Norfolk Musical Arts Competition attracts younger performers
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SIMCOE A whole bunch of budding younger musicians had been in Simcoe this week for the Norfolk Musical Arts Competition.
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Cole Shaddock, 15 of Caledonia travelled to First Baptist Church on Younger Road to participate within the piano competitors.
“I like studying completely different songs, and I discover it enjoyable to compete as properly,” mentioned the pianist who’s at present on the Grade 5 stage. “I selected The Harvest Tune by Robert Schumann in the beginning of January and have been practising since.”
Shaddock obtained a mark of 85 from the adjudicator, tying him for second place in his class.
Kelly Skrzypek of Brantford watched her son Ian, age 13, and daughter Lily, 11, carry out their piano items as properly.
Each kids started finding out piano on the age of seven and have competed in music festivals for a number of years.
“It provides them a objective to attain,” she mentioned. “They wish to practise and do properly. It’s motivating for them.”
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Ian is at present on the Grade 7 stage and can pursue Grade 8 so he can earn highschool credit.
“He’s beginning to decide up guitar now too and is liking that.”
Skrzypek mentioned her daughter has needed to work onerous to attain Grade 3 piano resulting from a genetic situation that impacts her motor coordination.
“She has come manner additional than I ever thought she would in piano,” mentioned the kids’s mom. “It’s been actually good for her.
Linda Bonadeo-Boll, who based the Norfolk Musical Arts Competition in 1986, competed in music festivals in London, St. Thomas, and Stratford as a toddler.
“I simply grew up pondering that was regular,” she mentioned. “I moved right here and there was nothing.
“I believed there was a necessity, so I collected a number of music lecturers within the space, and it took off.”
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Bonadeo-Boll mentioned studying an instrument “is nice for the mind”, and performing by reminiscence can also be useful.
“Having to play in entrance of the general public, to be a bit nervous and recover from that, to decorate up and have a bow, all of that’s one thing that isn’t commonplace,” mentioned the competition’s founder. “I believe to construct confidence in college students – whether or not they proceed with music or not – the end result is to make them higher individuals.”
The competition additionally options an unusual competitors class: speech arts.
“We launched an space the place they may do poetry, create their very own, the faculties may do class recitation, French as a primary or second language, and it actually took off,” Bonadeo-Boll defined. “Some youngsters possibly couldn’t afford piano classes, however all of them have a voice.”
The competition concluded Thursday with cup competitions.
Each the Rotary Cup for voice and speech arts, and the Norfolk Musical Arts Competition Instrumental Cup, include a $1,000 prize.
On Tuesday, March 7, the Competition Highlights and Awards Ceremony will likely be held on the Outdated Windham United Church, 30 Glendale Crescent in Simcoe at 7 p.m.
To see the schedule of competitions go to namf.ca
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