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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

Toronto, April 12, 2006 ó The short list of authors and illustrators nominated for the 2006 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards was announced today. (See list.) These national awards ó one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult/middle reader book ó recognize writers and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature. Two juries of

Toronto, January 24, 2006 – The recipients of the Christina and Louis Quilico Awards were announced at a competition held in Toronto at the Heliconian Club on Sunday, January 22, 2006. Four young opera singers received awards: First prize:                         Sonja Gustafson, soprano     $2,000 Second prize:                   Philip Carmichael, baritone   $1,000 Third prize:                        Lawrence J. Wiliford, tenor   $   750 Encouragement award:    Justin Welsh, bartione     

Toronto, November 29, 2005 –Montréal based photographer Raymonde April is the 2005 recipient of the $35,000 Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Art Photography.  Raymonde April‘s photographic work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.  Currently Aires de migration  with French photographer/ video artist MichËle Waquant is showing at Montréal’s VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine. Her previous

Toronto, November 8, 2005 – Canadian composer James Rolfe has won the Louis Applebaum Composers Award.  This year’s $10,000 award recognizesexcellence in music composition for theatre, music theatre, dance or opera. Composer James Rolfe, one of Canada’s leading contemporary composers, receives the award for his outstanding work in the field of opera.  Mr. Rolfe is well known for his first opera Beatrice Chancy (libretto by

Toronto, June 3, 2005 ó Students from Claude E. Garton Public School in Thunder Bay today announced the 2005 winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.  Every year, student juries from a selected Ontario school present these national awards in two categories: children’s picture book, which is split between the author and illustrator, and the young adult book/middle reader category. Author/illustrator Wallace Edwards receives the $5,000 prize for Monkey Business (Kids

Toronto, April 27, 2005 ó Authors and illustrators nominated to the shortlist for the 2005 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards were announced today.  (See attached list.) These national awards ó one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult/middle reader book ó recognize writers and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature. Each year, two

Toronto, September 23, 2004ó Emmanuel Vukovich, a violin student at Montreal’s McGill University, is this year’s winner of the $2,500 Orford String Quartet Scholarship.  A Julliard graduate, Emmanuel Vukovich has already attracted considerable attention as a soloist and chamber musician.  Vukovich has performed at The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts in New York, the

Toronto, May 11, 2004 ó Students from Nelson Mandela Park Junior and Senior Public School in Toronto, Ontario, today announced the winners of the 2004 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards.These national awards ó one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult/middle reader book ó recognize authors and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in