Kiwanis Club of Gander

Friendly reminder to submit all Kiwanis Virtual Music Festival video submissions by May 7th, 2021! Our adjudicators are anticipating your entries and can’t wait to see what the students of Gander and area have in store for them this year! #Kiwanis #MusicFestival #SubmitYourEntry

The Gander Kiwanis Club would like to introduce our adjudicators for this years virtual music festival! Ms. Jennifer Beynon-Martinec and Ms. Krista Vincent, will be viewing this years video submissions and adjudicating them. We are happy to have them join us as we take this new venture during these unprecedented times!

*KIWANIS VIRTUAL MUSIC FESTIVAL UPDATE - REGISTRATION EXTENSION AND DONATION INTEREST* https://images.app.goo.gl/Devgmm2tYQc4ALDx9 Hi all! Please note we've extended our registration and video submission deadlines in light of the current Level 5 the province is undergoing! ... Registration deadline is extended to March 12th, 2021 for all classes. Video submission deadline for PROVINCIAL consideration is STILL April 22nd, 2021 however the deadline for all other video submissions is extended until May 7th, 2021. If you would like to DONATE to this years virtual music festival please e-mail [email protected] HAPPY PLAYING, SINGING & VIDEO RECORDING!

KMF HAPPENING VIRTUALLY IN 2021!

The Gander Kiwanis Club has exciting news! There will be a 43rd Annual Gander Kiwanis Music Festival and it will be a VIRTUAL event! Registration runs from January 28th, 2021 - February 26th, 2021. Video submissions must be entered by April 22nd, 2021. ... Visit www.kiwanisclubofgander.ca for more info! Find the syllabus and registration details on our website. Follow the syllabus and registration links for step-by-step instructions!

The Gander Kiwanis Club Summer Music Camp will unfortunately not be going ahead this summer. Due to all of the unknowns with the current pandemic we are unable to successfully put off the summer camp for 2020. We wish all of our past campers a fun, safe and healthy summer

happy easter from the gander kiwanis club we wish you all safety and health this holiday weekend

March 13, 2020 Re: Cancellation of the 43rd Annual Gander and Area Kiwanis Music Festival In light of the recent changes in policy with some of our major stakeholders in the festival and in accordance with the advice of the Chief Medical Officer of Health to consider the potential public health implications of large gatherings, the Kiwanis Club of Gander has canceled the 43rd Annual Music Festival.... We recognize the inconvenience and impact that this decision has on our arts community, performers, and teachers that have worked so hard to prepare for their classes. Still, we feel that it is in their best interest as well as the best interest in the over 100 volunteers and thousands of potential audience members to help mitigate the potential risks associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus. This decision was not made lightly, as you can imagine. It was reached after lengthy discussions with our members and after seeking input from informed persons. Again, we apologize for this inconvenience, and we appreciate your understanding of the position with which we find ourselves in. Further information will follow. Thank you, Kevin O’Rourke Gander and Area Kiwanis Music Festival Secretary

Representing junior piano adjudication at the 2020 Gander Kiwanis Music Festival is Ms. Keri Kao Keri Kao is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland. Keri holds many degrees including Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, as well as her Masters in Education. Keri has over 30 years experience as a music educator to students of all ages, and currently teaches piano, woodwinds, children's group classes and musical theatre classes. She a...lso directs the ladies choir Avalon Voices who will have the opportunity to compete at an American National Music Festival and will have the honour of performing at Carnegie Hall in New York this coming April. Keri is the founder and co-owner of Musically Inclined, a successful music studio in Conception Bay South, NL. This year her studio is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Musically Inclined is also the consumer choice award winner for best music school in St. John's and surrounding areas for its 5th consecutive year! Keri is a passionate music educator who realizes the value and the importance of music education. She strives to bring out the best in her students and to help them develop as musicians to their full potential. Keri has been involved in the Kiwanis Music Festival for many years, as a performer, a teacher, and as an adjudicator. Keri is honoured to be an adjudicator at this year's festival. Welcome Keri!

