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2017 Provincial Final CompetitionsSaskatchewan Music Festival Association Presents

June 2, 3, & 4Saskatoon, SK, University of Saskatchewan

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Program Summary ............................................................................................... 5

Provincial Level of Nationals ................................................................................ 7

Provincial Level of Nationals – Choirs .................................................................. 8

Musical Theatre ................................................................................................. 11

Percussion .......................................................................................................... 15

Senior Voice ....................................................................................................... 16

Intermediate Piano ............................................................................................ 21

Intermediate Voice ............................................................................................ 25

Speech Arts ........................................................................................................ 27

Senior Piano ....................................................................................................... 29

Strings ................................................................................................................ 31

Guitar ................................................................................................................. 33

Woodwinds ........................................................................................................ 35

Brass ................................................................................................................... 37

Grand Awards Competition ............................................................................... 39

Choirs ................................................................................................................. 40

Judges’ Biographies ............................................................................................ 42

Scholarships ....................................................................................................... 46

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Affiliated with the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals

HONORARY PATRONS

The Honorable Vaughn Schofield, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan The Honorable Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan

HONORARY PRESIDENTS

Dr. Vianne Timmons, University of Regina Dr. Peter Stoicheff, University of Saskatchewan

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PROVINCIAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President ....................................................... Karen Unger, Spalding 1st Vice President ....................................... Sherry Sproule, Lafleche 2nd Vice President ................................. Wendy Thienes, Shaunavon Past President ............................... Karen MacCallum, Swift Current Director ............................................................ Kelly Stein, Simpson Director ...................................... Tammy Villeneuve, Meadow Lake Director ........................................................ Kari Mitchell, Carnduff Director .............................................. Bonnie Nicholson, Saskatoon Director ......................................... Michael Lyngstad, Swift Current

SMFA PROVINCIAL OFFICE

Executive Director ................................................. Carol Donhauser Adjudicator Liaison/Program Coordinator ................. Karen Klassen Administrative Assistant.......................................... Nancy Toppings

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2017 PROGRAM SUMMARY

Quance Theatre Education Building

Classroom 1005 (Student’s Lounge) Education Building

Convocation Hall/Green Room/Office for Judge

College Building

Classroom 1033 Education Building

FRIDAY, JUNE 2

10:00 am

Musical Theatre

Intermediate Ballad

Senior Ballad

1:00 pm Provincial Level of National Competitions (All disciplines)

2:00 pm Musical Theatre • Senior Up-Tempo

Intermediate Up-Tempo

7:00 pm Provincial Level of National Competitions (All disciplines) Announcement of Team Saskatchewan

SATURDAY, JUNE 3

9:00 am

Percussion

Intermediate

10:30 am Senior Voice

Grade B (Female)

Grade B (Male)

Grade A (Female)

Grade A (Male)

Intermediate Piano

Beethoven

Chopin

Haydn/Mozart

Senior Piano

Bach

Haydn/Mozart

Beethoven

Strings

Int. Vla/Vc/DB

Int. Violin 11:30 am Guitar

Intermediate

Senior

1:00 pm Senior Voice

Grade B Concert Group

Grade A Concert Group

French Art Song

Canadian

Intermediate Piano

Bach

20th/21st Century & Canadian

Recital 4:30 pm Intermediate Voice

Female Male

Senior Piano

Romantic

20th 21st C/ Canadian

French

Chopin

Strings

Sr. Concert

Sr. Violin Recital

Sr. Vla/Vc/DB Recital

3:45 pm Woodwinds

Intermediate

Senior Concert

Senior Recital

7:00 pm Senior Voice

Oratorio

Operatic

Speech Arts

Intermediate Intermediate Voice

Concert Group

Brass

Intermediate

Senior Recital

Senior Concert

SUNDAY, JUNE 4 Quance Theatre - Grand Awards Concert 1:00 pm – Chosen Senior Competitors to perform – Everyone Welcome!

FESTIVAL OFFICE – ROOM 1039, EDUCATION BUILDING

SOME PARTICIPANTS AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE HIGHLY ALLERGIC TO SCENTED PRODUCTS. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM USING THEM DURING PROVINCIAL FINALS

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2017 PROVINCIAL LEVEL OF NATIONALS

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QUANCE THEATRE, Education Building Friday, June 2, 2017

Judges: Christine Bootland, William Gordon, Corey Hamm and Joanne Kolomyjec

1:00 pm WILLIAM BOAN, violin, Saskatoon Festival (Bonnie Nicholson) Violin Concerto, Op. 35, 1st & 2nd mvts - Korngold Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 80, 2nd mvt - Prokofiev 1:30 pm GABRIEL BENESH, baritone, Saskatoon Festival (Naomi Suchan) Se vuol ballare - Mozart En Sourdine; Claire de lune; Fantoches - Debussy The Trumpet Shall Sound - Handel 1:50 pm SOPHIE MCBEAN, piano, Saskatoon Festival (Bonnie Nicholson) A Wild Innocence - McIntyre Fifth Concerto in F major, Op. 103, 2nd & 3rd mvts - Saint-Saéns 2:20 pm DOMINIC GHIGLIONE, trombone, Regina Festival (Judi Levesque) Concertino in Bb major, Op. 4, 2nd & 3rd mvts - David Fantasy for Trombone and Piano - Raum

* * * BREAK * * * 2:45 pm COLE KNUTSON, alto saxophone, Battlefords Festival (Dianne Gryba) Sonata, Op. 19, 2nd mvt - Creston Concertino da Camera, 1st & 2nd mvts - Ibert 3:15 pm ALAINA MAJEWSKI, violoncello, Regina Festival (Judi Levesque) Concerto in e minor, Op. 85, 3rd & 4th mvts - Elgar Sonata for Cello and Piano in d minor, Op. 40, 4th mvt - Shostakovich 3:40 pm JOSHUA HENDRICKSEN, bass-baritone, Regina Festival (Alison Purdy) Madamina! Il catologo e questo (Don Giovanni) - Mozart For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth/The people who walked in darkness (Messiah) - Handel Winterreise, D. 911: Gefrorne Tranen; Die Post; Die Nebbensonnen; Der Leiermann - Schubert

* * * BREAK * * * 4:20 pm BRADLEY LITTLE, piano, Regina Festival (Cherith Alexander) Piano Concerto in c minor, No. 24, KV 491 - Mozart Gargoyles (complete) - Liebermann 5:05 pm MADISON ENGEN, clarinet, Regina Festival (Alison Purdy) Concerto in f minor, Op. 5, 1st & 2nd mvts - Crusell Sonata, Op. 167, 4th mvt - Saint-Saëns 5:30 pm JOANNE Z. PENG, violin, Moose Jaw Festival (Cherith Alexander) Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, 1st & 2nd mvts - Tchaikovsky Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 - Sarasate

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QUANCE THEATRE, Education Building Friday, June 2, 2017

Judges: Marie Baron, Christine Bootland, William Gordon, Corey Hamm and Joanne Kolomyjec

7:00 pm TRIO RUSTICO: Josias Sanchez, Charlee Wielgoz & Danielle Guina, Humboldt Festival Trio in B major, Op. 8, 1st & 2nd mvts - Brahms Circulo, Op. 91 - Turina 7:40 pm SIARRA RIEHL, soprano, Saskatoon Festival (Darla MacDiarmid) Astonishing (Little Women) - Howland So Many People (Saturday Night) - Sondheim A Summer in Ohio (The Last Five Years) - Brown 7:55 pm JOCELYN KOHL, mezzo-soprano, Lanigan Festival (Dulcie Kirzinger) Shy (Once Upon a Mattress) - Rodgers On My Own (Les Misérables) - Boublil & Schönberg You Can't Get a Man with a Gun (Annie get your Gun) - Berlin 8:10 pm LOUREN SAZON, soprano, Moose Jaw Festival (Jeri Ryba) My Lifelong Love (The Danger Year) - Stitt Someone to Watch Over Me (Oh Kay!) - the Gershwins Dear Daddy (Welcome to My Life) - Cronin & Dempster 8:25 pm MAYSON SONNTAG, bass, Regina Festival (Cherith Alexander) The World is Changing (Martin Guerre) - Arden Stuck on You (Whoop Dee Doo) - Waldrop & Gallagher Pass the Football (Wonderful Town) - Bernstein

♫ ♫ Reception ♫ ♫

Announcement of the Saskatchewan Representatives to the 2017 National Music Festival Competition in Ottawa, ON, August 10-12

CHORAL RECORDINGS Judge: Joel Tranquilla

Paul J. Bourret

CAMPBELL COLLEGIATE CHAMBER CHOIR, Russ and Deirdre Baird, Conductors, Regina Festival Abendlied – Rheinberger

O My Luv's Like A Red Rose - arr. Clausen

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Announcement of the Saskatchewan Representatives to the 2017 National Music Festival Competition

Ottawa, ON, August 10-12, 2017

VOICE Joshua Hendricksen _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by Rose Schmalz)

PIANO Sophie McBean _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by the Anna Klassen Endowment Fund)

STRINGS Joanne Z. Peng _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by the Saskatchewan Orchestral Association)

This donation is made possible through a contribution from its Bursary Program, which was established in 2011 in order to assist music students aged 12 to 24 to participate in eligible musical development activities. The mission of the Sask. Orchestral Association is to enhance the

quality of life in Saskatchewan by stimulating a thriving orchestral community.

WOODWIND Cole Knutson _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by SMFA Board & Staff)

BRASS Dominic Ghiglione _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by Ross Ulmer and Karen Ast of Lloydminster, AB)

PERCUSSION No entries (Entry by recording: no travel award required)

MUSICAL THEATRE Louren Sazon _______ (Travel Award of $500 donated by Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC)

GUITAR No entries (Travel Award of $500)

CHAMBER GROUP Trio Rustico _______ (Travel Award of $500 each donated anonymously)

PAUL J. BOURRET Campbell Collegiate Choir, Russ and Deirdre Baird, conductors (Entry by recording: no travel award required)

* * * PHOTO SESSION * * *

Award Winners Please report to the SMFA On-Site Office

(Room 1039, Education Building).

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2017 PROVINCIAL FINALS

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CONVOCATION HALL, Peter MacKinnon Building Friday, June 2, 2017

Musical Theatre Judge: Marie Baron

Note: Some of the following selections may contain themes/language intended for a mature audience.

