2024 CMFAA Piano Duet Challenge Award of $500.00

Meadow Lake & District Music Festival, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan – 12.5%
The second place standing was Hamilton Music Festival, Hamilton, Ontario – 3.4%

It gives us much pleasure to offer this Award to any Festival in Canada that has the highest percentage of duets relative to the total number of piano solo entries in their festival for any given year. This is the first time Meadow Lake Festival has received the Award. CMFAA  considers piano duets to be the first ensemble experience that a young pianist can experience. We value this aspect of making music with others.

An important initiative featuring a prize of $500.00 to be awarded to the Music Festival with the most duet entries in Canada.

For the upcoming 2024/2025 festival season, the CMFAA will continue our “Duet Challenge” bursary. We want to find the Duet Capital of Canada!

We know “the loneliness of the long-distance runner” applies to piano students, as they practice alone. They have fewer opportunities to be part of ensembles in the way singers and instrumentalists do. We believe in the value of duet playing, and hence this award.

Requirements:
Any Music Festival in Canada is eligible. To apply we need two pieces of information: the total number of solo piano entries, and the total number of duet entries in the Festival for a calendar year. The festival with the highest ratio of duet entries to solo entries will be awarded the Duet Capital of Canada and receive a $500 scholarship.
The Application form (below) must be signed/dated by a member of the Executive of the Festival, and submitted to our Registrar by May 31, 2024.  (This date accommodates all “local” Festivals which are completed by the end of May.  For Festivals that are held in the Fall of 2024, they can submit as soon as their Festival is over.)

It must be signed/dated by a member of the Executive of the Festival, and submitted to our Registrar by May 15, 2023.