The Edith Hemingway Memorial Award

The Edith Hemingway Award is for the best young musician from the North West of England every year.

Established in 2007 in memory of Edith Hemingway (1923-2006), a talented and enthusiastic singer from Burnley, Lancashire, the Award is endowed by her granddaughter Ria Hopkinson (an amateur pianist and violinist who benefited from similar funding as a student of the Junior School at the Royal Northern College of Music) and her aunt Mal Dolan.

Applications for this Award should be made via the normal application procedure.

Click here for details about how to apply to our Awards programme.