CANADIAN FLUTE ASSOCIATION THIRD ANNUAL FLUTE COMPETITION 2012
(Please click HERE to download the Programme or scroll down for complete schedule. Congratulations to all the participants!)
(Results: Saturday, May 5, 2012 and Sunday, May 6, 2012) (Adjudicators: Christine Erlander Beard and Alheli Pimienta)
Canadian Flute Association Third Annual Flute Competition 2012 Results
09:00 – 09:35 am Flute Ensemble (Group B)
Silverflute Trio (Amy Yu, Catharine Solomon, Hana Brath) |
1st Place |
Sara Constant, Dov Houle, Dawn Rego |
1st Place |
Alice Sun, Annie Lu, Ivy He |
3rd Place |
09:35 – 10:10 am Open
Lyn Li |
2nd Place |
Alice Sun |
3rd Place |
10:25 – 12:25 pm RCM Grade 10
Hyowon Choi |
1st Place |
Jennifer Kowbell |
1st Place (Scholarship Winner) |
Annie Lu |
2nd Place |
Sophia Wang |
2nd Place |
12:35 – 12:50 pm RCM Grade 9
Mason Pomeroy |
1st Place |
Sojung Lee |
3rd Place |
01:20 – 02:05 pm RCM Grade 1 to Grade 2
Qinxi Yang |
1st Place |
Lynnette Choi |
2nd Place |
Jana Kwok |
3rd Place |
02:05 – 02:25 pm RCM Grade 3 to Grade 4
Flora Xue |
1st Place (Scholarship Winner) |
Juhyun Kim |
2nd Place |
Marinda Tran |
3rd Place |
02:25 – 02: 45 pm Flute Ensemble (Group A)
Margaret Moore, Emily Moore, Philip Yang |
1st Place |
Flora Xue, Qinxi Yang |
2nd Place |
The Kingsway Conservatory Flute Choir |
2nd Place |
10:00 – 11:00 am RCM Grade 7 to Grade 8
Jenna Rolland-Mills |
1st Place |
Rosalia Malvasi |
2nd Place |
Jenny Peng |
3rd Place |
11:00 – 11:20 am RCM Grade 5 to Grade 6
Brandon Keene |
1st Place |
Selina Xu |
2nd Place |
Sean Pitre |
3rd Place |
11:45 – 12:00 pm Piccolo
Annie Lu |
1st Place |
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(Please click HERE to download the Programme.)
(Adjudicators: Christine Erlander Beard and Alheli Pimienta)
Canadian Flute Association Third Annual Flute Competition 2012 Adjudicators
Described by critics as "masterful" and "evocative," flutist Christine Erlander Beard is constantly in demand as a soloist, chamber artist, and clinician. Quickly achieving international recognition as a performer and advocate for the piccolo, she has performed extensively across the U.S. and Europe, including Ireland, England, France, Norway, Lithuania, Latvia and Russia. She has appeared on the programs of seven of the previous nine conventions of the National Flute Association, and has served as a guest artist at numerous flute festivals including the International Flute Festival (France), Iowa Flute Festival, St. Louis Flute Society Flute Festival, Flute Society MidSouth, and Flute Society of Philadelphia. In 2008, Christine was invited by Trevor Wye to coordinate and conduct piccolo clinics at the British Flute Society International Convention in Manchester, England. Engagements in 2011-12 include the a performance of the Damase Trio for Flute/Oboe/Piano as a member of The Impromptu Duo (Michelle Vigneau, oboe); a solo recital and masterclass at European Piccolo Festival (Slovenia); piccolo clinics in South Carolina; and a concert tour with her flute/percussion duo, Zephyrus, which will include a performance at the Festival of New American Music in CA.
In addition to her active performance schedule, Christine is the Piccolo Artist for Gemeinhardt Flutes and in that role has presented piccolo clinics and lecture-recitals at state music conferences and flute festivals across the U.S., including the International Wind Music History Symposium and the American Musical Instrument Society international conference. A contributing editor for the NFA journal The Flutist Quarterly, her pedagogical articles and columns have been published in The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Talk, Flutewise, and The Instrumentalist, and her arrangement of Eugene Damare's "The Wren Polka" for solo piccolo and band has enjoyed performances across the U.S. and Europe.
