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Holmfirth Musical
Festival is a competition for
instrumentalists and singers,
small vocal and instrumental
ensembles and choirs.
The 76th
Competition
Thursday 19 to
Saturday 21
October 2023
Holmfirth
Civic Hall
Huddersfield Road,
Holmfirth, HD9 3AS
(almost opposite the Fire
Station. Parking in Crown Bottom Car
Park - down School St, or Crown St. off
Huddersfield Rd. opposite the Civic Hall)
Adjudicators: Marilynne Davies, Steven
Roberts
We
are pleased to report that we have had more
entries this year than for several years,
which has meant that we have had to put on
an extra session, with a second
adjudicator. Programmes with full
details will be available at the door, but
there is an outline indication of the
sessions below.
Thursday
19 October, starting at 5:30pm
- all the piano classes (solo under 9, solo
under 11, solo under 13, solo under 15, duet
under 16, solo under 17, solo open age.
Friday 20 October, starting in the main
hall at 5:00pm - children's choir,
boys vocal solo under 12, boys vocal solo
unbroken voice, girls vocal solo under 12,
girls vocal solo under 15, girls vocal solo
under 18, junior songs from the shows under
18.
Friday
20 October, starting in the lesser
hall at 5:45 - songs from Walt Disney
under 12, songs from Walt Disney under 15,
songs from Walt Disney under 18
Saturday
21 October, starting at 9:00am -
instrumental ensemble open age, instrumental
ensemble year 6 and below, instrumental
ensemble year 9 and below, instrumental
ensemble year 11 and below, instrumental
ensemble under 19, family class, small vocal
ensembles open age, solo instrument
under 13, solo instrument under 15, solo
instrument under 19.
Saturday
21 October, starting at 2:00 -
adult classes: soprano, contralto, tenor,
bass solo, operatic solo, oratorio solo,
light operatic solo, songs from 20th century
shows, Schumann/Schubert solo
Saturday
21 October, starting at 5:15 -
Junior songs from the shows under 14,
Rotary Millennium Trophy recital class, Pop
ballad under 18.
Last
year's Festival, celebrating our 75th
Competition, was really successful, and
the young competitors enjoyed it and
benefited from the adjudicator's
experience. However, we were aware
that this could well be our final
festival, despite its success. Our
committee is small and mostly made up of
older people - some having been retired
for many years. Several retired from
the committee at our AGM (November
2022). We really do need help now to
enable us to continue to provide our
Festival experience for the many
competitors and their families who enjoy
and benefit from it. Fortunately, a
few volunteers were able to join us at our
AGM, and we welcome them and hope that
they enjoy working with us as our
committee members have for many
years. Thanks to them, we are able
to continue for at least this year, but
more help will be needed to secure the
Festival's future success as two more
long-standing committee members retire at
this year's AGM in November.
Last year's
Festival results, 13th - 15th October
2022
Solo
Instruments excluding pianoforte &
guitar(under 13) - First:
Eleanor Hanson; Second:
Leofint Tat; Third: Mirth Tat
Solo Instruments excluding pianoforte
& guitar(under 15) -
First: Eleanor Hanson; Second:
Lucy Hanson; Third: Mirth Tat
Solo Instruments excluding pianoforte
& guitar(under 19) -
First: Phoebe Jones
Pianoforte Solo(under 9) -
First: Walton Gan; Second:
Joshua Kenefick; Third: Nellie
Bradley
Pianoforte Solo(under 11) -
First: Walton Gan; Second:
Lucy Smith; Third: Jenson
William Pearson
Pianoforte Solo(under 13) -
First: Kirsty Smith; Second:
Jenson William Pearson; Third:
Emma O'Donnell, Holly Armitage
Pianoforte Solo(under 15) -
First: Leofint Tat; Second:
Phoebe Jones; Third: Walton
Gan
Pianoforte Solo(under 17) -
First: David Lin; Second:
Mirth Tat
Pianoforte Solo(Open) - First:
Nicole Stella Jessop; Second:
Poppy Mitchell
Pianoforte Duet(under 13) -
First: Kirsty Smith and Lucy
Smith; Second: Holly Armitage
and Evelyn McAvinue; Third:
Emma O'Donnell and Eleanor Wood
Solo Singing for Boys(under 12)
- First: Jenson William
Pearson
Solo Singing for Boys(unbroken voice)
- First: Jenson William
Pearson
Solo Singing for Girls(under 12)
- First: Lexy
Connell; Second: Gilda
Melling; Third: Phoebe
Hollinson, Clementine Melling
Solo Singing for Girls(under 15)
- First: Mabel
Blackwill; Second: Emily
Richmond; Third: Poppy
Ferguson
Solo Singing for Girls(under 18)
- First: Madeleine North
Junior Songs from the Shows(under 14)
- First: Evie Rose
Owen; Second: Phoebe
Hollinson; Third: Libby May
Stirling
Rose Bowl Competition(Open) -
First: Colin Shires
Children's Choir Class(Children's choirs)
- First: Huddersfield Choral
Young Voices
Family Class (vocal and / or
instrumental)(Family) - First:
Hanson Family
Challenge Choir Class(adult choirs)
- First: Marsh Ladies
Choir; Second: Affinity Show
Choir
Instrumental Ensemble, 2 to 20
players(Year 6 and below) -
First: Hanson Arts Junior Strings
Instrumental Ensemble, 2 to 20
players(Year 9 and below) -
First: Note Brass Ensemble
Instrumental Ensemble, 2 to 20
players(Year 11 and below) -
First: Hanson Arts Senior Strings
Junior Songs from the Shows(under 18)
- First: Emily
Richmond; Second: Madeleine
North; Third: Abigail Webster
Rotary Millennium Trophy(14 to 25)
- First: Lucy Hanson
Instrumental Ensemble, 2 or more
players(Open) - First: Hanson
Arts String Group; Second:
Hanson Arts Ukulele Group
Pop Ballad(over 14 and under 18)
- First: Georgie
Lindley; Second: Madeleine
North; Third: Emily Richmond
Songs from Walt Disney(under 12)
- First: Jenson William
Pearson; Second: Flora
Bradley; Third: Kitty Lynch
Songs from Walt Disney(under 15)
- First: Evie Rose
Owen; Second: Emily
Richmond; Third: Libby May
Stirling
Songs from Walt Disney(under 18)
- First: Evie Rose
Owen; Second: Madeleine
North; Third: Abigail Webster
Junior Rosebowl - Jenson William Pearson |
Young Pianists at
the 2022 Festival.
