Winning always feels good,'' 24-year-old Isabella Moore
A young Samoan, whose voice mesmerised hundreds at Leauva’a recently during the Opera Under the Stars Concert, has done it again.
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This time, Isabella Moore, has won the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Aria Competition in Dunedin, adding that title to a string of other recent singing successes. ''Winning always feels good,'' 24-year-old Ms Moore said. She won first prize, the NZ$5,000 (T$9,000) Dame
Malvina Major Foundation award, from six fellow finalists, during the Senior Vocal Festival 2014, at the Burns Hall, First Church, Dunedin on Saturday.
Dunedin-trained bass-baritone Joel Amosa, of Auckland, gained second prize, the NZ$2,000 (T$3,600) Val Braumann Award.
The daughter of Johnny and Sina Wendt-Moore has music qualifications including a Bachelor of Music Degree, from the New Zealand
School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington.
She recently completed a Masters degree in Advanced Vocal Studies with Distinction, at the Wales International Academy of Voice under the tutelage of renowned tenor Dennis O'Neill.
Ms Moore recently won the prestigious IFAC Australian Singing Competition, and this year won the Lexus Song Quest.
It had been ''amazing'' to win the Dame Malvina Major Foundation award in Dunedin, she said.
The win was particularly significant because she had enjoyed previous success in foundation-backed events, and had gained scholarship support from the Foundation, she said.
She had been especially pleased to perform for leading Soprano, Marie McLaughlin, who adjudicated the competition.
Ms Moore aims to pursue a singing career based in the United Kingdom, and the recent competition success is helping her to achieve that goal, she said.
She was recently in Samoa for the Opera Under the Stars Concert where she lined up alongside Daphne Collins, Benson Wilson, Taunoa Filimoehala, Derek Wendt and Pianist, Juan Kim.
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