The Nipawin and District Music Festival celebrated their best at the final concert March 28. Finalists performed and awards were given, as follows:
Junior Piano Awards
Shyra Aliguyon: $50 Jean Tait Memorial Award | Leah Hildebrandt: $25 Clark Froehlich Memorial Award |
Tori Baerg: $50 Jean Tait Memorial Award | Sidney Lang: $50 Clark Froehlich Memorial Award |
Marie Banaria: $50 Jean Tait Memorial Award | Jenna Taylor: $25 Clark Froehlich Memorial Award |
Alexa Hryciuk: $50 Bev Gunnlaugson Award | Heidi Klettberg: $100 Nipawin Order of the Royal Purple Award |
Lauryn Hildebrandt: $50 Bev Gunnlaugson Award | Torsten Erickson: $100 Edith Potts Memorial |
Gennes Mak: $50 Bev Gunnlaugson Award |
Open Piano Awards
Lauren Soucy: Bach Shield | Sean Hernandez: $200 Nipawin BPOE Lodge Award |
Lauren Soucy: $100 John Owen Memorial Award | Jelena Mak: $50 Nipawin Medical Group Award |
Sean Hernandez: $100 Syd and Edith Potts Memorial Scholarship | Kyra Harder, Kayla Harder: $125 Mary Bradshaw Award |
Jelena Mak: $100 Karen Hill Award |
Instrumental Awards
Paige Watson: $35 Larry Clark Award | Sam Petersen: $25 Interlake Resources Award |
Jeremy Syrenne: $50 Richard Smith Award | Abigail Summach: $25 Sk Orchestral Association Award |
Sianne Bassingthwaite: $100 Nipawin Golden Fiddlers Award | Alex Summach: $25 Sk Orchestral Association Award |
Raina Soucy: $100 Nipawin Golden Fiddlers Award | Tilka Chapman: $150 Sk Orchestral Association Award |
Ting Ting Hou, Matthew Hipkins: $100 North East Country Music Association Award | Lauren Soucey: $150 Sk Orchestral Association Award |
Wyatt Wilson, Cody Wilson: $100 Parkland Terminal Ltd. Award | Shawn McAdam: $150 Sk Orchestral Association Award |
Pascal Marchildon: $50 Tisdale and District Strings Award | Raina Soucey, Sianne Bassingthwaite: $60 Windy Strings Award |
Ting Ting Hou, Hudson Nickel, Tilka Chapman: $50 Tisdale and District Strings Award |
Vocal Awards
Tori Baerg: $100 David S. Owen Award | Jennifer Summach, Madeline Evenson: $100 North East Country Music Association Award |
Kassie Moisan, Megan McAvoy, Madison McAvoy, Kadence Ilnisky, Olivia Durell, Heidi Klettberg: Hamilton’s Trophy | Tori Baerg: P.B. Custom Engraving Trophy |
Janae Petersen: Jim Coventry Memorial Award | Central Park Elementary - Grade 1/Room 3 (Mrs Tallon): $25 Bev Gunnlaugson Award |
Kadence Ilnisky: $50 Mel McCorriston Memorial Award | Wagner Elementary School - Grade 4 (Mr Umpherville): $25 Interlake Resources Award |
Janae Petersen: $50 Marion Ferguson Memorial Award | Central Park Elementary - Grade 3 Choir (Mrs Thiessen): $50 Patti Byers Award |
Central Park Elementary - Grade 1/Room 2 (Mrs Parenteau): $50 Nipawin Chapter of Superannuated Teachers Award | Wagner Elementary-Grade 5/Room 124 Recorders (Mrs Harper) / Grade 5/Room 124 Choral(Mrs Harper): $50 Freeman and Christene Reynolds Award |
Wagner Elementary - Grade 4 (Mrs Stevens): $50 Nipawin Chapter of Superannuated Teachers Award | Wagner Elementary - Grade 5 (Ms Simoneau) / Wagner Elementary - Grade 5 (Mrs Doucette): $50 Lawrence and Elaine Rospad Award |