Time for another adjudicator intro! A warm Gander welcome to Melanie Jardine who will be adjudicating junior voice at this years festival! Melanie received her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, and her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. She has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, and has appeared in numerous operatic and musical theatre productions in the U.S.... and in Canada. Prior to moving back home to NL in 2010, Melanie had been teaching vocal and piano studies and performing in South Florida. In St. John’s, her recent performance credits include: Confidante, (Phantom of the Opera, Opera on the Avalon), Jack’s Mother (Into the Woods, Opera on the Avalon), Helen (Fun Home, Best Kind Productions), Sister Mary Patrick (Sister Act, Atlantic Light Theatre), and Grace (Annie, Theatre St. John’s). She takes great joy in teaching her thriving private voice studio in Paradise, and has adjudicated at Kiwanis and Rotary Music Festivals across the province. In addition to her studio teaching, Melanie is a Vocal Facilitator for Growing the Voices: Festival 500’s program, So You Always Wanted to Sing. This singing program is designed for adults who are discovering or re-discovering their voices, and guides them in their vocal development. Melanie is delighted to return to Gander to adjudicate, and wishes all of these wonderful musicians a fantastic and memorable Kiwanis Music Festival.

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Adjudicating senior voice this year at the 2020 Gander Kiwanis Music Festival we are pleased to welcome Ms. Jennifer Beynon-Martinec! Jennifer is an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate in music, medicine and education at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Jennifer is a voice and music education graduate from the University of British Columbia and the University of Western Ontario. Her current research is devoted to the development of a safe and more effective pedagogical m...ethod to teach the pubertal boy singing through the voice change. A former singer with the World Youth Choir and the juno-nominated Canadian Chamber Choir; Jennifer was a choral conductor and vocal teacher at St. Michael’s Choir School (Toronto), the Amabile Boys Choir (London), the Bach Children’s Choir (Toronto), a private voice teacher and conductor with two Czech boy’s choirs where her choir won the prize of the public from the Montreux Festival, a voice teacher at the English International School of Prague and a lecturer in vocal and choral music education at Charles University (Prague) and Memorial University. Since 2017, Jennifer has been the vocal technique specialist and Co-Artistic Director for the Atlantic Boychoir; the Atlantic Boychoir has produced two recordings entitled, Gloria (2018) and Tutto Mozart (2020). In 2017, Jennifer became the Artistic Director of the Atlantic Girls Choir. Under her leadership the choir won first place in the children’s choir category at the 47th International Festa Musical in the Czech Republic (2019) and her choir participated in the Winner’s Circle concert holding one of the top five marks in the competition overall. Jennifer has been awarded several grants and scholarships; for her exciting research on the pubertal boy’s changing voice. Jennifer designed the early music program Musicking Tots for children ages eighteen months to four years of age, which was first introduced in the Czech Republic in 2010. An active performer, clinician, adjudicator, presenter, researcher, author, and teacher with interests in the changing voice from birth to adulthood; Jennifer is a sought after adjudicator and clinician. She currently resides with her family in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Welcome Jennifer!

Up next on our adjudicator roster... Ms. Krista Vincent, adjudicating senior piano! Krista Vincent is an accomplished solo and chamber musician with a career spanning three continents as a pianist, composer, teacher and arts administrator. Krista holds music degrees from McGill University, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and Memorial University of Newfoundland. She spent eight years in the Netherlands, working with leading composers, and has premiered many compositions ...from rising young composers. Krista has collaborated with internationally renowned groups including Het Residentie Orkest, Leine Roebana and ZT Hollandia, and has created three full-length theater and dance works that have gone on to tour throughout the Netherlands and Europe. In 2007, Krista returned to Newfoundland where she was active as a pianist, teacher and accompanist. Committed to expanding audiences for contemporary music, Krista is the founder and artistic director of the Ora Ensemble. Ora has presented engaging, multimedia performances that blend elements of new music, visual art and performance theatre. In 2013, Krista received a masters degree in ethnomusicology with a research focus on audience reception of contemporary classical music. From 2016-2018, she managed marketing and communications for the Canberra International Music Festival in Australia. Krista is currently the general manager of the Tuckamore Festival, a two-week chamber music series featuring internationally acclaimed artists and a mentorship program for emerging young artists based in St. John’s, NL. From all of us at Gander Kiwanis, welcome Krista!

We’re still waiting to get our programs on the shelves for you! So in the meantime let’s meet our 2020 adjudicators. First up *drum roll please* Mr. Brandon Mollon. Brandon is a music education student at Memorial University, having a masters in music and specializing in instrumental and choral conducting. Mr. Mollon works as the assistant director and president of the Anchormen Barbershop chorus. ... Mollon is currently serving in the Canadian Forces as an officer working with the cadet instructors cadre. Mollon has held positions as director of music and officer in command of the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo Cadets. Mollon will be joining us for the 2020 Gander Kiwanis Music Festival as adjudicator of bands and instrumental. We are very excited to welcome Brandon to Gander on March 19th!