Music for Young Children is happy to announce that Stephen Chatman, Professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is coming to Ottawa to join the MYC judging panel during the second week of March. MYC's Nova Scotia Coordinator, Megan Henley, will also be here to take part in the judging.
Dr. Chatman is a consecutive winner of the 2005 and 2006 Western Canadian Music Awards "Outstanding Classical Composition" and a 2006 Juno nominee. He is recognized internationally as a composer of choral, orchestral and piano music and is the only North American to have won three consecutive BMI Awards to Student Composers, Inc.
Last year, 12,718 students took part in MYC's Composition Festival which is now in its 23rd year. Each and every composition we receive is played by one of the 12 judges. 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 compete internationally.
The successful Music for Young Children program, with corporate head office in Kanata, Ontario was founded in 1980 by Frances Balodis. The program, taught in small groups with adult and child both participating, includes piano instruction, singing, rhythm ensembles, sight reading, ear training, theory and composition. MYC is taught by independent teachers throughout Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam and South Korea with approximately 24,000 students enrolled this year.
We would like to thank our sponsors for their support in the 2010 Composition Festival.
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