{"id":4431,"date":"2025-04-27T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:21:40","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-presents-prize-to-the-winner-of-the-young-musician-11-years-and-under-at-the-southminster-competitive-festival-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4431","title":{"rendered":"Southminster Festival of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4431\" class=\"elementor elementor-4431\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3955e975 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3955e975\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c21bbaf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c21bbaf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Sir John Whittingdale was Guest of Honour and presented the prize to the winner of the \u201cYoung Musician 11 years and under\u201d section at the Southminster Competitive Festival of Music. The festival was held on Saturday 26 April at St Leonard\u2019s Church, Southminster. The winner of the award for \u201cYoung Musician 11 years and under\u201d was Elowen Fuller. Elowen played two pieces on the violin and attends All Saints Primary School in Maldon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John said: \u201cThis Festival is a fantastic initiative and I warmly commend Southminster Parish Council for organising it. In particular, a huge thank you must go to Cllr Meinir Wyn Davies whose idea the Festival was and who was its driving force throughout. The festival drew entries from schools across Maldon and the Dengie Peninsula. I was very impressed by the high standard, with music ranging from Metallica and Iron Maiden to Greig and Saint- Saens. I congratulate all those who participated and in particular, Elowen Fuller who was a worthy winner of the 11 and Under category of Young Musician\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Sir John is pictured with Adjudicator Dee Mardi, Young Musician 11 and Under winner, Elowen Fuller and Accompanist and Organiser, Meinir Wyn Davies.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-4432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-846x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-1268x1536.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-1691x2048.jpg 1691w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025-1024x1240.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/thumbnail_Southminster-Music-Festival-26-April-2025.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John Whittingdale presents prize to the winner of the \u201cYoung Musician 11 years and under\u201d at the Southminster Festival of Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}