#50 Regan Grant Memorial Intermediate Musical Theatre Ballad Scholarship of $300 ..........................10:00 am

1. Corie Groome Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Summertime (Porgy and Bess) - Gershwin 2. Kassidy Silbernagel Lafleche Festival Till There Was You (Music Man) - Wilson 3. Allison Gordon Maple Creek Festival Someone Else's Story (Chess) - Andersson & Ulvaeus 4. Olivia Kelly Moosomin Festival What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line) - Hamlisch 5. Louren Sazon Moose Jaw Festival Dear Daddy (Welcome to My Life) - Cronin & Dempster 6. Jayden Burrows Saskatoon Festival Stars (Les Misérables) - Schönberg 7. Jocelyn Kohl Lanigan Festival On My Own (Les Misérables) - Schönberg 8. Kayla Jacobs Gravelbourg Festival One Perfect Moment (Bring It On) - Miranda, Kitt & Green 9. Jesse Koethler Swift Current Festival Burn (Hamilton: An American Musical) - Miranda

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10. Geena Heinrich Central Sask Festival Memory (Cats) - Lloyd Webber 11. Zachariah May Mainline Festival Mama, A Rainbow (Minnie's Boys) - Grossman 12. Jay Vellacott Sask Valley Festival Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Misérables) - Schönberg 13. Kelsey Howatt Regina Festival With You (Ghost) - Stewart & Ballard 14. Rebecca Spilchak Yorkton Festival In My Own Little Corner (Cinderella) - Rodgers & Hammerstein 15. Faith Schuler Humboldt Festival Summertime (Porgy & Bess) - Gershwin 16. Kyra Huber Unity Festival Everything Changes (Waitress) - Bareilles 17. Lauren Luciuk Quill Plains Festival Think of Me (Phantom of the Opera) - Lloyd Weber 18. Annette Hunter Rosetown Festival Feed the Birds (Mary Poppins) - Sherman & Sherman WINNER:____Jayden Burrows

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#49 Ursan Family Senior Musical Theatre Ballad Scholarship of $400 ................................................... 12:15 pm

1. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival What Good Would The Moon Be (Street Scene) - Weill 2. Ryan Ramsay Regina Festival How to Handle A Woman (Camelot) - Lerner & Loewe 3. Rachel Cey Unity Festival Always A Bridesmaid (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!) - Roberts 4. Mayson Sonntag Regina Festival The World Is Changing (Martin Guerre) - Arden 5. Nicola Classen Saskatoon Festival Losing My Mind (Follies) - Sondheim WINNER: ____Ryan Ramsay_________________

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#51 Joy McFarlane-Burton Senior Musical Theatre Up-Tempo Scholarship of $400 ................................ 2:00 pm

1. Rachel Cey Unity Festival I'll Find a Song to Sing (Meshuggah-Nuns! The Ecumenical Nunsense) - Goggin 2. Abbie Brokenshire Estevan Festival Pulled (The Addams Family) - Lippa 3. Ryan Ramsay Regina Festival Leaning on a Lampost (Me and My Girl) - Gay 4. Shaquille McGonigle Saskatoon Festival Defying Gravity from (Wicked) - Schwartz 5. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival A Summer in Ohio (The Last Five Years) - Brown 6. David Anderson Regina Festival The Devil You Know (Side Show) - Krieger

WINNER: ____Ryan Ramsay_________________

Announcement of the Senior Musical Theatre Competitor who will compete in the GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION (Quance Theatre, Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm)



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#52 Sandra Ryba Intermediate Musical Theatre Up-Tempo Scholarship of $300 .................................... 3:00 pm

1. Kieran Kasha Regina Festival You'll Be Back (Hamilton) - Miranda 2. Kassidy Silbernagel Lafleche Festival I Have Confidence (The Sound of Music) - Rodgers & Hammerstein 3. Allison Gordon Maple Creek Festival Nothing (A Chorus Line) - Hamlisch 4. Olivia Kelly Moosomin Festival Wouldn't It be Loverly (My Fair Lady) - Lerner & Loewe 5. Louren Sazon Moose Jaw Festival My Lifelong Love (The Danger Year) - Stitt 6. Jocelyn Kohl Lanigan Festival Shy (Once Upon a Mattress) - Rodgers 7. Kayla Jacobs Gravelbourg Festival I Can Cook Too (On the Town) - Bernstein 8. Dawnella Rude Swift Current Festival Defying Gravity (Wicked) - Schwartz 9. Zachariah May Mainline Festival If I Were A Rich Man (Fiddler on the Roof) – Bock

* * * BREAK * * * 10. Kassie Moisan Nipawin Festival Little Girls (Annie) - Strouse 11. Kyra Huber Unity Festival We've Got to Clean Out the Freezer (Nunsense) - Goggin 12. Corie Groome Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Popular (Wicked) - Schwartz 13. Jordyn Nachtegaele Battlefords Festival Shy (Once Upon a Mattress) - Rodgers 14. Levi Stepp Estevan Festival There is Nothin’ Like A Dame (South Pacific) - Rodgers & Hammerstein 15. Olivia Guselle Saskatoon Festival I Want to Live Out Loud (A Little Princess) - Lippa 16. Tayler Johnston Quill Plains Festival Hernando's Hideaway (The Pajama Game) - Adler & Ross 17. Jalen Smith Humboldt Festival Poor Unfortunate Souls (The Little Mermaid) - Menken 18. Julie Livingstone Kindersley Festival To Keep My Love Alive (A Connecticut Yankee) - Rodgers

19. Carmen Stusek Yorkton Festival One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man (Wonderful Town) - Bernstein

WINNER: ______Louren Sazon__________________

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QUANCE THEATRE, Education Building Saturday, June 3, 2017

Percussion Judge: William Gordon

#48 Maple Creek Music Festival Intermediate Percussion Scholarship of $300....................................... 9:00 am

1. Josh Sandercock Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Rainbow Ripples - Hamilton 2. Ashton Bourgeois Melfort Festival Last Minute! - Bourgeois 3. Maxim Hiske Estevan Festival Chorale and Variations - Peters 4. Isaac Paulhus Kindersley Festival Morris Dance - Kraft 5. Sam Boot Saskatoon Festival Three Dances – Benson WINNER: ____Maxim Hiske_________________

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Senior Voice Judge: Joanne Kolomyjec

#7 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade B Female Voice Scholarship of $400 .......................................10:30 am

1. Samantha Andrew Eston Festival Orpheus with his Lute - Sullivan 2. Meaghan Bentley Saskatoon Festival Les Filles de Cadix - Delibes 3. Alysse Sailor Moose Jaw Festival Let Me Wander Not Unseen; Or Let the Merry Bells Ring Round - Handel 4. Olivia Guselle Saskatoon Festival Alleluia - Rorem 5. Simone Ma Regina Festival Lied der Suleika, Op. 25 No. 9 - Schumann WINNER: ____Olivia Giselle____________________

#8 Thomas & Don Hatton Memorial Senior Grade B Male Voice Scholarship of $400 ..........................11:15 am

1. Jayden Burrows Saskatoon Festival Go, Lovely Rose - Quilter WINNER: ____Jayden Burrows__________________

#5 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade A Female Voice Scholarship of $400 .......................................11:20 am

1. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival Les roses d'ispahan - Fauré 2. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival Die Junge Nonne - Schubert 3. Kaitlyn Kasha Regina Festival Hans und Grethe - Mahler WINNER: ____Kaitlyn Kasha___________________

#6 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade A Male Voice Scholarship of $400 ..........................................11:50 am

1. Jordan Dornn Saskatoon Festival Mai, Op. 1, No. 2 - Fauré WINNER: ____Jordan Dornn____________________

Award Winners

Please report to the SMFA On-Site Office (Room 1039, Education Building).

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#16 Nancy & Alastair Todd Memorial Senior Vocal Concert Group Grade B Scholarship of $300 ............ 1:00 pm 1. Eva Neudorf Regina Festival Caro mio ben - Giordani Im wunderschnen Monat Mai, Op. 48 - Schumann Under the Greenwood Tree - Arne 2. Katrina Nixdorf Regina Festival Hans und Grete - Mahler Phantasie - Mahler 3. Brianna Penner Saskatoon Festival 5 Shakespeare Songs, Op.23 - Quilter Fear no more the heat o' the Sun Under the Greenwood Tree Take, O take those lips away It was a Lover and his Lass 4. Angela Gjurichanin Saskatoon Festival Was will die einsame Träne - Schumann Du bist wie eine Blume - Schumann Widmung - Schumann 5. Nicole Klippenstein Battlefords Festival Nacht und Träume, D 827 - Schubert Auf dem Wasser zu Singen, D 774 - Schubert Rastlose Liebe, D 138 - Schubert WINNER: ____Brianna Penner__________________

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#15 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Vocal Concert Group Grade A Scholarship of $400 ............................ 1:55 pm

1. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival Three Spanish Lyrics - Raminsh Si os partieredes al alba Caminante, son tus huellas Meciendo 2. Gabriel Benesh Saskatoon Festival Loveliest of Trees, The Cherry Now - Somervell When I was One-and-Twenty - Somervell In Summertime on Bredon - Somervell On the Idle Hill of Summer - Somervell Think no more, Lad, Laugh, be Jolly & Into my Heart an Air that Kills – Somervell 3. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival Mein Herz das ist ein Tiefer Schacht - Schoenberg Mädchenlied - Schoenberg Waldesnacht - Schoenberg 4. Kaitlyn Kasha Regina Festival La nuit, la lune et les étoiles: Nuit d'étoiles - Debussy Sérénade italienne - Chausson Soir - Fauré La lune blanche - Delius Clair de lune - Szulc 5. Joshua Hendricksen Regina Festival Songs of Travel - Vaughan Williams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither must I wander Bright is the Ring of Words WINNER: ____Gabriel Benesh__________________

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Announcement of the Senior Vocal Competitor who will compete in the Grand Awards Competition

will take place following the final Senior Vocal Class #12 (Operatic Class)

GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION (Quance Theatre, Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm.)



