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Excellence Awards callback form.
Excellence Award Winners 2011
Excellence Award Winners 2011 Speech & Drama Quarterfinalists - Student’s names & counties Teacher’s/School names 1 Roisin Barron - Dublin Lynn Brehony 2 Cian Burns – Sligo Peggy O’Reilly 3 Hilary Daly - Kildare Irene Fleming 4 Aoife Corry – Clare Peggy O’Reilly Music Regional Quarterfinalists - Student’s names & counties Teacher’s/School names 1 Molly O’Mahony (Musical Theatre) - Cork Togher/Kilshanna Music School 2 Sarah Kelly (MT) Dublin Independent Theatre Workshop 2 Kate-Ann Fenton (MT) - Cork Togher/Kilshanna Music School 2 Susannah Hughes (MT) - Dublin Kathryn Smith Academy (all 2nd placed students for music listed as second place as each was awarded “runner up” place) Special Recognition to Fiona Gallagher (drama)teacher Irene Fleming, Ciara Sheehan (piano) Kilshanna, David Whelan (MT) teacher Kathryn Smith, Nenan Jio (piano) teacher Mirka Krystianova. Highly commended are – Aine Blake (p) teacher Mary Larkin, Roisin Molloy & Noah Snyder Costelloe, teacher Geraldine Barry Blanchfield Tommy Nesbitt, teacher Clare Clear. Also, Sophie O’Leary (p) & Orla Flynn (p), Grainne Kearney (p) TJ Bailey (p) and Michelle McGrath (p) all five students are attending the Kilshanna School in Cork. The Overall Winner of The LSMD Excellence Award for Speech & Drama Performance 2011 –
Roisin Barron, Dublin (Teacher Lynn Brehony).The Overall Winner of The LSMD Excellence Award for Music Performance 2011 –
Molly O’Mahony, Cork (Teacher Pavla Moore).
Congratulations Roisin & Molly!Prize for the Excellence Award Overall Winners - €300.00 & Trophy.
Prize for the Excellence Award Quarterfinalists - €100.00 & Silver Medal.
Opportunity to participate in the LSMD Excellence Awards Ceremony in Griffith College.Congratulations to all students (and their Teachers!) who were nominated for the Excellence Awards. Certificates will be issued for all students who were nominated for these awards at the ceremony. Excellence Award Winners Speech & Drama Quarterfinalists - Student’s names & counties Teacher’s/School names 1 Thomas Emmet - Wicklow Eithne Carney 2 Kevin Olohan - Wicklow Eithne Carney 3 Hilary Daly - Kildare Laura McEntee 4 Charlotte Mason - Tipperary Maria McElgunn Music Regional Quarterfinalists - Student’s names & counties Teacher’s/School names 1 Jack Corbett (Musical Theatre) - Cork Togher/Kilshanna Music School 2 Niamh Chambers (MT) - Dublin Independent Theatre Workshop 3 Muireann Coughlan (MT) - Cork Togher/Kilshanna Music School 4 Rebecca Dunne (MT) - Dublin Encore School of Performing Arts 5 Niamh O'Mahoney (MT) - Cork Togher/Kilshanna Music School Special Recognition to Emma Beashal, Hannah O’Keeffe (piano) Sarah Jayne Brady (piano) Peter O’Dwyer (piano), Kate Anne Fenton (MT) Grainne Kearney (piano), Mairead Coughlan (piano) Sorcha O’Brien and their teachers Eithne Carney Wicklow, Geraldine Molumby in Tipperary, Martina Toher in Meath, all others listed are attending Togher/Kilshanna Music School in Cork. The Overall Winner of The LSMD Excellence Award for Speech & Drama Performance 2010 – Thomas Emmet, Wicklow (Teacher Eithne Carney). The Overall Winner of The LSMD Excellence Award for Music Performance 2010 – Jack Corbett, Cork (Teacher Pavla Moore).
Congratulations Thomas & Jack!
Prize for the Excellence Award Overall Winners - €300.00 & Trophy. Prize for the Excellence Award Quarterfinalists - €100.00 & Silver Medal. Opportunity to participate in the LSMD Excellence Awards Ceremony in Griffith College. Congratulations to all students (and their Teachers!) who were nominated for the Excellence Awards. Certificates will be issued for all students who were nominated for these awards at the ceremony. 
