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The adjudicator for the strings discipline in the 2016 Kiwanis Battleford Music Festival, scheduled for April 22, is Canadian violinist Catherine Cosbey. Cosbey, who adores chamber music, first graced the concert stage at the tender age of 12, as a member of her family ensemble, the Cosbey Trio. At the time she was a guest artist with the Regina Male Voice Choir in a highly memorable performance predominantly because they were two-thirds redheads.
It is possible the concert is only memorable in the mind of Ms. Cosbey who distinctly remembers the exhilarating feeling of walking out on stage. She was bitten by the performing bug. Since then, she has performed all over the States, Canada, Europe and Asia. She has been inspired by collaborating with many incredible artists, including Peter Frankl, Jeffrey Kahane, Michael Brown, Annie Fullard, the Tokyo Quartet, Richard Stoltzman, Jason Vieaux, Peter Salaff, Donald Weilerstein, James Dunham, Zuill Bailey and Jana Baty.
As a founding member of the critically acclaimed Linden String Quartet, she is a prize winner at the 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the 2009 Coleman Competition, the 2010 Hugo Kauder Competition and the 2011 Borcciani Competition.
An avid teacher, Cosbey has taught all over the United States and Canada. With the Linden String Quartet, she has been the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, the quartet-in-residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, and has been in short-term residence all over the continent, including the Detroit Chamber Music Society, the University of Iowa, the Chamber Music Society of Logan and Music at Port Milford. She holds degrees from Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music where her principal teachers were Erika Raum and Paul Kantor. Other invaluable mentors include the Cavani Quartet, Peter Salaff and the Tokyo Quartet.
She is also proudly the assistant director of Regina Summer Strings, a week-long chamber music institute in July in her hometown of Regina.
This year鈥檚 vocal adjudicator, Dianna Woolrich, holds a bachelor of music degree in voice with great distinction from the University of Regina, where she also completed course work for a graduate degree in music theory and taught for some years as a sessional lecturer.
Band adjudicator Lenora Wells has played the trombone since the age of 10, received a bachelor of music in music education and masters of education from the University of Saskatchewan and was a musician within many ensembles, including a trombone quartet that qualified for the Canadian National Music Festival Awards.
Musical theatre and speech arts adjudicator, Julia Jamison, teaches voice and acting in the department of drama at the University of Saskatchewan where she has directed numerous Greystone Theatre productions.
Thank you to all local youth who entered the Festival program cover art contest. We look forward to featuring these wonderful creative efforts, not only on the cover but within the pages of the program and within the festival venues. The cover winner should be announced soon.
The current festival schedule, pending final programming, for the 2016 Battlefords Music Festival is: vocal April 16 - 18, band April 18 - 19, musical theatre April 19, speech arts April 20 鈥� 21, strings April 22 and piano April 21 - 23.
鈥淎 table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?鈥� 鈥� Albert Einstein