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#13 Goodfellow Memorial Senior French Art Song Scholarship of $400 ................................................. 3:25 pm

1. Gabriel Benesh Saskatoon Festival En Sourdine - Debussy 2. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival J'ai presque peur en vérité - Fauré 3. Kaitlyn Kasha Regina Festival Musique - Debussy 4. Kayla Jacobs Gravelbourg Festival À Chloris - Hahn 5. Nicole Klippenstein Battlefords Festival Au bord de l'eau, Op. 8 No. 1 - Fauré 6. Emma Johnson Regina Festival Ouvre ton coeur - Bizet

WINNER: ____Emma Johnson__________________

#18 Summer School for the Solo Voice Senior Canadian Vocal Music Scholarship of $400 ..................... 4:00 pm

1. Shaquille McGonigle Saskatoon Festival Echo - Schudel 2. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival The Road to Moose Jaw - McIntyre 3. Joshua Hendricksen Regina Festival Sonnet 50 - Beatch 4. Nicole Klippenstein Battlefords Festival Long Ago - Coulthard WINNER: ____Joshua Hendricksen______________

Announcement of the Senior Vocal Competitor who will compete in the Grand Awards Competition will take place following the final Senior Vocal Class #12 (Operatic Class)




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#11 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Oratorio Scholarship of $400 ............................................................. 7:00 pm

1. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival Nun beut die flur (Die Schöpfung) - Haydn 2. Joshua Hendricksen Regina Festival The people that walked in darkness (Messiah) - Handel 3. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival Fac ut Portem - Rossini 4. Alysse Sailor Moose Jaw Festival Seufzer, Thränen, Kummer, Noth (Cantata No.21) - Bach 5. Gabriel Benesh Saskatoon Festival The Trumpet Shall Sound - Handel 6. Emma Johnson Regina Festival Welche Labung für die Sinne (Die Jahreszeiten) - Haydn 7. Nicole Klippenstein Battlefords Festival Pie Jesu, Op. 48 (Requiem) - Fauré

WINNER: ____Emma Johnson__________________

#12 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Operatic Scholarship of $400 ............................................................. 8:00 pm

1. Siarra Riehl Saskatoon Festival Una donna a quindici anni (Cosi fan tutte) - Mozart 2. Danielle Guina Humboldt Festival Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle (Roméo et Juliette) - Gounod 3. Angela Gjurichanin Saskatoon Festival L'amero saro costante (Il re Pastore) - Mozart 4. Nicole Klippenstein Battlefords Festival Elle a fui la tourterelle - Offenbach 5. Kaitlyn Kasha Regina Festival Quel usignuolo (Arsilda) - Vivaldi 6. Joshua Hendricksen Regina Festival When the air sings of summer (The Old Maid and the Thief) - Menotti WINNER: ____Joshua Hendricksen______________

Announcement of the Senior Vocal Competitor who will compete in the


Award Winners Please report to the SMFA On-Site Office (Room 1039, Education Building).

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ROOM 1005, Education Building Saturday, June 3, 2017

Intermediate Piano Judge: Esther Bing

#22 Daryl Cooper Intermediate Piano Beethoven Scholarship of $300 ................................................... 9:00 am

1. Eleanor Chen Saskatoon Festival Sonata No. 17 in d minor ("Tempest"), 1st mvt 2. Morgan Sidloski Weyburn Festival Sonata No. 5 in c minor, 1st mvt 3. Ameer Abusada Qu’Appelle Valley Festival Sonata in E major, Op. 14 No. 1, 2nd mvt WINNER: ____Ameer Abusada_________________

#27 Gordon & Mossie Hancock Intermediate Piano Chopin Scholarship of $300 .................................... 9:35 am

1. Jerry Hu Saskatoon Festival Nocturne in Eb major, Op. 55 No. 2 2. Daniel Jimenez Rosetown Festival Nocturne in e minor, Op. posth. 72 No. 1 3. Brett Muyres Humboldt Festival Polonaise in Ab major, Op. 53 4. Chinu Youn Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Nocturne in e minor, Op. 72 No. 1 5. Graydon Eskowich Melfort Festival Waltz in c# minor 6. Alexis Valgardsson Moose Jaw Festival Nocturne in e minor, Op. 72 No. 1 7. Vanessa Hu Regina Festival Polonaise in c minor, Op. 40 No. 2 8. Kai Finnestad Prince Albert Festival Nocturne in Eb major, Op. 9 No. 2 WINNER: ____Daniel Jimenez__________________

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Presentation of the Gloria Nickell Scholarship to the Most Outstanding Intermediate Piano Competitor and the John’s Music (Moose Jaw) Intermediate Piano Scholarshipto the Runner-up to the Most Outstanding Intermediate

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#24 Frances England & Hugheen Ferguson Memorial Intermediate Piano Haydn & Mozart Scholarship of $300 ............................................................................................10:45 am

1. Kennedy Kosheluk Parkland Festival Sonata in b minor, Hob. XVI: 32, 1st mvt - Haydn 2. Brett Muyres Humboldt Festival Sonata in A major, K. 331, 3rd mvt - Mozart 3. Alexis Valgardsson Moose Jaw Festival Rondo Alla Turca - Mozart 4. James Griffith Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Sonata in A major, Hob XVI:12 - Haydn 5. Emily Jung Battlefords Festival Sonata in A major, K. 331, 2nd mvt - Mozart 6. Rene Czemeres Qu’Appelle Valley Festival Sonata in g minor, Hob. XVI:44, 1st mvt - Haydn 7. Vesley Ho Sask Valley Festival Sonata in e minor Hob. XVI:34, 1st mvt - Haydn 8. Yu Shen (Alice) Li Saskatoon Festival Sonata in F major, K.332, 3rd mvt - Mozart 9. Kara-Marice Seno Regina Festival Sonata in Eb major, Hob. XVI:49, 1st mvt - Haydn WINNER: ____Kara-Marice Seno________________



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#20 June Barber Intermediate Piano Bach Scholarship of $300 .............................................................. 1:00 pm

1. Morgan Sidloski Weyburn Festival French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817, Allemande and Gigue 2. James Griffith Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Prelude and Fugue in c minor 3. Kennedy Kosheluk Parkland Festival Prelude and Fugue in d minor, BWV 875 4. Eleanor Chen Saskatoon Festival Prelude and Fugue No. 15 in G major, BWV 860 WINNER: ____Kennedy Kosheluk________________

#31 Frostad Piano Services Intermediate Piano 20th or 21st Century/Canadian Music Scholarship of $300 .................................................................................. 1:30 pm

1. Kacy Tkachuk Hafford Festival "Buenos dias! Welcome to Spain!" - Konecsni 2. Daniel Jimenez Rosetown Festival Footloose - Gardiner 3. Jason Xie Melfort Festival Old Adam - Bolcom 4. Courtney Decker Last Mountain Festival Once Upon A Time - Louie 5. Enid Huang Qu’Appelle Festival Sonatina, Sz. 55 - Bartók 6. Alexis Valgardsson Moose Jaw Festival Novellete in bb minor No. 2 - Poulenc 7. Ameer Abusada Regina Festival American Sonata #1, 1st mvt - Siegmeister 8. Xiaotong Wang Saskatoon Festival I Leap Through the Sky with Stars - Louie 9. Emily Jung Battlefords Festival Chanson de l'escarpolette - Grovlez 10. Janessa Andres Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Once Upon A Time - Louie 11. Sophia James-Cavan Twin Rivers Festival Distant Memories - Louie WINNER: ____Xiaotong Wang__________________

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Presentation of the Gloria Nickell Scholarship to the Most Outstanding Intermediate Piano Competitor

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#29 Jackson Memorial Intermediate Piano Recital Scholarship of $300 .................................................. 3:05 pm

1. Helena Yee Moose Jaw Festival Wild Chase, Op. 46 No. 3 - MacDowell 2. Solveig Deason Saskatoon Festival The Lark - Balakirew-Glinka 3. Janessa Andres Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Liebestraum No. 3 - Liszt 4. Tiana Hawreschuk Melfort Festival Dreams, Op. 88 No. 1 - Kabalevsky 5. Leah MacFarlane Carnduff Festival Deserted Plantation - Gillock 6. Sophia James-Cavan Twin Rivers Festival Song without Words, Op. 30 No. 1 - Mendelssohn 7. Emma Burns Quill Plains Festival This Mood Suits Me - Laliberté 8. Brett Muyres Humboldt Festival Rosemary - Bridge 9. Ameer Abusada Qu’Appelle Valley Festival Prelude in c# minor, Op. 3 No. 2 - Rachmaninoff 10. Emily Jung Battlefords Festival To the Lute, Op. 37 No. 1 - Hofmann 11. Kennedy Kosheluk Parkland Festival The Seasons: November (In The Troika), Op. 37b No. 11 - Tchaikovsky WINNER: ____Ameer Abusada_________________

#32 Gloria Nickell Intermediate Piano Scholarship of $400 Presented to the most outstanding Intermediate Piano competitor of the Provincial Finals Competitions WINNER: ____Xiaotong Wang__________________

#33 John’s Music (Moose Jaw) Intermediate Piano Scholarship of $200 Presented to the runner-up to the most outstanding Intermediate Piano competitor of the Provincial Finals Competitions WINNER: ____Kara-Marice Seno________________



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Intermediate Voice Judge: Marie Baron

#9 Covey Intermediate Female Voice Scholarship of $300 .................................................................... 4:30 pm

1. Kassidy Silbernagel Gravelbourg Festival Au bord de l'eau, Op. 8 No. 1 - Fauré 2. Sarah Elezaby Swift Current Festival Alma del core - Caldara 3. Jaidyn Gieni Moose Jaw Festival Still wie die Nacht - Bohm 4. Alyssa Dueck Sask Valley Festival Unused I am to Lovers - Niles 5. Janise Michel Shaunavon Festival Silent Noon - Vaughan Williams 6. Hannah-Marie Pratt Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Still wie die Nacht - Bohm 7. Jordyn Nachtegaele Battlefords Festival Nuit d'étoiles - Debussy 8. Julie Livingstone Kindersley Festival If Music Be the Food of Love - Beck 9. Annika Tupper Saskatoon Festival Green Dog - Kingsley 10. Jalen Smith Humboldt Festival Bel Piacere - Handel 11. Katherine Zimmer Regina Festival Unused I am to lovers - Niles WINNER: ____Annika Tupper___________________

#10 A.L.’s Music Intermediate Male Voice Scholarship of $300 .............................................................. 5:45 pm

1. Zachariah May Moose Jaw Festival Ständchen - Schubert 2. Kieran Kasha Regina Festival How are thou fallen (Esther) - Handel WINNER: ____Zachariah May__________________



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Speech Arts Judge: Marie Baron

#54 Intermediate Speech Arts Scholarship of $300 ................................................................................. 7:00 pm

1. Patrick Benoit Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Self-Made Men - Leacock March of the Black Mountain (1913) - Chesterton The Horrible History of Jones - Chesterton 2. Allison Gordon Maple Creek Festival An Ideal Husband Act II, Mabel - Wilde Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 19 - Austen Lochinvar - Scott 3. Olivia Kelly Moosomin Festival Connie in Egypt - Lemoine The Conjurer's revenge - Leacock Revenge - Landon WINNER: ____Patrick Benoit___________________

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Intermediate Voice Judge: Marie Baron

#17 Regina Music Festival Intermediate Vocal Concert Group Scholarship of $300 ................................ 7:45 pm