In 2007, Christie founded the bi-annual International Piccolo Symposium, an intense 4 day workshop held every odd-numbered year at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The goal of IPS is to bring piccolo players and enthusiasts together from all over the world to learn about and discuss solo, chamber and orchestral music featuring the piccolo, and pedagogical issues specific to the piccolo, led by some of the world's leading piccolo players (see http://www.youtube.com/ipsorg or www.piccolosymposium.com).
Dr. Beard earned her MM and DMA in flute performance from The University of Texas at Austin (1998, 2003). She joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2002 where she teaches applied flute, chamber music, and serves as Coordinator of Woodwind Studies. In 2003, she founded the Heartland Community Flute Choir (www.heartlandflutes.org) which has since been selected to perform at two NMEA conferences, the 2008 NFA Convention, and the 2009 Midwest International Band & Orchestra Clinic. In 2010, she will begin serving the College Music Society as the national Board Member for Performance, and as the President of the Great Plains Chapter of CMS. In her spare time, she serves as the creator/webmaster for PiccoloHQ.com.
Dr. Beard plays on a Roy Seaman Ltd. piccolo and a 5K Sankyo flute.
Mexican award winning flutist Alhelí Pimienta is an active soloist, a passionate chamber musician and a dedicated teacher. Her solo and chamber appearances include her Gold Medal performance of the Dutilleux Sonatine at the Crescendo Music Awards in the United States and The Toronto Flute Quartet Debut in Koerner Hall in Canada in April of 2011. Upcoming performances for Alhelí include her Artist Diploma graduating recital at The Glenn Gould School of Music on May 31 where she will be performing important chamber works including Takemitsu's Towards the Sea, Villa-lobos Choros No. 7, and the Copland Duo, all works including Toronto's finest musicians. Her recent teaching accomplishments include her collaboration in "Chicken Chowder for Two," a fun and interactive clinic for young flutists, created by her friend, colleague and Canadian Flute Association founder Samantha Chang, where they cover topics like tone production, multiple flute ensemble playing, and extended techniques for flute. This project was successfully premiered in Vancouver in April 5 of 2012.
Besides being an active performer, Alhelí has also won national and international competitions since a young age. Recently, Miss Pimienta took the Silver Medal in the Professional Category at the prestigious National Competition "Gildardo Mojica" in Mexico City in 2010, performing the Martin Ballade, Paganini Capriccio No. 24, and Mercadante's Flute Concerto in E minor. Past award winning performances include The Crescendo Music Awards International Competition in the United States, where she was granted the First Prize. Other successful competitions include the Seattle Women Music Competition and local and State Concerto competitions in her home country as well as University Concerto/Aria competitions in the United States where she won first and second prizes in multiple occasions.
Miss Pimienta is an arduous collaborative musician and has studied and performed in venues across Mexico, the United States and Canada. Her classical training includes 4 years of studies in the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, a prestigious Conservatory in Mexico, where she studied with acclaimed professor Luis Alfredo Gonzalez, experience that have given Alhelí numerous performance opportunities in her home country including her recent performance of the Jolivet Concerto for Flute with the OCFAMUS orchestra in 2010. In Mexico, Alhelí is the founder and artistic director of chamber music project “Kokopelli: Musicians of the Americas” where she organizes recitals, premiere performances and festivals as well as commissions new works from young emerging composers along with collaborating artists from Mexico, the United States, Korea, Canada, Cuba and Brazil. The most recent Kokopelli performance happened in Toronto when Trio Kokopelli, formed by Alhelí, Korean harpist Koni Choi and Canadian violist Catherine Gray, performed the Canadian premiere of Mexican composer Eduardo Angulo’s Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp “Cuatro Danzas Sibilinas.” In the United States, where she received her Master’s Degree in Music Performance form the University of Idaho, as a pupil of Dr. Leonard Garrison, Alhelí and American percussionist Kevin Kovalchik founded the Contemporary Music Project, a flute and percussion duo that was awarded State Grant by the University of Idaho in 2007 for their continuous work of taking contemporary classical music to young audiences across multiple cities of the United States in the form of lecture recitals and masterclasses. As a newcomer to Canada, Alhelí has found multiple performance opportunities as second year Artist Diploma student at The Glenn Gould School of Music. She performs regularly in solo and chamber ensembles as well as with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Uri Meyer. Recently, Miss Pimienta was named Deputy Director of the Canadian Flute Association for her arduous collaboration in the promotion of music events for the community, title that she will proudly hold by organizing masterclasses with internationally acclaimed guest artists, conducting the CFA Flute Choir, providing music clinics to young flutists promoting chamber ensemble recitals and collaborating for the creation of an International Flute Festival in 2013.
