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Ten individuals and two groups have been recommended to the provincial music festival following adjudication at the Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival, which wrapped up last week. The Battlefords festival is the longest running event of its kind in the country.

Awards were handed out Wednesday evening at the Gala Awards Concert.

In the vocal category, Kamala Consort has been recommended to the provincial level. Kamala Consort was named Outstanding Vocal Entry in the Festival and received a scholarship for Best Use of Harmony for two or more voices, 18 and under. They performed Barb'ry Ellen, arranged by S. Hatfield, at the awards concert, directed by Dianne Gryba.

Kamala Youth Choir is also recommended to the provincial festival. The group received the scholarship for Outstanding Choral Group (other than elementary school chorus.)

Kamala singer Nicole Klippenstein has been recommended to the provincial festival for Girl's High Voice Intermediate. She also received a Promising Performer, Intermediate or Senior Vocal scholarship.

Johanna York, also a member of Kamala, was recommended for Soprano Solo Grade B and Concert Group Grade B. She also received the award for Outstanding Entry in Folk Song Classes and a scholarship for Promising Intermediate/Senior Vocalist.

Spencer McKnight was recommended for Operatic Solo, Any Voice, Senior and French Art Song and Oratorio / Sacred Aria, Any Male Voice, Senior.

Tricia Florence was recommended for Concert Group Grade A Senior, Soprano Solo Grade A and Oratorio / Sacred Aria, Any Female Voice Senior and National Senior Vocal.

James Chipak was recommended for Men's Solo Changed Voice, 18 and under. He also received a scholarship for Promising Senior Male Vocal Performer and, at the awards concert, he performed Vaga luna, che inargenti by V. Bellini, accompanied on piano by his sister Larissa.

Chipak was also recommended to the provincial festival for senior brass in the Band category. He received a scholarship for Outstanding Instrumental Solo as well and split the award for Promising Performer Senior.

Sisters Khrystia and Katrina MacKinnon were recommended to the provincial festival in the piano category, Khrystia for Intermediate Recital and Katrina for Senior Beethoven, Senior Hayden/Mozart, Senior Romantic Music, Senior Chopin and Senior French. Together they also won the Promising Piano Performer scholarship and both performed at the awards concert.

Khrystia was also presented highest mark awards in Baroque Intermediate Classes and the Sonata/Sonatina Intermediate Classes as well as the Promising Performer Intermediate Piano, Sonata/Sonatina Classes scholarship.

Katrina was awarded scholarships for Promising Piano Solo Entry, Promising Performer Intermediate/Senior Piano, Chopin Classes and for the Outstanding Solo Entry in the Festival.

In Musical Theatre, recommended to the provincial festival were Katrina MacKinnon for Ballad, Female, Senior, Open, Amanda Thompson for Ballad Female, 16 and under and Ainslie Milley for Up-Tempo, Female, Senior, Open. All three also received Promising Performer scholarships.

In Speech Arts, David Erasmus was recommended to the provincial festival, also earning two scholarships as a Promising Performer in Speech Arts and another as Promising Performer in Sacred Reading.

The Saskatchewan Music Festival Association Provincial Finals/Provincial Level of National Competition is an annual event during which the district winners compete provincially for scholarships, awards and the honour of representing Saskatchewan at the national level of competition. The provincial final competitions for 2014 will be held June 6, 7 and 8 in Saskatoon.

Awards

In the Vocal Choirs/Ensembles category, entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include: Battleford Central School under the direction of Brendan Legario, Dance Connection under the direction of Dianne Gryba and Virginia Winterhalt, Kamala Youth Choir, Kamala Consort and the Esquirol family.

Junior Vocal entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Victoria Mahmood (2), Chloe Winterhalt, Courtney Wouters, Skyler York (3), Abbey Neufeld and Ava Bahrey.

Intermediate/Senior Vocal entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Morgan Esquirol (3), Nicole Klippenstein, Sarah Knutson, Ainslie Milley (2), Bethany McQuaid, Jordyn Nachtegaele, Katrina MacKinnon (3), Kayla Schmidt, Johanna York (2), James Chipak and Kamala Consort.

Band entrants winning awards and/or scholarships for instrumental groups at the local level include St. Vital Grade 5 Band under the direction of Eric Cawood, Group of Seven, Battleford Central School Drum Line under the direction of Barry Ursaki, St. Vital Grade 6 Band under the direction of Eric Cawood, North Battleford Comprehensive High School 10/20 Band under the direction of Amy Francais and Adam Streisel.

Band entrants winning individual awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Bethany McQuaid (2), Skyler York, Noah Esquirol (2), Khrystia MacKinnon, Victoria Mahmood, Breton Milley, Andrew Pyle, Zachariah Abrahamson, Elianna Pyle and James Chipak (2).

Strings category entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include the International String Band under the direction of Erin Foreman, string ensemble Quattro Corde, Katherine Keller, Keegan Isaac, Teagan Isaac, Victoria Mahmood, Rebecca Boser, Chinha You, Dmitri Masich, Zaide Masich (2), ChinU Youn, J.C. Blais, Jennifer Tran and Jeanny Jung.

Junior Piano category entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Dante Bachetto, Ava Bahrey (2), Chinha Youn (2), Noah Lawrence (2), Garson Nolin, Christina Zhang, Minju Kim and Jenna Prollius.

Intermediate/Senior Piano category entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Emilia (2) and Dante Bachetto, Thane Ulven (3), Zamen Kowalczyk (2), Zavienne Kowalczyk (2), Jenna Fan, Johanna York, ChinU Youn, Kayla Schmidt, Katrina MacKinnon (4), Emily Jung and Khrystia MacKinnon (3).

Musical Theatre category entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Abbey Neufeld, Kathleen Abrahamson, Johanna York, Jordyn Nachtegaele (2), Chloe Winterhalt, Courtney Wouters, Ainslie Milley, Katrina MacKinnon and Amanda Thompson.

Choral Speech Arts entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Ecole Monseigneur Blaise Morand Grade 5R, St. Vital Treble Makers and Bready School Grade 7.

Individual Speech Arts entrants winning awards and/or scholarships at the local level include Kacy Tkachuk, Adam Revet, Rebecca Boser, Kathleen Abrahamson, Catherine Regush, Anna Currie, Khrystia MacKinnon and David Erasmus (3).