APRIL 11-30, 2022 - ADJUDICATIONS MAY 7, 2022 - HIGHLIGHTS CONCERT - OF THE PERFORMING ARTS - Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts
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PR OGR A MME
APRIL 11–30, 2022 - ADJUDICATIONS
MAY 7, 2022 - HIGHLIGHTS CONCERT
48 TH SUNSHINE COAST FESTIVAL
OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
Nurturing Artistic Excellence
Providing Opportunities to Share and Perform
coastfestival.com
Table of Contents
About the SCFPA 3
The People of the SCFPA 4
Community & Business Support 5
Information for Performers 6
Festival Schedule 7
Piano 8–9
Bowed Strings 10–11
Folk Instrumental 12
Fiddle Workshop | House Concert 13
Voice/Choir 14
Bands 15
Woodwinds & Brass 15
Harp 16
Speech & Dramatic Arts 16
Speech & Dramatic Arts Workshop 17
Adjudicators 18–22
Sponsors 23
The SCFPA is grateful to live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory
of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Shíshálh (Sechelt) First Nations
About The SCFPA
The Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA) believes we can be a bastion of lifelong
learning through the performing arts by supporting, growing, and promoting amateur performing
artists of all ages and abilities on the Sunshine Coast. We do this by nurturing artistic excellence
and providing opportunities to share and perform.
The planning for our 2022 Festival is being inspired and guided by a newly drafted Strategic Plan
and its three strategic priorities:
• Promoting inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA)
• Growing community engagement and awareness alongside performer participation
• Supporting and strengthening organizational and financial capacity
As a non-profit society with charitable status, and through the generous support of community and
businesses, we are able to nurture artistic excellence for amateurs in the performing arts of all ages
and abilities by:
• Providing opportunities to perform for appreciative audiences, receive expert adjudication,
and participate in provincial and national festivals.
• Fostering an inclusive and supportive environment to improve skills and receive constructive
evaluation through adjudications, performances, and workshops.
• Providing awards and scholarships annually to outstanding individuals and groups to
encourage their ongoing development as performers, and to provide financial assistance for
post-secondary education.
Founded in 1973, the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts (SCFPA) is the longest-running
Festival on the Sunshine Coast. We celebrate 50 years for the Festival in 2024 (there was no Festival
in 2020).
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The People of The SCFPA
The management of the Festival is the responsibility of the volunteer Board of Directors supported
by volunteer Discipline and Synergy Coordinators, adjudicators and other volunteers and others as
listed below.
Board of Directors
Janice Brunson Tegan Ceschi-Smith
Serena Eades Sarah Lowis (President, Secretary/Treasurer)
Sandi McGinnis David Poon
Josh Searles Gaylin Webber (Vice-President)
Discipline Coordinators
Janice Brunson (windsandbrass@coastfestival.com) – Woodwinds & Brass/Band & Percussion/
Choir/Voice/Harp/Classical Guitar
Tegan Ceschi-Smith (folk@coastfestival.com) – Folk Instrumental
Christina Darwin (info@coastdance.com) – Dance (offered through coastaldancefestival.com)
Serena Eades (strings@coastfestival.com) – Bowed Strings
Sandi McGinnis (speechanddrama@coastfestival.com) – Speech & Dramatic Arts
Vacant (piano@coastfestival.com) – Piano
Synergy Coordinators
Awards: David Poon
Finance: Sarah Lowis, David Poon, and Tegan Ceschi-Smith
Grants: Serena Eades
Logistics and Marketing: Sarah Lowis and Discipline Coordinators
Registrar: David Poon
Sponsorship: Sarah Lowis
Volunteer: Gaylin Webber
Website: Edmund Arceo
50th Anniversary (2024): Call for Chair and volunteers
Adjudicators
See pages 18 to 22 or visit coastfestival.com for biographies and photos of the
Festival adjudicators.
Volunteers and Others
We have the pleasure of organizing and volunteering with so many talented people, and for this we
say thank you! Would you like to volunteer for the Festival? Email info@coastfestival.com. We are
always looking for energetic and inspiring people.
Many, many thanks to our generous donors and sponsors, the gifted arts education teachers,
adjudicators, discipline coordinators, volunteers, venue operators, families, and participants who
have been, and continue to be, so vital to the success of each year’s Festival.
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Community and Business Support
Community and business support is vital to the success of the Festival and is very much
valued by the performers and organizers.
Your generous financial contribution makes it possible for the Festival to have high quality
adjudication and provide awards and scholarships annually to outstanding individuals and
groups to encourage their ongoing development as performers.
Many students pursue post-secondary education with financial assistance from the Festival
awards and each year exceptional performers are selected to gain additional experience by
participation in the Provincial Festival, Performing Arts BC.
There are a number of ways in which you can support the Festival through:
Donations
Donations of any amount are welcome. Tax deductible receipts are issued for
donations of $20 and up.
Sponsorship
Numerous benefits are offered for various levels of sponsorship as outlined in the
“Support the Festival” section of the website.
Membership
Membership is available to the public by application via the website. The membership
fee is $10 per person and the membership year is from September 1 to August 31.
Membership for solo performers is included in their festival registration fees.
Admission
Admission to the Festival adjudication events and Highlights Concert are free and
donations gratefully accepted.
