Gilbert Betjemann Prize
The Gilbert Betjemann Prize is a gold medal awarded by the Royal Academy of Music "for operatic singing".
The award was founded in 1897 by G.H. Betjemann HonRA, to commemorate his son Gilbert Richard Betjemann, who was an associate and former student of the Academy and who had died following the collapse of a snow bridge over which he was walking near Grindelwald in the Bernese Alps on 9 September 1896.
In 1948 it was described as:
In 2013, the great-nephew of the 1909 recipient, Margaret Ismay, showed her medal on an episode of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. She had had it converted into a coin watch by Cartier.
The Gilbert Betjemann Memorial Prize is a registered charity in England and Wales with number 310007.Recipients
The first 49 recipients are listed on a wooden prize board, with gold lettering, in the collection of the Academy. They were:
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