Prizes and awards will be given based on recommendation from the adjudicators and marks attained (a minimum mark of 85 in most cases). Only residents of Nova Scotia or those studying in the province are eligible for the Rose Bowl Competitions and major prizes. Through the generosity of the community, the Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival is able to offer the following prizes:
$1,000 The Doctor Piano & Yamaha Canada Piano Rose Bowl
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen
$250 Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth Award
Runner-up of Piano Rose Bowl
DONOR: Arthur Hood
RECIPIENT: Echan Yoon
$100 Dartmouth Chapter – Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association
Most Outstanding Junior
RECIPIENT: Xiao Lin Zheng
$35 Jean Ring Memorial Award
Piano Solo – Canadian – Junior
DONOR: Dartmouth Chapter NSRMTA
RECIPIENT: Michael Paulino
$35 Michal King Award
Piano Solo – Canadian – Intermediate
DONOR: Dartmouth Chapter NSRMTA
RECIPIENT: Ruby MacCormack
$35 Award Honouring All Past NSRMTA Dartmouth Members
Piano Solo – Canadian – Senior
DONOR: Dartmouth Chapter NSRMTA
RECIPIENT: Daniel Lu
$300 Patricia Bryson Piano Prizes
$100 Maria Anna "Nannerl" Mozart Award
Most outstanding piano performance at the Intermediate or Senior Level (Grade 7 and above) of a work by a woman Canadian Composer.
DONOR: Dr. Jane Gordon
RECIPIENT: Ruby MacCormack
$300 Young Artist Achievement in Senior Piano
Awarded to the most promising Senior pianist from Level 9/10 entering the following five classes, one of which may be at the Open Level:
$100 Cassandra Devenney Piano Award
Piano Solo – Romantic – Open Class
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen
$100 Irene Fennel Prize – in memory of C. W. Perce Crookshank
Piano Solo – Chopin – Open Class
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen
$100 Early Music Society of Nova Scotia Award
Best keyboard performance of a piece from Baroque period or earlier
RECIPIENT: Tie: Angel Wen & Cordelia Sng
$100 Tietje Zonneveld Memorial Award
Piano Solo – Bach – Open Class
DONOR: Halifax Chapter, Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen
$50 Colin Winter MacIntosh Memorial Award
Piano Solo – Bach - 16 & under/17 & under/18 & under (overall)
DONOR: Hugh MacIntosh
RECIPIENT: Cordelia Sng
$500 Natalia Pavlovskaia Appassionato Award
Awarded to a pianist at the Intermediate or Senior levels, giving the best performance of a Russian work, and participating in at least three classes.
DONOR: Students and Families of Natalia Pavlovskaia
RECIPIENT: Cordelia Sng
$100 Flora Beckwith Memorial Awards
DONOR: Halifax Ladies' Musical Club
$300 Carol von Syberg Piano Prizes
$300 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Prizes
DONOR: Antal Prokecz & Christine Mader
$50 Marie Smyth Memorial Awards for Piano
DONOR: Halifax Chapter – Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association
$75 Halifax Chapter – Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association
$250 Gary Farmer Memorial Award
Outstanding Jazz Piano performance(s)
DONOR: Nova Scotia Department of Justice, Correctional Services
RECIPIENTS: not awarded in 2026
$1,000 Sheila K. Piercey Memorial Voice Rose Bowl
not awarded – no entries
$250 Kathleen Jaeger Grant Vocal Award
Runner-up of Voice Rose Bowl
not awarded – no entries
$100 Jack Devenney Opera Award
Opera Solo – Any Voice – Open
RECIPIENT: Marharyta Sharko
$150 Helen Creighton Folklore Society Awards
$100 Portia White Memorial Award
Sacred/Oratorio
DONOR: Halifax Ladies' Musical Club
RECIPIENT: Sarah MacInnis
RECIPIENT: Maelle Prichard-Fong
$100 Early Music Society of Nova Scotia Award
Best vocal performance of a piece from the Baroque period or earlier.