Group Photo Excellence Award Winners 2009
Excellence Award Winners Speech & Drama Quarterfinalists Student’s names & counties Teacher’s names 1 Alan Kavanagh - Dublin Gillian Oman 2 Ella Hickey – Dublin Emer Casey 3 Sinead Cullen - Kildare Phyllis Mahon 4 Laura Halligan – Mayo Maureen Leonard Dodd Music Regional Quarterfinalists Student’s names & counties Teacher’s names 1 Saoirse Walsh (Singing) –Waterford Valerie Leahy 2 Daniel Flynn (Piano) – Meath Martina Toher 3 Maria Branagan (Musical Theatre) - Meath Kathryn Smith 4 *Aisling Murphy (Guitar) - Sligo Eamonn Ryan 5 *Sarah Kelly & Kerrie O’Donoghue (Musical Theatre Duet) Gillian Oman * Joint winners Special Recognition to Eimear Ryan, Nevan Jio, Claire Frewen and Briona O’Mara and their teachers Breda Kinane (Tipperary), Anne McHugh (Dublin) Pearl Robinson (Cork) and Tara Tierney (Tipperary). The Overall Winner of The Leinster School of Music & Drama Excellence Award for Speech & Drama Performance 2009 Alan Kavanagh, Dublin (Teacher – Gillian Oman) The Overall Winner of The Leinster School of Music & Drama Excellence Award for Music Performance 2008 Saoirse Walsh Waterford (Teacher – Valerie Leahy) Congratulations Alan and Saoirse! Prize for the Excellence Award Overall Winners - €300.00 & Trophy. Prize for the Excellence Award Quarterfinalists - €100.00 & Silver Medal. Opportunity to participate in the LSMD Excellence Awards Ceremony in Griffith College. Congratulations to all students (and their Teachers!) who were nominated for the Excellence Awards. Certificates will be issued for all students who were nominated for these awards. Thanks to everyone who assisted with the judging - Mabel Swainson, Florence Ryan, Toni Martin,Anne Simpson & Bernadette Garvey. On 29 October 2008, The Leinster School of Music & Drama ‘Excellence Awards' were held at Griffith College state-of-the-art auditorium in Dublin. The prize winners were selected from the 14,000 students throughout Ireland who took part in the school's music and drama exams this year.
Maurice Wright has been named the overall winner at the National Excellence Awards competition; he studies at the Independent Theatre Workshop (ITW) in Ranelagh, Dublin and was nominated for his piece Karamazoo by Philip Ridley (which he performed at the awards) as well as The Passion of Jerome by Dermot Bulger.
Ryan Andrews, who currently stars in the Clinic and Fair City on RTE, took second place in the competition. Andrews is also a student at the ITW in Ranelagh and was nominated for his piece "Round and Round the Garden" by Alan Aykbourn.
The overall winner for music was Ciara Sheehan - from the Kilshanna Music Studio in Cork who performed her LSMD Grade two piece "Sonata in C by Clementon" at the Excellence Awards ceremony, held in Griffith College auditorium.
The overall winners received the LSMD cup and a cheque for €300 each. The quarter finalists for Speech & Drama were Ryan Andrews and Toni Webb, Dublin, and Allanah Scully, Meath; and for Music, Lisa O‘Brien, Waterford, Siobhán Clarke, Meath and Niamh Finn, Waterford. They won €100 each and silver medals.
A packed audience enjoyed the performances at the ceremony.
The adjudicators for Speech & Drama were Anne Simpson and Bernadette Garvey. The adjudicators for Music were Mabel Swainson and Florance Ryan.
2007
On Friday 2nd November 2007 the Leinster School of Music & Drama ‘Excellence Awards' were held at Griffith College Dublin. This is the third year of the awards which were launched in 2004 to mark the school's centenary year. The competition was open to over 12,000 students throughout Ireland who took the school's music and drama exams this year.
There is an Excellence Award for both ‘Music' and ‘Speech & Drama'. Sarah Jane Brady from Co Westmeath won the Speech & Drama category while Sinead O'Carroll from Co Waterford was triumphant in the Music category.
Sarah Jane Brady completed The Leinster School of Music & Drama Grade Eight Speech & Drama examination. She performed a piece of drama entitled "By the bog of cats" by Marina Carr. Sarah Jane lives in Mullingar in Co Westmeath and attends Anne Simpson for lessons.