Payment for donations, sponsorships, membership and admission can be made either by
credit card, e-transfer, or cheque (mailed to SCFPA, PO Box 1043, Sechelt BC V0N 3A0).
Visit the “Support the Festival” section of coastfestival.com to confirm your support or
email info@coastfestival.com. Thank you!
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Information for Performers
1. Class start times only are provided in the programme. The time allocated for each performance is
approximate and may be changed due to withdrawals or other unforeseen circumstances.
Performers should be in the venue at least 15 minutes before the scheduled times.
2. The Board reserves the right to alter the time of any performance as special circumstances warrant.
3. The Board reserves the right to disqualify any performer who is not ready to perform when called by the
adjudicator’s Secretary.
4. When called immediately prior to their individual performances, performers will take their published
scores to the adjudicator’s Secretary. Participants must wait to receive a signal from the adjudicator
before beginning their performance. Published scores should be retrieved from the secretary before
leaving the venue.
5. The audience and other performers are requested to avoid entering or leaving the venue during a
performance or adjudication.
6. Venue pianos are not available for rehearsal prior to scheduled performances.
7. The Board assumes no responsibility for supplying or arranging accompanists.
8. Flash cameras are not permitted in performance venues. Please ensure that all cell phones and
electronic devices of all kinds are turned off.
9. Adjudications will be given to the performer at the conclusion of the class. All other award information
will be relayed to music teachers.
10. Only members of the Festival Committee may communicate with the adjudicator unless the Adjudicator
initiates the conversation. Failure to comply could result in disqualification of a performance.
11. Suitable dress and knowledge of stage decorum, musical period, styles and composers will enhance
the performer’s experience.
12. No complaint or protest will be considered unless made to the Festival Board in writing within two (2)
weeks after the performance and accompanied by a non-refundable fee of ten dollars ($10.00).
Mail to:
SCFPA
PO Box 1043
Sechelt, BC V0N 3A0
UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTIONS OF SCORES
(PHOTOCOPIES) ARE NOT ALLOWED
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Festival Schedule
April 2022
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
PIANO PIANO Good Friday
St. Hilda’s St. Hilda’s
Anglican Church Anglican Church
9am–9pm 9am–Noon
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Easter Sunday Easter Monday BOWED STRINGS BOWED STRINGS FOLK HOUSE CONCERT DANCE
St. Hilda’s St. Hilda’s INSTRUMENTAL Gibsons Heritage Playhouse
Anglican Church Anglican Church St. Hilda’s Doors 7:00pm Gibsons
9am–8pm 9am–2:30pm Anglican Church Concert 7:30pm Visit:
8:30am–1:00pm coastaldancefestival.com
FIDDLE
WORKSHOPS
Highland Centre
6:00pm–8:45pm
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
DANCE VOICE/CHOIR BANDS & WOODWINDS & HARP &
Heritage Playhouse St. Hilda’s PERCUSSION BRASS CLASSICAL GUITAR
Gibsons Anglican Church Chatelech St. Hilda’s SPEECH &
Visit: 9am–5pm (Voice) Secondary Anglican Church DRAMATIC ARTS
coastaldancefestival.com 7pm–9pm (Choir) School Theatre 9am–1:00pm SC Arts Centre
10:00am–12:30pm 10am–12:30pm (H&CG)
1pm–4pm (S&DA)
May 2022
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
HIGHLIGHTS
CONCERT
Heritage Playhouse
Gibsons
2:00pm
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Piano
Monday, April 11
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Canadian – Junior
Benjamin Beckingham
9:00 AM Mist (Clifford Poole)
Joveal Alilin
Etude – Junior Crazy Comics (Christine Donkin)
Nga Man Wong Nga Man Wong
Relay Race (Jon George) Mist (Clifford Poole)
Benjamin Beckingham Vincent Chris Martin
Study in C, Op.599/12 (Carl Czerny) Funny Puppy (Anne Crosby Gaudet)
Olivia Beckingham
Canadian – Intermediate
The Wind (Chee-Hwa Tan) Stella Hudec
Coleen Ni Jig (Violet Archer)
The Somersault King (Mike Schoenmehl) Hazel Durow
Jazz Exercise No.2 (Oscar Peterson)
9:30 AM
2:45 PM
Baroque – Junior
Xavier Kraukramp 20th/21st Century – Preparatory
Chorale (Johann Sebastian Bach) Sophie Trinh
Vincent Chris Martin The Haunted Mouse (Nancy & Randall Faber)
Musette in D, BWV Anh.126 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Liana Kraukramp
Gene Sato The Rising Sun (Nancy Telfer)
Minuet in d, BWV Anh.132 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
