10 - CROWSNEST PASS HERALD - Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Get ready, it’s Music Festival time in the Pass CROWSNEST PASS MUSIC FESTIVAL Contributor The month of March is fast approaching and with that comes warmer weather and the sound of music. The Crowsnest Pass Music Festival Committee would like to welcome everyone to the 2023 Festival. The Crowsnest Pass Music Festival is one of the longest running festivals in Alberta and is a member of the Alberta Music Festival Association. Music students of all ages have the opportunity to perform in front of a live audience and receive valuable feedback from qualified adjudicators to help support them in their musical pursuits. Vocal, Musical Theatre, Guitar, CCHS Band, HAS groups, Bowed Strings and Piano sessions will run March 20 – 24, 2023. Canyon School, Ecole des Grands-Vent-Francophone, ISS and Livingstone School sessions will run March 28 – 30, 2023. The Grand Concert, showcasing some of the exceptional talent from the festival will be held in the evening of March 31, 2023. To adjudicate Vocal and Musical Theatre classes this year we are pleased to welcome Dr. Danica Hoffart. She is a singer, conductor, musical director, educator and adjudicator. She currently teaches voice in Theatre Arts at MacEwan University and directs the Ross Street Singers. From 2001-2018, Danica was on faculty at Red Deer College where she taught private voice lessons, choir, singing for the stage, music history, and ear training. She has performed with the Central Alberta Chamber Players, Kompany!Dance, and has been a soprano soloist with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. Select musical directing credits include South Pacific, Footloose, Cabaret, The Sound of Music, and The Wizard of Oz. Dr. Hoffart holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Music from the University of Calgary. Her research examines best practices in leadership and the empowerment of individuals through participation in choir. From Calgary, we welcome Classical guitarist, Brett Gunther to adjudicate our guitar classes. He has been performing for over 25 years. Brett studied with Ralph Maier at Mount Royal University, graduating in 2007 with a Diploma in Music Performance. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 2010 and his Master of Music degree in classical guitar performance in 2012, both from the University of Calgary. He has performed in master classes for many internationally famous guitarists and has competed in major competitions including the North West Guitar Festival and Competition, winning 3rd place in 2009 and 2nd place in 2010. Brett has been serving on the board of governors for the Classical Guitar Society of Calgary as the artistic director since June 2010, and director for the Classical GuitarFest West guitar festival since 2015. He is currently on the faculty at Mount Royal University Conservatory, teaching private lessons as well as ensemble classes for the Academy program. Brett is in high demand as an adjudicator for festivals across Canada and is also an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Brett’s debut CD, Guitar Music, released in 2012, examines the music of some of the most significant composers for the guitar in the 20th century. Included are works by Rodrigo, Britten, Barrios, Brouwer, Tarrega and Domeniiconi. His most recent release, An Idea(2017), explores selections of some of huis favourite composers from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, featuring works by Schubert, Mertz, Legnani, Moreno-Torroba, Bach, Brouwer, and Guiliani. To adjudicate our bowed strings classes, we welcome Mrs. Adele Bosse-Morgan. Mrs. Bosse-Morgan holds a B. Mus. In cello performance from the University of Alberta. As a student, she was principal cellist of the Edmonton Youth Symphony Orchestra, and later co-principal of the University Symphony Orchestra and of Academy Strings. She completed examinations with the Western Board of Music in both cello and piano, and upon completing her B. Mus. Degree in performance, served a 10 year term as a strings and piano examiner for Conservatory Canada. Mrs. Bosse-Morgan has been a member of the string quartet “Quartette des Muses” since 1990, often plays in the pit orchestra for the Sherard, ELOPE, and Festival Players Musical Theatre companies, and is a co-principal cellist of the Edmonton Metropolitan Orchestra. Since 1989, Mrs. Bosse-Morgan has been teaching with the Society for Talent Education (http://ste-suzukistrings.org). From 2016-2020 she served as the music director for the Society for Talent Education. She has adjudicated festivals in strings, junior piano, and band since 2009. In 2010 she joined the staff of the Suzuki Charter School where she teaches cello, double bass, and mixed ensemble classes. She also maintains a small private studio in cello, piano and theory. She has had students compete successfully in the Kiwanis Edmonton festival, provincial festivals, the provincial national class, and the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition. For several years Mrs. Bosse-Morgan has also been involved with the music ministry at her home church, where she sings alto and plays both cello and piano. We welcome Ms. Marlis Gunderson to adjudicate our piano classes. Marlis