1. Seanna Auger Gravelbourg Festival Le papillion et la fleur - Fauré Chanson d'amour - Fauré 2. Mikaila Mahnke Weyburn Festival "Messengers and memories of love": Die Lerche - Humperdinck Romance - Debussy Le rossignol des lilas - Hahn 3. Kieran Kasha Regina Festival Sweet chance that led my steps abroad - Head The estuary - Head Money, O! - Head 4. Lauren Luciuk Quill Plains Festival When Daisies Pied - Arne The Merry Minstrels - Gleeson 5. Corie Groome Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival It Was a Lover and His Lass - Quilter Weep You No More, Sad Fountains, Op. 12 - Quilter Love's Philosophy, Op. 3 - Quilter 6. Janise Michel Shaunavon Festival The Birds - Britten A Legend - Tchaikovsky The Robin and the Thorn - Niles 7. Claire Heinrichs Sask Valley Festival I Attempt from Love's Sickness - Purcell O Peace, Thou Fairest Child of Heaven - Arne Hark the Echoing Air - Purcell 8. Annika Tupper Saskatoon Festival Heidenröslein - Schubert Lied der Mignon - Schubert Frühlingsglaube - Schubert

WINNER: ____Kieran Kasha____________________



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CONVOCATION HALL, Peter MacKinnon Building Saturday, June 3, 2017

Senior Piano Judge: Corey Hamm

#19 Arlene Stuart Memorial Senior Piano Bach Scholarship of $400 ...................................................... 9:00 am

1. Mark Ancheta Regina Festival Prelude and Fugue in Bb major, BWV 866 2. Devynn McIntyre Potashville Festival Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 3. Shantelle Mayo Regina Festival Prelude and Fugue No. 19 4. Jaclyn Froese Twin Rivers Festival Prelude and Fugue in Bb major, BWV 866 WINNER: ____Shantelle Mayo__________________

#23 Shirley Andrist Senior Piano Haydn/Mozart Scholarship of $400 ..................................................... 9:40 am

1. Hannah Marple Sask Valley Festival Sonate in A major, K. 331, 1st mvt - Mozart 2. Chantelle Hardes Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Sonata in c minor, Hob. XVI:20, 1st mvt - Haydn 3. Mark Ancheta Regina Festival Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, KV332, 3rd mvt - Mozart WINNER: ____Mark Ancheta___________________

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#21 Gordon C. Wallis Memorial Senior Piano Beethoven Scholarship of $400 .......................................10:30 am

1. Shantelle Mayo Regina Festival Sonata in d minor, Op. 31 No. 2, 3rd mvt 2. Sophie McBean Saskatoon Festival Sonata No. 32, Op. 111, 2nd mvt 3. Katrina MacKinnon Battlefords Festival Sonata in E major, Op. 109, 2nd mvt 4. Amy Hildebrandt Twin Rivers Festival Sonata in f minor, Op. 57, 1st mvt 5. Britney Wendel Moose Jaw Festival Sonata in c minor, Op. 13, No. 8, 1st mvt WINNER: ____Sophie McBean__________________

Announcement of the Senior Piano Competitor who will compete in the Grand Awards Competition

will take place following the final Senior Piano Class #26 (MYC Sr. Chopin Class) GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION (Quance Theatre, Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm)

Award Winners Please report to the SMFA On-Site Office (Room 1039, Education Building).

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CONVOCATION HALL, Peter MacKinnon Building Saturday, June 3, 2017

Senior Piano Judge: Corey Hamm

#25 Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association Senior Piano Romantic Music Scholarship of $400 ................................................................................................ 1:00 pm

1. David Kim Saskatoon Festival Prelude in c# minor, Op. 3 No. 2 - Rachmaninoff 2. Hannah Marple Sask Valley Festival Automne, Op. 35 - Chaminade 3. Devynn McIntyre Potashville Festival L'Alouette - Balakirev 4. Chantelle Hardes Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Un Sospiro (Concert Etude No. 3) - Liszt

WINNER: ____Chantelle Hardes_________________

#30 Gale Glenn Memorial Senior Piano 20th or 21st Century/Canadian Scholarship of $400 ................... 1:40 pm

1. Katrina MacKinnon Battlefords Festival Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 - Ginastera 2. Devynn McIntyre Potashville Festival Toccata - Sancan 3. Sophie McBean Saskatoon Festival A Wild Innocence - McIntyre

WINNER: ____Sophie McBean__________________

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#28 Music for Young Children Senior Piano French Music Scholarship of $400 ....................................... 2:30 pm

1. Matthew Praksas Saskatoon Festival Général Lavine - eccentric - Debussy 2. Alanna Liu Saskatoon Festival Jardins sous la pluie - Debussy 3. Amy Hildebrandt Twin Rivers Festival La Cathédrale engloutie - Debussy

WINNER: ____Matthew Praksas________________

#26 Music for Young Children Saskatchewan Teachers’ Association Senior Chopin Scholarship ............. 3:00 pm

1. Shantelle Mayo Regina Festival Scherzo No. 2 in bb minor 2. Thomas Hu Saskatoon Festival Nocturne in c minor, Op. 48, No. 1 3. Alayna Moxness Twin Rivers Festival Prelude in c# minor, Op. 45 4. Mark Ancheta Regina Festival Grande Valse Brillante in Eb major, Op. 18 5. David Kim Saskatoon Festival Etude in a minor, Op. 25 No. 11

WINNER: ____Thomas Hu_____________________

Announcement of the Senior Piano Competitor who will compete in the GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION (Quance Theatre, Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm).

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Strings Judge: Christine Bootland

#38 Johanna Mitchell Memorial Intermediate Viola/Cello/Double Bass Scholarship of $300 ................. 9:00 am

1. Seth Palmer Saskatoon Festival Prayer - Bloch 2. Zaïde Masich Battlefords Festival Polonaise Brillant, Op. 3, Duo Concertina - Chopin 3. Jonathan Craig Penner Regina Festival Variations on a Rococo Theme - Tchaikovsky

WINNER: ____Jonathan Craig Penner____________

#37 Robert C. Mitchell Memorial Intermediate Violin Scholarship of $300 ............................................. 9:50 am

1. Patrick Benoit Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Souvenir de Sarasate - Potstock 2. Jerry He Saskatoon Festival Concerto in D major, Op. 35, 1st mvt - Tchaikovsky 3. Claire Heinrichs Sask Valley Festival Zigeunerweisen - Saraste 4. Jeanny Jung Battlefords Festival Concerto in C major, Op. 48, 1st & 2nd mvts - Kabalevsky 5. Eleanor Hector Regina Festival Concerto in e minor, Op. 64, 1st mvt - Mendelssohn WINNER: ____Eleanor Hector__________________

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Guitar Judge: Christine Bootland

#40 Stein Farms Ltd. Intermediate Classical Guitar Scholarship of $300 ................................................11:30 am

1. Maximillian Paulhus Kindersley Festival Waltz No. 2 - Molino 2. Brianna Ai Saskatoon Festival Andantino and Allegro - Mertz WINNER: ____Brianna Ai____________________

#39 Senior Classical Guitar Scholarship of $400 .....................................................................................11:45 am

1. Carson Froehlich Quill Plains Festival Pasaje Abierto - Solis WINNER: ____Carson Froelich__________________

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Strings Judge: Christine Bootland

#34 Senior Strings Concert Scholarship of $400 ...................................................................................... 1:00 pm

1. Charlee Wielgoz Regina Festival Variations on One String on a Theme by Rossini - Paganini 2. Joanne Z. Peng Moose Jaw Festival Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, 1st mvt - Tchaikovsky 3. William Boan Saskatoon Festival Violin Concerto, Op. 35, 1st mvt - Korngold 4. Alaina Majewski Regina Festival Sonata for Cello and Piano in d minor, Op. 40, 4th mvt - Shostakovich 5. Amos Friesen Saskatoon Festival Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, 1st mvt - Haydn WINNER: ____Joanne Z. Peng__________________

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1. Joanne Z. Peng Moose Jaw Festival Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 - Sarasate WINNER: ____Joanne Z. Peng__________________

#36 Blanche Squires Memorial Senior Viola/Cello/Double Bass Scholarship of $400 .............................. 2:40 pm

1. Mayson Sonntag Regina Festival Suite No. 4 in Eb major, BWV 1010, Prelude - Bach 2. Amos Friesen Saskatoon Festival Suite No. 2, BWV 1008, Minuet I and II - Bach 3. Charlee Wielgoz Regina Festival Sonata in A major for Cello and Piano, 2nd mvt - Franck WINNER: ____Charlee Wielgoz_________________

Announcement of the Senior String Competitor who will compete in the Grand Awards Competition

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Woodwinds Judge: William Gordon

#43 Intermediate Woodwind Scholarship of $300 .................................................................................. 3:30 pm

1. Alexis Valgardsson Moose Jaw Festival Concerto in G major, Op. 29 No. 1, 1st mvt - Stamitz 2. Kara Daviduik Saskatoon Festival Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, 1st mvt - Poulenc 3. Vlad Kosheliev Regina Festival Concerto in c minor, 1st mvt - Marcello 4. Hunter Ruel Estevan Festival Waltz Fantasy - Mozart arr. Waln 5. Micah Carter Battlefords Festival Sultana - Mackey 6. Rebecca McLean Kindersley Festival Sicilienne - Fauré WINNER: ____Kara Daviduik___________________

#42 Saskatchewan Band Association Senior Woodwind Concert Scholarship of $400 ............................ 4:25 pm

1. Madison Engen Regina Festival Concerto in f minor, Op. 5, 1st mvt - Crusell WINNER: ____Madison Engen__________________

#41 Long & McQuade Senior Woodwind Recital Scholarship of $400 ..................................................... 4:50 pm

1. Alaina Majewski Regina Festival Piccolo Concerto, 1st mvt - Schudel 2. Emily Richards Weyburn Festival Nocturne - Field 3. Emily Goring Biggar Festival Le petit nègre - Debussy 4. Joel Stroeder Saskatoon Festival The Old Sorehead - Fucik 5. Carl Hofmeister Saskatoon Festival Calla Lilies - Mozetich 6. Tristan Knight Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Suite, 1st & 2nd mvts - Bonneau WINNER: ____Carl Hofmeister_________________

Announcement of the Senior Woodwind Competitor who will compete in the Grand Awards Competition

GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION (Quance Theatre, Sunday, June 4, 1:00 pm)

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Brass Judge: William Gordon

#46 Colin Grunert Memorial Intermediate Brass Scholarship of $300 ..................................................... 7:00 pm

1. Anthony Merkel Swift Current Festival Adagio from Limpid Stream - Shostakovich 2. Gillian Engen Regina Festival Prelude et ballade - Balay 3. Brittany Enstrom Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival Persiflage - Koepke WINNER: ____Gillian Engen____________________

#44 Senior Brass Recital Scholarship of $400 .......................................................................................... 7:35 pm

