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. The finale Gala concert, showcasing the Best of the Festival in Vocal, Piano and Strings, is on Saturday, April […]
The annual Shuswap Music Festival returns April 11-29 and reinstates the full range of disciplines. The Pandemic had forced the cancellation of the 2020 festival, necessitated a virtual festival in 2021, and required a much-reduced festival in 2022. For the 2023 Festival, Choirs, Piano Ensembles and a much larger Band section rejoin the event. The […]
Nancy Leatherdale was born in Vancouver in 1915. Throughout her life, music played a prominent role. Even while raising her family of four children, she studied to obtain a performers diploma in solo singing from the Trinity College of Music London. While in Vancouver she began teaching music and was active in the Vancouver Women’s […]
The Shuswap Music Festival Society is elated over the arrival of its latest acquisition–a 52 Inch Upright Kawai piano. The full-size upright has the same size string board as a grand piano. Purchased by the Society with a generous donation from the Rotary Club of Salmon Arm- Shuswap, known as the “Evening” club, the piano […]
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 […]
Highlights of the Festival Gala — A Musical Journey ‘Youth and Age’ bookended the first performance at the Shuswap Music Festival Gala held Friday April 29 at Nexus in Salmon Arm. The celebratory event showcased a range of young musicians on their musical journey. The youngest performer in the Festival–five-year old violinist Georgina Vrana– accompanied […]
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