Carolyn Watson wins the 2013 Brian Stacey Award for Emerging Australian Conductors.

Carolyn Watson wins the 2013 Brian Stacey Award for Emerging Australian Conductors.

Congratulations to conductor Carolyn Watson who has won the annual 2013 Brian Stacey Award for Emerging Australian Conductors under the auspices of the Helpmann Awards.  As the winner of the award, Carolyn  Watson receives an $8000 prize. The Brian Stacey Memorial Trust was launched in 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Brian Stacey. The Trust Fund in his name…

Tales from a Churchill Fellow – Carolyn Watson’s study tour

Tales from a Churchill Fellow – Carolyn Watson’s study tour

Sydney conductor Carolyn Watson is back in Sydney and brimming with her experiences over four months of the southern summer spent travelling on an extended Churchill Fellowship. “The whole point of a Churchill Fellowship” she says, “is that the study has to be something that can’t be undertaken in Australia. My project was to compare…