loves music. She started playing piano by ear when she was 4. She took lessons and RCM grade 10 while in high school. After graduating, she became an ICU nurse. Missing her music, she completed her ARCT with Jaquie Ryan after nursing graduation and has been teaching piano since. She continues to do private duty nursing. Marlis enjoys learning new music by being involved in the Roubakine Piano Club, where she participates in master classes twice a year. She also adjudicates across Alberta and is organist a accompanist for several choirs and vocal groups. She resides in St. Albert with her husband, close to her grown children and 4 young granddaughters. To adjudicate our school groups, we welcome Ms. Crystal Hanson. Crystal holds a Masters in Vocal Pedagogy through the University of Wales, Trinity St. David, in addition to a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance. She teaches private vocal out of her home studio in St. Albert. She is certified in all 3 levels in CCM (Contemporary Commercial Music), Somatic Voicework, the LoVetri Method , through Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. She also completed Levels 1 & 2 of the One Voice Program in New York under the tutelage of Dr. Joan Melton. Crystal has been teaching musical theatre at the Foote Theatre School, Citadel Theatre in Edmonton for over 20 years. She has toured throughout Western Canada in various musical productions and one production based out of Prague, Czech Republic. She toured with the Alberta Opera for four seasons and played a large role in creating and directing the Alberta Opera’s Artist in Residency Program. A freelance vocal coach, she is proud to have worked on many musical productions with Eastglen High School and Austin O’Brien High School in Edmonton. A busy entertainer, Crystal is a member of the local Edmonton show band The Scoundrels, Dash Rip Rock and the Crystal Hanson Trio. Most recently, Crystal has been busy with the launch of Voice Body Works, which offers somatic voice work and coaching to singers, actors, and voice professionals. We are very excited about the 2023 Crowsnest Pass Music Festival and invite all members of the community to come out and enjoy a wide range of musical performances throughout the festival. Admission to sessions is by donation. For more information about the 2023 Festival, please visit our website, www.crowsnestpassmusicfestival.com and follow us on Facebook.
Avalanche causes injury at Castle Mountain NICK ALLEN Pass Herald Reporter A man was rescued by search crews near Castle Mountain Resort on February 4 after sustaining injuries in an avalanche. On February 3, 2023 at roughly 3:40 PM, Castle Mountain Resort (CMR) Mountain Safety received a call from 911 dispatch reporting an individual in distress. 911 Dispatch was able to relay to CMR Mountain Safety staff the coordinates of the individual. CMR Mountain Safety staff determined that the location of the person was outside of CMR’s ski area boundary and not safely accessible by CMR staff. RCMP were then contacted, and Southwest Alberta Regional Search and Rescue (SARSAR) was tasked to assist. At 5:15 PM, two SARSAR members, who are also members of CMR’s Mountain Safety team, started out in the hopes of accessing the individual via the Syncline Valley. By 8:15 PM, rescuers contacted the injured individual and found that, while he was in stable condition, he had sustained injuries that made it not feasible to downclimb to safety. The rescue party then decided to stay in place for the night. Their assessment of the patient confirmed that he had likely been involved in a size two avalanche outside the ski area boundary. It is believed that he was carried approximately 250 meters over rocks and through trees, where his fall was eventually arrested by small trees. At 11:30 PM a second team of two rescuers made their way to the rescue party and the injured individual, with supplies to make the overnight more comfortable including food, water, extra clothing, and sleeping bags. They contacted the party at approximately 1:05 AM, on February 4 and returned to the staging area shortly thereafter. By 7 AM, Kananaskis Country Public Safety began a flight to the rescue site with the intention of extracting the individuals by helicopter. By 9:35 AM the injured individual was slung out by helicopter and handed over to EMS. The K-Country team returned to the site and picked up the two rescuers. By 10 AM, all rescuers had returned to the CMR Mountain Safety Office, and all resources stood down. CMR wish to extend their gratitude to all parties involved in the rescue mission, including but not limited to the Pincher Creek RCMP, Southwest Alberta Regional Search & Rescue, Kananaskis Country Public Safety, Pincher Creek Emergency Services, in addition to CMR’s own involved team members.
