20- Wednesday, March 13, 1996 — North Shore News

Concert caps competiti

Music festival celebrates 25 years

SINCE ITS inaugural run as a
fledgling music competition at
the Coach House Inn in 1971,
the North Shore Music Festival
has grown in scope.

By Layne Christensen
Community Reporter

This year’s festival, which kicked
off March 2, will see 420 students
give 866 performances — in piano,
strings and voice —- at St. Andrews
Church before the festival finale on
March 15, said Patricia Hoebig, pres-
ident of the North Shore Registered
Music Teachers Association, which
sponsors the event.

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The North Shore Music Festival
has been a training ground for inter-
nationally renown musicians includ-
ing violinist Corey Cerovsek and his
sister, pianist Katja Cerovsek, classi-
cal pianist Jamie Parker and jazz
pianist {rene Rosnes. Capilano
College music instructor Gaye
Alcock is another music festival
alumnus.

Among this year's 420 partici-
pants are “some.of thie finest talent in
the city,” according to Hoebig.

The participants are amateurs and
students of music who range in age
from five to their early 20s. To be eli-
gible they must either reside or

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receive music instruction on the
North Shore, said festival coordinator
Annette Moorhouse.

According to Moorhouse and
Hoebig, the festival has gone through
a number of changes in the last 10
years.

A decline in the number of entries
for voice and strings prompted the
association to make those categories
non-competitive. Workshops were
introduced to encourage participation
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The piano classes remain compet-
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learning not winning, said Hoebig.

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Competition helps because “kids
need that slight edge to get the most
out of it.”

All sessions are being held at St.
Andrews Church, 1044 St. Georges
Ave. in North Vancouver and are open
to the public.

The festival closes with a final
concert Friday at Highlands United
Church, with performances by the
winners in each category. Trophies
will be presented and, for the first
time in the festival's history, scholar-
ships will be awarded.

Admission to the concert, which
starts at 7:30 p.m. is $3 for adults and
$1.50 for students.

The church is located at 3255
Edgemont Blvd., in North Vancouver.

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