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JUNE BRONHILL
Roland Gridiger, Director of the Australian Singing Competition notes with sadness the passing of June Bronhill.
Mr Gridiger remarked that Ms Bronhill had been a favourite student of singing teacher Marianne Mathy-Frisdane who encouraged the Broken Hill born singer to change her name from June Gough to June Bronhill.
In Madame Mathy’s biography written by Toni Mcrae she writes that “Perhaps the student she most loved and who often described Mathy as “my second mother” was June Bronhill. She was given the role Marianne herself had played all those years before in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. The Mathy-organised production which was presented in the Conservatorium, was fabulously successful and raised £700 for the home for incurables, Ryde later Royal Ryde Hospital.”
Marianne Mathy was responsible for producing some fifteen winners of the Sydney Sun Aria including Ms Bronhill.
The Australian Singing Competition annually awards the prestigious Marianne Mathy Scholarship. |
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