Music festival begins Monday
Young musicians to take part in Kings County festival in Montague
Many young musicians are preparing for the upcoming Kings County Music Festival which takes place April 30-May 5 at Hillcrest United Church in Montague.
The week will conclude with the awards concert on Saturday, May 5, 7 p.m.
This year the festival welcomes adjudicators Karen Crowley and Christopher Bowman.
Originally from Fredericton, Crowley received her bachelor of music degree from Mount Allison University and a masters of music degree in piano performance (accompaniment and chamber music) from the University of Western Ontario. Crowley is in high demand as a collaborative pianist and has accompanied choirs and soloists in the Maritimes, Ontario, Boston and England. She is currently the accompanist for the Carillon Singers and is the director of music at Trinity United Church in New Glasgow, N.S. As a private studio teacher, Crowley has been active as an educator for the last 30 years. Her studio includes beginners, intermediates, senior students and adults. She has taught piano, voice, theory and organ.
Bowman has a bacherlor’s degree in music from Mount Allison and a masters in music from Memorial University. He enjoys making music in many forms – as a conductor, solo and choral singer, and educator. He is fulltime minister of music at First United Church in Truro, and artistic director of the Cantabile Society, where he conducts the Cantabile Singers, co-conducts the Cantabile boys’ choir, and accompanies the Cantabile Impact! youth choir. He also sings with the Juno-nominated Canadian Chamber Choir and takes great delight in the fact that choral music has given him the opportunity to sing in every Canadian province. Bowman loves working with singers
of all ages and stages, and has conducted community, church, school and university choirs in Atlantic Canada and Ontario. He is sought after as a workshop clinician, adjudicator and lecturer, and has taught in various university music departments as a sessional instructor.
Programs for the festival will be available at The Source in Montague and Long and McQuade in Charlottetown for $3. Daily admission to the festival is $2 ($1 students/seniors). Membership in the KCMF helps support this organization and allows admission to all sessions of the festival (single $7, family $10, groups or organizations $20).