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Toronto – June 3, 2008 – Toronto based costume designer, Michael Gianfrancesco is the 2008 recipient of the $15,000 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design. The award is given annually to professional Canadian costume designers in Ontario in mid-career to further enrich their careers through research and travel.   Mr. Gianfrancesco’s work has appeared in theatres across Canada. He was engaged […]

The winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards have been selected: CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKAWARD CATEGORY YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE READERAWARD CATEGORY The Boy fromtheSunBy Duncan Weller (Thunder Bay)Publisher: Simply Read Books DarkwingBy Kenneth Oppel (Toronto)Publisher: HarperCollins FACTS This is Kenneth Oppel’s fourth Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Childrens’ Book Award win; it is Duncan Weller’s first. The announcement took place at Ryerson Community School at 1:30

The winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awardswill be announced at Ryerson Community School at 1:30 p.m. on May 6, 2008. FACTS The two awards recognize artistic excellence in writing and illustration in Canadian children’s literature. There are eleven shortlisted authors and illustrators this year The Ruth Schwartz Foundation increased the award amount this year to $6,000 per award The winners are selected by

The recipients of the Christina and Louis Quilico Awards were announced at a competition held in Toronto at the Heliconian Club on Sunday, January 13, 2008.   Three young opera singers received awards:   First prize: Alexander Hajek, baritone $2,000 Second prize: Michael Uloth, bass $1,000 Third prize: Maghan Stewart, soprano $ 750   The awards recognize excellence

Toronto, November 6, 2007 –Jazz pianist, Lorraine Desmarais and classical pianist, Janina Fialkowska are the 2007 recipients of the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry, winning $10,000 each.   Jurors Tamara Bernstein, music programmer (Toronto), Jacques …mond, music programmer (Ottawa), and pianist, Robert Silverman, 1998 de Hueck/Walford Award winner (Vancouver), selectedLorraine Desmarais for her celebrated career as a jazz pianist in Canada

Toronto – June 28, 2007 – The first recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design was announced at a reception held at the Arts and Letters Club on Wednesday, June 27th. The award will be given annually to professional Canadian costume designers in Ontario in mid-career to further enrich their careers through research

Toronto, June 1, 2007 ó Two student juries from Parkdale Junior and Senior Public School in Toronto today announced the winners of the 2007 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. Grade 7 and 8 students awarded Simcoe writer, Deborah Ellis, the prize for the young adult/middle reader category for her book, I Am a Taxi (Groundwood Books). This marks the second time that Ellis has received

Toronto, April 25, 2007 ó Authors and illustrators nominated to the shortlist for the 2007 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today (see attached list).  The authors and illustrators come from all over Canada including Edmonton, Saskatoon, St. John’s, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal, Simcoe, Peterborough, Perth and Millbrook. The Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards recognize

Toronto, November 20, 2006 ó Cellist, David Eggert, is this year’s recipient of the $3,000 Orford String Quartet Scholarship. David Eggert began playing cello at the age of three. He has studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and is currently a student at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. Mr. Eggert garnered first prizes

Toronto, May 9, 2006 –  Students from Toronto’s Lord Dufferin Junior and Senior Public School joined the Honourable James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, at Queen’s Park for the presentation of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. The event marked the 30th anniversary of the awards.  Every year, student juries from a selected Ontario school present these national awards