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Young Artists’ Recital Friday, February 12, 2010 Evan Campbell – classical guitar Emilee-Mae Feely – piano Jenna Sabolsky - violin Evan Campbell Evan has been playing the guitar since his youth, yet it was not until his high school years that he began to focus his efforts solely on the classical guitar. Mr. Campbell has competed in numerous competitions over the years and has received many awards, trophies and scholarships for his performances. He is currently completing his Honours Bachelor of Music degree at McMaster University where his studio teacher is Brantford guitarist Patrick Feely. In addition to performance, Evan’s passions include music theory and composition. He was awarded the “Undergraduate Student Research Award” for music theory at McMaster University in the summer of 2008. Evan will also be graduating this spring from McMaster with a performance diploma and will be pursuing music theory at the Masters level next Fall. Emilee-Mae Feely Seventeen year old Emilee-Mae Feely began piano studies with Brantford piano teacher Virginia Blaha just after her 4th birthday and she began flute studies with Dr. David Gerry of McMaster University, in 2005. Currently she studies piano in Toronto with Professor Andrew Markow. From an early age, Ms. Feely has competed in music festivals, including those held in Brantford, Burlington, Hamilton, Kitchener, Norfolk, Peel and Toronto. She has consistently taken top prizes, trophies and scholarships at these festivals. She has also competed at the Provincial level of the Canadian Music Competition (CMC), and was a prize winner in the open class of the 2008 ORMTA Provincial competition. In September 2007, Emilee was accepted on scholarship to the Young Artists Performance Academy (YAPA) at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she will graduate this spring. Courses at the academy include private lessons, master classes, chamber ensemble, music history, counterpoint, composition, and general musicianship. During her time at YAPA, Emilee has performed in master classes for world renowned pianists such as Anton Kuerti, Marc Durand, and Andrew Burashko. Performance highlights from past seasons include being the soloist for two sold-out performances with the Brantford Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro David Bowser (third movement Haydn Piano concerto in G major), giving the world premiere of “Slow Music-Meditations on a Twelve Tone Row” by Canada's leading female composer Anne Southam, for a panel discussion with eminent Canadian Composers at the Toronto Collaborative Conference of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers Association (CFMTA), and performing a full length solo recital at McMaster University in Hamilton, as part of the lunch time concert series. As a chamber musician, Emilee has performed piano trio and quartet repertoire in Toronto at YAPA, as well as at the South Western Ontario Chamber Music Institute (SOCMI). She participated in a two week, intensive chamber music school at Appleby College, and spent four weeks studying, this past summer at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Emilee is also half of the father/daughter team “Duo Feely”, performing in recital with the guitar/flute and the guitar/piano. Ms. Feely plans to pursue post secondary education in piano performance, with a minor in flute this coming fall. Jenna Sabolsky Jenna Sabolsky began playing the violin at the age of three with Virginia Little and at the age of seven she began the study of piano Deborah Welbanks. She is currently seventeen, in her fourth year of study with teacher and performer Adele Pierre, and in her fifth year of study with theory teacher Nelson McClinchy. Jenna completed her ARCT performance exam for the Royal Conservatory of Music in January 2010, and is currently working on her Grade Five History. Since the age of seven, Jenna has been involved with orchestras and ensembles. She played in the Little String Orchestra for eight years, and was concert master for two of those years. She has also played in the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra for three years. Jenna played in a quintet at Mohawk College last year, and plays solo, or in an ensemble, at numerous weddings, meetings and graduations. She also enjoys teaching violin and theory. Jenna has participated in the Brantford Kiwanis Music Festival since the age of four. She has won many scholarships and trophies, was recommended for provincials for Grade 10 Violin, and received an award of excellence from Mayor Mike Hancock. She was also recently awarded a scholarship at the Burlington Rotary Music Festival. As a grade twelve honour roll student at Assumption College School, Jenna has been awarded numerous scholarships for her academic achievements in all subject areas. She is also a community activist, being secretary of the Brant Community Foundation Youth Advisory Committee, co-president of the Social Justice and Numeracy clubs at school, and a nominated semi-finalist in Brantford’s Search for Great Kids in the Personal Best category. After graduation, Jenna plans to pursue chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, while teaching music and playing in youth symphony orchestras in the area. Jenna would like to thank her teachers, Virginia Little, Nelson McClinchy, and Adele Pierre, for their tremendous support, Deborah Welbanks, for being an exceptional accompanist, and to the Brantford Music Club, for honouring her with this wonderful opportunity.