Congratulations Lukas Pearse for winning Best Atlantic Original Score at the 2015 Atlantic Film Festival

Lukas Pearse @ https://soundcloud.com/lukas-pearse

Former NSTT scholarship recipient Lukas Pearse with Mike Ritchie won the Best Atlantic Orginal Score at the 2015 Atlantic Film Festival for North Mountain.

This award is sponsored by Hideout Studios and entails $500 cash and $5,000 services.

Lukas Pearse is a Bassist/ Media Artist/ Composer / Sound Editor  in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lukas is the musical director of Upstream Music and has done video and sound scores for dancers, theatre work, and film. http://lukaspearse.ca/

Lukas will perform with guitarist Geordie Haley and drummer Damien Moynihan for the delegates at the Canadian Art Therapy Association Conference held in Halifax from October 16-18.

Congratulations to all the Atlantic Film Festival winners. You can find them at: http://atlanticfilm.com/media/archive/winners-35th-atlantic-film-festival-announced#sthash.ulUwAkN0.dpuf

Gwyneth Christoffel's film 'LIV' at the Atlantic Film Festival

Gwyneth Christoffel wrote and directed 'LIV' while in her last year at UAT. The film will screen at the Atlantic Film Festival as part of the NextGen Shorts on

Monday, Sep 21 at 9:30 p.m. and
Thursday, Sep 24 at 4:30 p.m. at

Cineplex Cinema Park Lane in Halifax.

More information about Gwyneth can be found at her website: http://gwynethchristoffel.com/
or for tickets go to: http://www.atlanticfilm.com/festivals/atlantic-film-festival/2015-program-guide

Edward Enman is the winner of the NSYC National Composition Competition

Edward Enman, composer is the

Edward Enman, composer

winner of the Nova Scotia Choral Federation's 2015 National Composition Competition. 

The Nova Scotia Youth Choir will be premiering the piece entitled "Time's Small Space" during their fall tour.

You can hear it on 
September 19 at 7:30 p.m. 
at First Baptist Church, Halifax 

and September 20 at 3:00 p.m. at Wolfville Baptist Church.

In addition to his musical life, Edward is also an avid runner and on August 30, 2015 he ran and finished the Quebec City Marathon for the 2nd time. 

Congratulations Edward on all your achievements!

Jennifer King, piano will perform in Cape Breton

Former scholarship recipient Jennifer King, piano will be performing with Curtis Dietz, trumpet at

Colouratura Fine Art Gallery
Sunday, September 13 at
8:00 p.m.

Tickets can be purchased at the door or by phone
+1-902-929-2324

More information can be found at the Colouratura Fine Art Gallery website.

Colouratura Fine Art Gallery

45943 Cabot Trail, Indian Brook

NS, B0C 1H0

Corinne Dunphy's film 'Chase the Ace' at the Atlantic Film Festival

Corinne Dunphy's film will be shown at the Atlantic Film Fest Reel East Coast Gala which is a part of the Atlantic Film Festival.

Chase of Ace can be seen on
September 20, 2015 and
September 24, 2015

at Park Lane Cinema in Halifax


Synopsis:

There's no job too big for the volunteers at the Havre Boucher community centre. This short gives the viewer a glimpse into the exciting 50/50 fundraiser that became all the buzz in eastern Nova Scotia this year. CHASE THE ACE is a slice of life film shining light on the community, and believing you're only 1 number away from that dream home, boat or trip!

For more information please go to http://atlanticfilm.com/festivals/atlantic-film-festival/2015-atlantic-canadian-program

Film students are eligible for the Lunenburg Doc Fest Bursary

If you know a student, residing in Nova Scotia, who is planning to attend postsecondary film studies, please let them now about  the $1,000 bursary being offered by Lunenburg Doc Fest. 

Deadline to apply is September 16. 

The bursary application can be found at:

http://www.lunenburgdocfest.com/bursary/

Lunenburg Doc Fest takes place September 25-27 in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Congratulations LaLa Lee for winning 3rd place at the 2015 National Music Festival

LaLa Lee, piano 

Nova Scotia had some wonderful young amateur musicians win at the 45th annual Federation of Canadian Music Festivals' National Music Festival. 

Third place award ($500) went to LaLa Lee, piano (Halifax)
and violinist TaTan Huang (Hubley)

Talented youth from across the country have spent the past year giving their all in competing and winning at their local and provincial music festivals, culminating in the recent National Music Festival in Edmonton (Alberta), August 13-15. 

Each province could send only one representative for each of the nine disciplines: brass, piano, woodwinds, musical theatre, classical guitar, voice, percussion, chamber groups, and strings. A total of 57 musicians attended the competition representing 10 provinces.