Awards Available for the 2025 Festival
Specialized Awards
- Carl A. Boe Memorial Multi-Discipline Award
- Will be given to a performer who has been recommended by adjudicators for awards in three of more of the following classes: (i) A solo instrument or voice; (ii) A second solo instrument or voice and one of: a duet, trio, quartet, or quintet in a musical instrument or voice; a solo, duet, trio or quartet in speech arts and drama; an original musical composition
- Kiwanis Original Composition Award
- Orchestra Kingston Competitive Concerto Awards
- one for an applicant under the age of 18 and one for age 18 and over for the performance on an orchestral instrument (including piano.)
The winner(s) may be invited by Orchestra Kingston to perform with them at one of their scheduled performances during the following season.
- one for an applicant under the age of 18 and one for age 18 and over for the performance on an orchestral instrument (including piano.)
Choirs
- Cantabile Community Choir Award
- Open for any community choir category
- The Martha Clark Choral Award
- Patricia & Douglas Crawford Memorial Award
- For senior choir – high school or adult
- Kiwanis Plaque
- For outstanding choir
- Shelagh Leach Memorial Award
- For an Adult Choir
- Elaine Pedlar Award
- For Elementary School Choirs
Bands
- Andy Forrester Memorial Award
- For senior band
- Kiwanis Plaque
- Kiwanis Award
- For Senior Band
Strings
- Heeyun and Robert Brandon Memorial String Award
- L. R. Digby Award
- For a Senior String player, preferably a cellist
- Kiwanis Plaque
- For outstanding solo String Performance
- Kiok Han Kwon Memorial Award for Junior Violin
- Denise Williams Suzuki Award
- For Strings is given to a string student who performs a piece at a high standard from Suzuki Book l or 2 in Suzuki Strings Level 1 or 2
Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion
- Davy Family Award
- For most promising Winds/Brass/Percussion performer of a piece by a Canadian Composer
- Kiwanis Plaque
- For outstanding solo Winds/Brass/Percussion performance.
- Lynn Anne Milsom Memorial Award
- For the most promising performance in Open
(18 and under)
- For the most promising performance in Open
- Sue and Ross Kilpatrick Memorial Award
- For Woodwinds, Brass, or Percussion
Pop Voice
- Alastair Cook Memorial Award
- For the Pop Vocal performance demonstrating the greatest originality or “Star Quality”
- Cook Family Award
- For the most outstanding Pop Voice Solo Performance
- Elaine Pedlar Family Award for Junior Popular Voice
General Awards
- Barbara and Bill Campbell Memorial Award
- Donna Fox Memorial Awards
- Mary James Memorial Award
- Don McLean Memorial Award
- Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Kingston Branch, Awards
- Ed Preston Memorial Award
- Jean Robinson Memorial Award
- Kenneth and Esther Russell Memorial Award
- For Performance Excellence
- Kingston Symphony Volunteers’ Awards
- For performance of orchestral instruments
- Clifford Watt Memorial Award
- For Instrumental Performer and/or Senior Voice
- Wendy Thorburn Memorial Awards
- Westenberg Family Award
Piano
- Jeanne and Frank Corbett Memorial Awards
- For Promising Young Piano Students
- Donna Fox Memorial Award
- The Donna Gobin Memorial Rosebowl
- will be awarded to a Piano student who is a permanent resident of Kingston or the surrounding area and, in the opinion of the adjudicator, shows greatest musicality, musicianship, promise and pleasure in performance. The recipient shall be working at a minimum level of grade eight. He/she must have entered either a Sight Reading or Quick Study class. The recipient must be prepared to perform at the Highlights Concert
- Arthur and Eileen Keppel-Jones Memorial Awards
- For promising young Piano students
- Eunice A Millan Memorial Award
- For an accomplished Piano student at least grade 9 level
- Juliet Milsome Award for Senior Piano
- Joyce Putnam Memorial Awards for Senior Piano
- Dr. Bryan and Marion Smith Memorial Award for Senior Piano
- Susan Gibbon Suzuki Award
- Awarded to a piano student who performs a piece at a high standard for Suzuki Book 1 or 2.
- Michel Szczesniak Memorial Award – for Advanced Piano
- Van Nest Awards
- For Piano Duet and Trio and Sight Reading
Guitar
- Pauline and Clifford Kemp Memorial Award
- For Guitar or Voice
Voice Awards
(Classical, Musical Theatre, or Popular)
- The Moir Memorial Tray for Voice
- For a Voice student age 16 – 20 studying with a teacher in Kingston and who shows the greatest potential for serious vocal study
- Davy Family Award
- for most promising male vocalist
- Frontenac Women’s Chorus Junior and Intermediate Vocal Awards
- for any category with an invitation to sing at one of their concerts
- Olive Juby Memorial Award for Voice
- Pauline and Clifford Kemp Memorial Award for Voice or Guitar
- The Russell Family Award
- For Excellence in Vocal Music
- Dr. Ruth Tatham Memorial Sacred Solo Awards
- Clifford Watt Memorial Award
- for Senior Voice and/or Instrumental Performer
Classical Voice Awards
- Juliet Milsome Award for Sacred Voice
- Cantabile Vocal Award
- For any category under 18 in classical or musical theatre
Musical Theatre andSongs from the Screen
- Cook Family Award
- For the most outstanding Solo Musical Theatre performance
- Dr. Eric and Eleanor Mae Murray Memorial Awards for Musical Theatre
- Elaine Pedlar Award for Junior Musical Theatre
- Cantabile Vocal Award
- For any category under 18 in classical or musical theatre
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