1. Dominic Ghiglione Regina Festival Fantasy for Trombone and Piano - Raum 2. Silas Friesen Saskatoon Festival Cascades - Vizzutti 3. Tobin Fox Kipling Festival The Holy City - Adams 4. Alice Fuller Regina Festival Legend - Enesco WINNER: ____Dominic Ghiglione________________

#45 Saskatchewan Band Association Senior Brass Concert Scholarship of $400 ..................................... 8:15 pm

1. Silas Friesen Saskatoon Festival Trumpet Concerto, 1st mvt - Gregson 2. Alice Fuller Regina Festival Concerto in Eb major, 3rd mvt - Hummel 3. Dominic Ghiglione Regina Festival Sonatine for Trombone and Piano, 1st mvt - Castérède WINNER: ____Silas Friesen_____________________

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QUANCE THEATRE, Education Building

Sunday, June 4, 2017 | 1:00pm

Grand Awards Judges: Marie Baron, Christine Bootland, William Gordon, Corey Hamm, Joanne Kolomyjec

O CANADA

GREETINGS

PRESENTATION OF CHORAL AWARDS

COMPETITIONS

Speech Arts_________No entries__________________________________________________________

Guitar_____________Carson Froehlich_____________________________________________________

Percussion_________ No entries__________________________________________________________

Musical Theatre_____Siarra Riehl__________________________________________________________

Woodwind_________Madison Engen______________________________________________________

Brass______________Silas Friesen_________________________________________________________

Strings_____________Joanne Z. Peng______________________________________________________

Voice______________Emma Johnson______________________________________________________

Piano______________Sophia McBean______________________________________________________

ADJUDICATORS LEAVE TO DELIBERATE

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CHORAL PRESENTATIONS

#1 Mary Anderson Memorial (Sacred) Choral Scholarship of $500

1. Prairie Spirit, Marcia McLean, Conductor Swift Current Festival Cantate Domino – Miskinis Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - arr. Rober

2. Yorkton Community Choir, Laureen Jemieff, Conductor Yorkton Festival Over My Head – Durow Hark, I Hear the Harps Aeternal – Parker

3. Luther College Senior Choir, Melissa Morgan, Conductor Regina Festival Exultate, justi – Viadana Ubi Caritas – Gjeilo WINNER:__Luther College Senior Choir, Melissa Morgan, Conductor_________________ #2 Saskatchewan Choral Federation (Open) Choral Scholarship of $300

1. Yorkton Community Choir, Laureen Jemieff, Conductor Yorkton Festival Northern Lights – Gjeilo Praise His Holy Name – Hampton

2. Prairie Spirit, Marcia McLean, Conductor Swift Current Festival The Gift – Wallace Go into the Glory of the Woods - Tate/Carr

WINNER:__Prairie Spirit, Marcia McLean, Conductor _____________________________ #3 Betty Tydeman Memorial (Open Runner-up) Choral Award of $200

WINNER:__Yorkton Community Choir, Laurene Jemieff, Conductor__________________

#4 Kiwanis Club of Regina Gallagher Memorial Children/Youth Choral Scholarship of $500

1. Campbell Collegiate Chamber Choir, Russ & Deirdre Baird, Conductors Regina Festival Locus Iste - Bruckner The Battle of Jericho - arr. Hogan

2. Yorkton Regional High School Concert Choir, Kelsey Kuz, Conductor Yorkton Festival Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - Roberts No Time - Brumfield arr. Xaykongsa

3. Blessed Marie Rivier Chamber Choir, Lauren Lohneis, Conductor Prince Albert Festival Shenandoah - arr. Althouse Bring Me Little Water, Silvy - Ledbetter arr. Smiley

4. Rosetown Girls' Chorus, Carmen Ledding, Conductor Rosetown Festival Festival Song - Perry Tell My Ma – Washburn

5. Kamala, Dianne Gryba & Joanne Kasper, Conductors Battlefords Festival Parlez-Moi - Levasseur-Ouimet arr. Bevan The Storm is Passing Over - Tindley arr. Nickel

WINNER:___Campbell Collegiate Chamber Choir, Russ & Deidre Baird, Conductors______

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GRAND AWARDS COMPETITION

Alfredo S. Uy Memorial Award of $400 in Speech Arts

WINNER: No entries _______

Saskatchewan Music Educators’ Association Award of $500 in Guitar

WINNER: Carson Froehlich _______

Saskatchewan Band Association Award of $400 in Percussion

WINNER: No entries _______

Estevan Music Festival Award of $400 in Musical Theatre

WINNER: Siarra Riehl _______

Brost Family Award of $400 in Woodwinds

WINNER: Madison Engen _______

Guy Few Award of $500 in Brass

WINNER: Silas Friesen _______

Fred S. Mendel Memorial Award of $400 in Strings

WINNER: Joanne Z. Peng _______

Heather Laxdal Memorial Award of $500 in Voice

WINNER: Emma Johnson _______

Anna Klassen Memorial Award of $500 in Piano

WINNER: Sophie McBean _______

OVERALL GRAND AWARDS

Blanche Squires Memorial (administered by the Order of the Eastern Star) Bronze Award of $500 & Trophy to the third place overall of the Grand Awards Competition

WINNER: _______

Wallis Memorial Silver Award of $750 & Trophy to the second place overall of the Grand Awards Competition

WINNER: _______

Sister Geraldine Boyle Memorial Gold Award of $1,000 & Trophy to the most outstanding competitor of the Grand Awards Competition

WINNER: _______

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JUDGES

Marie Baron (Musical Theatre, Speech Arts, Intermediate Voice)

After training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the University of Toronto’s Opera Department, Ms. Baron began her stage career performing with the Canadian Opera Company. For the next 30 years, she went on to perform in nightclubs, cabarets and theatres across Canada, the United States and in London, England. Ms. Baron has played leading roles in both musicals and plays. Her dramatic roles include Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Grand Theatre, London), Celia in As You Like It (Stratford Festival), and Janet in the original production of Waiting For the Parade (Alberta Theatre Projects).

Some of her favourite musical roles include Sarah in Guys and Dolls (Stratford Festival), Amalia in She Loves Me (Grand Theatre, London), Lady Audley in Lady Audley’s Secret (Shaw Festival) and Jenny in Company (CanStage, Toronto). The successful meeting of Ms. Baron and Gilbert and Sullivan began at the Stratford Festival with leading roles in The Mikado, The Gondoliers and Iolanthe. These productions were filmed and televised on CBC and HBO. She reprised her role as Yum-Yum in The Mikado on tour in Canada, the United States, The Old Vic in London, England and on Broadway. For the past 15 years, Ms. Baron was the Head of the Vocal Discipline in the Music Theatre-Performance Program at Sheridan College. She has also conducted workshops in Music Theatre Performance throughout Canada and continues to work with professional theatre artists in her Toronto studio.

Esther Bing (Intermediate Piano)

Esther Bing is an Off-Campus Piano Instructor for the Conservatory at Mount Royal University (Calgary), and a Piano Examiner with The Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM). She has been teaching piano since she was 14 years old. Her university education includes a Bachelor Degree in Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia (Henri-Paul Sicsic & Jane Coop), and a Master Degree in Piano Performance from The Boston Conservatory (Michael Lewin). Notable accomplishments include: a full scholarship to The Boston Conservatory (TBC) from winning the Open Scholarship Competition; Winner, TBC’s Piano Honours Competition; Runner-up and Finalist at the UBC Concerto Competition, and Richmond Gateway Competition, respectively; First Prize (silver medal) at the Regina Conservatory of Music, and First Prize in the Regina Kiwanis Festival’s Open Scholarship Competition. While in university, Ms. Bing was the Orchestral Pianist for both The Boston Conservatory, and UBC Orchestras. Since settling in Calgary, Ms. Bing has performed concerts with CPO & ESO musicians at the Columbia Valley Chamber Music Festival, the Instrumental Society of Calgary, and other venues. She also served two years as President, and six years as Vice President of the Piano Diploma Association (Calgary). Ms. Bing is a Piano Instructor at the Calgary Arts Summer School, and recently completed a Gary Burton on-line Jazz Improvisation course, through Berklee College of Music. Ms. Bing is fluent in French, likes reading books, enjoys running, and cooking vegetarian foods. She and her husband, Matt, live with a large, white, dog-like cat, named Ziggy.

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JUDGES

Christine Bootland (Strings, Guitar)

Calgary native, Christine Bootland began her studies with Fay Johnson and later at the Mount Royal College Academy of Music with John Kadz. She completed a Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the University of British Columbia under the direction of Eric Wilson and later participated in the Masters Program at the University of Toronto under the tutelage of Shauna Rolston. Christine is an active extra performer with the Lethbridge and Red Deer Symphonies as well as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. She has toured Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia as a member of the Armadillo String Quartet of Canada and enjoys doing educational outreach performance programs within the community. Christine has adjudicated all over Alberta and BC and her students have won numerous awards at all levels. Her philosophy is to help create future generations of music lovers of all styles whether they be professionals, amateurs or concert goers. Christine has been on the faculty at Medicine Hat College as cello instructor, ensemble coach, Academy Instructor

and conductor and program coordinator for both the Community and Junior Orchestras since 2001. In 2010 she was pleased to be invited to become a cello instructor at the University of Lethbridge Conservatory of Music. Her recent passion is co-ordinating and teaching the Bring Back the Music program at two public schools in Medicine Hat, a strings and guitar program for grades 4-6.

William Gordon (Brass, Woodwind, Percussion)

William Gordon was educated at the Royal College of Music in London, England, where he received the ARCM Diploma in Performance. He was appointed Principal Horn of the Ulster Orchestra, Belfast at the age of 20 and performed extensively with the major orchestras of London. Since coming to Canada he has performed for CBC radio, the CBC Winnipeg Symphony and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He has served as President of the Manitoba Music Educators Association and is well known throughout the province as an adjudicator, clinician, conductor and examiner. William Gordon recently retired from the School of Music at Brandon University after more than forty years of teaching at Brandon University.

Joel Tranquilla (Choral)

Dr. Joel Tranquilla is a conductor and music educator noted for his versatile musicianship and creative programming. As the Director of Choral Activities at Trinity Western University he oversees a program of six choirs and teaches various other courses within the School of the Arts, Media + Culture. In addition to his work at TWU, Joel is the newly appointed Conductor of both the Valley Festival Singers in Abbotsford and the award-winning Coastal Sound Youth Choir in Coquitlam. He is also the Associate Conductor of the Canadian Chamber Choir and has performed extensively with that ensemble since 2007. The CCC’s latest CD, Sacred Reflections of Canada was nominated for a 2016 Juno Award. Before moving to British Columbia, Joel served as Artistic Director of the Windsor Classic Chorale, Chorus Master of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, and taught as a sessional instructor at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.

