) by Betty Barton

Twenty-one year old Tina
Hovenkamp is a cashier at Co-op,
an award-winning vocalist, and a
linguist in song.

Tina was the winner in the sen-
iors vocal competition of the
recent B.C. Festival of the Arts
held in North Vancouver. She has
been a competitor in the B.C.
Festival of the Aris as a represen-
tative of the Pacific Northwest
Music Festival for five years, and
has enjoyed the opportunity to see
the other competitors grow up with
her. This is the first year she’s
won at the provincial level. "I
couldn’t have done it without Jose
Coosemans and Mrs. Lowrie," says
Tina with gratitude.

“The first time I won (at the
Pacific Northwest Music Festival),
I didn’t even know what it meant,"
explains Tina, "Every year it (the
Festival of the Arts) has been
different. My parents came down
once, for a holiday. They quickly
discovered that it’s a lot of work
with not much time for holiday-
ing."

During the Festival of the Arts,

Tina rehearsed, with and without

accompanist Jose Coosemans, and
attended workshops as an observer.
Not being able to participate in the
workshops is the only downfall of
going as-a competitor, says Tina,
but you do get to know the adjudi-
cator and, if you’re brave, to work
his likes into your songs at the last
minute.

Tina didn’t believe she’s actually

won until they announced it at the:

gala on the final night of the festi-
val. Although she’d been asked
that afternoon to play at the gala, it
hadn’t really registered. When she
called her mother, she exclaimed
excitedly, "Mum, I won!". Her
mother queried jokingly, "Won
what?"
Tina’s family is very musical and
supportive of her interest in the art
of voice. She says they often tease
her about which parent she takes
after. Her cousin Audrey Faber is

Bid Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 19, 1991

Who is... Tina Hovenkamp? —

a talented pianist. Tina herself
plays the accordion. As a child in
Holland, she did classical ballet
and sang.

When she was 11, the family
moved to Terrace. At. Centennial
Christian School, she was in the
school choir.
(Koopmans) Euverman encouraged
her to enter the non-competitive
‘vocal class at that year’s Pacific
Northwest Music Festival. The
adjudicator couldn’t believe she’d
never taken lessons and encour-
aged her to do so.

When Ginny Lowrie called Tina
for her first audition, she felt like
Nellie on Little House on the
Prairie, taking voice lessons. She
passed the audition and. began
voice lessons with Ginny at age 13
for six months. She was torn
between the joy of singing by
herself, for herself and obtaining
the skills learned from lessons. She
just wasn’t motivated to practise
and quit for half a year. Finally,
she resolved to practise when she
started to pay for her own lessons
and then she also began to thor-
oughly enjoy it.

"Mrs. Lowrie always let me
choose my own songs. We basi-
cally have the same tastes in
music, so it worked well", explains
Tina. Two years ago, the Lowries
moved down south for the winters.
To compensate somewhat for the
lack of lessons this year, Tina
joined Smithers vocalists for two
lessons with voice coach Lynn
Vernon. Then she sang in their
spring concert with them just prior
to the provincials. "I can’t go
without practice any more,” laughs
Tina. Her practises start with easy
music to warm up her voice. Then
she works on pronunciation and
vocalization. She says you have to
sing "open" to sing German. And

"it feels good on the mouth to sing "

French. I can’t roll my- R’s,
though. I love competing and once
I’m on stage, I want to pounce into
it (the music)" says Tina, "but I
could get depressed if I don’t do
well.” Tina says when she’s sing:

Scholarships announced

At their last meeting of the sea-
son, Terrace and District Arts
Council held their election of
officers and announced the recipi-
ents of summer school scholar-
ships.

Elected were president Liz Wil-
liamson, vice-president John Chen-
Wing, treasurer Sylvia Golke,
recording secretary Christine An-
drews, correspondence secretary
Loma Morton, directors Tom

T-Jay MacKenzie and Romy
Maikapar received scholarships of
$500 each to attend music summer
school in Courtenay; Carolyn
Craig, Glenys George, Joelle
Walker, Christine Ekman, Aron
Strumecki and Mark Tessaro
received $200 scholarships towards
their tuition for the Theatre Arts
program, and Christine Tupper for
the pre-art college experience
coutse, at the Aurora Summer

Walker and Barry English and past School of the Arts.
president Barb Keniiey.
R.E.M. Lee Hospital
Foundation,
4720 Haugland Ave.

as the name and address

Terrace, B.C. V8G 2W7

A thoughtful way to remember is with an In Memoriam
gift to the R.E.M. Lee Hospital Foundation. Donations are
gratefully accepted at the above address. Please include
the name of the deceased, your name and address, as well

‘ acknowledgement card. Income tax receipts are available.

of the next-of-kin for an

Teacher Hilda

ing, she sees ‘and heafé only the
music. But if she knows the audi-
ence, she’s sometimes distracted.
She often performs locally for
weddings and funerals.

Tina is often moved by the music
she sings, "Sometimes it’s so in-
credibly gorgeous, I cry". At the
Festival of the Arts, she was
inspired by the stained glass and
the acoustics in the church where
her competition was held. "And,"
says Tina, "the adjudicator wasn’t
intimidating. The competition is
very hard, but this year I had fun."

For Tina, music is everything.
She says, "When I listen to
Madonna or Cyndi Lauper, I ana-
lyze... At work, I sing at my cash
register. They (fellow employees)
think I’m weird, but I’m a musi-
cian!"

While Tina was in Vancouver for
the Provincials, she did auditions
at UBC and the Vancouver Acad-
emy as part of her application to
their music programs. "I’ve got to
catch up on piano and theory,"
explains Tina "and go to college to
pick up my grades." She’s also
applied to the University of Vic-
toria and Western Trinity College
and been accepted by the
Vancouver Academy. Tina’s long

term goal is to achieve a Masters: ri, HOVENKAMP, a provincial winner!

degree in voice and to continue in
voice as a Career.

_Quurora
school

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