Clevedon Valley Music Foundation Trust Scholarships 2024
In keeping with one of its primary goals, CVMFT is holding a Music Study Scholarships’ Festival on Sunday 13 October 2023 at St Andrew’s Clevedon Presbyterian Church – 3 Papakura-Clevedon Rd, Clevedon, 2582. This is our much-anticipated festival where participants compete for 9 different development and study awards in a variety of instruments.
There will be two sections, Voice and Instrumental/Piano, with three age groups in each:
Junior 8-12 yrs; Intermediate 13-17 yrs; Senior 18 yrs and over.
Our adjudicator is Chris Artley, see below.
For further information, contact the Chairperson CVMFT (Gina Sanders) at enquiries@cvmft.org or 09 2928047
CVMFT is very grateful to the generous sponsorship of Lindsay & Fred Hellaby and Margaret Williams, and for all its regular supporters who have made this event possible.
In addition to the scholarships mentioned above, there are other awards, by generous local residents. Further details will appear here in due course.
Some donors wish to remain anonymous.
Our Adjudicator for 2024:
Chris Artley
is a multi award-winning composer, with competition successes in Canada, USA, Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, England, Spain and New Zealand. His works have been performed worldwide by ensembles including: The Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, The Auckland Symphony Orchestra,The Amadeus Choir of Toronto, The Lutheran Youth Choir of North America, The Metropolitan Chorus of Tokyo, The National University of Singapore Choir, Age of Discovery, Auckland, The Graduate Choir NZ, Voices New Zealand, New Zealand Youth Choir and New Zealand Secondary Students Choir.
Originally from England, Chris studied Music at University of Bristol (1981-84) with composer Derek Bourgeois. He has spent thirty years teaching music in schools in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, where he is now resident and teaches at King’s College, Auckland. In 2010, Chris took a year out of teaching and studied Music at University of Auckland, taking papers in composition, jazz piano and jazz arranging with John Elmsly, Kevin Field and Roger Manins respectively. This ‘year out’, rekindled Chris’ interest in composition. Indeed, all of his publications and competition successes date from 2010 onwards.