Queen's Park Singers launches choral scholarship scheme
| Type of post: | Choir news item |
| Sub-type: | News item |
| Posted By: | Glyn Jones |
| Status: | Current |
| Date Posted: | Fri, 17 Oct 2025 |
Queen's Park Singers now offer choral scholarships, open to aspiring young singers aged 18 to 30, or those in full or part-time music education, who are keen to develop their ensemble skills and contribute to the choir's growth.
We are delighted to welcome our first scholars, Sancia Czecilia Divina (soprano) and Naveen Kanamarlapudi (tenor), who have already started working with us and are providing valuable support in their respective sections.
Sancia Czecilia Divina is a 21-year-old soprano currently studying at the Royal College Of Music. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Vels University, Chennai, India.
She is a versatile western classical vocalist, who also plays a host of musical instruments. In fact she has already passed 40 exams from Trinity College of Music London and Rock School in voice, theory of music, guitar, ukulele, keyboard, piano, violin and drums with merits and distinctions.
Sancia completed LTCL and ATCL diplomas with distinction in western vocals, and Grade 8 in Theory of Music under Augustine Paul. She is a Grade 8 drummer under the tutelage of Dinesh George of Galilee Academy. She also studied History of Music with Karl Lutchmayer.
She was soloist in the Madras Musical Association choir and a violinist in the MMA symphony orchestra. Sancia was a part of the Chromatics, an ensemble specializing in opera arias and art songs, helmed by Augustine Paul.
She has also done several vocal backing recordings in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and solo opera excerpts in film recordings with Yuvan Shankar Raja, A.R Rahaman and Thaman S.
Sancia is currently a student of Patricia Rozario, OBE and has been working with her in London, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. She has also won the title “Conbrio Hall of Fame 2023-First Runner up” in voice.
Naveen Kanamarlapudi is a tenor from Swansea, pursuing third-year undergraduate Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban, taught by Lynton Atkinson. He enjoys singing with various choirs and performing in opera productions throughout London.
Notable performances include the Last Night of Proms with the BBC Symphony Chorus, D-Day 80 commemorations at the British Normandy Memorial as a scholar of London Youth Choir 23/24 and the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla as an Only Boys Aloud member.
He has contributed to opera productions as a chorus member for Puccini's Turandot, Tosca and Mozart’s Magic Flute. Naveen is one of nine young singers selected for the 2025 Glyndebourne Academy. Also he contributes to Old Royal Naval College Chapel Services and was recently selected for the Philharmonia Chorus Student Scheme.
His recent solo recital includes Mozart's Un'aura amorosa at the Black British Classical Foundation Summer Concert.
We are delighted to welcome our first scholars, Sancia Czecilia Divina (soprano) and Naveen Kanamarlapudi (tenor), who have already started working with us and are providing valuable support in their respective sections.
Sancia Czecilia Divina is a 21-year-old soprano currently studying at the Royal College Of Music. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Vels University, Chennai, India.She is a versatile western classical vocalist, who also plays a host of musical instruments. In fact she has already passed 40 exams from Trinity College of Music London and Rock School in voice, theory of music, guitar, ukulele, keyboard, piano, violin and drums with merits and distinctions.
Sancia completed LTCL and ATCL diplomas with distinction in western vocals, and Grade 8 in Theory of Music under Augustine Paul. She is a Grade 8 drummer under the tutelage of Dinesh George of Galilee Academy. She also studied History of Music with Karl Lutchmayer.
She was soloist in the Madras Musical Association choir and a violinist in the MMA symphony orchestra. Sancia was a part of the Chromatics, an ensemble specializing in opera arias and art songs, helmed by Augustine Paul.
She has also done several vocal backing recordings in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and solo opera excerpts in film recordings with Yuvan Shankar Raja, A.R Rahaman and Thaman S.
Sancia is currently a student of Patricia Rozario, OBE and has been working with her in London, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. She has also won the title “Conbrio Hall of Fame 2023-First Runner up” in voice.
Naveen Kanamarlapudi is a tenor from Swansea, pursuing third-year undergraduate Vocal Studies at Trinity Laban, taught by Lynton Atkinson. He enjoys singing with various choirs and performing in opera productions throughout London.Notable performances include the Last Night of Proms with the BBC Symphony Chorus, D-Day 80 commemorations at the British Normandy Memorial as a scholar of London Youth Choir 23/24 and the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla as an Only Boys Aloud member.
He has contributed to opera productions as a chorus member for Puccini's Turandot, Tosca and Mozart’s Magic Flute. Naveen is one of nine young singers selected for the 2025 Glyndebourne Academy. Also he contributes to Old Royal Naval College Chapel Services and was recently selected for the Philharmonia Chorus Student Scheme.
His recent solo recital includes Mozart's Un'aura amorosa at the Black British Classical Foundation Summer Concert.
