Shuswap Music Festival April 2023
The Board of Directors and the Rotary Clubs in Salmon Arm are pleased to host the Shuswap Music Festival from April 11 to April 29, 2023.
The purpose of the Shuswap Music Festival is to encourage, support, challenge and celebrate music students and amateur musicians by providing opportunities for learning and performing on the road to musical excellence.
In addition, the Festival provides the opportunity for constructive and professional evaluations of musical performances.
The Festival is produced by a not-for-profit society managed by a volunteer board of directors.
Gala Concert
School bands entered in the 2023 festival performed at Song Sparrow Hall, a new venue for the festival.
THANK YOU, Volunteers!
You are essential to the Festival. Please consider volunteering for the April 2023 Festival.
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- Rob Hislop, Daybreak Rotary, presents Nathan King with “Best of the Festival in Piano”.
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- Andrea Bajova presented the Georgina Lazzarotto Vocal Award to Myla Goshulak (Junior) and Sabrina Lor (Intermediate).
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- Jody Boudreau, Shuswap Rotary Club, presents “Best of the Fest in Strings” to Claire Weathermon.
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- Claire Weathermon is presented with the Blair Borden Memorial Scholarship by Tom Brighouse, a former colleague and friend of Borden’s.
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- Calia Mortenson is the first candidate to win the new Nancy Leatherdale Memorial Scholarship, presented by Rotarian, Sherry Gilroy.
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- School bands entered in the 2023 festival performed at Song Sparrow Hall, a new venue for the festival.
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- Michelle Reed, Vice Principal Music School District #83, accepts the Concert and Jazz Band Awards from June Stewart, SASCU, and Cory Bagg, Acorn Music.
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- Bryan Kassa, Shuswap Community Foundation, presents the Mary Fowler Memorial Scholarship for excellence in voice to Alexandrina Thiessen.
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- Alexandrina Thiessen accepts “Best of the Fest in Vocal” from Norm Brown, Salmon Arm Rotary Club.
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- Salmon Arm Mayor, Alan Harrison, congratulates the candidates recommended to compete at the BC Provincial Festival in Penticton, May 28-June 2.
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- At the Strings session during the last week of the Shuswap Music Festival, Andrea Case, strings adjudicator, praises the violin performance of four year old Michaela Vrana who was accompanied on piano by her sister, Georgina.
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- Gabi Klein presented three Klein Family Awards to Nathan King, Autumn Sunderland and Anya Massa.
Thank You to the donors and sponsors who continue to support the Festival, especially during the Pandemic.
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