Alhelí is also a passionate orchestral performer. In the United States she held the Piccolo Chair at the Walla Walla Symphony for over six years, and has substituted for important professional orchestras, and in Canada she performs with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra and has performed as a substitute in local orchestras in Toronto. In Mexico she performed in Symphony Orchestras since the age of 10 and while attending the Conservatory of Music and Dance in Monterrey, Mexico, she attended the acclaimed Encuentros Juveniles de Orquestas y Coros de México, where selected musicians got to attend estate and national convocations and orchestral programs across the country.
On top of her classical training, Alhelí is a versatile musician comfortable performing and improvising in styles including Klezmer, Tango, Mariachi and Jazz. She was a member of internationally acclaimed Mariachi "Fiesta Mexicana” and participated in a tour across France in the "Festival du Confolens." Currently she is a member of the Toronto Tango Orchestra, where she collaborates with Argentinian pianist Walter Gugliotta, Argentinian bassist Alberto Munarriz, and Toronto's tango specialists Rebekah Wolkstein and Mike Allen. She also leads The GGS Jazz quartet formed by acclaimed jazz musicians Ian Sinclair on keyboard, Mark Godfrey on bass and Fabio Ragnelli on drums. Alhelí also has a large private flute studio in which she teaches students of all ages and levels. Aside from her musical studies, Alhelí completed several years of studies in Music Business from the University of Idaho, and her interest in the field has brought her opportunities in music managing and event planning. Alhelí will be graduating from the Artist Diploma Program from The Glenn Gould School of Music, Canada's most prestigious Conservatory, where she studied with Juno nominee Susan Hoeppner. Miss Pimienta was also recently accepted into the Doctor of Musical Arts program at the University of Toronto, where she will continue studying, performing and working with the best musicians in Canada, and will belong to the studio of Camille Watts.
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Canadian Flute Association Third Annual Flute Competition 2012 Syllabus
Saturday May 5 and Sunday May 6 at Women’s Art Association Gallery (23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto, ON)
Registration Form available for download on www.canadaflute.com
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Gala Concert: Saturday, June 23, 2012
Rules and Regulations
The Competition Proceedings shall be under the management of the Canadian Flute Association Competition Committee.
All materials not dealt with in these Rules and Regulations shall be referred to the Competition Committee, whose decisions shall be final and binding upon all concerned. The committee reserves the right to change rules without notice.
If you have any questions, please contact the Canadian Flute Association Office at (416) 293-1302 or email us at: info@canadaflute.com
Copies of the syllabus and registration forms may be obtained from our website at www.canadaflute.com
Eligibility
No age limit will be imposed. All competitions shall be open to any competitor without regard to residence or domicile.
All competitions shall be open to AMATEURS only unless otherwise stated. An amateur is defined as a person whose principal means of livelihood is not derived from the performance or teaching of music, even if he/she occasionally accepts remuneration for musical services rendered.
Unless otherwise stated, pieces must be chosen for all graded classes from the current Royal Conservatory of Music Syllabus, Conservatory Canada Syllabus, or Suzuki Repertoire.
All competitors must perform their pieces as stated on their registration form. Time limits must be observed where specified. A piece may not be used in more than one class.
For competition purposes, please omit unnecessary repeats, at the discretion of the competitor’s teacher.
Memorization is not required to enter any competition classes. Competitors may qualify for first place class awards and scholarships while using their scores.
Competitors must supply an original copy of their music for use by the adjudicator (please have the bars numbered) and the accompanist. Photocopied music will not be accepted and will result in disqualification.
Registration
Registration forms must be delivered or mailed (postmarked) by Wednesday, April 11, 2012 to the Canadian Flute Association. E-mailed entries are also accepted. Registration fees are due on Friday, April 27, 2012.
Forms postmarked later than the above date will be accepted for one week only with a penalty equal to the fee(s) for all classes entered.
No individual may participate in more than one entry in any one class.
Please note: Competitors should enter graded classes at their current level of study as of January 1, 2012 and/or the next grade above.
