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Many of the questions we are now getting can be answered on the General Information Page. Please check it out for a lot of last minute details. Make sure you send in your bios and seating charts (General Information Page) to us well before the festival. It is too time consuming doing this at registration.

The following scholarships will be offered at the 2019 festival. All applicants should prepare an etude/study and a solo to perform at a 15 minute audition which will take place at the festival Sat. April 13. You will be contacted with you audition time.

COMOX YOUTH MUSIC CAMP

$250 partial scholarship for male musical theatre scholarship

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CAMP

Two full scholarships for a week long session($415US)

SMV VOCAL JAZZ CAMP

Three $100 partial scholarships for students in Manitoba

Three $200 partial scholarships for students in other provinces

SAVE THE MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP

One $500 scholarship towards first year instrumental music tuition at an accredited Canadian University

One $500 scholarship towards first year vocal music tuition at an accredited Canadain University

 

 

We are pleased to announce that we will have two special sessions at this year’s festival. No tickets required.

FRIDAY APRIL 12th- 1:00pm MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE

BREATHING GYM – presented by Tom McCaslin, Principal Tuba of the Calgary Philharmonic.

 

SATURDAY APRIL 13th – 1:00pm ERIC HARVIE THEATRE

A session with our guest group the SWINGLES

Please select a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice of Showcase Concerts you would like to see.  We will try to give everyone at least one concert. We are planning to let you know in the next few weeks what concert you can attend. Tickets for all concerts will be given to you at registration.

CRMF 2019 Showcase Concert Schedule

(You must apply for these concert with your first, second, and third choices)

 Thursday

ROLSTON HALL

7 PM               Argyle Sec. School, North Vancouver, BC

8 PM              Corazon / Lalin, Nelson BC

9 PM               Corazon / Lalin, Nelson BC

Friday

ROLSTON HALL

2 PM                          Maples Collegiate Chamber Choir, Winnipeg, MB

3:30                           Luther College H.S., Regina, SK

4:45                            Fort Richmond Collegiate, Winnipeg, MB

6:00                            Carson Graham, North Vancouver, BC

7:30                            Campbell CI, Regina, SK

9:00                            ihana, Red Deer, AB

MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE

7 PM                   Sir Winston Churchill H.S. Symphonic Band, Calgary, AB

 

Saturday

2 PM                          Corazon  / Lalin, Nelson BC

3:15                           Vista Murrieta High School, Murrieta, California

4:30                           ihana, Red Deer, AB

5:45                            Konektis, Virden, MB

7:00                            Kokopelli, Edmonton, AB

8:00                            Kokopelli, Edmonton, AB

9:00                            Kokopelli, Edmonton AB

 

MARGARET GREENHAM THEATRE

7 PM                      Vincent Massey Collegiate Wind Ensemble, Winnipeg, MB

 

Jazz –

ROOM 122/4

Thursday

7 PM                    Maple Sugar, Winnipeg, MB                                   

 

Friday

7 PM                     Kelowna Secondary School Jazz Band, Kelowna, BC

9:00                      ‘Nuf Sed / FORM, Edmonton, AB

 

Saturday

7 PM                     Lord Beaverbrook Hard Choral, Calgary, AB

2019 Festival Concert Schedule

 

Thursday April 11          University Of Calgary Wind Ensemble

Eric Harvie Theatre

7:30pm

Archbishop Joseph MacDonald, Carson Graham, Camrose, Central Memorial, Eric Hamber, John Maland, Onoway, Pickering College, St. Mary’s, Salisbury, Sir Winston Churchill, Vincent Massey

 

9:00pm

Argyle, Campbell, Earl of March, Glenlawn, Holy Cross, Lloydminster, New Westminster, Notre Dame.

 

Friday April 12     Swingles

7:30pm

Argyle, Central Memorial, Fort Richmond, Kokopelli, Lord Beaverbrook/Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Maples, Vincent Massey Choir, Vista Murrieta

 

9:00pm

Carson Graham, Corazon/Lalin, Guildford Park, John Maland, Konektis, Lloydminster, Luther College, Marion Graham, McNally, Onoway, Pickering College, Vincent Massey

 

 

Saturday April 13           Swingles

7:30pm

Campbell, Chorazz, Camrose, Earl of March, Eric Hamber, Holy Cross, Killarney, Nuf Sed/Form, Solilioquy/ihana, South City Jazz

 

9:00pm

Archbishop MacDonald, Glenlawn, Glenlyon Norfolk, Kelowna, New Westminster, Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s, Salisbury, Sir Winston Churchill

 

 

 

 

Our Thursday evening Festival Concert will feature the University of Calgary Wind Ensemble under the direction of Gareth Jones. They will present two concerts at 7:30, and 9:00. 

In 1963 Ward Swingle first assembled a group of Parisian singers that became known as The Swingle Singers. Since then they have won five Grammy Awards and made more than 50 recordings. The festival is excited to announce that the The Swingles, now based out of London, England, will be the featured performing group at the 2019 festival. 

More on The Swingles →

We would like to thank all those groups that applied for the 2019 festival. Once again we had more groups than we can accommodate at the festival. The selection committee are working hard at finalizing the list of groups to be selected for the 2019 festival. We will be informing all applicants by next week.

We are pleased to announce the following facilitators for the 2019 festival.

CONCERT CHOIR

Andrea Ramsey – Santa Barbara, CA

Dinah Helgeson – Vashon, WA

Carrie Tennant – Vancouver, BC

VOCAL JAZZ

Peter Eldridge – New York Voices

Greg Jasperse – Western Michigan University, Gold Company

We are pleased to announce the following facilitators for the 2019 festival.

CONCERT BAND

Dr. Paula Holcomb – State University of New York

Dr. Glenn Price – Caltech

Clinton Marshall – South Carolina

JAZZ BAND

Jenny Kellogg – Eastern Washington University

Jim Mair – Kansas City Community College

Scott Prebys – Mary College Professor Emeritus