Major works conducted include Mendelssohn’s St. Paul (Sea to Sky Symphony and TWU Choirs), Handel’s Alexander’s Feast, Requiems by Fauré and Duruflé (Windsor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus), Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, and Allan Bevan’s Passion Oratorio Nou Goth Sonne Under Wode (TWU Choirs and Orchestra). Choirs prepared by Tranquilla have appeared under the batons of Robert Franz, Kevin Mallon, John Morris Russell, and Ivars Taurins. In March 2016, the TWU Chamber Choir was invited to take part in a performance at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Dr. Richard Sparks.

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In high demand as an adjudicator and clinician across the country, Joel is a past Guest Conductor of the New Brunswick Youth Choir and was the Assistant Conductor of the 2012 National Youth Choir. He was the winner of the 2012 Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award as well as the recipient of the Emerging Artist Award at the 2013 Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. He holds degrees from Mount Allison University, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University where his doctoral research was in the area of Canadian choral-orchestral works.

Corey Hamm (Senior Piano)

Pianist Corey Hamm is establishing a unique musical profile performing widely in North America and in Asia as both soloist and chamber musician. His CD of Frederic Rzewski’s hour-long solo piano epic The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Redshift Records) won Spotify's Best Classical Recording 2014, and Best Classical Recording at the 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards. He has performed the work over 80 times and many more performances are to come in 2018, the year of Rzewski’s 80th Birthday. Corey Hamm’s extensive work in the 1990s with the great French composer Henri Dutilleux will come to fruition in his plan to record Dutilleux’s

complete works for piano in the near future. Among his other recording plans is a soon-to-be-released CD of solo works written for him by Keith Hamel, Jocelyn Morlock, Jordan Nobles, Dorothy Chang, and Scott Godin, and he will perform two works on a CD of the music of Jocelyn Morlock on Redshift Records.

Corey Hamm has commissioned, premiered and recorded over two hundred works by composers from all over the world. These commissions have been for solo piano, various chamber music formations as well as concerti.

He has also commissioned over 50 works for The Nu:BC Collective and for Hammerhead Consort (two piano and two percussion). As pianist for The Nu:BC Collective he has released the critically acclaimed CD Beyond Shadows (Redshift TK432). As a founding member of Hammerhead Consort, he received the 1993 Sir Ernest Macmillan Memorial Foundation Chamber Music Award, and was winner of the 1992 National Chamber Music Competition.

In recent years, Corey Hamm has studied, recorded and toured one of the great piano works of the last decades, Frederic Rzewski's monumental hour-long solo piano epic, The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Redshift TK431). This work, made up of a theme and 36 variations, has been recorded by a small number of pianists including Marc-André Hamelin, Ursula Oppens, and Stephen Drury. Frederic Rzewski received Corey Hamm’s interpretation as one of the finest to date. “Excellent! Bravo! This may be the best recording.”

Corey Hamm was soloist in the World Premiere of Jordan Nobles’ Piano Concerto with Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He gave the World Premiere of Howard Bashaw's Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion with conductor Grzegorz Nowak and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and has recently performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Faure’s Fantasie, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Dr. Hamm is Associate Professor of Piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he was awarded the prestigious Killam Teaching Award. He is on the Piano Faculty of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) at NEC in Boston. His beloved teachers include Lydia Artymiw, Marek Jablonski, Stéphane Lemelin, Ernesto Lejano, and Thelma Johannes O'Neill.

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JUDGES

Joanne Kolomyjec (Senior Voice)

Artistry of the highest order and inspired portrayals have secured soprano Joanne Kolomyjec an enviable reputation in the world of opera. In recent years her highly acclaimed performances of Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, the title roles in Tosca and Jenufa, and Marguerite in Faust, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni and Magda Sorel in The Consul have thrilled audiences and critics alike in Canada, USA and Great Britain. A graduate with distinction of the University of Toronto’s Opera School and of its Bachelor of Music in Performance, Ms. Kolomyjec went on to be a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Competition (1983). She has been hailed as a stylish and elegant Mozartean, and has portrayed the Countess and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutti. Other prominent roles include Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Boheme, Agathe in Der Freischutz, Micaela in Carmen, Madame Lidoine and Blanche in Les Dialogues des Carmelites, Lia in L’Enfant Prodigue, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and Anna Glawari in The Merry Widow, Alice Ford in Verdi's masterpiece Falstaff, and her first venture into Wagner with Freia in Das Rheingold. Ms. Kolomyjec has sung with all the major opera companies in Canada, and in the US with Santa Fe Opera, Florentine Opera, Portland Opera, Utah Opera, Arizona Opera. Ms. Kolomyjec has also appeared regularly as a guest artist with major symphony orchestras across Canada and the USA. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in a concert performance of Strauss’ Daphne with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Kolomyjec has also excelled as a recitalist, performing with tenor Richard Margison in a recital tour. Her most recent Canadian tour featuring a program of Russian songs with renowned pianist Janina Fialkowska, also released as a critically acclaimed CD entitled "None But The Lonely Heart". Other recordings include 'Song to the Moon' with Mario Bemardi and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and A Night in Vienna' with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and RafFi Armenian. An exponent of contemporary music as well, Ms. Kolomyjec has recorded Shostakovich s cycle of chamber songs, Romanzen Suite, and songs by the Canadian composers Oscar Morawetz, Sonnets of the Portuguese, and an orchestral cycle entitled Cantiones Mysticae by Godfrey Ridout. Ms. Kolomyjec was on faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland and at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. She is presently in her 14th year on the voice faculty at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University in Montreal Quebec, where she was presented with the 2013/2014 Teacher of the Year Award. As well Ms. Kolomyjec has presented many master classes at music faculties across Canada, has been on the voice faculty and audition panel for Opera NUOVA in the summers and been a jurist on panels for a number of competitions, including Jeunesse Musicale, Ontario Arts Council, National Music Competition and the Canadian Music Competition, as well as for the Juno awards and Canada Council grants.

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SCHOLARSHIPS

NATIONAL TRAVEL AWARDS

A travel award of $500 will be provided to the Saskatchewan representatives competing in the National Music Festival Competitions. Additional assistance is also provided by the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association.

National Voice – Rose Schmalz, National Piano – Anna Klassen Endowment Fund National Strings – Saskatchewan Orchestral Association Bursary Fund National Guitar – Donor required National Woodwind – SMFA Board & Staff National Brass – Ross Ulmer and Karen Ast National Chamber Group – Anonymous National Musical Theatre – Prairie Mines & Royalty ULC

CHORAL SCHOLARSHIPS

#1 Mary Anderson Memorial Sacred Choral Scholarship Provincial Classes: 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, & 127: This scholarship of $500 is presented by Betsy Vought in memory of her mother, Saskatoon musician Mary Anderson, for the finest performance by a choir.

2016 Winner – Prairie Spirit Chamber Singers Marcia McLean, Conductor, Swift Current Festival

#2 Saskatchewan Choral Federation Open Choral Scholarship Provincial Classes 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, & 175: This scholarship of $300 will be awarded by the Saskatchewan Choral Federation for the most outstanding performance in the Senior Open Choral Classes. The Saskatchewan Choral Federation is a non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to the elevation and enhancement of choral music in Saskatchewan.

2016 Winner – Luther College Senior Choir, Melissa Morgan, Conductor, Regina Festival

#3 Betty Tydeman Memorial Open Runner-up Choral Award

This award of $200 is presented to the runner-up in the Saskatchewan Choral Federation Choral Class. Betty Tydeman had been involved in music festival for most of her life, from her time as a competitor in Rosetown until her work with the Saskatoon Music Festival, where she made significant contributions in all aspects of its organization. Betty also contributed to the community as a member with her Church Choir, the Saskatoon Choral Society, the University Chorus, and served on the Board of the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

2016 Winner – Kamala, Dianne Gryba & Joanne Kasper, Conductors, Battlefords Festival

#4 Kiwanis Club of Regina Gallagher Memorial Children/Youth Choral Scholarship

Provincial Classes 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163: The Gallagher Memorial Scholarship of $500 is presented by the Kiwanis Club of Regina, in tribute to the Gallagher Family, for the finest performance in the Children’s or Youth Choir Class. The late Harold Gallagher served as president of the club in 1977-1978. The award, while recognizing Harold’s service in many capacities during his 37 years of active Kiwanis membership, is intended as well to honour both Harold and the late Mrs. Margaret Gallagher for their gifts of music shared so generously with the community. The magic of music never dies. It has spread far and wide through the Gallaghers. The desire of members of the Kiwanis Club of Regina is that all those who participate in the competition for this special memorial award will continue to carry the magic with them wherever they go.

2016 Winner – AVE, Melissa Morgan, Conductor, Regina Festival

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VOCAL SCHOLARSHIPS

#5 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade A Female Voice Scholarship Provincial Classes 1000, 1001, & 1002: This scholarship of $400 is one of a series of annual Provincial Scholarships, provided by a Memorial Trust Fund. The Saskatchewan Music Festival Association (SMFA) gratefully acknowledges the very generous contribution by the late S. J. Goodfellow of Regina, who established the Trust Fund in honour of his wife, Nancy Goodfellow. During her lifetime, Mrs. Goodfellow had many and varied community interests to which she gave of herself unstintingly. While studying with Madame Alicia Birkett at the Regina Conservatory of Music, she participated in our music festivals for many years.

2016 Winner – Emma Johnson (Regina Festival)

#6 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade A Male Voice Scholarship Provincial Classes 1010, 1011, 1012 & 1013: This scholarship of $400, is in honour of Madame Alicia Birkett. Madame Alicia Birkett, A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M., was an inspirational and successful teacher of her many students from the southern area of this province. In 1927 she came to Canada from Yorkshire, England, where she had fondly been known as the “Nightingale of the North”. She taught at the Regina Conservatory of Music, preparing her students for festival, examination, and concert appearances, until returning to England in the early fifties. Madame Birkett died in England in 1965.

2016 Winner – Gabriel Benesh (Saskatoon Festival)

#7 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Grade B Female Voice Scholarship Provincial Classes 1020, 1021, 1022: This scholarship of $400 is awarded from the Goodfellow Trust Account.

2016 Winner – Siarra Riehl (Saskatoon Festival)

#8 Thomas & Don Hatton Memorial Senior Grade B Male Voice Scholarship Provincial Classes 1030, 1031, 1032, & 1033: Margaret Hatton of Regina offers this $400 scholarship in memory of Thomas and Don Hatton.

2016 Winner – Mikael Steponchev (Battlefords Festival)

#9 Covey Intermediate Female Voice Scholarship Provincial Classes: 1042 & 1043: This scholarship of $300 is offered by Edna Covey and Doris Covey Lazecki in memory of their mother, Jessie Covey, who was an avid supporter of young female singers.

