Christopher is a star turn 23rd March 2013

Young Musician of the Year Awards

Christopher Hill entertained and delighted everyone with his performances on Sax, Flute & Piccolo & also sang his way to success picking up the award for ‘Young Musician of the Year’ with his excellent and imaginative rendition of ‘Le Merle Blanc’ on the Piccolo.

The Young Musician of the Year Competition of 2013 was held on Saturday 23^rd March at Melbourne Junior School.

This Event saw a good turnout of extremely talented young people from beginners through to grade 8 musicians.

It was an excellent event well attended by family and friends and a host of invited guests. “A great evening, with so many talented young people” was the overall comment on the night.

The event which is in it’s 15^th year, is sponsored & organized by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Douglas Keith, who has been running it for the past 3 years, said the turnout for the afternoon competition saw an increase in both talent and numbers with twenty talented youngsters taking part.

The event was adjudicated by Mr. Terry Clay, a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne and Mr. Tony Westeman who delivered excellent feedback and constructive comments to each candidate.

The Prize Presentations & Certificates were awarded by Dr. Phillip Rosser, the president of the Rotary Club of Melbourne.

A new ‘beginners Shield’ was awarded this year and was presented by Maggie Sharp  to Charlie Coleston-Shields for his accomplished performace on the Cello.

Three of the winners from the afternoon competition, Kiera Cooksey, Jacob Middleton & Bethany Caswell were invited to attend & perform at the evening event.

The evening’s event saw performances by 10 musicians with Eden Walker’s talented performance on the Piano winning him the runners up trophy. Bethany Caswell, who played Harp and Piano winning the award for best performer under 15.

The Piano was supplied by Foulds of Derby.

Christopher Hill, the winner of ‘Young Musician of the Year Award’ is invited to perform at a Concert in the Assembley Rooms, Derby on 5^th April 2013.

The awards were presented by Principle Guest, Miss Jane Hinchliff, Head teacher at Melbourne Junior School

Summary:

I was asked to cover this event by both the Village Voice and the Rotary Club of Melbourne. The editor of the Village Voice's remit was to get images of the small children and possibly the presentation.

I decided to stay for the whole event so that I could get images of all participants and the awards ceremony. The event started at 1pm and finished at 10pm with a short break between 4.30 & 6pm.

I took both my Canon 50d with a 28mm - 135mm lens and my Canon 5d with a 50mm, 1.4 prime lens.

I used the 50d with a canon flash EX430II hand held for the presentations and at the start of the event. However, one parent was a little upset and said I was a distraction.  I switched to the 50mm lens without flash and took images of each contestant from a distance and then adjusted the images in photoshop.