MARCH 4, 2020
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Wendy Brook Music Festival Around the Corner Submitted The 41st annual Wendy Brook Music Festival is set to begin on March 9 and will run until March 16. It is open to the public, with most events taking place at the Vegreville United Church. There are also some events at the Vegreville Alliance Church and the A.L. Horton School Gymnasium. Everyone is invited to come and listen to the talent we have in Vegreville. Performers will be adjudicated by professionals in the field, and they adjudicate in the areas of piano, band/instruments, vocal, speech arts and Ukrainian performances. Our piano adjudicator is Esther Madsen. She is a career studio teacher and musician with over forty years of experience in her field of theory and piano studies. Even while working towards her Associate degree she took on a full studio of students. Her Associate degree, in pedagogy, is from the Western Board, now Conservatory Canada studying with Vera Shean and Carmen Blomert. A Bachelor of Arts
Esther Madsen will be the piano adjudicator at this year’s Wendy Brook Music Festival in Vegreville.
exams for all the national schools, including, the Royal Conservatory, Canada Conservatory, and the Canadian National Conservatory of Music. Besides preparing students for examinations, she enjoys teaching music for the joy of music, inspiring old and young alike with the love of music as it enriches and fulfills our lives. Esther has been active in the festival movement for her whole life. She was first a performer, anaccompanist, then as a parent of performers, and now is
Mark Henderson will be the speech arts adjudicator at this year’s Wendy Brook Music Festival in Vegreville.
specializing in Music rounded out her education. She still enjoys learning through workshops and masterclasses, especially when she is the clinician. She has prepared students for all levels of
enjoying adjudicating.. She later moved to being president of her own local festival for many years, and is still a volunteer at her local level. While serving a three year term as a member of the Provincial Executive for the Alberta Music Festival Association, the National Music Festival was held in Edmonton for 2 of those years which brought the excitement of the local level to a much larger stage.
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