2016 Winner – Olivia Guselle (Saskatoon Festival)

#10 A.L.’s Music Intermediate Male Voice Scholarship Provincial Class 1061: Arlene Lafrentz operates a successful voice studio in the southeast corner of the province. Along with her husband Kelly, they are passionate supporters of the arts and recognize the importance of supporting developing musicians both locally and provincially.

2016 Winner – Jayden Burrows (Saskatoon Festival)

#11 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Oratorio Scholarship Provincial Classes 1100, 1101, 1106: A scholarship of $400 is awarded in memory of Ann Owen (Nancy) Goodfellow.

2016 Winner – Spencer McKnight (Battlefords Festival)

#12 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Operatic Scholarship

Provincial Classes 1120, 1125: This scholarship of $400 is in memory of Hazel Farnsworth of Regina. Hazel Farnsworth was a well-known singer in southern Saskatchewan. Her teachers included Colin Faunt and Dan Cameron, who prepared her for many award-winning festival and recital performances. She appeared in stage and opera productions with the Regina Amateur Operatic Society and the Regina Conservatory of Music. She performed vocal duets with her husband, the late Stan Farnsworth, and was a choir member of St. Paul’s Cathedral for many years.


#13 Goodfellow Memorial Senior French Art Song Scholarship

Provincial Class 1160: This scholarship of $400 is awarded in memory of Ann Owen (Nancy) Goodfellow.


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SCHOLARSHIPS

#14 Heather Laxdal Memorial Lieder Voice & Whelan Lieder Piano Scholarship

Provincial Class 1170: A scholarship of $200, donated by the Yorkton Music Festival, in memory of Heather Laxdal, will be presented to the singer of the winning duo of the lieder class.

A $200 award will also be presented to the pianist of the winning duo. This award honours the contribution of Saskatoon musicians John & Lorna Whelan, pianist and vocalist respectively, who believed that lieder is one of music’s purest moments.

2016 Winner – Kateryna Khartova & Yuli Chen (Saskatoon Festival)

#15 Goodfellow Memorial Senior Vocal Concert Group Grade A Scholarship

Provincial Class 1180: A scholarship of $400 is awarded in memory of Ann Owen (Nancy) Goodfellow.


#16 Nancy & Alastair Todd Memorial Senior Vocal Concert Group Grade B Scholarship

Provincial Class 1181: This scholarship of $300 is donated by Diana Woolrich in memory of Nancy Hazel Todd and Alastair Todd.

2016 Winner – Siarra Riehl (Saskatoon Festival)

#17 Regina Music Festival Intermediate Vocal Concert Group Scholarship

Provincial Class 1183: The Regina Music Festival, one of SMFA’s 47 affiliate District Festivals, is pleased to donate this scholarship of $300.

2016 Winner – Olivia Guselle (Saskatoon Festival)

#18 Summer School for the Solo Voice Senior Canadian Vocal Music Scholarship Provincial Class 1220: Summer School for the Solo Voice is a week of music making open to singers, teachers, accompanists, choristers and choral conductors from beginner to advanced levels, ages 8 - 80+. Please visit www.summerschoolforthesolovoice.com to view our many program options.

2016 Winner – Kateryna Khartova (Saskatoon Festival)

PIANO SCHOLARSHIPS

#19 Arlene Stuart Memorial Senior Piano Bach Scholarship Provincial Class 2040: This scholarship of $400 is donated by Joanne Messer in memory of her sister Arlene Stuart, a woman of vision, passion, and justice for whom music was a life-long inspiration.

2016 Winner – Bradley Little (Regina Festival)

#20 June Barber Intermediate Piano Bach Scholarship Provincial Class 2041: A scholarship of $300 is donated by June Barber, a former piano teacher in the City of Weyburn.

2016 Winner – Presley Reddekopp (Swift Current Festival)

#21 Gordon C. Wallis Memorial Senior Piano Beethoven Scholarship Provincial Class 2060: This memorial scholarship of $400 is in honour of the late Gordon C. Wallis of Regina.

2016 Winner – Sophie McBean (Saskatoon Festival)

#22 Daryl Cooper Intermediate Piano Beethoven Scholarship Provincial Class 2061: This scholarship of $300 is donated by Daryl Cooper of Saskatoon.

2016 Winner – Eleanor Chen (Saskatoon Festival)

#23 Shirley Andrist Senior Piano Haydn/Mozart Scholarship Provincial Class 2063: An award of $400 is donated by Mrs. Shirley Andrist of Estevan.

2016 Winner – No Entries

#24 Frances England & Hugheen Ferguson Memorial Intermediate Piano Haydn & Mozart Scholarship Provincial Class 2064: The families of the late Frances England and her niece, the late Hugheen Ferguson, have provided for a scholarship of $300.

2016 Winner – Kara Seno (Regina Festival)

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SCHOLARSHIPS

#25 Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association Senior Piano Romantic Music Scholarship Provincial Class 2085: The Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association (SRMTA) is pleased to provide this scholarship of $400. The SRMTA was formed in 1932 as a provincial organization of music teachers, several years after the formation of smaller branches throughout the province. The mission is to promote progressive ideas in music education, to encourage professionalism in the art of teaching, and to stimulate a high standard of music and culture.

2016 Winner – Shantelle Mayo (Moose Jaw Festival)

#26 Music for Young Children Saskatchewan Teachers’ Association Senior Piano Chopin Scholarship Provincial Class 2090: A scholarship of $400 is made available by MYC Saskatchewan Teachers’ Association. While the association no longer exists due to amalgamation, a scholarship account was created and is held in trust by SMFA.

2016 Winner – Godwin Friesen (Saskatoon Festival)

#27 Gordon & Mossie Hancock Intermediate Piano Chopin Scholarship Provincial Class 2091: The scholarship of $300 is provided by a trust honouring Gordon & Mossie Hancock. Gordon was Executive Director of SMFA from 1957-1975 and Mossie was a well-known musician, writer, and commentator in Saskatchewan. They had been involved with festival work for many years, adjudicating extensively in this province.

2016 Winner – Adrianna Dolata (Qu’Appelle Valley Festival)

#28 Music for Young Children Senior Piano French Music Scholarship Provincial Class 2100: Music for Young Children (MYC) provides quality music education to children by blending the joy of music making with sound instruction. MYC has been teaching children from the ages of 2-10 the foundation of music education and piano playing, in a group situation, for more than 30 years. Today there are over 800 locations on three continents, confirming that they are an international leading quality program for early childhood music education. The MYC Corporate Office provides this scholarship of $400.


#29 Jackson Memorial Intermediate Piano Recital Scholarship Provincial Class 2142: Kathleen L. Keple, former Executive Director of the Association, contributes the Jackson Memorial Piano Scholarship of $300 in memory of her parents, the late Thomas and Kathleen Jackson, well-known musicians in the Mainline area.


#30 Gale Glenn Memorial Senior Piano 20th or 21st Century/Canadian Scholarship

Provincial Classes 2160, 2170: This scholarship of $400 is donated by Larry & Sylvia Coghlin in memory of Dr. Gale

Glenn, a Moose Jaw chiropractor and past president of the Moose Jaw Music Festival Association, who was an avid

supporter of young Moose Jaw talent.


#31 Frostad Piano Services Intermediate Piano 20th or 21st Century/Canadian Music Scholarship Provincial Classes 2161, 2172: Ben Frostad Piano Services is pleased to sponsor the Intermediate 20th or 21st Century/Canadian Music Scholarship of $300. Frostad Piano Services provides professional certified piano tech service across Saskatchewan. Technicians Ben, Dylan, and Devon are based in Regina, and offer services for all your piano needs: tuning, repair, appraisal, piano restoration and more. Frostad Piano Services is an authorized Yamaha Canada Music Ltd. Service Centre. They specialize in all makes and styles of acoustic pianos, including hybrid acoustic-electric pianos.


#32 Gloria Nickell Intermediate Piano Scholarship This scholarship of $400, donated by Gloria Nickell of Rosetown, will be awarded to the most outstanding Intermediate Piano Competitor in the Provincial Finals Competitions. Mrs. Nickell served as President of SMFA from 2006-2008.


#33 John’s Music (Moose Jaw) Intermediate Piano Scholarship This scholarship of $200, donated by John’s Music, will be presented to the runner-up to the most outstanding Intermediate Piano Competitor in the Provincial Finals Competitions. Serving Moose Jaw and area for over 40 years, John’s Music is locally owned and operated.


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SCHOLARSHIPS

STRINGS SCHOLARSHIPS

#34 Senior Strings Concert Scholarship Provincial Classes 3050, 3060, 3200, 3210: This award of $400 will be presented to the winner.

2016 Winner – Joanne Peng (Moose Jaw Festival)

#35 Mrs. Clare K. Mendel Memorial Senior Violin Recital Scholarship Provincial Classes: 3000, 3080, 3120, 3180, 3240, 3290: Camille and Charles Mitchell of Saskatoon provide this scholarship of $400, in memory of Mrs. Clare K. Mendel.


#36 Blanche Squires Memorial Senior Viola/Cello/Double Bass Recital Scholarship Provincial Classes 3015, 3025, 3035, 3090, 3130, 3190, 3250, 3300: The Order of the Eastern Star administers the Blanche Squires Trust and provides for this scholarship of $400. The Blanche Squires Memorial Scholarships have been donated by Mr. Frank Squires of Lloydminster in memory of his wife Blanche, to the Saskatchewan Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, for the purpose of providing financial assistance to music students in our province. Mrs. Squires had been a devout member of the Eastern Star for many years prior to her death in 1968.

2016 Winner – Charlee Wielgoz (Regina Festival)

#37 Robert C. Mitchell Memorial Intermediate Violin Scholarship Provincial Classes 3002, 3051, 3081, 3121, 3181, 3201, 3241, 3291: This scholarship of $300, donated by Camille and Charles Mitchell of Saskatoon, is in memory of Mr. Robert C. Mitchell.

2016 Winner – Hannah Lissel-DeCorby (Saskatoon Festival)

#38 Johanna Mitchell Memorial Intermediate Viola/ Cello/ Double Bass Scholarship Provincial Classes 3016, 3026, 3036, 3061, 3091, 3131, 3191, 3211, 3251, 3301: This scholarship of $300, donated by Camille and Charles Mitchell of Saskatoon, is awarded in memory of Johanna Mitchell.

2016 Winner – Amos Friesen (Saskatoon Festival)

GUITAR SCHOLARSHIPS

#39 Senior Classical Guitar Scholarship Provincial Classes 4000, 4010, 4020, 4030: This award of $400 will be presented to the winner.

2016 Winner – Stephen Davis (Saskatoon Festival)

#40 Stein Farms Ltd. Intermediate Classical Guitar Scholarship Provincial Classes 4001, 4011, 4021, 4031: This award of $300 is donated by Darrell and Kelly Stein.