20th/21st Century – Junior
10:00 AM Olivia Beckingham
I Spy (Melody Bober)
Baroque – Intermediate Jaxon McCartney
Edgar Poon Sprightly (Christopher Norton)
Ally Sato
Sarabande in d, HWV 437/4 (George Frideric Handel)
Summer Toccatina (Robert D. Vandall)
Hazel Durow Joveal Alilin
Invention No.1 in C, BWV 772 (Johann Sebastian Bach) I Spy (Melody Bober)
Taho Shinagawa Gene Sato
Invention No.8 in F, BWV 779 (Johann Sebastian Bach) Prelude No.5 in G (Robert D. Vandall)
Baroque – Senior 20th/21st Century – Intermediate
Taiyo Blackwell Stella Hudec
Sinfonia No.6 in E (Johann Sebastian Bach) Scamp (Christopher Norton)
10:45 AM 7:00 PM
Classical – Junior Romantic – Senior
Olivia Beckingham Taiyo Blackwell
Écossaise in G (Ludwig van Beethoven) Waltz, Op.70/2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Gene Sato Isabella Paolozza
Sonatina in G, Op.188/3 (Cornelius Gurlitt) Lieb’ Schwesterlein (Dear Little Sister) (Robert Fuchs)
Jake Jeong
Classical – Intermediate Nocturne in c-sharp, Op. posth. (Frédéric Chopin)
Edgar Poon
7:45 PM
Rondo in C (Jacob Schmitt)
Taho Shinagawa Post-Romantic – Senior
Sonatina in D (Muzio Clementi) Taiyo Blackwell
La fille aux cheveux de lin (Claude Debussy)
Classical – Senior Isabella Paolozza
Maria Relova Gymnopédie No.1 (Erik Satie)
6 Easy Variations on an Original Theme
(Ludwig van Beethoven) 8:15 PM
1:30 PM 20th/21st Century – Senior
Maria Relova
Canadian – Preparatory Decadent Sentimental Song (Miguel Manzano)
Sophie Trinh
Curious Cat (Teresa Richert) Performer’s Choice – Senior
Taiyo Blackwell
Jazz in 3 (Dan Coates)
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Piano
Tuesday, April 12
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:45 AM
9:00 AM Composition – Intermediate
Taho Shinagawa
Performer’s Choice – Preparatory Misty Mountain
Liana Kraukramp
Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran) Concerto – Intermediate
Taho Shinagawa
Performer’s Choice – Junior Concertino (Yuri Polunin)
Nga Man Wong
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Solomon Linda) Family Duo
Xavier Kraukramp Allegra Montgomery & Katherine Hume
Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Jeffrey Jey, Maurizio Lobina, Part of Your World (Alan Menken)
Massimo Gabutti, arr. Xavier Kraukramp) Leif Montgomery & Katherine Hume
Ally Sato Friday Night Jazz (Melody Bober)
Tarantella, Op.157/1 (Fritz Spindler)
Jaxon McCartney
A Neat Beat (Martha Mier)
Coleen Ni
Music Box Dancer (Frank Mills)
Performer’s Choice – Intermediate
Daniel Claudepierre
Selma Park Blues (Daniel Claudepierre)
10:00 AM
Romantic – Intermediate
Hazel Durow
Songs without words, Op.30/6 “Venetian Boat
Song” (Felix Mendelssohn)
Post-Romantic – Junior
Ally Sato
A Little Song, Op.27/2 (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
Post-Romantic – Intermediate
Taho Shinagawa
Waltz (Viktor Kosenko)
Etude – Intermediate
Daniel Claudepierre
Prelude Op.39/19 (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
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Bowed Strings
Tuesday, April 19
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH Concerto – Intermediate
Joy Morgan, violin
9:00 AM Concerto in a: I. Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi)
Cael Read, cello
Baroque – Junior Concerto in D: Allegro moderato (Ludwig Mendelssohn)
Ally Sato, violin Madeleine Malcolmson, violin
Bourrée (George Frideric Handel) Concertino Grosso: I & III (Milan Kymlicka)
Duncan Poon, viola da gamba
Menuet (Johann Sebastian Bach) Concerto – Senior
Esmé Woolliams, cello
Baroque – Intermediate Concerto No.2 in D: Rondo (Jean-Baptiste Bréval)
Gene Sato, violin
Bourrée (Johann Sebastian Bach) 2:45 PM
Leigh Mart, violin
Concerto in G (Antonio Vivaldi) Performer’s Choice – Preparatory
Sebastian Young-Laidlaw, violin Allegra Montgomery, violin
Bourrée (Johann Sebastian Bach) May Song (Traditional)
10:00 AM Etude – Junior
Aidan Kim, violin
Unaccompanied Bach – Intermediate Perpetual Motion (Shinichi Suzuki)
Miyo Shinagawa, cello
Suite No.1 for Unaccompanied Violoncello: Performer’s Choice – Intermediate
Courante (Johann Sebastian Bach) Grace Marshall, violin
Cael Read, cello Howl’s Moving Castle (Joe Hisaishi)
Suite No.1 for Unaccompanied Violoncello: Sebastian Young-Laidlaw, violin & guitar
Sarabande (Johann Sebastian Bach) Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles)
Unaccompanied Bach – Senior 3:15 PM
Cassidy Wieler, cello
Suite No.2 for Unaccompanied Violoncello: Post-Romantic – Intermediate
Prelude (Johann Sebastian Bach) Cael Read, cello
Tarantella (William Henry Squire)
Unaccompanied Bach – Open
Brigitte Ouellet, violin Post-Romantic – Senior
