Filipe Manu has won the main prize of the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition, the Marianne Mathy Scholarship.
The Finals Concert was held at the The Concourse Concert Hall in Sydney.
Along with the ‘Mathy’, Filipe won

Audition Prize from Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Center
Fine Music 102.5 Recording Session
Lili Ussher Prize
Oral History Award
The Mathy
IVAI New York Scholarship
Nell Pascall Award
MOST® Audience Prize
Opera Australia Prize

In September 2017, Filipe will commence studies at the Guildhall School of Music in London in the Opera Studies stream where he will learn from Yvonne Kenny.