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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

The 2004 K.M. Hunter Artists Awards–  “Supporting the emerging artist.” – Toronto, April 26, 2004 ó The K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the annual K.M. Hunter Artists Awards.   DANCE CO-WINNERS: Kate Alton and Michael Trent    LITERATURE:                  Nila GuptaMUSIC:                              Quinsin NachoffTHEATRE:                        Marjorie ChanVISUAL ARTS:                 June Pak Host Laurie Brown introduced this year’s winners at a reception at The

Toronto, March 23, 2004 ó The Ontario Arts Council Foundation today announced the shortlists for the Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award (See attached list). This national award ó one for a children’s picture book and one for a young adult/middle reader book ó recognizes writers and illustrators from across Canada who demonstrate artistic excellence in children’s literature. Two juries of schoolchildren from Nelson Mandela

Toronto, December 1, 2003 – Vancouver mezzo-soprano Judith Forst is the first winner of the $15,000 Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Classical Singing. Established by Norman Walford, the former Executive Director of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), and his partner Paul de Hueck, former Production Manager for arts programming at CBC television, the awards recognize

Toronto, November 28, 2003 – The ninth annual Lieutenant Governor’s Awards for the Arts (The Jackman-Bickell Awards) were awarded this evening to 17 arts organizations from throughout Ontario in a special ceremony held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto. These esteemed Awards, which are Canada’s largest monetary prizes for arts organizations, recognize Ontario-based arts organizations that have maintained

Toronto, May 7, 2003 ó Two student juries from Rose Avenue Public School in Toronto, Ontario, today announced the winners of the 2003 Ruth Schwartz Children’s Book Award.   This year the prize money has been doubled from $5,000 to $10,000.  Grade 4 students awarded the children’s picture book prize to The Night Walker written by Richard Thompson, illustrated by Martin Springett.  The author and illustrator