Partita No.2 in d: Gigue (Johann Sebastian Bach) Cassidy Wieler, cello
Andaluza (Enrique Granados)
11:00 AM
3:45 PM
Classical – Preparatory
Allegra Montgomery, violin 20th/21st Century – Junior
Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) Aidan Kim, violin
Andantino (Shinichi Suzuki)
Classical – Junior Jinny Marshall, violin
Duncan Poon, viola da gamba The Song of Twilight (Yoshinao Nakada)
Andante grazioso (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
20th/21st Century – Intermediate
Classical – Intermediate Edgar Poon, cello
Gene Sato, violin Microjazz: The Huntsman & Rough Justice
Concerto No.2 in G, Op.13: III. Allegretto (Christopher Norton)
moderato (Friedrich Seitz) Aila Brampton, cello
Joy Morgan, violin Gallery Suite: Shanty (Robert Muczynski)
Sonata in d: Gigue (Francesco Maria Veracini)
20th/21st Century – Senior
1:30 PM Sam Fink-Jensen, violin
Nigun (Ernest Bloch)
Concert Group – Intermediate
Madeleine Malcolmson, violin
Sonata in F, Op.2/4, RV 20: I. Andante (Antonio Vivaldi)
Invocation (Melodie) (Jules Massenet)
Catch Me if You Can! (Christine Donkin)
10Bowed Strings
Tuesday, April 19 (cont’d)
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH
6:30 PM 7:15 PM
Duo Ensemble
Sarah Bradley & Rod Olafson, violin & cello Miyo, Martin & Jake Trio
Humouresque (Antonín Dvořák) Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV/25: III. Rondo a l’Ongarese
Cassidy Wieler & Erin Payne, cello (Joseph Haydn)
Concerto for Two Violoncelli in g: Allegro Idée Fixe
(Antonio Vivaldi) Quartet No.3 in G, K.156: Presto & Adagio
Miyo Shinagawa & Edgar Poon, cello (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Overture: A Baroque Celebration Uno
(Kathy & David Blackwell) Sonatina: Allegretto (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
Alina Shao & Duncan Poon, cello & viola da gamba
Choral “Liebster Immanuel” (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Wednesday, April 20
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 11:15 AM
9:00 AM Sonata – Intermediate
Edgar Poon, cello
Canadian – Junior Sonata in e, Op.1/2: Adagio & Allegro
Jinny Marshall, violin (Benedetto Marcello)
Bohemian Dance (Gerry Thornton) Salma Atoui, cello
Sonata in e, RV 40: Largo & Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi)
Canadian – Intermediate Alina Shao, cello
Leigh Mart, violin Sonata in e, RV 40: Largo & Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi)
Hornpipe (George Coutts) Miyo Shinagawa, cello
Sonata in e, RV 40: Largo & Allegro (Antonio Vivaldi)
9:30 AM
1:30 PM
Romantic – Junior
Ally Sato, violin Sonata – Senior
The Happy Farmer (Robert Schumann) Erin Payne, cello
Sonata in g: Largo & Allegro (Henry Eccles)
Romantic – Intermediate Sam Fink-Jensen, violin
Salma Atoui, cello Sonata in d, Op.28: I. Allegro ma non troppo & II.
Ständchen (Franz Schubert) Larghetto (Samuel Coleridge Taylor)
Miyo Shinagawa, cello Cassidy Wieler, violin
Träumerei (Robert Schumann) Sonata in e, Op.2/8: I. Ritornello & II. Allegro con
Aila Brampton, cello fuoco (Francesco Maria Veracini)
The Swan (Camille Saint-Saëns)
10:30 AM
Romantic – Senior
Erin Payne, cello
The Swan (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Esmé Woolliams, cello
Salut d’Amour (Edward Elgar)
Cassidy Wieler, violin
Romantische Stucke, Op.75: I. Allegro & II. Allegro
Maestoso (Antonín Dvořák)
11Folk Instrumental
Thursday, April 21
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:30 AM
8:30 AM Celtic – Senior
Kayla Payne, violin
Canadian – Junior Banks of the Spey Set (Traditional)
Ally Sato, violin Leigh Mart, violin
Jack Rabbit Jump (Traditional Canadian) Baltimore Fox/Taybank Shennanigans/Superfly
Jinny Marshall, violin (as played by Treacherous Orchestra)
Juliana’s Set (Jinny Marshall) Cassidy Wieler, violin
Sporting Patty/Hamish the Carpenter/Hull’s/Road
Canadian – Intermediate to Errogie (Scottish, Irish, John Rankin, Adam Sutherland)
Gene Sato, violin
Devil’s in the Kitchen/Brenda Stubbert’s/ 11:00 AM
Jack Daniel’s (Traditional, Jerry Holland, Morris Rankin)
Sebastian Young-Laidlaw, violin Other Folk Styles – Open
Island Swing (Gordon Stobbe) Gord Beynon, mandolin
Indifference (A. Morena & J. Colombo)
9:00 AM
Other Folk Styles – Senior
Canadian – Senior Cassidy Wieler, violin
Kayla Payne, violin Di Goldene Khasene (Traditional Eastern European
The Loose Roots Waltz/Jig Du Bois/Cordova Reel as played by Yxalag)
(Gabriel Dubreuil, M. Sanyshyn, M. Sullivan)
Kayla Payne, violin 11:30 AM
Old as the Hills / Earl Mitton’s Breakdown
(D. Lapp, E. Mitton) Ensemble
Leigh Mart, violin Charlotte, Quinn, and Sam
Come Play (Leigh Mart) Little Liza Jane (Traditional)
