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 supporting him...

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...