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Rebecca Clarke Song Competition - Applications

Erin Thomas

SINGER

Erin Thomas

NATIONALITY:

Welsh

PIANIST

Stanley Butcher

PIANIST TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PRIZE?

Yes

SINGER BIOGRAPHY:

Welsh Mezzo Soprano Erin Wynne Thomas is a second year undergraduate at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, where she studies with Antonia Sotgiu. Erin recently participated in The Juilliard School’s 2024 Summer Voice Intensive Programme in New York City studying with world leading mentors, Benedict Jourdois, Chris Herbert and Brian Zeger to name a few. Erin is the recipient of several first place prizes including Dunvant Male Voice Choir Young singer of the year, Brecon Choir Festival Young singer of the year, The Elsie Thurston Prize at the RNCM and in the Mezzo Soprano category at the National Eisteddfod 2025. As well as a passion for Operatic repertoire Erin has had much success collaborating with pianist Stanley Butcher with whom she performed Schumann’s famous cycle Frauenliebe und Leben in September ‘25. As a pair they’ve had the privilege of working with esteemed musicians including, David Owen Norris, Nico de Villiers and David Parry. Erin’s also performed in many concerts around Wales and England as a soloist and in a choir. Most notably as a soloist in Sir Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man and for HRH King Charles and Queen Camilla during the Brecon Choir Festival.

APPLICATION VIDEO 1:

The Wife of Llew, Dilys Elwyn Edwards (11/2025)

APPLICATION VIDEO 2:

It was a lover and his lass, Madeline Dring (11/2025)

SEMI-FINAL AND FINAL PROGRAMME PROPOSED:

Semi- final (10:10)
Infant Joy, Rebecca Clarke (1:15)
Echoes, Madeline Dring (2:30)
The ride by nights, Elaine Hugh Jones (1:05)
Eight O’Clock, Rebecca Clarke (2:10)
Lament, Cheryl Frances-Hoad (3:10)

Final (18:00)
The Wife of Llew, Dilys Elwyn Edwards (2:30)
The Fairy Hunt, Dilys Elwyn Edwards (1:30)
Down by the Salley Gardens, Rebecca Clarke (2:00)
Cradle song, Rebecca Clarke (3:00)
All love is a lunacy, Hannah Kendall (3:00)
Love if you knew the light, Liza Lehman (1:25)
The Tiger, Rebecca Clarke (3:55)

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