Year 12 boy wins Flute award

A Year 12 boy won both the Intermediate (under 18) and Senior sections (Under 25) of the Leslie Barklamb flute scholarship.

The Lesley Barklamb scholarship is the most prestigious flute award in Australia, and is hotly contested. Having won the earlier sections, the Scotch boy competed in the final against post-graduate flautists, one from ANAM (Australia National Academy of Music) and one PhD candidate from Cambridge University.

Leslie Barklamb put Australian flute playing on the map. He was born in 1905, was a founder player with the MSO, was the first salaried wind teacher at the University of Melbourne, and he also taught at Scotch!

Our Scotch flautist started the flute when he was seven in rural Wodonga and won many Eisteddfods and Scholarships in the area. In 2015, he started Boarding at Scotch College and in the same year completed his AMusA as well as playing Cimarosa’s Double Flute concerto at the Summer Prom. In 2016, he completed his LMusA with Distinction, his VCE Music and was nominated as a Top Class performer, playing Faure’s Fantasie in the Melbourne Recital Centre.

He currently studies flute with Paula Rae and since coming to Scotch College has immersed himself into the musical life at Scotch playing in the pit ba

nd for musicals and other major groups and chamber ensembles. He will perform the Concertino for Flute and Orchestra by Chaminade at this year’s Foundation Day Concert.