Thanks!!!

Thank you to all of you who supported the Opera Gala at St. Fagans, we had a brilliant everning and raised lots for the trust! thanks to the performers and the Everyman Festival! www.everymanfestival.co.uk

Recipients 09

The Elizabeth Evans Trust is delighted to announce it’s recipients for 2009/10

Mary Elliott - Cellist
Gary Griffiths - Baritone
Craig Barlow - Musical Theatre
Hannah Morgan - Clarinetist
Natalya Romaniw - Soprano
Christina Modestou - Musical Theatre
Rebecca Haw - Dancer
Leanne Cody - Pianist
Benn Williams - Musical Theatre
Jennie Quirk - Stage Management

The Trust also sponsored 7 young memebers of the Carmarthenshire based Company ‘Just Good Friends’ who are planning a trip to perform ‘By Jeeves’  at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival  they are

Adam Quill
Tom Goodridge
Daniel Williams
Gwyn Stacey
Sian Stacey
Neil Almond
Patrick Morrison

Awards 09

The Trust will be announcing 2009/10 recipients within the next few days. Trustee Paul Thomas said ‘This year we saw standards higher than ever, we will be announcing the names of the recipients over the next few days but this year we will be sponsoring Opera Singers, Instrumentalists, Musical Theatre Performers, Actors and for the first time we will be sponsoring our very first Dancer. It is an exciting time for the trust and for the young people that we sponsor’

Trustee Wynne Evans added ‘At this very difficult time of financial downturn, when money is being directed away from the arts , it becomes extra important for trusts such as the Elizabeth Evans Trust to keep investing in the our future.’