Dame Janet Baker Award

The inaugural award of “The Dame Janet Baker Award” for the most promising singer from the 2024 vocal auditions has been given to Countertenor, William Prior.Will is a recent graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford where he read Music and sang in the College Choir, graduating with a first-class degree. In September 2024 he will begin studying a Master’s in Performance at the Royal College of Music with a full scholarship funded by the ABRSM. He is grateful to be supported also by Drake Calleja Trust, The Countess of Munster Music Trust and a choral scholarship from St John’s Hyde Park Cresent.