We are pleased to announce the opening of applications for the 2012 Simon Fletcher Trust annual awards. The main award will be a single bursary of up to £1,500, with further awards of up to £1,000 possible at the Trust’s [+]

Held on a beautiful autumn day, the Trust’s 2011 Winter Serenade on Sunday, 13 November provided an ideal showcase for the year’s awardees. More than 80 attended the evening of wine, supper and song which showed supporters what positive results [+]

Dear Friends and Supporters If you have been to a Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust soiree, you will know what a great way it is to spend an early-winter Sunday evening.  If you’ve not been before, a treat is in store. We [+]

Every year since our inception in 2002 we have been able to report continued success as a Trust dedicated to supporting singers and other musicians.  This year is no different. The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust continues to be a small [+]

Rhona McKail, a 2007 award winner, is currently on tour with the English Touring Opera playing Servillia in Mozart’s La Clemenza do Tito until the end of May.  She’ll then start work on Luke Bedford’s new opera Seven Angels, in [+]

Jemima Oosthuizen, the young cellist the SFCT helped buy a new bassoon in 2008, is looking forward to being in the orchestra for Amadeus in Chichester later this month as part of the National Student Drama Festival.  Especially so, as [+]

THE SIMON FLETCHER CHARITABLE TRUST AWARD FOR SINGERS 2011 Seeking funding for course fees or living expenses for 2011-2012? The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust may be able to help. The Trust is making an award of up to £1,500 (with [+]

2011 Award winner Nicholas Agius Darmanin, who is about to graduate from the Royal College of music, will have a busy summer.  He has been accepted for the Solti Te Kanawa Accadema di Bel Canto in Italy in July, joining [+]

From Germany comes news of Viktor Rud, our first award winner in 2003.  Viktor is a member of the State Opera Company in Hamburg and being cast in some wonderful lyric baritone roles.  He is about to sing Dandini in [+]

Trumpeter Nicholas Wright, who received a special award of £600 towards a new mouth piece for his Baroque instrument, now holds a prestigious two-year Junior Fellowship in Performance History at the Royal College of Music. Nick has played in the [+]

Helen-Jane Howells, a 27-year-old soprano, has been chosen to receive the Trust’s 2008 award of £1500 for singers. Helen-Jane is due to begin her second year on the Royal College of Music’s postgraduate opera course in September. She trained and [+]

Our Winter Serenade concert at Craxton Studios attracted a full house of more than 80 Trust supporters and friends. Four of our recent award-winning vocalists, Rhona McKail, Alinka Kozari, Ronald Nairne and Elias Benito Arranz, sang excerpts from opera and [+]

Following auditions last month, the 2007 Simon Fletcher award of £1500 was made to Rhona McKail, a 25-year-old Scottish soprano due to start on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music in September this year.  Rhona has a [+]

The Simon Fletcher Trust award of £1,000 went this year to Hanna Husahr, a 26-year-old Swedish soprano who has graduated as Bachelor of Music (Hons) from the Guildhall School of Music and is continuing her studies privately in London Two [+]

The fundraising evening on March 19 at the Craxton Studios, Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, was a great success. The studios themselves, in an Edwardian house of great charm and character, lent a warm and pleasing ambience to a soiree that was [+]

Siphiwo Ntshebe, a 21-year-old South African tenor, has been chosen to receive the 2005 Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust’s £1,000 award. Siphiwo, from Cape Town, is a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music in London An additional award of [+]

Mezzo-soprano Renae Martin has been chosen to receive the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust’s £1,000 award for 2004/5. The 29-year-old singer from Perth, West Australia, is in her final year at the Sydney Conservatorium before moving to Europe. Renae is from [+]

The Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust has made an award of £799 to Failsworth School, Manchester, towards the purchase of computer hardware for use in the music department.   Later in 2005, the school went on to achieve its best ever GCSE [+]

Tuesday June 15 2004 at St John’s, Smith Square, SW1 When all the elements of perfect summer weather combine, a June evening in London is to be treasured, and this was one of them. As  the audience took their places [+]

The trustees of the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust are delighted to announce that its first annual award of £1,000 has been made to Viktor Rud a 23-year-old baritone studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Viktor Victorious. One [+]

The trustees of the Simon Fletcher Charitable Trust are delighted to announce that its first annual award of £1,000 has been made to Viktor Rud, a 23-year-old baritone studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Ukranian-born Viktor, who [+]

The Fletcher family has placed a memorial bench for Simon in Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London, an oasis of trees, flowerbeds and lawns through which he walked daily from his home to work at the English National Opera. The oak bench [+]