Page 142 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21
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10 May 2021
BARITONE TOM MOLE WINS GUILDHALL
SCHOOL'S GOLD MEDAL
Lucy Thraves
Guildhall School's most prestigious accolade is given to singers and instrumentalists in
alternate years.
Tom Mole
© Clive Totman
British baritone Tom Mole was awarded the Guildhall School's Gold Medal on 6 May.
His performance included Rachmaninov’s V molchanyi nochi taynoy (In the silence of the secret
night),Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder: Abschied (Farewell), Wolf’s Schon streckt’ ich aus im Bett die müden
Glieder (I had already stretched out my weary limbs in bed), Finzi’s The Phantom: Earth and Air
and Rain and Moss’ The Floral Dance, accompanied by pianist Inês Costa.
The other Gold Medal finalists were tenor Thando Mjandana, soprano Laura Lolita Perešivana and
soprano Olivia Boen.
