Fine Arts Trust

Fine Arts Trust (Incorporating the Robert Stolz Music Scholarship)

The Fine Arts Trust sponsors young Australian participants in the Hans Gabor Belvedere International Singing Competition in Vienna. Performing for the world's leading opera managers, directors and agents provides an unparalleled professional experience for young aspiring singers.

This year (2009), the sponsorship was awarded to Sarah Ann Walker from Sydney (pictured middle right). 

Sarah Ann Walker began singing when she was 21 years old. She then moved to Christchurch and studied with Dame Malvina Major while working towards a music degree in Performance Voice. 

In 2006 and 2007 Sarah Ann was chosen as one of two emerging artists with the New Zealand Opera Company and was given the major understudies for the seasons of Gounod's Faust (Marguerite) and Puccini's Turandot (Liu).

In 2008  she studied with Glenn Winslade and Sharolyn Kimmorley, training full time with the aim to perform to the highest standard in Vienna. 

Click here to read about Robert Stolz  and his career in brief. Picture below right with his wife Yvonne.

FUNDS DISBURSED FROM THIS TRUST:      2008/09   $1,500       Total over $300,000