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Editor: Valorie Lennox 656-1151

TheReview Wednesday, May 15,1991 — «19

Peninsula students excel in regional music festival

It was a record year for entries

from the Saanich Peninsula in the
- Greater Victoria Music Festival.

In addition to school bands and
choirs there were numerous entries
by students of Sidney singing and
piano teacher Anne-Marie Brima-
combe.

And a Grade 9 Parkland school
student who takes piano instruc-
tion at the Victoria Conservatory
of Music received a scholarship.

Grade 10 pianist Susan Black,

14, received the Marjorie Tebo
Scholarship and was also the run-
ner-up in the senior piano honors’
performance.

Black also did well in singing
competition. She placed second in
the Italian art song competition
and placed second in the junior
girls’ musical theatre event.
Black’s singing coach is Judith
Dowling.

Many of Brimacombe’s singing
and piano classes were entered in
non-competitive events. But stu-
dents were given high praise and
some helpful tips by this year’s
adjudicators, Betty Doroschuk
(Singing) and Barbara Torreson
(piano).

In the competitive singing
classes, where the standards this
year were exceptionally high, Bri-

macombe’s students represented
the Peninsula admirably.

In the girls 17-18 year age
group, Tara Palmer placed first in
the sacred solo and the musical
theatre classes.

Rebecca Garrison also placed
first in a number of singing classes
in the 15-16 year age group
including sacred solo, folk song,
and solo with accompaniment.

In junior singing classes (14
years and under), Darci Fitzgerald
placed first in sacred solo, second
in English language art song, and
was highly commended in the folk
song class.

Other junior students who
placed in the top three in competi-
tive classes were Jenny Marcotte
and Sarah Deane.

Commendations were given by
the adjudicator for other singing
Students studying with Brima-
combe including Alison Roper,
Petra London, Cheryl Chapeskie,
Adrianne Wegelin, Willow Cas-
sidy and Odile Nelson.

Piano students studying with
Brimacombe are juniors whose
classes were non-competitive.
Excellent performances. were
given by Katherine and Bryan
Garduno, Lisa Heron, Sandra
Heron and Andrew McGarva.

More than boy meets girl
in modern romance writing

‘There is more to a romance than
the traditional formula of boy
meets girl; boy loses girl; boy gets
girl.

Now romance is as likely to
include mystery, action, suspense
or history, says Kathi Webb of
Brentwood, vice-president of the
local romance writers association.

“People are getting more
sophisticated, they want more than
boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy
gets girl,” Webb explains.

This weekend Webb will join
other local romance writers in
Writes of Passage, a conference at
the Victoria Harbour Towers Hotel
for published and aspiring rom-
ance writers.

Among the participants will be
Sidney author Lynne Bryant, who
published her first novel,
Calypso’s Cowboy, in 1989.

Webb, who teaches a romance
writing course through Camosun
College, says Bryant is only one of

Coming
to
Parkland
School
May 28th :
7:30 pm z

Ministry in Music and Drama
Sponsored by Peninsula Alliance Church

15 published authors who belong
to the local chapter.

“We're trying fo let people
know there aré romance authors in
the province.”

The local chapter has 35 mem-
bers on the island and 38 in the
lower mainland. An estimated 125
people are expected to attend the
conference, some from as far away
as New Brunswick.

Two editors and six authors will
also give presentations over the
weekend and join in a buffet
brunch Sunday.

Tickets for the brunch are $30
and are still available for anyone
who would like to meet a romance
writer or editor.

“A lot of people have never seen
a real live author or a real live
editor although they may have read
romances for years,” Webb said.

For information on the confer-
ence or to reserve brunch tickets,
call 478-7397.

local and international chapters of
the National Association for
Teachers of Singing.

dining and dancing as a duo with
her husband, Peter. Mrs. Brima-
combe is also a member of the

This year’s youngest entry in the
festival was three-year old Saman-
tha Brimacombe.

She evoked thunderous applause
in the non-competitive family
class, performing “There’s A Hole
In My Bucket” with her father,
Peter Brimacombe. Adjudicator
Betty Doroschuk assured the audi-
ence that Samantha definitely has
a future on stage.

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Studied at the Royal Academy of
Music in England.

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