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2023 Festival Highlights

May 22, 2024

Highlights of the 2023 Festival

: Mayor Alan Harrison stands with young musicians from the 2023 Festival who were recommended to attend the B.C. Provincial Performing Arts Festival. Ariel Klim, standing far right, went on to win Honourable Mention in the Senior Musical Theatre category at the Provincial Festival .

: Rob Hislop, Daybreak Rotary, presents Nathan King with “Best of the Festival in Piano”.

: Andrea Bajova presented the Georgina Lazzarotto Vocal Award to Myla Goshulak (Junior) and Sabrina Lor (Intermediate).

: Jody Boudreau, Shuswap Rotary Club, presents “Best of the Fest in Strings” to Claire Weathermon.

: Claire Weathermon is presented with the Blair Borden Memorial Scholarship by Tom Brighouse, a former colleague and friend of Borden’s.

: Calia Mortenson is the first candidate to win the new Nancy Leatherdale Memorial Scholarship, presented by Rotarian, Sherry Gilroy.

: School bands entered in the 2023 festival performed at Song Sparrow Hall, a new venue for the festival.

: Michelle Reed, Vice Principal Music School District #83, accepts the Concert and Jazz Band Awards from June Stewart, SASCU, and Cory Bagg, Acorn Music.

: Bryan Kassa, Shuswap Community Foundation, presents the Mary Fowler Memorial Scholarship for excellence in voice to Alexandrina Thiessen.

: Alexandrina Thiessen accepts “Best of the Fest in Vocal” from Norm Brown, Salmon Arm Rotary Club.

: Salmon Arm Mayor, Alan Harrison, congratulates the candidates recommended to compete at the BC Provincial Festival in Penticton, May 28-June 2.

: 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.

: Gabi Klein presented three Klein Family Awards to Nathan King, Autumn Sunderland and Anya Massa.

2022 Gala photos posted in the Photo Galleries

May 5, 2022

: 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.

: Autumn Sunderland wins Best of the Fest in Strings.

: 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.

: 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.

: Kelly Coubrough, on behalf of the Salmon Arm Arts Council, congratulates Nathan King, winner of the Blair Borden Memorial Scholarship.

: Jenna Maclean accepts the Jackson Grade 10 Band Awards from Darlene McBain of SASCU Credit Union.

: John Hanson presents Matteo Thiessen with the Mary Fowler Memorial Scholarship.

: Rich Smith, Daybreak Rotary Club, presents the “Best of the Fest in Piano” to Teslyn Bates.

: Teslyn Bates receives the Klein Family Award from Gabi Klein.

: Kathy Dunfield, Shuswap Rotary Club, presents the Best of the Fest in Strings to Autumn Sunderland.

: Lorne Lazzarotto presents the Georgina Lazzarotto Vocal Award to Evje Knutson and Sadie Maddigan.

SAS Jackson Choir: The recently formed high school choir directed by David Izik-Dzurko won the award for Best Ensemble Choir. Vallee Harmony won Best Adult Choir and Bastion School won Best Youth Choir. These awards were sponsored by SASCU. All three choirs have been recommended to compete at the BC Performing Arts Festival later in May. (Photo Credit: Susan Wolff)

2018 Photos

May 7, 2019

: Jane Hayes, Senior Piano adjudicator, meets with music students at the opening session of the 18th Annual Shuswap Music Festival on Monday, April 16. Hayes is a distinguished teacher, active recording artist and concert performer. Her concert tours have taken her across Canada, the USA, Europe and Mexico. During her current sabbatical year, she will be travelling to China to work with Chinese piano professors.

: Afton Papworth - Somewhere Over the Rainbow Photo Credit: Noreen Sadiwynk

2017 Photos

May 19, 2017

2016 Photos

May 10, 2016

Jacob Huntington performs the Hockey Night in Canada theme song during the Shuswap Music Festival’s Gala Concert Program at First United Church on Friday, April 29. Those performing in the gala concert were chosen as the best of the festival by festival organizers.

Photo credit: Evan Buhler, Salmon Arm Observer