GCVI and John F. Ross CVI finish tops in the province at the Kiwanis Music Festival
Student musicians from two Guelph secondary schools have been recognized as among the best in the province by adjudicators of the Kiwanis Music Festival.
The Kiwanis Music Festival holds 41 regional competitions across the province beginning in February and ending in May. Hundreds of school from across the province take part in a variety of music competitions at these regional festivals. Adjudicators at these festivals have the ability to recommend the top groups to continue on to the provincial finals as part of the Ontario Music Festivals Association (OMFA) competition.
Following the Guelph Kiwanis Festival in late April, five Guelph school groups were recommended for the OMFA Provincial Finals: GCVI Sr. Symphonic Band, GCVI Chamber Choir, GCVI Gael Force Jazz Band, JF Ross Choir, and JF Ross Jr. Symphonic Band.
Due to the overwhelming size of the provincial competition, schools do not attend the actual event, but instead submit recordings that are adjudicated by a panel of top university and college music teachers. To eliminate any bias, the adjudicators are unaware which school groups they are listening to. They are just instructed the grade each recording, and the top two recordings in each discipline are recognized as tops in the province.
Two Guelph school groups were chosen out of the handful of finalists that made it to the provincial level:
The JF Ross Jr. Symphonic Band took 2nd place in the province in the Wind Ensemble (grade 10 and under) category.
The GCVI Gael Force Jazz Band took 2nd place in the province in the High School Jazz Band division.
The Kiwanis provincial recordings for the GCVI groups can be found at: www.soundcloud.com/gcvimusic
Kiwanis Provincial Finals Results by Discipline (PDF)
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