Listen: AMC Prizewinners Playlist
Missing attending the Annual Music Competition? Worry not, we're bringing the best of our musical alumni to you! Enjoy this specially-curated Spotify playlist, which features prizewinners from the past decade of the AMC, from 2010 Gold Medal winner Jonathan McGovern baritone, all the way up to last year's winner of the Keyboard Prize Joseph Havlat piano.
Mark Walton
With so many children now adjusting to learning from home, for Australia's remote communities this has long been a way of life. Annual Music Competition alum Mark Walton discusses his experience of distance music teaching in Australia and how the technological improvements over the years have made it that bit easier.
Graham Martin
In 2019, ROSL presented an exhibition exploring the theme of Architecture and one of the featured artists, Graham Martin, has shared his story of art in isolation with us. Read how he is adapting to working from home and what plans have had to change as a result of quarantine.
Ashley Fripp
Winner of the Keyboard Prize at the 2011 AMC, Ashley Fripp returns with the second movement of Schubert's Sonata in B flat major D960. So different in atmosphere to the piece by Chopin he played for us earlier this week, Ashley explains his reasons for wanting to record the Schubert below:
Get Involved: Draw at Home with Francis Martin
Looking to improve your drawing skills? Then why not join artist Francis Martin, who will take you through the steps of how to draw a spherical object in our first Draw at Home video. All you need is a pencil, paper and a speherical household object! Francis will be back with more videos before joining us at the clubhouse later in the year for a class.
Ashley Fripp
Get Involved: Incognito
Looking for a way to get creative while stuck at home? Why not take part in ROSL's biennial charity exhibition, Incognito. Submit your own anonymous postcard artwork and help to raise money for the arts and education programmes ROSL supports around the Commowealth and beyond.
Kris Garfitt
Winner of the Gold Medal at last year's Annual Music Competition, trombonist Kris Garfitt gives us a new perspective on a Eurovision Song Contest winner! Hear him perform Amar Pelos Dois alongside pianist Seri Dan, which won the contest in the hands of Portugese singer-songwriter Salvador Sobral.
Cole Ndelu
2019 ROSL International Residency recipient Cole Ndelu is a photographer and self-described 'visual communicator', who visited the UK last year with the support of ROSL, to exhibit at the Art House in Wakefield. Find out how she has been looking after herself, staying positive and making plans for when life gets back to normal.
Helen Sherman