Daniel & Cassidy, violin & clarinet
9:30 AM Piperkovo Kolo (Traditional Jewish as played by Yxalag)
Coast String Fiddlers
Indigenous – Junior Beneath The Ice (Oliver Schroer)
Jinny Marshall, violin Diamond Reed / Curious Beetle / Cascou
Soul Reel / Roots to Wings (Wesley Hardisty) (Robert Mackintosh, Jeremy Kittle, Pascal Gemme)
The Low-Key Fiddlers
Old Time / Bluegrass – Junior When Stella Smiles (Jaime RT, arr. Caroly Hatch)
Ally Sato, violin Cape Breton Jig Set (as played by Howie Macdonald)
Westphalia Waltz (Cotton Collins) Uno
Val’s Dream (Gordon Stobbe)
9:45 AM The Incredibows
Soul Reel (Wesley Hardisty, arr. Andy Reiner)
Celtic – Junior Dan and Mischa’s Wedding (Serena Eades)
Ally Sato, violin
Swallowtail jig / Road to Lisdoonvarna (Traditional Celtic)
Charlotte Wallace, violin
Whiskey Before Breakfast/Tamlynn’s Reel
(Traditional Celtic)
Celtic – Intermediate
Gene Sato, violin
Growling Old Man and Grumbling Old Woman/
Devil’s Dream / Wizard’s Walk (Traditional Celtic)
Sebastian Young-Laidlaw, violin
The Gamekeeper’s Cottage (Session A9)
12Fiddle Workshop
Thursday, April 21 - 6:00-8.45pm
wesley hardisty
HIGHLAND CENTRE - 657
HIGHLAND ROAD, GIBSONS
Led by Wesley Hardisty, a vibrant
emerging fiddler, composer and
collaborator from the Northwest
Territories. Free for Festival
participants and $25 (cash only)
for non-participants. Registration
not required.
6:00–7:15pm
Pre-teen and teens
intermediate & advanced
6:00–7:15pm
Adult beginners and intermediate
House Concert
Friday, April 22 | Doors 7:00pm [ Concert 7:30pm
a n dy h i l l h o us e
GIBSONS
Performances by Wesley Hardisty
and Andy Hillhouse, one of
Canada’s finest Celtic guitarists.
$25 adults (cash only),
age 12 & under free admission
RSVP required. Call 604-886-8797 or
email fergie.susan@gmail.com for
venue address.
13Voice/Choir
Tuesday, April 26
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 2:00 PM
9:00 AM Musical Theatre – Junior
Taho Shinagawa
Other Art Song – Junior Someone Handed Me the Moon Today (Nancy White)
Taho Shinagawa Olivia Copping
Mystery’s Song (Henry Purcell) Castle on a Cloud (Claude-Michel Schonberg)
Olivia Copping
Silver Moon (Lin Marsh) 2:25 PM
Evelyn Smith
If you Become the Moon (Kevin Helppie et al.) Musical Theatre – Intermediate
Evy Fuller Lilja Swift
Heidenroslein (Franz Schubert) Out of my Dreams (Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein)
Carter Greenfield
9:50 AM The Policeman’s Song (William S. Gilbert &
Arthur Sullivan)
English Art Song (non-Canadian) – Intermediate Soleia Meisinger
Lilja Swift Only Love (Frank Wildhorn)
Willow Song (Arthur Sullivan)
Carter Greenfield 7:00 PM
Since First I Saw Your Face (Thomas Ford)
Community Choir 16 & under
10:30 AM Choralations Children’s Choir
Panis Angelicus (César Franck)
Other Art Song – Intermediate The Dream Keeper (Rollo A. Dilworth)
Carter Greenfield
Tu lo sai (Giuseppe Torelli) Community Choir 19 & under
Lilja Swift Sunshine Coast Youth Choir
Un Moto di Gioja (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Sing We and Chant It (Thomas Morley,
Soleia Meisinger arr. Russell Robinson)
Bel Piacere (George Frideric Handel) Into the Unknown (Kristen Anderson-Lopez &
Robert Lopez, arr. Roger Emerson)
11:10 AM
8:00 PM
Canadian – Intermediate
Soleia Meisinger Community Choir 19 & over
Prairie Boy (Morris Surdin) Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir
Hunker Down (Tobin Stokes)
11:25 AM The Stars are with the Voyager (Eleanor Daley)
A Cappella Strait
Vocal Variety – Junior Earth Song (Frank Ticheli)
Evelyn Smith Over the Rainbow (arr. Brian Tate)
Song for the Mira (Allister MacGillivray)
Folk Song – Junior
Evy Fuller
Santa Lucia (Traditional Italian)
Taho Shinagawa
Poor Wayfaring Stranger (American Folk Ballad,
arr. Mark Mrozinski)
14Bands
Wednesday, April 27
CHATELECH SECONDARY SCHOOL THEATRE
10:00 AM 11:30 AM
Secondary School Band Beginners School Senior Jazz Band
Chatelech Secondary Grade 8 Band Chatelech Secondary School Jazz Band
10:30 AM
Secondary School Band Senior
Elphinstone Senior Band
Adagio (Tomaso Albinoni)
Birdland (Joe Zawinal)
Symphony No.40: Allegro
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Chatelech Secondary School Senior Band
Woodwinds & Brass
Thursday, April 28
ST. HILDA’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10:45 AM
9:00 AM 20th/21st Century – Junior
Ythan Leitso, saxophone
Baroque – Senior Horseshoe Shuffle (Beverly Calland)
Jaclyn Semaniuk, flute Leif Montgomery, alto saxophone
Sonata in g: Adagio & Allegro (Johann Sebastian Bach) Harlem Nocturne (Earle Hagen)
9:30 AM 11:05 AM
Romantic – Junior 20th/21st Century – Senior
Leif Montgomery, alto saxophone Emily Picard, flute
