Application Deadline Fall/Winter studies in the Arts is May 1 at 5 p.m.

Fall/Winter study May 1 at 5 p.m. Atlantic Daylight Saving Time (ADT). 

We advise applicants to read the submission guidelines carefully and to submit their applications early since there are a number of changes to submission procedures this year. All information can be found at our website by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

May 1st is a Sunday and the application deadline time is 5 p.m. (ADT) Please submit early to avoid technical difficulties. 

If you have any questions please contact Andrea Dymond our Scholarship Program Coordinator before April 29 at scholarship(at)nstalenttrust.ns.ca

Hannah Mae Cruddas will dance in Sleeping Beauty with Ballet Joergen

Hannah Mae Cruddas

Hannah Mae Cruddas
Screen Shot from Symphony NS website

(2007 NSTT Lieutenant Governor's Award) will be performing with Ballet Jörgen in Sleeping Beauty on 
April 8 and April 9 
at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. 

To purchase tickets go to Symphony NS website or to learn more at Ballet Jörgen's website.

Lukas Pearse - Media Fusion

Lukas Pearse 

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

(2003 NSTT scholarship recipient) is collaborating with Cory Bowles, Tamar Dina, and Lindsay Dobbin in a multimedia project bringing together Hip Hop and Classical music influences. 

Follow this project and join the Centre for Art Tapes for the first installment of Media Fusion on Thursday, March 24th at the North End Memorial Library.

You can find more information at the Centre for Art Tapes website.

Jennifer Jones, Hilary Brown and Susan Archibald to perform at the Music Room

Wonderful concert with three stunning musicians. 
Jennifer Jones, violin

Hilary Brown, cello
(Photo: Blue Engine String Quartet) 

Hilary Brown, cello
Susan Archibald, piano

Wednesday, March 9
at 7 p.m.
The Music Room, Halifax

John Ireland Phantasie in A major
Amy Beach Piano Trio Op. 150
Arthur Foot Trio Op. 5 (adagio motto)
Brahms Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

Jennifer, Hilary and Susan are former NSTT Scholarship recipients. What a pleasure it will be to experience their performance together. Enjoy the concert!

Jennifer Jones, Associate Concertmaster with Symphony Nova Scotia and Hilary Brown, a cellist with SNS, are two of Nova Scotia’s most well known musicians. Susan Archibald, a Nova Scotian who has been first prizewinner in Canadian music competitions and performed chamber music with musicians with leading orchestras such as the Boston and Cleveland orchestra, has also performed on Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio/Radio Canada, and collaborated in recitals in the United States, Canada, and Germany. (Information from their press release.)

Tickets are $25 at the door.

The Music Room at 6181 Lady Hammond Road, Halifax
902- 429-9467

Jennifer and Hilary also perform with the Blue Engine String Quartet.

Donors like you made it possible for the NSTT to support these artists in their formative years. 

Today they enhance our cultural life with their talent and passion. Please consider to donate to the Nova Scotia Talent Trust to help tomorrow's artists today. 

Thank you!

Peter Bull is working towards his first studio album with his band Dog Leg Dilemma

"I received funding from the

Peter Bull
(photo curtesy Peter Bull)

NSTT in 2013 to study jazz at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2014 I returned to Canada and set up shop in Toronto and started putting together a group to play my original music. The group is titled Dog Leg Dilemma. In September of 2015 we were honoured to open up the Sudbury Jazz Festival as the first place winners of the Jazz Sudbury Emerging Artist Competition."  

Thank you,

Peter Bull

www.doglegdilemma.com

Peter and his band launched a crowd funding campaign on indiegogo to help record their first studio album with NS producer, Kevin Brunkhorst.
http://igg.me/at/DLD

India Yeshe Gailey Graduation Recital March 5, 2016 accompanied by Jennifer King

Acadia University School of Music presents a graduation recital 

India Yeshe Gailey, cello 
with Jennifer King, piano

Saturday, March 5, 2016
at 7 p.m.
Denton Hall, Acadia University, Wolfville

Admission is free.

It is always great to see two former scholarship recipients on stage at the same time. (smile)

India also performed at the NSTT Special Awards Ceremony on December 14, 2015 at Central Library in Halifax. Her performance with Roland Smith and Claire Campbell under the direction of Laura Vingoe-Cram and Ken Schwartz was stunning. You can find photos of the event at our Flickr account.

March 1st Scholarship Application Deadline for Spring/Summer studies in the arts

The Nova Scotia Talent Trust

would like to remind potential scholarship applicants that online applications for its upcoming deadline is fast approaching. 

The deadline date for Spring/Summer study in all art disciplines is 5:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time (AST) on 1 March, 2016. 

For more information go to nstalenttrust.ns.ca or call the NSTT at 902-492-6801 during office hours.

Looking ahead: Application deadline for Fall/Winter studies is May 1st at 5 p.m. ADT (Atlantic Daylight Saving Time).