Fostering Shuswap Musicians
*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.
Shuswap Music Festival April 2022
“Live and In Person”
The Pandemic has continued to shape our festival but with ingenuity and adherence to health requirements, the Board of Directors will hosted a festival April 11-29, 2022.
Disciplines offered were: Junior and Senior Piano, Strings, Vocal and School Bands. Choral was excluded. Candidates residing within the area from Chase to Revelstoke and the Shuswap North Shore to and including Vernon were eligible to enter the Salmon Arm festival. Registration online opened December 1, 2021 and closed January 31, 2022. Covid-19 protocols in place at the time of registration and later for the Festival were followed
Gala Concert
Grand opening! Five year old Georgina Vrana and her accompanist, Tom Brighouse, perform the opening number at the Shuswap Music Festival Gala, April 29 at Nexus.
THANK YOU, Volunteers!
You are essential to the Festival. Please consider volunteering for the April 2023 Festival.
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- Autumn Sunderland wins Best of the Fest in Strings.
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- Teslyn Bates, winner of the “Best of the Fest in Piano”, concluded the Gala concert with a performance of Chopin’s Etude Op 25 no. 7.
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- Garry Hoffart, Rotary Club of Salmon Arm, presents the “Best of the Fest in Vocal” to Matteo Thiessen. Thiessen also won the Mary Fowler Memorial Scholarship.
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- Kelly Coubrough, on behalf of the Salmon Arm Arts Council, congratulates Nathan King, winner of the Blair Borden Memorial Scholarship.
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- Jenna Maclean accepts the Jackson Grade 10 Band Awards from Darlene McBain of SASCU Credit Union.
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- Lorne Lazzarotto presents the Georgina Lazzarotto Vocal Award to Evje Knutson and Sadie Maddigan.
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- Kathy Dunfield, Shuswap Rotary Club, presents the Best of the Fest in Strings to Autumn Sunderland.
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- John Hanson presents Matteo Thiessen with the Mary Fowler Memorial Scholarship.
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- Rich Smith, Daybreak Rotary Club, presents the “Best of the Fest in Piano” to Teslyn Bates.
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- Teslyn Bates receives the Klein Family Award from Gabi Klein.
Thank You to the donors and sponsors who continue to support the Festival, especially during the Pandemic.
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