzy
2008 Emily Rowley Jones
2009 Amy J Payne
2010 Anna Starushkevych
2011 Alice Privett
2012 Nazan Fikret
2013 Bethan Langford
2014 Jenavieve Moore
2015 Lucy Waring
2016 Lauren Lodge-Campbell
2017 Claire Barnett-Jones
2018 Ema Nikolovska
2019 Elsa Roux Chamoux
2021 Katie Macdonald
2022 Karima El Demerdasch
2023 Manon Ogwen Parry
2024 Mariana Fernandes
The Guildhall School has been grateful to receive donations sent for the Susan Longfield Memorial Fund and the Fund is still open. Further donations will be gratefully received and should be made payable to the Guildhall School Trust, Registered Charity No. 1082472.
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