The Kiwanis Music Festival of Guelph is celebrating its 32nd anniversary this year and classes will be running from April 8 to 26 in venues throughout the city.
Even though the entry deadline has past, late applications are still being accepted.
Paper application forms can be downloaded and printed from the bottom of the syllabus page on the festival website: www.guelphkiwanismusicfestival.org.
The official 2013 syllabus can also be downloaded from the website in its entirety or by discipline.
In addition to the previously existing disciplines of choirs, bands, voice, piano, strings, guitar, brass and woodwinds, recorder, harp, keyboard and digital piano, pipe organ, and composition, classes are also being offered this year in handbells & chimes as well as speech arts in both English and French in solo, group, and choral speaking. Fifteen professional adjudicators have been hired to offer their encouraging critique and feedback to performers in both competitive and non-competitive classes. Advanced performers can be selected to compete at the provincial level and may even proceed to nationals. Last year, the Kiwanis Music Festival of Guelph sent 38 soloists and ensembles to provincials, 16 placed or received honorable mentions and two ensembles went on to nationals garnering second and third place finishes.
New and returning entrants are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible. Organizers hope the new disciplines of handbells andchimes as well as speech arts will attract new participants and are especially directed at separate and private schools who may not have participated in the past.
Due to the situation in the public elementary and secondary schools where teachers are unable to currently offer extra-curricular activities, entrant numbers in the band and choir categories are extremely low this year and the festival is hoping to attract a number of new participants to offset this reality.
Please contact festival coordinator, Heather Fleming at 519-821-4365 or hfleming@guelphkiwanismusicfestival.org if you are interested in participating in the 2013 festival.
