IT IS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT WE ANNOUNCE THE PASSING OF OUR PRESIDENT SIR ANDREW DAVIS CBE. R.I.P.

The Vaughan Williams Society Song Prize

Wigmore Hall International Song Competition

Vinicius Costa began his singing studies in Brazil at the Guri Santa Marcelina Project and eventually moved to Switzerland where he studies at the Basel College of Music. He was a member of the São Pedro Theatre Opera Studio and Municipal Theatre. He has performed Simone in Gianni Schicchi, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte and Zuniga in Carmen. In 2020, he was awarded First Prizes in the Brazilian and Latin American editions of the Linus Lerner Singing Competition. In 2022 he performed in the Basel Theatre’s production of Bach’s St Matthew Passion as Petrus, Pontifex, Pilatus and Judas, and as Fiorello in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

The works performed during the Competition were:
Autumn Muriel Herbert
David’s Lament for Jonathan Muriel Herbert
Hymns from the Rig Veda, Ushas (Dawn) Gustav Holst

Left: Simon Coombs with Vinicius Costa

Above and Left: Clara Osowski receives the 2019 Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Award for The Best Interpretation of Songs in English by a British Composer from Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Chairman, Simon Coombs.