Clonter Opera Prize, February 2019,
sponsored by the Ann Driver Trust

Winner and Audience Prize - Alexandra Lowe, soprano
​(Royal Northern College of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama)

Runner up: Kyu Choi, baritone
(Royal Academy of Music)

Ann Driver was greatly influenced by the teaching of Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, and she adapted his method for her own pupils. This short video from the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy shows how some applications of the Dalcroze Method were used on a recent course for young musicians.   Click the link for the video: youtu.be/TVHvA-WzaZQ

            Ann Driver teaching                                                   
   BBC Photo Library, with permission

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         Isabel Morton-Sale from ‘Something Particular’ by 
                    Ann Driver and Rosalind Ramirez

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‘Portrait of Ann Driver by Austin Spare
(collection John Slater)

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