Nanaimo Conservatory Students to Represent Vancouver Island at the Performing Arts BC Festival in Penticton June 3-7, 2014
Nanaimo
Conservatory of Music Students will be in great numbers at the BC Provincial
Music Festival this year. Six NCM students and two alternates have been chosen.
Lilu Scott and alternate Akela Szasz, students of NCM’s voice instructor,
Christine McMahon, impressed judges at the Upper Island Music Festival with
their duet from Hansel and Gretel. Jasmine Mather, a student of Karl Rainer, who
plans to further her music studies at university this fall, will perform
Vivaldi’s Summer on the violin at the
Penticton event. Max Segriff, also a student of NCM violin instructor and
Nanaimo Chamber Orchestra Director Karl Rainer, who competed in the North
Island Festival, will be performing the Vivaldi
Concerto in A minor and Souvenir de Sarasate by Potstock. James Mark’s violin student, Madeline Erickson who, like Max, is
from the North Island, has also been chosen to perform at the Provincials, as
they are commonly known. Guitar student Alex Kolodinsky, who has studied with
Patrick Olmsted for many years, was thrilled to have been chosen to perform, and
Uei-Young Jung, a Suzuki flute student of Cindy Speelman will perform the Telemann Suite in A minor. Serena Jack,
student of Calvin Dyck (Concert Master for the Vancouver Island Symphony), will be an alternate
in the violin category. Finally, the NCM’s highly successful and many-time
Provincial winner, the Nanaimo Youth Choir has made the cut again!
Even
though this event is in Penticton, which might be far for some, you can hear
some of these students perform at the Festival of Recitals on May 31st
at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music. The event starts at 10AM and runs through
to 5:00PM with performances throughout the day. Admission is free!
The
Nanaimo Conservatory of Music has been offering music lessons in Nanaimo for
over 35 years and their students regularly achieve high marks in festivals and
in their Royal Conservatory of Music exams. For more information on the
programs at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music please call 250 754 4611250 754 4611 or visit
www.ncmusic.ca
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Contact:
Kathleen Darby
Executive Director
250 754 4611
250 754 4611
250 754 4611
ncmusic@island.net
