During early 2025 it was decided between the Trust and the Royal Academcy of Music (RAM) to take a rest from the annual singing competition for the Award and instead sponsor a promising young singer studying at the academy. Therefore the recipient of the 2025 Award is tenor Marcus Burton (main image). He is studying for a Master in Performance at the RAM but is already a seasoned performer singing regularly in The Netherlands at the famouss Concertgebau hall. The Trust is sup

Winners of the Richard Lewis award for singing 2023

Richard Lewis's widow Elizabeth Muir-Lewis, who is also the founder of the Richards Lewis/Jean Shank Trust, has written a memoir of her...

On July 6th the final of the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks prize took place at the Royal Academy of Music. If each year we say the standard...

Due to the Covid restriction in London during March 2020 the normal award did not place. Because the preliminary heats had taken place...

Baritone Patricks Keefe has won the 2021 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks singing award after a hard-fought final in the Duke's Hall at the...

LtoR: Nigel Lewis, Michael Ronan, Yuki Akimoto, Shiori Hosoda, Paul Grant, Bernadette Johns, Benjamin Mead. An amazing recital featuring...

After an exciting and challenging competition among Royal Academny of Music musicians who entered to win the 2018 Richard Lewis/Jean...

The winner of the £15,000 Richard Lewis Award for 2016 was announced last night at the Royal Academy of Music's Duke Hall following three...

This week the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Trust donated £100,000 to the Royal Academy of Music to enable it to complete funding for part of...