RECIPIENT: Tie: Anne Gibson & Abigail MacDonald
$100 Irene Fennel Prize – in memory of C. W. Perce Crookshank
Outstanding performance in a Lieder class as recommended by adjudicator.
RECIPIENT: Sarah MacInnis
$250 Kathleen Jaeger Grant Vocal Award
Awarded to a deserving Senior Voice student
RECIPIENTS: Sarah MacInnis
$300 Angus Campbell Musical Theatre Prize
Most outstanding performance of Stephen Sondheim (music or Lyrics).
DONOR: Dr. Garland Brooks
RECIPIENT: Tie: Sarah MacInnis & Megan Gillespie
Angus Campbell Musical Theatre Prize for Sondheim
Lauren Keeping & Klaudia Phillips ($50 each)
$100 Musical Theatre Award in memory of Gwenlyn M. Healy
Most outstanding performance - Junior
DONOR: Family of the late Paul S. Healy
RECIPIENT: Paul Fawcett
$100 Musical Theatre Award in memory of Dr. Robert W. Healy
Most outstanding performance – Senior
DONOR: Family of the late Paul S. Healy
RECIPIENT: Raelyn Davis
$100 Musical Theatre Award
Awarded to a performer from Classes 2118A/2119 who is not necessarily the winner of a class but who, in the opinion of the adjudicator, demonstrates a joy of performing and a love of music.
DONOR: Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival Association
RECIPIENT: Charlotte Chadwick
$100 Musical Theatre Award
Awarded to a performer from Classes 2120/2121 who is not necessarily the winner of a class but who, in the opinion of the adjudicator, demonstrates a joy of performing and a love of music.
DONOR: Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival Association
RECIPIENT: Alison Johnston
$1,000 String Music Atlantic String Rose Bowl
RECIPIENT: not awarded
$250 Strings Award
Runner-up of String Rose Bowl
DONOR: anonymous
RECIPIENT: not awarded
$250 String Music Atlantic Student Award
RECIPIENT: Momo Tomiyama (violin)
$75 Ida Pascal Memorial Award
Violin - any Open Level class
DONOR: Halifax Ladies' Musical Club
RECIPIENT: Erica Blouin
$100 Early Music Society of Nova Scotia Award
Best performance on a string instrument of a piece from the Baroque period or earlier.
RECIPIENTS: Érica Blouin
$300 George Fleming Memorial Senior String Award
Concerto – Open Class – Violin/Viola/Cello/Double Bass
If there are no Open Level string concerto entries in any given year, this award may be presented at the discretion of the adjudicator to an exceptional string concerto performance at the Senior level.
DONOR: Djokic Family
RECIPIENT: Echan Yoon
$100 M. Gladys Nicholson Memorial Awards – Upper Strings
Awarded at the discretion of the adjudicator to deserving Upper String students at the Junior and Intermediate levels, and not necessarily the winners of classes.
DONOR: Danielle King
$1,000 Kim & Heather Conrad Brass and Woodwind Rose Bowl
RECIPIENT: Gaia Kupitman
$250 Runner-up of Brass/Woodwind Rose Bowl
RECIPIENT: Evan Boulter
$400 Senior Woodwind and Senior Brass awards
$100 Atlantic Federation of Musicians – Local 571, Atlantic Federation of Musicians
$100 Early Music Society of Nova Scotia Award
Best performance on a wind instrument of a piece from the Baroque period or earlier.
RECIPIENT: Evan Boulter
$25 Dartmouth Chapter – Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers' Association
Junior Flute Student Award
RECIPIENT: Alice Gibson
$750 Frank Ridgeway Woodwind and Brass Awards
Awarded to a deserving student at the discretion of the adjudicators and not necessarily to the winner of a class.
