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Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu is a New Zealand bass baritone opera singer. Born to Samoan parents who had emigrated to New Zealand, he was educated in Dunedin. His first singing teacher was Honor McKellar, who began teaching him while he attended Otago Boys' High School. He studied both Law and Music at the University of Otago, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1999.

Honours and awards
• 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==
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