Carmen: Habanera (Georges Bizet) Sonata for Flute and Piano: I. Allegretto malincolico
(Francis Poulenc)
9:45 AM
11:45 AM
Performer’s Choice – Senior
Emily Picard, flute Performer’s Choice – Open
Schwanengesang, D 957: IV. Das Fischermädchen Steve Webber, trumpet
& X. Ständchen (Franz Schubert) Air (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Paul Pedlar, cornet
Romantic – Senior Life’s Pageant (Terry Camsey)
Jaclyn Semaniuk, flute
Suite en Trois Morceaux: Allegretto & Idylle 12:20 PM
(Benjamin Godard)
Duo
10:35 AM Ythan & Leif, alto saxophone
Allegretto (Jacques Aubert, arr. Himie Voxman)
Post-Romantic – Junior
Ythan Leitso, saxophone Family Duo
Gymnopédie No.2 (Erik Satie) Leif & Carl Montgomery, alto saxophone
Jazz Concept for Saxophone Duet No.6
(Lennie Niehaus)
15Harp
Friday, April 29
SUNSHINE COAST ARTS CENTRE 11:00 AM
10:00 AM Canadian – Open
Pamela Wood
Baroque – Open Dragonfly (Anne Crosby-Gaudet)
Margaret Skelley Heidi Kurz
Prelude No.1 in C (Johann Sebastian Bach) Waiting (Sharlene Wallace)
10:20 AM 11:40 AM
Celtic / Traditional / Folk – Open Performer’s Choice – Open
Pamela Wood Loretta Macklam
On a Bank of Flowers (Isobel Mieras) Silent Night (Franz Gruber, arr. Sunita Staneslow)
O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music (arr. Sunita Stanislow)
Margaret Skelley
Fhear a’Bhata (The Boatman) (Scottish Traditional)
Jock O’Hazeldean (Scottish Traditional)
Speech & Dramatic Arts
Friday, April 29
SUNSHINE COAST ARTS CENTRE
1:00 PM
Drama – Ensemble Poetry – Open
Johanna Rzepa, Loretta Macklam, Radhika Samwald Sheila Weaver
Miss Havisham (Linda McTurk) A Selection of Original Haiku (Sheila Weaver)
Drama – Open Performer’s Choice – Junior
Bill Forst Olivia Courmoyer-Beckstead
Spoon River Anthologies (Edgar Lee Masters) Guilty Pandora (Emma Tricarico)
Poetry – Junior Drama – Junior
Doris Garner Doris Garner
The Dragonet Prophecy (Tui T. Sutherland) Space Unicorns (Jayla & Selene)
Performer’s Choice – Open
Sarah Daigneault
This Is Faith (Rúhiyyih Khánum)
Cynthia Hadden
Wild Stallions (Cynthia Hadden)
16Speech & Dramatic Arts Workshop
Friday, April 29, Approximately 3:00pm
SUNSHINE COAST ARTS CENTRE
2022 Festival Speech & Dramatic
LUISA JOJIC
Arts Adjudicator Luisa Jojic will
conduct this workshop following
the presenters’ adjudication.
Participation is free for Festival
performers. By donation for non-
participants. Registration not
required.
172022 Festival Adjudicators
ELIZABETH VOLPÉ BLIGH
HARP & GUITAR
Elizabeth Volpé Bligh was the Vancouver Symphony’s Principal Harpist from
1982 to 2018, after 6 years with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. She has
performed several solo concerti with the VSO and other orchestras, including
two written for her.
Elizabeth has taught privately and at UBC, Vancouver Academy of Music, VSO
School of Music, PRISMA and VSOI. In 2012, she taught and performed at the
6th International Harp Workshop in Italy and co-founded Canadian International
Summer Harp Institute with Gianetta Baril, Judy Loman and Cristina Braga.
Her articles are published in magazines such as Harp Column. She has given
master classes and lectures in China, New Zealand, USA, Italy, Hong Kong and
Canada.
Her compositions for solo harp, (in Royal Conservatory of Music and Trinity UK
Syllabuses), are being performed internationally. Her YouTube channel includes
her performances of these pieces, among others. She is President of the West Coast Harp Society and was Chair of the
11th World Harp Congress Host Committee in 2011. She has performed at international harp conferences and festivals
and was a judge at the OSM Standard Life Competition in 2010 and various Kiwanis Festivals. She was an Artistic Advisor
for the 2020 Vancouver International Music Competition.
DR. GREG CAISLEY
PIANO
Dr. Greg Caisley completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Keyboard
Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles,
working with Dr. Alan Smith. Earlier studies included two years of Aufbaustudium
in Germany, as well as special studies and concerts in Vienna, Banff, and
throughout the United States. Since moving to Vancouver in 2006, Dr. Caisley
has worked and performed for many music institutions around Vancouver,
including the Vancouver Academy of Music, City Opera Vancouver, UBC and
The VSO School of Music. In addition, he has completed several CD albums,
tours, and even a classical music video. He has studied with some outstanding
musicians over his career, including Martin Katz, Heinrich Schiff, Michael Uhde,
Elly Ameling, Kevin Fitzgerald, Robert Höll, Tracy Dahl, Ruth Golden, Rudolf
Janzen, and Hans Hotter.
