Talent Trust Artist Spotlight with Hanna Mae Cruddas and Chantal Peng

Tune in for the 6th edition of the Talent Trust Artist Spotlight.

Every first Thursday of the month with your host, past scholarship recipient and current board member Breagh MacKinnon.

October 3rd at 1 p.m. 

97.5 CIOE Community Radio

Hear from Hanna Mae Cruddas, about her recent lead role in Canada Ballet Jorgen's Anne of Green Gables with Symphony Nova Scotia, and learn about what's on the horizon for award winning classical pianist, Chantal Peng.

Artist Bio's  

Hannah Mae Cruddas began her dance training with the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts School of Dance and the Leica Hardy School of Dance. In 2009, she joined Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. Hannah Mae was the youngest recipient of the Society of Russian Ballet’s Nesta Toumine Memorial Award and at 14, and was a semi-finalist in the Genée International Ballet Competition. She was the recipient of the Jan Wicha Memorial Cup as well as the Nova Scotia Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Hannah Mae was also awarded the Janice Merritt Flemming Award administrated by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. photo of Hannah from https://halifaxpresents.com/dance/anne-of-green-gables-goes-to-the-ballet-in-new-work-to-premiere-in-halifax-this-september/

Chantal Peng is a classical pianist based in the Annapolis Valley, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree with Professor John Hansen at Acadia University. She continues to receive numerous accolades through her piano career. Apart from being interviewed for a feature on CBC Radio One Peng has performed for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2018 and won 1st Prize at the Canadian Music Competition National Finals as well as Great Composers’ International Concerto Competition in 2016. In 2017, she won the Tietje Zonneveld Award through the Nova Scotia Talent Trust.

Previous episodes included:

Becka Baker Gwyneth Christoffel Gina Burgess, Marcel d'Entremont, Gharrett Paon, Marc Djokic, Charley Young, Shandi Mitchell, Jane Archibald and Charlotte Wilson-Hammond.

You can listen to former episodes here.

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Hannah Mae Cruddas Dances in Coppélia with Ballet Jörgen & Symphony Nova Scotia April 12-14, 2019.

Hannah Mae Cruddas performs one of the world’s oldest and best-loved ballets live in Halifax with Symphony Nova Scotia and Canada’s Ballet Jörgen! Coppélia tells the funny, fantastical tale of an eccentric toymaker and his greatest creation – a beautiful dancing doll so lifelike that it causes an uproar in its small village. 

Friday, April 12, 2019, 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 13, 2019, 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 14, 2019, 2 pm

Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 

6101 University Avenue, Halifax

Hannah Mae began her dance training with the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts School of Dance and the Leica Hardy School of Dance. In 2009, she joined Canada’s National Ballet School in Toronto. Hannah Mae was honoured to be the youngest recipient of the Society of Russian Ballet’s Nesta Toumine Memorial Award and at 14, was a semi-finalist in the Genée International Ballet Competition. She was also privileged to be the recipient of the Jan Wicha Memorial Cup and Nova Scotia Talent Trust’s Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

At home, Hannah Mae danced the title role in Alice (Dearborn), the Ragdoll Queen in The Nutcracker (Hardy), and worked with Kennet Oberly and Otar Beridze. Her Toronto repertoire credits include Peggy Baker’s 5 Views of a Temple Garden, Petipa’s La Bayadere and Paquita, and Nacho Duato’s Jardi Tancat. Hannah Mae was recently awarded the Janice Merritt Flemming Award administrated by the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Hannah Mae was a guest dancer for the Nova Scotia Symphony’s Nutcracker 2016.

Hannah Mae’s repertoire with Canada's Ballet Jörgen includes Lilac Fairy in Sleeping Beauty, Tall Stepsister and Lead Fairy in Cinderella, Lady Capulet in Romeo & Juliet, Spanish Dancer in Swan Lake, along with various roles in The Nutcracker: A Canadian Tradition, and will star in the upcoming Anne of Green Gables – The Ballet™.

Canada's Ballet Jörgen is one of Canada's top ballet companies and performs across the country for over 60,000 people each year. Watch their short Coppelia trailer:  

Post information edited from Canada's Ballet Jörgen.