Open classes are the most senior level of competition and it is expected that the competitor will be studying at or has achieved the ARCT level or its equivalent. All music for Open classes must be of at least ARCT or equivalent level (not necessarily on current lists). Grade 10 or lower not acceptable. Competitors to check RCM lists.
The committee reserves the right to refuse any entry that does not conform to the rules and regulations as stated herein. Classes may be divided or combined at the discretion of the committee.
It is the responsibility of the teachers and competitors to accurately complete the registration form and to ensure that the correct class is entered. Changes will not be made once the entry form has been processed. If the wrong class has been entered, the contestant will be adjudicated but not given a mark.
The registration form must be signed by the competitor or a person authorized to sign on the competitor’s behalf. Class changes will not be permitted.
Incomplete registration forms will not be accepted.
All competitors will receive notice by email on Monday, April 16, 2012 regarding the times of the classes in which they are entered. The committee reserves the right to adjust the competition dates in response to entries received.
Once the schedule of performers has been mailed out, changes will not be made to accommodate individual contestants.
Competitors desiring to withdraw their entry must do so in writing to the CFA Office as early as possible. Notice of withdrawal must be made to the CFA Office at least two (2) days prior to scheduled performance.
Please advise the CFA Office of any change in address or email address once your application has been submitted.
By submitting an entry, competitors consent to publication of their name, performance time(s), and placing in Canadian Flute Association publications and on the Canadian Flute Association website, and agree to perform at the time(s) scheduled or forfeit their performance(s).
[Samantha Chang Productions Inc. currently supports the Canadian Flute Association in all its activities. Please make all cheques payable to “Samantha Chang Productions Inc.” Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.]
Competition Procedure
Parents, teachers, and competitors are not permitted to approach or converse with the adjudicator during competitions. The adjudicator may speak with whom he or she chooses after the final concert. This rule is intended to make the competition fair for all and avoid disqualification.
No rehearsals on stage will be permitted and pianos may not be tried in advance of the performance. Warm-up rooms for flutists are available on site.
Competitors must provide their own accompanist.
The committee will provide a piano and music stand for all sessions where appropriate. Competitors requiring other equipment must make their own arrangements accordingly. The committee can not assume responsibility for damage or loss of scores, musical instruments, music stands, equipment or personal property.
The committee reserves the right to disqualify any competitor who is not ready to perform when called.
Coaching from the audience during performance is not permitted. The competitor involved is subject to disqualification.
The use of camera or video recorders is not allowed during the competition. The rule is designed to protect the concentration of the performer and adjudicator.
Cell phones/ pagers/ blackberries must be turned off.
Adjudication
The secretary may require any competitor to certify that the regulations herein set out have been met. If an infringement has occurred, no mark will be awarded but adjudication will be given.
Adjudicator’s decisions are final, subject to the no photocopying rule being observed. The adjudicator must not be approached. Any questions may be directed to the secretary’s desk; all other concerns must be submitted in writing to the CFA office.
Unauthorized photocopying of copyright music is illegal. Any use of photocopied material by competitors or accompanists may result in disqualification.
First, second, and third prizes will be awarded in all classes provided that the following minimum marks are obtained. For first prize a 90%, for second prize an 85%, and for third prize an 80%.
The adjudicator may discuss the performance of any or all competitors but only the marks of the prize winners will be announced. Each competitor, whether prize winner or not, will receive the adjudicator’s comments.
Music must be recovered from the Adjudicator’s secretary immediately following the respective competition.
The committee reserves the right to substitute or appoint additional adjudicators.
Scholarships
Scholarships are available to individual competitors. Recipients must have a mark of 85% or more. Scholarships are awarded on the recommendation of adjudicators to competitors who show the most promise of future development musically.
Scholarship winners may be asked to perform at the final concert without remuneration or payment for incidental expenses. The committee will contact those who are to appear on the programme.
NEW! Piccolo ($25)
Own choice of one piece. Time limit 10 minutes.
NEW! Flute Ensemble (2, 3, or 4 flutes) ($25)
Own choice of one piece. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – Open ($30)
Own choice of one piece. Concerto and Sonata included. Time limit 15 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 10 ($30)
Own choice. Time limit 12 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 9 ($25)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 7 to Grade 8 ($25)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 5 to Grade 6 ($20)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 3 to Grade 4 ($20)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 1 to Grade 2 ($20)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