Dr. Caisley has taught both solo and collaborative piano for 15 years in his
private studio, now located in downtown Vancouver, and a number of his
students have continued on to both professional music careers, and further
studies at important musical institutions, including as far away as the Conservatory in Milan, and as close by as the
University of Victoria School of Music. In addition to his career as a performance artist and piano teacher, Dr. Caisley has
worked extensively as a vocal coach and répétiteur. He has worked for opera companies, and coached over 50 classically
trained singers. Some of these singers have gone on to successful careers in German and Italian opera houses, as well as
well as working in various groups throughout the Vancouver region.
182022 Festival Adjudicators (CONTINUED)
DR. GREG CAISLEY (continued)
Dr. Caisley is a strong proponent of music education as an inspiration and vocation for both listener and performer, and
as such is a passionate champion of the Canadian music festival movement. He has adjudicated more than 200 festivals
across Canada, and has held masterclasses in many smaller communities in support of music education, communication
skills, and the links between music, history, and psychology. Dr. Caisley also currently holds the position of President of the
Canadian Music Festivals Adjudicators Association.
Aside from his work as a pianist and teacher, Dr. Caisley has spent more than 20 years developing programming within
music communities in Vancouver, including the founding of three different organizations. Within these various projects,
Dr. Caisley has spent a considerable amount of time composing original material to complement a wide variety of musical
knowledge and ability, as well as conducting the ensembles, musical preparation, and building the administrative board
support.
These organizations included the Postmodern Camerata, a chamber music ensemble consisting of professional
instrumentalists and singers dedicated to the performance of chamber works across genres, which he was the artistic
director of for 8 years.
Dr. Caisley has a career spanning 15 years as Music Director in three major United Churches in the Vancouver Region.
During that time, he developed the Pneuma Voices training program for young singers. Dr. Caisley taught over 50 young
choristers, many of whom have gone on to further musical training, and singing in the community.
Finally, Dr. Caisley also founded and continues to direct the United Voices Choir, a choir of approximately 50 auditioned
singers which is paired with professional singer soloists and instrumentalists to perform large-scale sacred music concerts.
Their repertoire extends from Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Saint John Passion, through to the Brahms’ Requiem and
Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna.
Currently, he is the Director of Music at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, in the west end of downtown Vancouver, where he
plays both piano and pipe organ.
MEGAN GREEN
DANCE
Megan Green originally hails from Fort St. John, BC, where she trained in the
disciplines of Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary & Acrobatics. After graduation,
she moved to Vancouver to pursue a career in dance and joined Move! The
Company. Having fallen in love with teaching early in life, Megan also continued
to pursue her passion in that field, and ultimately decided to focus full-time on
training young dancers. She has been teaching for over 15 years and feels just
as passionate about teaching as she did when she was assisting classes at 12
years old. Megan holds her Associate Certification in the Cecchetti Method of
Ballet and holds acrobatic certifications from both CDTA and Acrobatic Arts. She
is also an RYT certified yoga instructor and loves using a variety of fitness and
crosstraining methods to keep her students healthy and challenged. Megan has
taught and choreographed for many studios across British Columbia and Alberta,
and currently lives and teaches in Vancouver.
192022 Festival Adjudicators (CONTINUED)
WESLEY HARDISTY
FOLK INSTRUMENTAL
Wesley Hardisty is a vibrant emerging fiddler, composer and collaborator
from the Northwest Territories. From Fort Simpson, Wesley is a member of the
Dene First Nation. He has performed nationally and internationally from Seattle
to Iqaluit. He has played on folk festivals, fiddle festivals, Indigenous-focused
performances, including multiple tours of the NWT as a feature performer and
supporting artist, Canada Scene and Northern Scene in Ottawa, 2010 Vancouver
Olympics. He has two original albums and multiple commissions.
Wesley has been part of fiddling training programs as a student and now a
teacher. He attended the Gulf Island School of Performing Arts and is currently in
the NACC Mentorship program being mentored by acclaimed violinist/producer/
composer Jesse Zubot. Wesley is sought-after as a collaborator with fiddlers,
singer-songwriters, and classical ensembles.
Welsey values community connections and has made it a priority to perform for
elders and be a leader in youth mentorship from the training programs that he
went through as a student. Notably he is an Artistic Ambassador for the Downie-Wenjack Fund.
LUISA JOJIC
SPEECH & DRAMATIC ARTS
Performer, Teaching Artist, and Coach, Luisa Jojic is a multiple Jessie Richardson
Theatre Award nominee who works on stage and screen. As a performer, Luisa
has worked with many celebrated theatre companies including The Arts Club,
Bard on the Beach (8 seasons), Touchstone Theatre, Pi Theatre, The Gateway
Theatre, The Belfry Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, and Patrick Street Productions.
Screen credits include appearances on Riverdale, Legends of Tomorrow,
Supernatural, and Reaper. She is a senior teaching artist at Bard on the Beach,
where she was a founding instructor in both The Riotous Youth Program and Bard
in Your Neighbourhood. She is a YWCA Women of Distinction Award Nominee,
and a recipient of a Pacific Community Resources Award for Outstanding Practice
in Teaching. Luisa holds a BFA in Acting from The University of British Columbia.
