WNPC 2017 student blogger Callum Blackmore holds a Bachelor of Music with Honours in musicology from the University of Auckland. He won the 2017 Drake Medal Prize for the best musicology essay and will be travelling to Leeds later this year as the 2017/18 Pettman DARE Fellow in Music Education to work with Opera North and the University of Leeds. His research interests include the performance of opera in the digital age, and how modern performances relate to the original context of the work.