DONOR: Tuesday Night Band, HRM
$100 Marilyn and the Rev. Harold R. King Memorial Organ Award
DONOR: Major (ret'd) the Rev. Harold J. King
not awarded - no entries
$100 Ross Nelson MacLean Memorial Organ Award
DONOR: Major (ret'd) the Rev. Harold J. King
not awarded - no entries
$100 Marie Smyth Memorial Award for Original Composition
DONORS: friends and colleagues of the late Marie Smyth
RECIPIENT: Tie: Liam Edelstein & Young Liu
T. C. Johnson and Son Rose Bowl
Presented to the choir attaining the highest mark in the choral classes.
RECIPIENT: Halifax Boys Honour Choir
$100 Annie Wallace Memorial Choral Award
Presented to the outstanding girls' choir
DONORS: Alfred Wallace and family
RECIPIENT: not awarded
$50 Helen Creighton Folklore Society Choral Award
Presented to the choir with adjudicator's highest recommendation from Classes 9010, 9017, 9058, and 9060.
RECIPIENT: not awarded
$200 Gerry and Judy Lethbridge Fiddle Awards
Four $50.00 amounts awarded to deserving students, at the discretion of the adjudicator.
DONOR: Gerry and Judy Lethbridge
RECIPIENTS:
$500 Awarded to a deserving Traditional Music Ensemble
RECIPIENT: not awarded (insufficient funds)
$200 The Wilkie Family Band Awards
Two $100.00 amounts awarded to school bands, at the discretion of the adjudicator
RECIPIENT: HRA Wind Ensemble
RECIPIENT: Ridgecliff Grade 7 Band & Christina Muise
$100
$700 Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth Presidents' Cup Award
Presented to an outstanding musician who has entered in and competed in at least three solo classes plus one sight reading class in the same discipline.
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen (piano)
$500 Rising Star Award in Memory of Gordon C. Murray
DONORS: Family and friends of the late Gordon C. Murray
RECIPIENT: Echan Yoon (piano)
$500 Debut Atlantic Music Prize
RECIPIENT: Echan Yoon (piano)
$300 Halifax Ladies' Musical Club Junior Award
RECIPIENT: Cordelia Sng (piano) & Olivia Shi (piano)
$250 Alex Cain Memorial Award
DONOR: Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth
RECIPIENT: Erica Blouin
$100 The Chebucto Orchestral Society Award
Awarded at the discretion of the adjudicators to a player of an orchestral instrument* who demonstrates orchestral promise.
*Eligible instruments include violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe, flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba, percussion, harp.
DONOR: The Chebucto Orchestral Society of Nova Scotia
RECIPIENT: Stephanie Qin (violin)
$200 Leigh and Lynn Prescott Family Group Award
Presented to a family group for most joyful performance.
DONOR: Leigh and Lynn Prescott
RECIPIENT: Ena and Echan Yoon (piano duet)
$100 Avis Ritcey & Austen Gough Family Music Award
DONOR: Halifax Ladies' Musical Club
RECIPIENTS: Piper and Vivian Grant (piano duet)
$500 Fountain School of Performing Arts Scholarship
To be awarded to a high school music student, selected by the adjudicator, entering any music degree program in the Fountain School of Performing Arts.
RECIPIENT: TBC
$700 Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth Presidents' Cup Award (see above)
Presented to an outstanding musician who has entered in and competed in at least three solo classes plus one sight reading class in the same discipline.
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen (piano)
$100 Halifax Chapter of the NSRMTA Trophy
Presented to a student or child of a member of the NSRMTA Halifax Chapter who receives the highest point total for the Festival: 3 points for a 1st Place finish, 2 points for 2nd Place, and 1 point for 3rd Place.
RECIPIENT: Angel Wen (piano)
Royal Canadian College of Organists Halifax Centre Trophy
Presented to the most outstanding organist.
not awarded - no entries
The Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival reserves the right, on the advice of the Panel of Adjudicators, not to award any given prize in any given year.
Congratulations to all prize and award recipients – see you in 2027!