Piano Trophy
winners at the 2022 Festival.
Adjudicator Steven
Roberts gets down to talk to the
Huddersfield Choral Young Voices after
their performance ....
....and then
presents them with the trophy.
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Results of the last pre-Covid Festival,
18th - 19th October 2019
Pianoforte
Solo(under 9) - First: Lucy
Smith
Pianoforte Solo(under 11) -
First: Kirsty Smith; Second:
Catherine Elizabeth Hodgson
Pianoforte Solo(under 13) -
First: Niamh Johnson; Second:
Kirsty Smith
Pianoforte Solo(under 15) -
First: Annie Li; Second: Annie
May Cottle; Third: Lydia Ruth
Tobi
Pianoforte Solo(Open) - First:
Nicole Stella Jessop
Pianoforte Duet(under 11) -
First: Amelia Tabb and Amelia Poulston
Pianoforte Duet(under 16) -
First: Louis Kidger and Annie Li
Solo Singing for Girls(under 12)
- First: Clementine Melling
Solo Singing for Girls(under 15)
- First: Madeleine
North; Second: Emma Nelson
Solo Singing for Girls(under 18)
- First: Madeleine
North; Second: Emma Nelson
Junior Songs from the Shows(under 14)
- First: Madeleine
North; Second: Clementine
Melling
Soprano Solo(Open) - First:
Carol Parkinson; Second: Hannah
Wharton
Contralto Solo(Open) - First:
Patricia Waller; Second: Rebecca
Waterhouse
Tenor Solo(Open) - First:
Richard Buxton
Baritone Solo(Open) - First:
Colin Shires
Operatic solo, all voices(Open)
- First: Hannah Wharton
Oratorio Solo, all voices(Open)
- First: Colin Shires
Light Operatic Solo, all voices(Open)
- First: Malcolm Parkinson
Songs from Twentieth Century Shows(Open)
- First: Richard Buxton,
Rebecca Waterhouse
Folk Song, unaccompanied or
self-accompanied(open) - First:
Hannah Wharton
Schumann / Schubert(Open) -
First: Richard Buxton
Small Vocal Ensembles, 2 to 5 voices, (Open)
- First: Carol & Malcolm
Parkinson
Children's Choir Class(Children's choirs)
- First: Huddersfield Choral
Young Voices
Family Class - First: Hazel
Davis & Clementine Melling;
Second: Sambrook Family
Challenge Choir Class(adult choirs)
- First: Denby Dale Ladies Choir
Rotary Millennium Trophy(recital class, 14
to 25) - First: Colin Shires
Instrumental Ensemble, 2 or more
players(Open) - First: Hanson
Community Arts String Group;
Second: Hanson Community Arts Ukulele Group
Solo Instruments (brass)(under 13)
- First: Phoebe Jones
Solo Instruments (strings)(under 13)
- First: Lucy
Hanson; Second: Eleanor
Hanson; Third: Phoebe Jones
Solo Instruments (brass)(under 15)
- First: Phoebe Jones
Solo Instruments (strings)(under 15)
- First: Edith
Berryman; Second: Nicole Stella
Jessop
Solo Instruments (under 19) -
First: Edith Berryman
Special Trophies:
Louise Hinchliffe Trophy (for the most
promising young vocalist) Madeleine North
J. Martyn Wilcock Trophy (high marks in
instrumental classes) Lucy Hanson
Ridings Trophy (high marks in instrumental
classes) Edith Berryman
Pratty Flowers Rosebowl (competed for by the
winners of the junior vocal classes)
Clementine Melling
Dorothy Drinkwater Memorial Trophy (for the
most promising pianist under 11 years old)
Kirsty Smith
Holme Valley Trophy (for the girl residing
in the Holme Valley with highest marks in
piano class) Annie May Cottle
Winifred M. Brook Trophy (for the most
meritorious performance in piano classes)
Kirsty Smith
Mabel Whitely Rosebowl (competed for by the
winners of the adult voice classes)
Patricia Waller
L. K. Green 60th Jubilee Award (for the most
outstanding vocalist of the competition)
Rebecca Waterhouse
Directors Cup (for the most entertaining
performance of the Festival) Malcolm
Parkinson.
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Winners of the under
16 piano duet class.
Young Pianists at
the 2019 Festival.
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