2008 Composition Festival

Every year Music for Young Children students have the opportunity to participate in the annual MYC Composition Festival. Children strengthen their aural, reading and harmony skills through music composition. Composing is a long term project, well worth the effort.

This is the 21st year of the Festival. This year approximately 13,000 students from across Canada, the U.S., New Zealand, South Korea and Singapore took part in this festival. Compositions are judged within their level in seven different regions -- Western Canada (BC, AB, SK, MB), Ontario, Eastern Canada (PQ, NS, NB, PEI, NF), United States, South Korea, Singapore and New Zealand.

The first place winners of each of these regions then go on to be judged internationally.

2008 Composition Festival Winners

Sunshine One

1.	Gracey Shea's My Shining Star	download	view
2.	Callie McAlduff's Computer Fun	download	view
3.	Sally Hwang's Swishing Wind	download	view
4.	Brenna Hein's Strawberry Shortcake	download	view

Sunshine Two

1.	Renée Arsenault's Jumping Frog	download	view
2.	MacKenna Friesen's A Donkeys Song	download	view
3.	Jake Barger's Dora's Sad Song	download	view
4.	Samantha Horwood's Snowflake	download	view

Sunbeams One

1.	Alex Lowie's Family	download	view
2.	Katy Zoller's The Race	download	view
3.	Patrick Dunlop's P's Sharps	download	view
4.	Sophie-Jayne Morgan's I Love Piano	download	view

Sunbeams Two

1.	Kurtis George-Wegner's March of the Mammoths	download	view
2.	David Faulkner's Rhythm of E	download	view
3.	Julia Bennet's Tick-Tock	download	view
4.	Dam-Yoon Goh's A Stream	download	view

Sunbeams Three

1.	Kourtney Kobitz's Skating	download	view
2.	Sullivan Joseph Kilbanc's Big Time Baseball	download	view
3.	Wie tae Min's Snowy Night	download	view
4.	Steven MacDonnell's Winter is Coming	download	view

Moonbeams One

1.	Laurel Fife's The Alley Cat	download	view
2.	Evan Ruby's Song for Mom	download	view
3.	Pyeong-Ho Lee's Playground	download	view
4.	Béla Nishi Gyorfi's Fishing with Grandpa	download	view

Moonbeams Two

1.	Alyssa Clutton's Sweet Sounds	download	view
2.	Jae-Young Seo's Shadow	download	view
3.	Julia Knox's When to Pray	download	view
4.	Chelsea Gunderson's A Stormy Night	download	view

Moonbeams Three

1.	Ben Pohorily's Zoo Animals	download	view
2.	Adam Pettigrew's Bed Time	download	view
3.	Yong-Boum Cho's Sad Love	download	view
4.	Andrew Dawson's Knights of the Medieval Past	download	view

My Choice One

1.	Olivia Malito's My Owl's Wings of Wisdom	download	view
2.	Kate Ackroyd's Snow Days	download	view
3.	Neely MacBurni's I Love Candy	download	view

My Choice Two

1.	Dina Yu's Winter	download	view
2.	Morgan MacFarlane's Speed Swimming	download	view
3.	Kelly Snider's Sea Side	download	view

Best Choice One

Ava Hatcher's Music Lessons

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Best Choice Two

1.	Aikeen Isaac's Strolling, Strolling Through theWoods	download	view
2.	Renée Waters's Evening Light	download	view

Music for Young Children would like to thank the sponsors below for their support in this year's festival.