Piano adjudicator, Janet Tieckur, grew up in rural Saskatchewan After completing music degrees from Prairie Bible College and the Royal Conservatory of Music, she has had her compositions performed at many concerts, new music festivals and on CBC radio. Her pedagogical compositions are now listed on many different syllabi across the country. Passionate about sharing music with those in her community and beyond, Tieckur is a member of the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects and the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teachers’ Association. Vocal sessions concluded April 20at the Dekker Centre with vocal adjudicator, Chris Kelly. Kelly is originally from Prince Albert. He earned with a double major, completing performance and academic requirements in both voice and piano at the University of Saskatchewan. He received a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Western Ontario. Chris has been a sessional lecturer in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department o
She has a number of current vocal projects on the go in different genres. Her singing was also featured recently at the 2017 Saskatchewan Wearable Art Gala in the collaborative presentation of the wearable art piece Faceted Wing by Nadine Jaggi. Jim McCarthy will adjudicate the instrumental discipline. He is an established freelance musician with accolades in a wide range of skills: performing, composing, arranging, studio production, music education and instrument design and building. He graduated from Australia’s University of Adelaide in 1996 with a master’s degree in music performance – percussion. He has maintained annual tours in Australia performing with Musica Viva in Schools as well as running various masterclasses and clinics. He also arranges music for school bands and produces sequences and recordings for The Fun Music Company.
World-renowned composer and teacher Martin Boykan dies at age 89
Martin Boykan and Susan Schwalb when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Martin Boykan, a world-renowned composer, inspirational teacher, published author and prodigious performer, died peacefully at his home on March 6, 2021 at the age of 89. He leaves behind his wife, Susan Schwalb, and his niece Ina Pour El and her family. His funeral took place in New York City on March 8, 2021.
Born in 1931, Boykan studied composition with Walter Piston, Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith, and piano with Eduard Steuermann. He received a BA from Harvard University, 1951, and an MM from Yale University, 1953. In 195355 he was in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, and upon his return founded the Brandeis Chamber Ensemble whose other members included Robert Koff (Juilliard Quartet), Nancy Cirillo (Wellesley), Eugene Lehner (Kolisch Quartet) and Madeline Foley (Marlborough Festival). This
Music / Diana Doherty & Streeton Trio, at Llewellyn Hall, March 12. Reviewed by
CLINTON WHITE
WITHÂ some of the best and most respected musicians in the world on the stage in front of you, expectations are high. The âAustralian cringeâ might put those expectations on an evenhigher plane. Whatever the expectations for this concert, they were exceeded. Decisively.
Appearing for Musica Viva, these Australians, oboist, Diana Doherty, and the Streeton Trio (named after the artist, Sir Arthur Streeton) â violinist, Emma Jardine, cellist, Umberto Clerici, and pianist, Benjamin Kopp â delivered a performance that would attract the highest acclaim from the planetâs most discerning and critical audiences.
Keith Powers / Correspondent
Unless their teacher was Victor Rosenbaum.
“His mother found me,” Rosenbaum says of his young student, Kingsley Chen. “She contacted me, and said her son was in love with my playing. They had just immigrated from China to Las Vegas. I visited them there on a trip, and heard him play.
“Then they moved to the Boston area to be closer to me. I’ve been seeing him in person I couldn’t not do it.”
During his 53 years of teaching, Rosenbaum who has taught at New England Conservatory all that time, even while he was president of Longy School of Music (1985–2001), and then faculty at New York’s Mannes School of Music (2004–17) had given up working with such young students. After all, he’s had generations of conservatory-level pianists to coach.