Junior and Senior Vocal Sheryl Clarke Sheryl studied at Auckland University with Janette McStay and Bryan Sayer. During that time she appeared as soloist with the Junior Symphony, Auckland Symphonia and the NZ Symphony Orchestra. She then undertook four years of post graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London and was awarded many prizes there including the prestigious Walter MacFarren Prize for the Best Female Pianist i the Recital Diploma Examinations. For six years Sheryl was the official accompanist for Westlake High School Key Cygnatures Choir and the New Zealand Secondary Schools Choir. She has also performed and toured with Tower Voices New Zealand. Senior Vocal Rosemary Barnes Rosemary Barnes is one of New Zeakand's most respected resident pianists. Since returning in 1993 from almost three decades in London, she has appeared in recital with Dame Kiri Te Kawana, Sir Donald McIntyre, Dame Malvina Major, Sally Burgess, Helen Medlyn, Patricia Wright, Carmel Carroll, Grant Dickson and David Griffiths, and with numerous instrumentalists including violinists David Nalden, Emil Chudnovsky and Miwako Abe, clarinettist Murray Khoun, and flautists Robert Aitken, Paul Edmund-Davies, Leoni Buyse and Elena Duran. Additionally she gives dozens of recitals every year with the younger generation of performers. Teaching and coaching have always been a large part of Rosemary's career. Having coached young singers and pianists at Morley College and the Royal Collage of Music while in London, she directed the postgraduate opera diploma at the University of Auckland from 1993-99. Nowadays she tutors chamber music and voice students there as well as coaching Emerging Artists for NBR New Zealand Opera, being Music Director of Opera Factory and adjudicating voice and piano. In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours Rosemary received an MNZM for services to music. THE AOTEA YOUTH SYMPHONY The Aotea Youth Symphony was founded in 1986 to provide ensemble playing opportunities for young people within the greater Auckland area. In its 25th year the Symphony is directed by its founding Music Director Paul Harrop ONZM. Over the last 15 years demand has been so great that a second training orchestra has been operating as well. The Symphony’s mission is to enliven each member’s association with music by providing a wide repertoire of music from classical to popular in a friendly environment, and by delivering a variety of orchestral performances that would not otherwise be available to the member. In so doing, the member’s achievement on their specific instrument is heightened as well as their own self esteem. The community enjoys several concerts and performances from the Symphony each year, including, for several years, accompanying the finalists in the Piano Concerto section of the North Shore Performing Arts Competitions. The Symphony, whose patron is Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, has toured to Australia, USA, Canada, Japan and China over the years. Interested musicians can apply for membership through the Symphony’s website: Website: www.aotea.org.nz | 
