Jennifer King Plays Piano for the Ongoing NSTT Pop Up Series

Past recipient, Jennifer King adds her piano virtuosity to the NS Talent Trust Pop Up Series celebrating our 75th Anniversary in New Glasgow. 

Jive Photographic 

Oct 10, 1:30 p.m.

Trinity United Church

151 Temperance Street, 

New Glasgow

Free and open to the public. 

Jennifer King on the NS Talent Trust:

“The Nova Scotia Talent Trust is a wonderfully unique organization that continues to support my career. I first applied to Talent Trust while working on a Masters’ degree at McGill University in the early 90’s. The Trust gave me money towards my tuition and then later for a three-week summer program at Kneisal Hall Chamber Music School in Blue Hill, Maine. Both these experiences opened up my musical scope and helped me to “spread my wings” outside of Nova Scotia. This support helped my confidence in applications for many more schools for study, grants, and other learning opportunities.

While teaching at Acadia University I encouraged many students to apply, writing countless reference letters and playing for audition recordings. I have witnessed many young artists of many disciplines pursuing their dreams with success, as the feeling of support from “home” is an invaluable gift. One of these artists includes my own daughter.

To this day I collaborate with many musicians, artists and dancers and we always take great pleasure in having the shared bond of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. I feel very fortunate to have been chosen as a pop-up artist for the 75th Anniversary and wish the Trust continued success for the coming years in helping artistic youth launch their dreams and passions.”

We thank scholarship recipient Jennifer King for participating in our celebrations, Ardith Haley for opening doors, and Stephen Hartlen in New Glasgow and Monica MacNeil in Sydney for organizing and hosting the events.

The 75th anniversary activities are supported by the province of Nova Scotia, Halifax Regional Municipality, The Craig Foundation, Canadian Federation of Musicians, and Margaret and David Fountain.

Biography

Nova Scotia’s Jennifer King is a versatile pianist who is at home as a soloist or collaborator. She has established herself as a sought-after performer and recording artist in the region. Jennifer’s recording, O Mistress Moon, was nominated for both the ECMA and Music Nova Scotia Classical Album of the Year for 2019. Her second recording, Doolittle: Minute Études “Excerpts” (Live) was released in August of 2019 and a new video is now available on You Tube. Jennifer has a Master of Music in performance from McGill and post-graduate diplomas from University of Reading and Royal Academy of Music in London. She has received numerous prestigious awards including scholarships from the Nova Scotia’s Talent Trust. 

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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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Devin Huang Plays a Piano Recital at Government House

In support of our 75th anniversary the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia presents a inspiring piano recital from scholarship recipient Devin Huang, as part of the Evenings at the Government House Series.

Tuesday, October 8,  

7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. 

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Government House, 

1451 Barrington Street, Halifax


Free and open to the public.

Registration opens: Tuesday, September 24, 2019
To register fill out the attendance form or call 424-7001.


Since his introduction to piano at age 7, twelve-year-old Devin Huang has been blazing through repertoire, securing the loyalty of teachers like Mr. Gregory Watters and Lynn Stodola of the Fountain School of Performing Arts, and winning awards and recognition. 

Devin participated in the 2019 Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival and received first place in all his classes. He was invited to perform at the Festival Gala and received the Presidents’ Cup Award. As a junior pianist, Devin competed at the Nova Scotia Federation of Music Festivals on June 1st and received first place. He also won first place at the NSRMTA Scholarship Competition for the Advanced Level. 

This year, Devin was selected as a national finalist and travelled to Calgary, Alberta to play in the Canadian Music Competition finals. Devin received first place. 

Last year at the CMC National Finals, he received first place and also won the Grand Prize in the 11-14 age category for all instruments. He has been a first place winner for the past three years.

See Devin play with the Chebucto Symphony Orchestra. 

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First You Dream Artist Talk with Sara Hartland Rowe at the CBU Art Gallery

Hear directly from scholarship recipient Sara Hartland-Rowe as she discusses her piece Us, created specifically for the First You Dream exhibition, a site-based wall drawing using acrylic, watercolour, organza, and paper with variable dimensions. 

Artist Talk

Wednesday, October 2 from 7-8:30 p.m.
CBU Art Gallery
1250 Grand Lake Rd, Sydney, NS

Hartland-Rowe explains her inspiration:

“A long time ago I sat for some time watching a line of ants carrying plant matter back to their nest. Some raced along, carrying very little. Others blundered and stumbled, weighed down by a great burden of matter. I asked my father, an entomologist, about this. Were the struggling ants understood to be worthier, better citizens? No, said my father, just unlucky.”

Hartland-Rowe's work demonstrates the bold inventiveness found in the touring exhibition that celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, which includes a multi-generational mix of ten artists who at some point in their careers received Talent Trust scholarships.

Sara Hartland-Rowe showcases her art along with Talent Trust alumni, Jordan Broadworth, Sandra Brownlee, Lux Habrich, Dan O’Neill, Lucy Pullen, Pamela Ritchie, Despo Sophocleous, Emily Vey Duke, and Charley Young. 

The First You Dream: Celebrating 75 Years of the Nova Scotia Talent Trust exhibition includes drawing, ceramic, fibre, jewellery, mixed-media, painting, printmaking, sculpture and video pieces which were curated by Ingrid Jenkner (retired), David Diviney and Greg Davies in 2017, after a call to all Talent Trust scholarship recipients in visual arts.
  
The exhibition first opened at the MSVU Art Gallery on May 18 and ran until July 28. After its showing at the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, it will conclude its tour at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia - Western Branch in Yarmouth from November 22, 2019 to May 17, 2020. 

Sara Hartland-Rowe has lived and worked in Halifax, Nova Scotia, since 2000. She received her BFA from NSCAD University, Halifax, and her MFA from the University of Illinois, Boston. She works as a painter and site-based installation artist, often experimenting with form and structure and representing human beings as the subject of her work. She was a finalist for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her large-scale permanent site-based painting for Halifax Transit, which was completed in 2010. She continues her practice in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she teaches at NSCAD University. 

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Gwyneth Christoffel: FIN Special Program Featured Filmmaker Countdown

Filmmaker, Gwyneth Christoffel is one of five NSTT scholarship recipients featured in our special partnership program with FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, Then, Now, Change: Visions of Nova Scotia curated by Dr. Shannon Brownlee. 

Self portrait from 

https://www.gwynethchristoffel.com/

Torture by Sound (2016) will be featured in the program:

Misophonia, a disorder that causes panic or rage at certain sounds, can be torture. Animation draws us into the world of those who suffer from it.

Thursday, September 19
at 9:10 p.m.

Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane,
5657 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax


Canadian-born animator and filmmaker, Gwyneth Christoffel, grew up in Nova Scotia and has been making films since 2009. Her short films and animations have screened hundreds of times in countries around the world: Croatia, China, India, Australia and the United States. Her first animation, Recipe for Love, earned her a full-tuition scholarship to attend the University of Advancing Technology in Arizona, where she graduated as valedictorian. She is now animating in her hometown of Halifax, Nova

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