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    The Musicians' Company Archive Project
    The Sir Charles Santley Memorial Gift

    Established in 1956, it is endowed within the Will of John Joseph Mewburn Levien in memory of Sir Charles Santley, a great singer of the 19th century and Liveryman of the Company and whose biography was written by Levien. The Award provides for up to two gifts to be made annually to retired and active distinguished vocalists, composers of vocal music or researchers into singing.

     

    There is a Santley Award Winners' Signature Book, which can be seen by Clicking Here.

     

    Past winners:

     

    1957 - Norman Allin

    1958 - Isobel Baillie and Roy Henderson

    1959 - Agnes Nicholls and Clive Carey

    1960 - Keith Falkner and Elsie Suddaby

    1961 - Richard Lewis and Astra Desmond

    1962 - Geraint Evans and Eva Turner

    1963 - Parry Jones and Maggie Teyte

    1964 - Alexander Young and Heather Harper

    1965 - Hervey Allen and Joan Cross

    1966 - David Ward and Gwen Catley

    1967 - George Baker and Olive Groves

    1968 - John Shirley-Quirk and Janet Baker

    1969 - Owen Brannigan and Carrie Tubb

    1970 - Peter Pears and Joan Hammond

    1971 - Gwyneth Jones and Alfred Deller

    1972 - Charles Craig and Elizabeth Harwood

    1973 - Harry Secombe and Jennifer Vyvyan

    1974 - Dame Lilian Stiles-Allen

    1975 - Thomas Hemsley

    1976 - Josephine Veasey

    1977 - Norman Bailey

    1978 - Helen Watts

    1979 - Robert Tear

    1980 - Norma Procter

    1981 - Benjamin Luxon

    1982 - Betty Bannerman

    1983 - Ian Wallace

    1984 - Constance Shacklock

    1985 - Alfreda Hodgson

    1986 - Michael Langdon

    1987 - Marion Studholme

    1988 - Derek Hammond-Stroud

    1989 - Valerie Masterson and Eric Shilling

    1990 - Felicity Lott and Norman Lumsden

    1991 - Elizabeth Bainbridge and Thomas Allen

    1992 - Ian Partridge and Sarah Walker

    1993 - Elizabeth Vaughan and Philip Langridge

    1994 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson CBE and Wendy Eathorne

    1995 - Richard Van Allan and Dame Josephine Barstow

    1996 - Rosalind Plowright and Willard White

    1997 - Ann Murray and Robert Lloyd

    1998 - Johanna Peters and John Tomlinson

    1999 - Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and James Bowman

    2000 - Nancy Evans and Gwynne Howell

    2001 - Lillian Watson and Frank Egerton

    2002 - Ann Howard and Ryland Davies

    2003 - Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Nigel Douglas

    2004 - Susan Bullock and Neil Jenkins

    2005 - Dame Joan Sutherland

    2006 - Dame Anne Evans and Alan Opie

    2007 - Felicity Palmer and Stuart Burrows

    2008 - John Steane and Sally Burgess

    2009 - Della Jones and John Mitchinson

    2010 - Sir John Tooley and Dame Emma Kirkby

    2011 - Yvonne Minton and Michael Chance

    2012 - Catherine Bott and Simon Keenlyside

    2013 - Ian Bostridge and Sarah Connolly

    2014 - Gerald Finley and Yvonne Kenny

    2015 - Mark Padmore and Diana Montague

    2016 - Jean Rigby and Christopher Maltman

    2017 - Teresa Cahill and Donald Maxwell

    2018 - Joyce DiDonato and Roderick Williams

    2019 - Alice Coote OBE and Iestyn Davies MBE

    2020 - Sheila Armstrong and Graham Clark

     

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