Talent Trust alumna Barbara Hannigan Wins the Leonie Sonning Music Prize 2020

Image from www.barbarahannigan.com

Recipient Barbara Hannigan continues on her winning streak as a soprano and conductor. 

In 2018, she took home a Juno as well as a Grammy for her album Crazy, Girl Crazy. In 2019, she won a second Juno Award for Vienna: Fin de siècle Classical Album of the Year.

Recently she has been awarded Denmark’s highest honour in classical music, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2020. 

Previous winners include Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Miles Davis. 

The award will be presented at a concert on April 23, 2020 at Copenhagen’s DR Concert House as the highlight of a mini-festival featuring the artistry of Barbara Hannigan.

For more information about upcoming concerts please check out her website at: BarbaraHannigan.com

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75th Anniversary Pop Up Series Continues with Down The Line

As part of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust's 75th Anniversary Pop-Up Event series KiDanCo and Nostos Collectives Dance, present Down the Line, featuring former scholarship recipients Georgia Skinner, Rebecca Wolfe and Lydia Zimmer. 

June 5-7, 2019 at 8:00PM 

Bus Stop Theatre, 
2203 Gottingen St., Halifax. 

Exploring grief and community, the new original work choreographed by Anastasia Wiebe with text by Rebecca Wolfe includes Nostos Collectives Dance members Jessica Lowe, Julie Robert, Georgia Skinner and Lydia Zimmer, and pre-professional KiDanCo members Sophia Farrah, Mackenzie Tomlin and Grace Skinner. 

"Through grief and anxiety we have the ability to get lost in our thoughts and forget that we are connected to a larger community. Down The Line studies that even though we may lose sight of our connections to these communities, they always exist, pulling us back to reality and a safe state of mind. There is a strong female energy in the work, focusing on the intergenerational bonds that hold us together and teach us that there are some lessons we learn over time and some lessons that we will never be prepared for." 

Tickets for Down The Line are available at BrownPaperTickets.com or cash at the door. 

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Talent Trust Alumni Help the Scotia Festival of Music Celebrate its 40th Anniversary.

From May 26 – June 9, Scotia Festival of Music presents two-weeks of chamber music festival boasting over fifty public events, featuring international talent of the highest caliber, including Talent Trust scholarship recipients: Peter Allen, Denise Djokic, Marc Djokic, Ben Duinker, India Yeshe Gailey, and LaLa Lee. 

Ben Duinker from Architek Percussion

Enjoy their milestone year with concerts, recitals, open rehearsals, masterclasses, coaching sessions, as well as educational opportunities through their Young Artist Program which allows young gifted musicians to enroll and study for two weeks with some of the world's best classical musicians.

All performances take place in Halifax. For concert and ticket information visit the Scotia Festival of Music website. 

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Charley Young in First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust

CHARLEY YOUNG: NS TALENT TRUST SCHOLARSHIP 2012

“In 2012, I was the recipient of the Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award and the Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/VANS Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. I continue to be honoured by receiving the scholarship which allowed me to pursue my graduate studies at the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. 

During this time, I dedicated myself to my studio practice and completed numerous artist-in-residence programs including The Arctic Circle Program which took me to Svalbard, Norway to create some of the work visible in this exhibition. 

Currently, I am Regular Part-Time Faculty at NSCAD University, where I teach printmaking and drawing. I often work with students to build their professional practice and often refer students to the opportunities available through the Talent Trust. I am truly grateful to the NSTT for their support of artists in the early stages of their career.” 

Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. at MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax. 

Charley Young was born in Calgary, Alberta and received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, in 2008 and her MFA from Main College of Art in Portland, Maine, in 2014. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and public installation. She has been recognized in Blouin ARTFINO’s top 30 under 30 artists and has received the 2012 Talent Trust Lieutenant Governor’s Award and the 2012 Charlotte Wilson-Hammond/VANS Award presented by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, among other awards. Charley currently lives in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and has a studio in North End Halifax where she continues her practice. She works as a Regular Part-Time Faculty at NSCAD University, teaching drawing and printmaking.

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Emily Vey Duke in First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.

EMILY VEY DUKE: NS TALENT TRUST SCHOLARSHIP 1998

“The Nova Scotia Talent Trust enabled me to pursue an education in art first outside the province, at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, and then outside the country, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Without these opportunities, there is no way my work would have travelled the way it has, showing around the world in galleries, at festivals and in museums including the Whitney Museum, Walker Center, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the Musee d’Art Contemporain Montreal, The New York Film Festival and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, to name a few.” 

Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. at MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax. 

Emily Vey Duke was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax and her MFA at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Since 1994, she has worked almost exclusively in collaboration with her partner, Cooper Battersby. In addition to several other prestigious awards they have received the pair was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2010. In addition to her work as a media artist, Duke maintains a strong critical writing practice and has been published in several art magazines in North America. Emily currently lives and maintains her practice in New York City where she teaches at Syracuse University.

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Despo Sophocleous in First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.

DESPO SOPHOCLEOUS: NS TALENT TRUST SCHOLARSHIP 2008

 “It was a great honour to be the recipient of both the Charlotte Wilson-HammondVANS Award and the Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award in 2008. Following the completion of a BFA, Major in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University, I pursued graduate studies in Germany at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. The Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarships came at an imperative time, giving me support and encouragement as I embarked on this path.” 

Join us for the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 25 at 2 p.m. at MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax. 

Despo Sophocleous was born in Nova Scotia and received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing in 2008. During her undergrad, she also participated in a year-long study exchange at Pforzheim University in Germany. She received her MFA from the Munich Academy of Arts in 2015 where she studied under Otto Künzli. She has received several awards for her work including the Talent Trust Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, the DAAD Scholarship for graduate studies and the Herbert Hoffman Award. She is currently based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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