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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

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