Competitions & Music Societies

Lot 1769    Day 2    Competitions & Music Societies

Estimate $750
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AUCKLAND COMPETITIONS SOCIETY, fob medal, handcrafted in gold (9ct, 9.18g, 26mm), by ALLINC (?), scroll style suspension, reverse inscribed 'Violin Solo/Under 12 Years/Moya Cooper-Smith/1925'; Auckland Competitions Society Incorp., 1929, fob medal, struck in gold (9ct, 16.77g, 33x38mm), by A.Khon Ltd (Adolph Kohn, Auckland), ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'Pres by/A.Kohn Ltd/for/Champion Violin Solo/1st./Miss Moya Cooper-Smith'. Good very fine. (20

Miss Moya Cooper-Smith of St Helier's Bay won the Champion Violin Solo open event in 1929 by playing 'Legende' by Wieniawski. As a solo violinist and pianist she entered into a career in music playing at clubs, concerts, and music festivals as well as performing on live radio programmes. In the 1960s, now as Moya Rea, she was appointed an accompanist playing in various venues in Hong Kong. She is also credited with naming the famous Hong Kong singing group, the Allegro Singers, instead of the Ming-yee chorus. The group was founded by Paris-trained soprano, Barbara Fei Ming-yee, and after Moya Rea had accompanied them in a performance, she suggested the name.