Second Annual Flute Competition 2011
Competition Date
Saturday, March 26, 2011
10:30 am ~ 5:30 pm
Competition Location
Women's Art Association Gallery
23 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto, ON
Adjudicators
TBA
Registration Form
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Registration Extension Deadline
Friday, March 4, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Rules and Regulations
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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: canadaflute@gmail.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 Friday, March 4, 2011 to the Canadian Flute Association. E-mailed entries are also accepted. Registration fees are due on the date of the competition, currently set on Saturday, March 26, 2011.
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, 2011 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 Friday, March 11, 2011 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).
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 an 80%, for second prize a 75%, and for third prize a 70%.
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.
Syllabus
Flute Solo – Concerto ($30)
Two contrasting movement from a Concerto. Time limit 20 minutes.
Flute Solo – Sonata ($30)
Own choice of one piece. Concerto not allowed. Time limit 15 minutes.
Flute Solo – Open ($30)
Own choice of one piece. Concerto and Sonata are not allowed. Time limit 15 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 10 ($25)
Own choice. Time limit 12 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 8 to Grade 9 ($20)
Own choice. Time limit 12 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 6 to Grade 7 ($15)
Own choice. Time limit 10 minutes.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 4 to Grade 5 ($10)
Own choice.
Flute Solo – RCM Grade 2 to Grade 3 ($10)
Own choice.
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First Annual Flute Competition 2010 Results
| RCM Grade 4 and 6 | |
| Hana Brath (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| Sophia Wang | Second Place |
| Bill Li | Third Place |
| RCM Grade 8 | |
| Sandor Siket (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| Giancarlo Mincone (scholarship winner) | Second Place |
| Minah Lee | Third Place |
| RCM Grade 9 | |
| Leah Parent (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| Mason Pomeroy | Second Place |
| Michelle Oliphant | Third Place |
| RCM Grade 10 | |
| Nichaud Munday (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| Michelle Oliphant | Second Place |
| Taya Rosenberg | Third Place |
| Open: Own Choice | |
| Tim Crouch (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| Ting Ting Pan | Second Place |
| Jennifer Zheng | Third Place |
| Open: Sonata | |
| N/A | no First Place awarded |
| Leah Parent | Second Place |
| Ellen Campbell | Third Place |
| Open: Concerto | |
| Tim Crouch (scholarship winner) | First Place |
| N/A | no Second Place awarded |
| James Yang | Third Place |
| Jennifer Zheng | Third Place |
First Annual Flute Competition 2010 Adjudicators
Patricia Creighton
Patricia Creighton is currently Principal Flutist with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since its inception in 1984. Her extensive repertoire spans from baroque to modern in solo, concerto, chamber and orchestral literature. She has performed with many illustrious musicians from around the country and is well known to audiences around the Maritimes. Aside from a busy performing schedule and being young at heart, Patty shares her love of music by teaching as a flute instructor at Dalhousie University's Department of Music and Acadia University’s School of Music. She performs on an old Verne Powell flute.
Several of Patty’s discs have been nominated for ECMA awards. Her first disc “Abraxas” was also a CBC lease-back and an ECMA nominated disc. It was used to create a ballet for ARC Dance, premiered in May, 2000 in Seattle, Washington. Her second CD, "The Transcontinental" represents musical snapshots of different countries.
Her 2006 disc “Melodies of Love” with harpist Karen Rokos, was a 2008 ECMA and MIANS Best Classical Album nominee. Their duo Nova Brilliante presents concerts throughout the Maritimes.
Her 2007 CBC-recorded disc “WIND SONG” with pianist Peter Allen was nominated for a 2009 ECMA and MIANS Best Classical Album.
Her latest disc The 12 Celtic Winds (2009), pairs her flute improvisation with didgeridoo master Paul Newton in a fascinating musical mandala depicting musical characteristics of the 12 directions of the winds, as observed by the ancient Gaelic people.
She has been an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre several times and received a BMUS from University of Toronto before winning her first audition just months after graduation to become Symphony Nova Scotia’s Prima Flautist. Patty can be heard regularly on CBC Radio 2.
