The Weyburn Music Festival Association has come a step closer in their preparations for the annual event by booking the band, voice, and piano adjudicators.
The Festival opens March 8 to 10 with the band competition at the Weyburn Comprehensive School, which will be adjudicated this year by Joe Hary of Regina.
Hary, who currently acts as the Director of the Regina Band-Its Concert Band and Assiniboia Community Bands, has 29 years teaching experience and 17 years performing on the road under his belt. He has served as judge, clinician and adjudicator of many district and state concert band, marching band, solo, ensemble, and choral contests and festivals. He is an adjudicator for the Saskatchewan Music Festivals of Canada.
A graduate of Indiana State University, Hary received a BA and an MA in special music. He has served as the Director of Music at Yorkton Regional High School, and the Regina Police Junior Bands.
Hary is also the past president of the Saskatchewan Music Educators Association, and author of the band division handbook, Band Directors of Saskatchewan.
Joy Nelson, an experienced teacher, clinician, accompanist and adjudicator from Saskatoon, will be judging the voice competition, which takes place March 10 to 12 at the Weyburn Comprehensive School.
Nelson's choir experience is extensive - both as a singer with the Greystone Singers and the Sask. Valley Singers, and as a conductor of a number of school, camp and community choirs. She also acted as vice-president of the Spiritwood Music Festival.
Nelson has a music degree in voice and piano, as well as a degree in education, from the University of Regina. She worked as a music consultant for the Yorkdale School Unit, where she was in charge of classroom music and choirs for 12 schools, and conducted junior and intermediate bands. Nelson currently works out of her home as a voice and piano teacher.
She also has an interest in arranging and composing music, and recently put out a tape with her family called, Premiere Notations.
In the piano competition, which takes place March 15 to 19 at the T.C. Douglas Centre, Kathleen Kemple, a teacher and radio host living in British Columbia, will be acting as adjudicator.
Kemple has plenty of experience judging music competitions - she's an examiner for the Western Board of Music, and has adjudicated extensively throughout Canada, including festivals in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and the Toronto Kiwanis and Halifax Kiwanis Festivals.
She also has experience teaching, as an instructor at the Banff School of Fine Arts, Conservatory of Music in Regina and the University of Regina.
Kemple's formal education includes associate of music diplomas from the U of S and Royal Conservatory of Music, a music degree from the UBC, and an MA in music from Indiana University.
She has acted as Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Music Festival Association, and served on the Saskatchewan Arts Board, board of the Canadian Federation of Music Festivals, the National Competitive Festival of Music board, along with several other arts organizations.
When the judging is finished, the Stars of the Festival will be showcased Tuesday, March 23 at the Weyburn Comprehensive.
A published program of events will be available for approximately two weeks before the festival starts at MC Music Craft, for a price of $5 per program.
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