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 Congratulations to Dean Power who excelled in this week's prestigious Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition in Dublin's National Concert Hall to capture an unprecedented haul of four prizes. After a gruelling week of preliminary rounds and semi-finals amongst 59 competitors from across the globe, Dean took the overall third prize of €4,000 behind two female South African sopranos, the €3,000 Anthony Kearns Prize for best male singer (Kearns was the competition's only previous Irish male finalist, in 1999, when he also took third prize), the €500 Dermot Troy Prize for best Irish singer, and the €500 Handel Prize. "Power offered the evening's most unusually balanced programme, including Il mio tesoro, from Mozart's Don Giovanni (which showed off Power's purity of tone and unstressed high notes), and the piano-accompanied Prologue from Britten's Turn of the Screw (delivered with real narrative skill), with Lensky's Aria from Tchaikovosky's eugene Onegin a constrasting finish." The Irish Times This year the competition attracted competitors from as far as Korea and Australia who sang in the three days of highly competitive heats in front of the world's top opera music experts. After 15 years since the very first competition, this bigger and better competition event boasts the largest ever applicant count of originally well over 70 competitors (59 singers made it to Dublin in the end) from 21 nations around the globe. The 6th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition, dazzled both event organisers, the competition jury and opera lovers alike as the standard this year was higher than ever before. After the exciting round of heats for the past week, this special triennial singing event culminated with the Grand Finale at the National Concert Hall's Main auditorium with prizes presented by members of the competition committee and by Ireland's greatest and much loved opera singers and vocal coaches, Dr Veronica Dunne.And that's not all, Dean is also singing in the world renowned Carnegie Hall in New York on Monday, March 15, presenting an opportunity for fellow Magpies in the Big Apple to experience what many Clarecastle people did at Christmas concert in the church five weeks ago. Here's an chance to show your appreciation for Dean's momentous achievement by putting in a comment in the box below.
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