Sinead O'Carroll took The Leinster School of Music & Drama Grade Eight examination. Sinead plays the piano and the piece she played was "The Castle of Dromore" arranged by D Parke. Sinead lives in Waterford and attends lessons there with Margaret Butler.
The other finalists for Music were - Aine Blake in Tipperary (Piano) whose teacher is Mary Larkin, Mairead Coughlan (Piano), who attends the Kilshanna Music School in Cork and Kilian O'Brien (Piano) from Meath and whose teacher is Siobhán Blake Lynch.
The other finalists for Speech & Drama were Niamh Lawlor in Tralee Co Kerry - her teacher's name is Helen Bayfield, Maria Boyle in Adare, Co Limerick whose teacher is Jacqueline Brennan and Kellie McGrath also from Limerick whose teacher is Maria O'Neill.
The judging panel for the music awards is Kathryn Smith, Mabel Swainson and Florence Ryan. Kathryn has taught singing at The Leinster School for 12 years. She is one of the most sought after opera singers in the country and performs regularly at the National Concert Hall.
Mabel Swainson and Florence Ryan have both taught piano at The Leinster School of Music & Drama for over 20 years. They are also Senior Examiners for the Music Diploma Courses in the School. Bernadette Garvey judged the ‘Speech & Drama' category she has taught with The Leinster School of Music & Drama since 1980, tutoring individual students at grade and diploma level. Bernadette is on the School's examining panel and examines students throughout the country each year.
The eight finalists and a number of students who were highlighted for "Special Recognition" were invited to perform a piece of music and drama to be included in the first ever LSMD Charity Christmas CD which will be launched in November, proceeds of which will be donated to St Joseph's Foundation, Charleville, Co Cork.
Due to the success of this competition, The Leinster School of Music & Drama are delighted to announce that the competition will be open to all students who partake in the school's exams again this year.
For More Information please contact Karen Casey on (01) 4150466
Pictured above - Keith Kavanagh, Karen Casey, Ciara Budds. Middle Row - Dearbhla Ryan, Niall Williams. Front Row - Eimear Quaid and Roisín Finn.
Place Students County Teachers 1 Dearbhla Ryan Louth Sharon Lynch Nordon 2 Roisín Finn Kerry Bláithín Ní Bhric 3 Eimear Quaid Wexford Dolores Deacon 4 Denise Moran Kerry Helen Bayfield Music Regional Quarterfinalists - Place Students Instrument County Teacher 1 Keith Kavanagh Guitar Meath Ann Grehan 2 Niall Williams Piano Meath Martina Toher 3 Ciara Budds Singing Cork Mary Daly 4 Brian McGrane Piano Meath Aoife Greene The Overall Winner of The Leinster School of Music & Drama Excellence Award for Speech & Drama Performance 2006 – Dearbhla Ryan (Teacher – Sharon Lynch Nordon) Co Louth
The Overall Winner of The Leinster School of Music & Drama Excellence Award for Music Performance 2006 – Keith Kavanagh (Teacher – Ann Grehan) Co Meath
Congratulations Sarah & Keith!
Prize for the Excellence Award Overall Winner - €250.00 & Trophy.
Prize for the Excellence Award Quarterfinalists - €50.00 & Silver Medal.
Roll of honour 2005-2006.
Pictured above prize winners are Keith Kavanagh and Dearbhla Ryan
Congratulations to all students (and their Teachers!) who were nominated for the Excellence Awards. Certificates will be issued for all students who were nominated for these awards.
Excellence Award Winners 2004 - 2005
Speech & Drama Regional Winners -Place Student’s names Counties Teachers name 1 Ashling Walsh – Dublin Lynn Brehony 2 Eibhlish Fleming – Wicklow Iris Keogh 3 Emma Cullen – Clare Anita Barry 4 Emily Boylan – Monaghan Pauline McKenna Music Regional Winners Place Students names County Teachers names 1 Sarah Jane Brady Meath Martina Toher 2 Benen Cahill Galway Elizabeth Martin 3 Grainne Keane Meath Martina Toher 4 Siobhán O’Connor Meath Siobhán Blake Lynch The Overall Winner of The Leinster School of Music & Drama Excellence Award 2005 –
Sarah Jane Brady (Teacher – Martina Toher) Co Meath
Congratulations Sarah!
Prize for the Centenary Year Excellence Award Overall Winner - €1000 Prize for the Centenary Year Excellence Award Quarterfinalists - €250 each -
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