Violinist Julieanne Forrest (17) a sixth-year student at St. Peter’s College, Dunboyne, Co. Meath is the winner of the €5,000 top prize at the Top Security Frank Maher Classical Music Awards for 2020, Ireland’s largest such competition for secondary schools, which took place on Friday 2nd October 2020.
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The Awards were created in 2001 by Top Security chairman Emmet O’Rafferty to honour the memory of his late teacher, Fr Frank Maher, who taught music at Castleknock College in Dublin. Emmet said “Congratulations to Michael Murphy on his achievement.
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TOP TEEN TALENT SOUGHT FOR €5,000 CLASSICAL MUSIC PRIZE
Phil Coulter, who will be the Master of Ceremonies at the 2019 Top Security Frank Maher Classical Music Awards, is pictured at the photocall to launch the call for entries with teen musicians Sarah Ambrose (16), St. Raphaela’s Secondary School, Stillorgan and Rachel Lynch (18), Loreto College, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
