• 1997 Dame Sister Mary Leo Scholarship. • 1998 New Zealand
Mobil Song Quest. • 1999 Australia's McDonald's Operatic Aria Contest at the Sydney Opera House. • 2000 Inaugural Llangollen International Singer 2000 Competition. • RCM Graziella Sciutti Recital Prize. • RCM Keith Faulkner Oratorio Prize. • 2000 LASMO Staffa Singers Prize. • Bruce Millar/Gulliver Award for Young Opera Singers (Glasgow). • Overall winner of the Royal Over-Seas League Competition (and Royal Over-Seas League Singers Prize, and Overseas Award). • Richard Tauber Prize for Singers (
Wigmore Hall). •
Concert FM Broadcasting Artist of the Year (NZ). • 2000 recipient of the RCM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl (presented by HRH Prince Charles) and NFMS Alfreda Hodgson Prize. • Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Scholar. • President Emerita Scholar, Leverhulme Trust Scholar, Tillet Trust Scholar and Singers Academy Scholar at the RCM. •
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist 2002-2004 •
Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording soloist on
Britten:
Billy Budd at
52nd Annual Grammy Awards 2010 • 2022 – Appointed an
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to opera, in the
2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours ==References==