2016 Winner – Carson Froehlich (Quill Plains Festival)

WOODWINDS SCHOLARSHIPS

#41 Long & McQuade Senior Woodwind Recital Scholarship Provincial Classes 5000, 5010, 5020, 5030, 5040, 5050, 5060, 5070, 5080, 5130, 5230: This scholarship of $400 is sponsored by Long & McQuade. Long & McQuade believes in the power of music. Whether it is playing it or listening to it, we know that music has the ability to transcend cultural, political, economic and health barriers. That’s why we’re dedicated supporters many varied organizations and endeavors.

2016 Winner – Brendan Catalano (Saskatoon Festival)

#42 Saskatchewan Band Association Senior Woodwind Concert Scholarship Provincial Classes 5100, 5110, 5120: This scholarship of $400 is sponsored by the Saskatchewan Band Association, a non-profit charitable organization open to any individual, group or organization interested in furthering the development of bands in Saskatchewan.

2016 Winner – Glenda Lindgren (Saskatoon Festival)

#43 Intermediate Woodwind Scholarship Provincial Classes: 5001, 5011, 5021, 5031, 5041, 5051, 5061, 5071, 5081, 5101, 5111, 5121, 5131, 5231. This scholarship of $300 will be awarded to the winner.

2016 Winner – Nicole Toews (Saskatoon Festival)

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BRASS SCHOLARSHIPS

#44 Senior Brass Recital Scholarship Provincial Classes 6000, 6010. 6020, 6030, 6040, 6120, 6200: This scholarship of $400 will be awarded to the winner.

2016 Winner – Abby Fuller (Regina Festival)

#45 Saskatchewan Band Association Senior Brass Concert Scholarship Provincial Classes 6100, 6110: This scholarship of $400 is provided by the Saskatchewan Band Association, a non-profit charitable organization open to any individual, group or organization interested in furthering the development of bands in Saskatchewan.


#46 Colin Grunert Memorial Intermediate Brass Scholarship Provincial Classes 6001, 6011, 6021, 6031, 6041, 6101, 6111, 6121, 6201: Established by the Estevan & District Music Festival, this award of $300 is presented in memory of Colin Grunert. Colin was a fine trumpet player who loved to teach and mentor young musicians. He taught band and other subjects at Estevan Junior High, later becoming Fine Arts Department Head and Director of Bands at Estevan Comprehensive School. He also established the Estevan Summer Band Camp.

2016 Winner – Dominic Ghiglione (Regina Festival)

PERCUSSION SCHOLARSHIPS

#47 Senior Percussion Scholarship Provincial Classes 7000, 7010, 7020, 7030, 7040, 7050, 7060, 7070, 7080, 7100: This scholarship of $400 will be awarded to the winner.

2016 Winner – Fraser Krips (Saskatoon Festival)

#48 Maple Creek Festival Intermediate Percussion Scholarship Provincial Classes 7001, 7011, 7021, 7031, 7041, 7051, 7061, 7071, 7081, 7101: This scholarship of $300 is donated by the Maple Creek & District Music Festival, one of SMFA’s 47 affiliated District Festivals.

2016 Winner – Sam Boot (Saskatoon Festival)

MUSICAL THEATRE SCHOLARSHIPS

#49 Ursan Family Senior Musical Theatre Ballad Scholarship Provincial Classes: 9000, 9010, 9020, 9030, 9040, 9050: A scholarship of $400 is donated by a family who loves music

and musicals. 2016 Winner – Benton Froc (Melfort Festival)

#50 Regan Grant Memorial Intermediate Musical Theatre Ballad Scholarship Provincial Classes 9001, 9011, 9021, 9031, 9041, 9051: This scholarship of $300 is provided in memory of Regan Grant. Following graduation from MUCC, Regan earned a double Major in Voice and Drama in 1984 from the University of Regina. He spent time at the Banff School of Fine Arts and two summers in B.C. with the Canada Opera Picola. While working at the University Hospital in Saskatoon he performed with the Gateway Players and Persephone Theatre. Regan graduated in June 1988 with a Diploma in Operatic Performance.

Regan was diagnosed in 1986 with HIV infection and battled through a number of illnesses associated with AIDS. He will be remembered for his warmth, humor and love for life and his generosity to friends and co-workers. Regan soldiered on courageously as his health continued to fail. He died peacefully at home on June 28, 1992.

2016 Winner – Bri Harland (Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival)

#51 Joy McFarlane-Burton Senior Musical Theatre Up-Tempo Scholarship Provincial Classes 9100, 9110, 9120, 9130, 9140, 9150: A scholarship of $400 is donated by SMFA Past President Joy

McFarlane-Burton. Joy is currently the President of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals and was instrumental in bringing Musical Theatre to the National Music Festival stage. Joy has been active as a voice teacher in West Central Saskatchewan for many years and is in demand as an adjudicator throughout Western Canada.

2016 Winner – Jake Heisler (Moose Jaw Festival)

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SCHOLARSHIPS

#52 Sandra Ryba Intermediate Musical Theatre Up-Tempo Scholarship Provincial Classes 9101, 9111, 9121, 9131, 9141, 9151: This scholarship of $300 is dedicated to Sandra Dash Ryba and donated by the Moose Jaw Music Festival. Sandra spent years dedicating her time and energy to her students and the community with her talents. She taught voice for over 40 years and was an inspiration to many. She had a huge role in ensuring the success of the Moose Jaw Music Festival. Sandra still supports the festival through a scholarship and attending every vocal session.

2016 Winner – Mayson Sonntag (Regina Festival)

SPEECH ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS

#53 L.I. Bryson Memorial Senior Speech Arts Scholarship Provincial Classes 10050, 10080, 10110, 10120, 10170: This $400 award, given by her family, is in memory of Iris Bryson, whose passion for music and literature greatly enriched the lives of those around her.

2016 Winner – Catherine Benoit (Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival)

#54 Intermediate Speech Arts Scholarship Provincial Classes 10051, 10081, 10111, 10121, 10171: This scholarship of $300 is donated by Heather Macnab of Maple Creek.

2016 Winner – Patrick Benoit (Lloydminster Kiwanis Festival)

GRAND AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS

Senior level students are chosen, by the adjudicators from the Provincial Final Competitions, to compete for additional awards listed below:

#55 Heather Laxdal Memorial Vocal Award This scholarship of $500 is in memory of Heather Laxdal. Friends set up a scholarship fund when Heather was killed in a car accident on April 21, 1988 at the age of 20. She was completing her second year of Music Performance at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. Heather competed in the Yorkton Music Festival for twelve years and was recommended to the Provincial Music Festival three years in succession, winning the SMFA Girls’ Vocal Scholarship in 1984.


#56 Anna Klassen Memorial Award in Piano This scholarship of $400 was established by the Saskatoon Community Foundation in memory of Anna Klassen, Saskatoon teacher and lover of the arts.


#57 Fred S. Mendel Memorial String Award This scholarship of $400 is in memory of Mr. Fred S. Mendel. The Association is pleased to acknowledge the generous donation made by Camille and Charles Mitchell of Saskatoon in memory of their grandfather, the late Fred S. Mendel. Mr. Mendel, who came to Saskatchewan in 1940, was an ardent supporter of the performing and visual arts in this province. He took an active interest in young artists and musicians, helping them to continue their studies, and following their careers with concern and friendship. We welcome the continuing support of Camille and Charles in memory of a great citizen.


#58 Saskatchewan Music Educators Guitar Award This scholarship of $500 is donated by the Saskatchewan Music Educators Association, a non-profit charitable

organization dedicated to promoting the development of high standards of music and music education.

2016 Winner – Not Awarded

#59 Brost Family Woodwind Award

This award of $400 is donated by Theresa E. Brost of Macklin on behalf of her musical family. Mrs. Brost served as President of SMFA from 2008-2010.

2016 Winner – Brendan Catalano (Saskatoon Festival)

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SCHOLARSHIPS

#60 Guy Few Brass Award This scholarship of $500 is donated by Allan & Helen Few in honour of their son Guy, highly acclaimed concert pianist and trumpeter.


#61 Saskatchewan Band Association Percussion Award This award of $400 is donated by the Saskatchewan Band Association, a non-profit charitable organization open to

any individual, group or organization interested in furthering the development of bands in Saskatchewan.

2016 Winner – Fraser Krips (Saskatoon Festival)

#62 Estevan Music Festival Musical Theatre Award In order for students to achieve higher goals, it is important to have opportunities for advanced levels of competition. Estevan and District Music Festival is proud to sponsor this scholarship of $400 at Provincial Finals.

2016 Winner – Jake Heisler (Moose Jaw Festival)

#63 Alfredo S. Uy Memorial Speech Arts Award This scholarship of $400 is donated in memory of Alfredo Uy. Melissa and Dennis Ong would like to honour the memory of her father who loved music and the arts. He believed in the power of speech to inspire, inform and entertain. This legacy continues as their family is involved in encouraging speech and debate in Saskatchewan.


#64 Blanche Squires Memorial Bronze Award of $500 & Trophy

The Blanche Squires Memorial Awards are provided by a trust and administered by the Order of the Eastern Star. This award of $500 will be presented to the second runner-up to the most outstanding competitor of the Grand Awards Competition.


#65 Wallis Memorial Silver Award of $750 & Trophy

A memorial award of $750 will be presented to the first runner-up to the most outstanding competitor of the Grand Awards Competition.


#66 Sister Boyle Gold Award of $1000 & Trophy

An award of $1,000, donated by Joanne Messer of Tisdale in memory of Sister Geraldine Boyle, will be presented to the most outstanding competitor of the Grand Awards Competition. The award has been established in recognition of Sister Boyle and her long-standing commitment to music. The late Sister Geraldine Boyle, a Sister of Our Lady of the Missions, received her musical training from Trinity College, London, England and a Bachelor of Arts (music major) from the University of Regina. Sister Boyle taught music in the schools at Wolseley, Regina, Lebret, and Saskatoon. Her teaching was meticulous and she had a never-ending patience and encouragement for her students and colleagues. In addition to her interest in teaching piano, she had a great interest in the promotion of good liturgical and choral music.


Since 1908 the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association has played a major role in the development of a classical competitive music festival system of the highest standard. We appreciate the provincial scholarships bestowed by our many patrons that offer substantial financial sponsorship to our young performers. Thanks are extended to our corporate sponsors: SaskTel, Business for the Arts, and gifts in kind from the University of Saskatchewan (Music Department) and Yamaha Piano (Roger Jolly). Funding from the Saskatchewan Lotteries Trust Fund for Sport, Culture and Recreation and SaskCulture is gratefully acknowledged.

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