As a chamber and orchestral artist, Patty has performed with such distinguished artists as Julius Baker, Robert Cram, Victor Yampolsky, Isaac Stern, Maureen Forrester, William Tritt, Peter Bowman, Steven Dann, Fred Sherry, Malcolm Lowe, Erica Goodman, Anton Kuerti, Peter Allen, Jeanne Lamon, Georg Tintner, Simon Streatfeild, Mario Bernardi, Grant Llewelyn, Denise Djokic, Rene Fleming, Bernhard Gueller and many others. She is a regular guest artist with the Scotia Festival of Music and most Nova Scotian concert series and with the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. Occasionally she plays at the Kincardine Summer Music Festival in Ontario. Outside of Canada, she has performed concerts in the United States, Germany, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and Mexico.
Born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, she won many prizes at an early age in the Kiwanis Music Festival and won the First Prize in the Ontario Provincial Competition, and then Second Prize in the National Competition. She was also the wind category winner in the Guelph Spring Festival Competition and the DuMaurier Search for the Stars. Patty studied for many years intensively with Louis Moyse. She received a Bachelor of Music at the University of Toronto, where she studied with Nora Shulman and Jeanne Baxtresser. During and following university studies, she attended the Banff Centre for the Arts several times as an Artist in Residence.
During her first year in Halifax, Patty won a Canada Council B Grant to pursue further studies in Banff. She has also attended the Johannesen International School of Music and individual masterclasses and/or lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Marcel Moyse, Samuel Baron, Robert Aitken, Robert Cram, William Bennett, Jeanne Baxtresser and Julius Baker.
Learn more about Patricia by visiting her website!
Christopher Lee
Altus Flutes Artist Christopher Lee is a laureate of the 2007 AGIMUS International Competition held in Padova Italy where he was noted for his fresh interpretations, wide ranging tonal colour and expressive playing.
Chris is currently Professor of flute at Canada Christian College and plays with the Toronto Philharmonia, an orchestra he joined in 1991. He also held the Principal Flute chair with the Band of The Royal Regiment of Canada from 1988 to 1991, an ensemble with which he toured and recorded. Since 1994 he has also performed with the Huntsville Festival Symphony at the Huntsville Festival of the Arts held every summer.
He has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles including the Toronto Philharmonia. His many recitals include appearances at the British Embassy Church of St. George, Madrid, Spain, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and a special concert in 1994 to benefit the Seville Opera House.
Chris has performed with several other orchestras including the Windsor Symphony, the touring orchestra of "Scotland the Brave", the Grand Salon Orchestra, Sinfonia Toronto, the Canadian Sinfonietta, the Hamilton Ballet Orchestra, the Oshawa Symphony and the Kingston Symphony. In addition, he has worked under numerous conductors including Raffi Armenian, Enriquez Batiz, Jose Luis Garcia, Georg Kugi and Kerry Stratton.
He began formal study of flute at age 19 with Margot Rydall at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. One year later in 1988, he entered the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and was subsequently awarded the licentiate in flute performance (L.T.C.L) from Trinity College of Music, London, England. He also completed the Orchestral Training Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music. His mentors include some of the world’s great flautists, Susan Hoeppner (Canada), William Bennett (UK), Julius Baker (USA) and Peg Albrecht (Canada).
In 1996 he founded and performed with the woodwind sextet known as Les Six whose members represented some of Toronto's finest wind musicians. Les Six made their debut concert in March of 1997 which was recorded and broadcast by CBC Stereo. He has been a frequent guest of the popular “A Little Night Music” series presented by conductor Kerry Stratton and of the Alicier Arts Chamber Music series. He also appears on recordings with singer/songwriter Michael Holt.
A popular soloist, chamber musician, adjudicator and teacher, Chris has performed in Canada, the United States, and Europe. There have been performances for the heads of state (former and current) of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway, and his performances have been aired on CBC radio. In 2005 he released a recording of music for flute, harp and violin. Chris performs on a handmade Altus flute of Japan made by Altus founder, Suichi Tanaka.
Learn more about Christopher by visiting his website!
