The John Ireland Prize 2023 – University of Southampton
The annual John Ireland Competition took place in the Turner Sims Hall at the University of Southampton on 13 March 2023, the prize money generously donated by Prof Vincent Emery.
The adjudicators were Prof Thomas Irvine (Head of the University Music Department), Prof David Owen Norris (pianist, composer and tutor at Southampton University), and David Wordsworth (Director of the John Ireland Trust).
There were eight entries, both instrumentalists and singers, and the First Prize was unanimously awarded to Amelia Kelly-Slogrove for a performance of a selection of Ireland songs, which included Her Song, Ex Ore Innocentium, and Great Things.