Fredericton Music Festival

The Fredericton Music Festival provides the music students in the Fredericton area with the opportunity to perform in public and be adjudicated by highly qualified professional musicians in their discipline. The Festival Committee is made up of volunteers who strive to make the festival a great experience for young musicians.

 

The Festival Committee meets on the fourth Monday of the month. Volunteers are welcome to attend. For more details, please contact Ralph Simpson, president, at 459-8485.

 

The 2008 FREDERICTON MUSIC FESTIVAL will be held from April 12 to 25. The deadline for entries was January 19, 2008. 

 

This is a reminder that changes to titles for own choice selections may be made up to February 19th by contacting Gerald Goguen or sending the details in an e-mail to fmfestival "at" frederictonmusicfestival "dot" org. Changes made after this date would make the entry non competitive.

 

 

The 2008 Fredericton Music Festival syllabus is available here.

 

Copy and print Provincial Syllabus 2008 if interested.

 


The 2007 FREDERICTON MUSIC FESTIVAL was held from April 14 to 27. 

The festival committee is grateful for the people responsible for the venues of the festival, which are:

  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Intermediate piano)
  • St. Paul’s United Church (Strings and Organ)
  • St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church ("Choral Sunday" and Senior Voice)
  • Memorial Hall at UNB (Piano Quick Study, Orchestras, Ensembles and Senior Piano)
  • Marshall d’Avray Hall at UNB (Family and Friends Fun Classes, Piano Sight Reading and Junior Piano)
  • Fredericton High School (School Choirs)
  • Nashwaaksis Middle School (School Bands)
  • Le Centre Communautaire Sainte-Anne (Junior Voice and Musical Theatre)
  • Unitarian Fellowship of Fredericton (Woodwind)
  • And, the First Wesleyan Church for our concerts  

 

The Junior Awards Concert and Senior Awards were held on May 4th and 7th and the following provides the list of award recipients: 

 

Junior Awards 2007

School and Church Choirs Awards 2007

 

JunSu Ku, clarinet, Joshua Liu, piano and cello, and Meghan Thompson, voice
2007 Junior Awards of Distinction Winners

 

Senior Awards 2007

 

Jeremy VanSlyke, piano, Trina Du, clarinet, Jayani Abeysekera, voice, and Matthieu Deveau, violin
2007 Senior Awards of Distinction Winners

 

Provincial Finals Winners from this Festival

Junior Level
Piano: Joshua Liu

Intermediate Level
Woodwind: Andy Lee (clarinet)

Senior Level
Woodwind: Trina Du (clarinet)
Chamber Group: Trio Beausoleil: Jeremy VanSlyke, Matthieu Deveau and Jae Young Chong

Both Trina Du and Trio Beausoleil represented the province at the National Music Festival competition.

Congratulations to the Trio Beausoleil for winning third prize in the Chamber class at the National Music Festival
 

Matthieu Deveau, Jae Young Chong and Jeremy VanSlyke
(courtesy of Federation of Canadian Music Festivals)

 

 

The 2007 FREDERICTON MUSIC FESTIVAL was very fortunate to have so many friends of the festival to make our festival such a success! The following provides the list of donors and friends for 2007.

 

2007 Donors and Friends of the Festival

The festival committee is particularly grateful to Tony's Music Box  for providing at no cost to the festival the use of an electronic piano for the piano concerto classes. These competitions were held from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm on April 25th at Memorial Hall. 

 

 

2007 FESTIVAL RESULTS

April 15 (Piano Sight Reading and Quick Study)

April 16 to 21

April 22 to 27

 

The 2007 Provincial Finals were held in Bathurst on June 1 and 2 and the 2007 National Music Festival was held in Moncton, on August 9 to 11, at the Université de Moncton campus.

The 2008 National Music Festival will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, from August 14 to 16.

 

 

STATISTICS FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS

The number of entries in the various categories have been tabulated for the 2002 to 2007 entries. This Table of Statistics is in PDF format.

 BECOME A FRIEND AND/OR A DONOR TO THE FREDERICTON MUSIC FESTIVAL

By donating to the scholarship account or to the operating account of the festival, you are helping students and families of participants by keeping the entry fees at the lowest level possible and helping to provide prizes and scholarships to worthy competitors. Operating expenses include items such as fees, meals and accommodations for about 8 adjudicators traveling from all parts of the Maritime Provinces, Quebec and Ontario, and tuning and moving of pianos. With a donation of $50 or more, donors are provided an income tax receipt and a season pass for all entrance at competition halls, including the Junior Awards concert and the Senior Awards concert.

If you want to join the list of donors, the festival committee would be very grateful if you contacted Ralph Simpson, president of the Fredericton Music Festival committee, at 506-459-8485, or any other member of the committee listed on this web site.  

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