The Rotary Burlington Music Festival
is a fun event. It is both a competition and an opportunity
for music and speech arts students to perform before appreciative audiences. There
is a two-week-long series of competitions in various classes of
music and speech arts, held in friendly venues in Burlington. Students pay a registration
fee for each class they enter. Classes run Monday through Saturday
from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. We engage the most experienced and talented
adjudicators from across Canada to listen to the competitions each
day. After their individual performances, students receive written
assessments and marks as well as a verbal analysis of their work.
The opportunity of exposure to expert critiques and advice from
such adjudicators is the main reason many students enter the festival.
In each class students receive a
ribbon for participation token, and first, second and third place
medals are awarded accordingly. On the recommendation of the adjudicators,
the festival awards scholarships to the most successful and promising
students from among all the eligible competitors. In 2007 we awarded
over 70 scholarships totaling more than $10,000.
All scholarships are presented to
students at an award ceremony during the Grand Festival
Concert. This year the Grand Festival Concert will be held on the
evening of Friday, November 28th. Many talented students are invited
to perform at the concert, where two new adjudicators will select
recipients of our grand awards: The Mark Irish Memorial Scholarships
for The Most Promising Student and Runner-up, the Robert E. Elstone Memorial Scholarship and The Most Promising
Young Performer.
Since 2001, the Rotary Burlington Music Festival has been a member
of OMFA, the Ontario Music Festivals Association. This entitles
us to send students who have been recommended by the adjudicators
to compete at the Provincial Music Festival. Winners in the most
senior categories may then be eligible to compete at the National
Music Festival.
The Rotary Burlington Music Festival
is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. By registering
for the festival, you agree that your personal information may be
used by the festival for such purposes as contacting you with festival
information, and data analysis for future planning. The festival
will not, under any circumstances, give out, sell, or otherwise
distribute any information thus collected except as it directly
pertains to the operations of this festival. If you have any questions
or concerns regarding your privacy, please do not hesitate to contact
us.
The Rotary Burlington Music Festival
is a charitable organization, which qualifies for tax-exempt
status as a registered charity under the provisions of paragraph
149(1)(f) of the Income Tax Act of Canada. The festival relies heavily
upon outside public financial support and it issues official donation
receipts in accordance with the Income Tax Act and Income Tax Act
Regulations.
Feel free to e-mail or call us with your
questions, comments and suggestions:
905-320-6906 |
