The Grey County Kiwanis (GCK) Festival of Music has been working hard to produce a brand new virtual festival for 2022.

The syllabus has been updated to current Royal Conservatory (RCM/CC) standards and new classes have been added for students without formal training. The syllabus has new, separate categories for Upper and Lower Strings, and for Brass and Woodwind instruments. This will allow the festival to hire more specialized adjudicators.

We’ve also added new categories for Popular Guitar, Popular Vocal, and Popular Piano which include classes for solos, own composition and ensembles (2-10).

All the new Ontario Music Festivals Assoc. (OMFA) Provincial classes have been added to our syllabus including their new duet, trio, and small ensemble classes, plus their two new categories for Popular Piano and Popular Voice. All RCM trained levels, starting with Level 1, can now be recommended to Provincials. The new classes also allow school entrants, or students without formal training, to be recommended in the new ‘Popular’ solo classes, or in the duet, trio, and small ensemble classes.

The Festival is also migrating to a new registration system that will make registrations much simpler. Once entrants, teachers, and parents are signed up in the system, all future registrations will be streamlined. Registration will be open December 1, 2021 and the deadline for entries is March 1, 2022. Late entries, up to March 8, will be subject to a late fee. The Festival will run from April 4-14th, 2022.

For more information, please visit: www.kiwanismusicfestival.net or email: [email protected]

source: media release, GCK Festival of Music