She currently coaches with Viva Voce Speech Arts Studio. For a more detailed
performance biography, please visit www.luisajojic.com.
202022 Festival Adjudicators (CONTINUED)
JOHN “ADIDAM” LITTLEJOHN
BOWED STRINGS
John “Adidam” Littlejohn is a violinist and hip-hop artist. He is a graduate of
the Peabody Conservatory where he completed a Master of Music degree and a
Graduate Performance Diploma in violin performance with Herbert Greenberg,
after completing a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Michigan.
He has served as the concertmaster of the Newark Symphony and has been a
member of numerous orchestras and ensembles including the Baltimore Opera
Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras and given recitals
throughout North America and Europe.
John has been a string pedagogue for over 20 years. He is currently a faculty
member at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Delta Community Music
School. As an active proponent of music outreach, John is the director of the
Thrive City String Boot Camp, a tuition-free intensive retreat for string players.
While in graduate school he received specialized training in violin pedagogy and
curriculum development from Rebecca Henry, co-chair of the Peabody Institute’s
Preparatory String Department in Baltimore, Maryland. John aims to inspire, engage, and equip each student through a
unique curriculum that combines the methodology of Shinichi Suzuki and Paul Roland, with teachings of Joseph Gingold,
Ivan Galamian, Demetrius Dounis, Otakar Sevcik, Henry Schradiek, Jazz Improvisation, and some original tools developed
through experience. His students have won competitions and have gone on study music in University.
“Adidam”, which is an acronym for “All Day I Dream About Music,” has released three full-length albums, “Violinistik”,
“All Day I Dream About Music,” and his latest release, “Caterpillar Chronicles.” Tim Smith, music critic of the Baltimore
Sun, called his music “distinctive” with “tightly rhymed lyrics,” and a VH1 entertainment journalist called his compositions
“extremely original and magnificently arranged and played.”
He is a currently a member of Infinitus, a genre-bending, beatboxing string trio, performing education and community
performances throughout North America, Asia, and Africa. Infinitus recently completed a successful string of over 10
performances at the Lincoln Center in New York, NY. In addition to his musical endeavors, John is also a pastor. In 2021, he
completed a Master’s of Divinity (MDiv) degree with a focus in Global Studies and is an associate pastor at Kingdom Life
Community Church in Langley, BC. He currently resides in the greater Vancouver area with his wife and children.
TAK MAEDA
WOODWINDS & BRASS
Energetic, passionate, and driven, Tak Maeda believes that embracing every
moment at rehearsals and on stage is the key to a successful performance.
A graduate of the Osaka College of Music and an overseas student of Frank
Kaderabek (former principal trumpet, Philadelphia Orchestra), Tak played
his trumpet with The Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, a full time professional
orchestra in Japan, from 1979 to 1989. In addition, he was a Band Clinician for
Yamaha Music Foundation Japan for years, where he conducted mass bands and
honour bands at Yamaha sponsored clinics and festivals in Western Japan. It was
here that he began to mentor younger band instructors.
In search of more musical challenges, Tak moved to Canada in 1990. He played
trumpet with the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and was the choir director
of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church Choir in North Vancouver, as well as the
bandmaster of the North Vancouver Youth Band. Tak is now enjoying his busy
life as the music director of The Sea to Sky Wind Ensemble (in North Vancouver), The West Vancouver Concert Band, The
West Vancouver Pops Band, and The Suncoast Concert Band here on the Sunshine Coast. He also occasionally takes on
the role of guest conductor at public and private high schools in the Greater Vancouver area.
212022 Festival Adjudicators (CONTINUED)
SANDRA MEISTER
VOCAL & CHORAL
Sandra Meister is no stranger to the musical landscape in British Columbia.
Through her work as a conductor, clinician, school principal, music educator
and mentor she has infused great music into the lives of thousands of
singers. Sandra has conducted, led workshops, and adjudicated throughout
North America, Europe and China. Sandra heads up the Choral da Capo
course for the BC Choral Federation and is the recipient of numerous awards
including the Governor General’s Medal for Outstanding Service to Arts and
Culture in Canada, the British Columbia Choral Federation’s Willan Award,
and the British Columbia Music Educators’ Association Professional Educator
award. Sandra and her husband, Ross reside in Metro Vancouver with their
goldendoodle, Daisy.
LAUREN OVERHOLT
DANCE
Born and raised in North Vancouver, BC, Canada, Lauren Overholt has been
performing since the age of 2 in various styles of dance. She has trained at
NYU Tisch and has performed all over Canada, Spain, and a 22 city touring
show in China, with the Dragonfly Orchestra. Lauren runs her own boutique
entertainment company Enfuse Entertainment, which specializes in mashing up
different styles to create amazing performances for any audience. Lauren also
has a passion for TV & Film as well, starring in shows such as Supernatural, Bates
Motel, and dancing on a feature film with Steve Carall. She is also an owner and
Artistic Director of Seymour Dance where she produces two large-scale ballet
productions a season, and sends over 100 students to multiple competitions
each season. Her dedication and love for the arts, keeps her constantly creating
and learning. She looks forward to upcoming opportunities and believes the only
limitations that exist are in our minds.
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