FRIDAY, OCT 21, 8:00 p.m.
TRIFFO THEATRE, ALLARD HALL
​RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
featuring...



ALBERTA MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION STUDENT RECOGNITION AWARD WINNERS
Maya Budzinski, violin
Jacob Kryger, marimba

ALBERTA YOUTH JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Raymond Baril, guest conductor
TICKETS

​Admission is included with delegate registration fees.
​​A limited number of non-delegate tickets are available for purchase.

General Admission (non-delegates): $39.00

Performers

ALBERTA YOUTH CHOIR

The Alberta Youth Choir is the province's honour choir for singers ages 16-22. AYC provides a unique opportunity for outstanding young singers from across the province to join forces in the pursuit of excellence in choral music under the direction of a renowned conductor.​ This year, 77 choristers from 30 different Albertan choirs  will come together under the direction of Dr. Sandra Snow, Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education at Michigan State University. 

Following their three day residency and performance at Music Conference Alberta, AYC will embark on a tour of southern Alberta.
DR. SANDRA SNOW, Alberta Youth Choir guest conductor
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​Dr. Sandra Snow is a conductor, pedagogue, and scholar, widely acknowledged as one who brings singers of all ages and abilities to artful performance through an understanding of the music and its context in the world around them. As Professor of Choral Conducting and Music Education at the Michigan State University College of Music, the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble has appeared as featured performers at American Choral Directors Association conventions at state, regional, and national levels. As a guest conductor, she travels extensively in North America and abroad. In 2017, Snow created mirabai, a project-based professional women’s chorus. mirabai features alumna associated with the MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble. mirabai was a featured ensemble at the Texas Choral Director’s Association conference in 2018. The inaugural recording, Ecstatic Songs, was released in 2018. mirabai will open the 2020 conference of the Southwest Division of the American Choral Director’s Association.
ALBERTA YOUTH JAZZ ENSEMBLE
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The Youth Jazz Ensemble of Alberta is an auditioned jazz band open to high school aged students in the province of Alberta. It provides an advanced performance experience for those students who demonstrate excellence in leadership, musicality, and engagement as well as an interest and understanding of the jazz idiom.  North America's leading jazz educators work with students in an intense rehearsal process and the experience culminates in a performance at Music Conference Alberta. The 2022 Youth Jazz Ensemble of Alberta will be directed by renowned Canadian saxophonist and conductor Raymond Baril.​
RAYMOND BARIL, Alberta Youth Jazz Ensemble Conductor

Raymond Baril is Associate Professor of Music and Head of Performance Studies in the Department of Music at MacEwan University. Recently, Raymond accepted the position as Director of Community Engaged Scholarship in the Office of Research Services at MacEwan. He is in his 23rd season as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Edmonton Winds and is in his 6th season as director of the River City Big Band. He has been Director of the MacEwan University Jazz Ensemble for 37 seasons. Raymond remains a much sought after national clinician and adjudicator as well as a featured guest speaker at music education conferences across the country.
 
Raymond was a regular member of the Tommy Banks Big Band for 25 years and has appeared with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra on numerous occasions as an orchestra member, soloist, and guest conductor.
 
Raymond holds a graduate degree in conducting from Northwestern University, undergraduate degrees in both performance and education from the University of Alberta. In 2018 Raymond was inducted in the Edmonton’s Cultural Hall of Fame. In 2016 he was recognized with a Distinguished Teaching Award from MacEwan University. In the past, he has been the recipient of many awards for his contribution to music and music education from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Alberta Band Association, Edmonton Public Schools District Service Award and from Alberta Learning.​
MAYA BUDZINSKI, violin

​Edmonton native Maya Budzinski, student of Mount Royal University Prof. William van der Sloot had her solo debut with the Edmonton Youth Orchestra at 10 years of age playing Bruch’s Violin Concerto after she won the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition. Maya has received many scholarships such as Winspear, Shean, and Alexandra Munn to name a few. Since 2014 Maya won first place 3 times at the Canadian Music Competition and last year she won the Grand Prize where she was awarded the opportunity to play with the Metropolitain Orchestre de Montreal the Sibelius Violin Concerto, broadcasted live via the MediciTV to 120 countries.
JACOB KRYGER, marimba

​Jacob Kryger has been playing percussion since the age of eight. Now 20, he has been studying with Brian Jones, Principal Percussion of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, for the past nine years. Jacob is entering his final year at the University of Alberta in the Bachelor of Music program with a Major in Percussion Performance where he continues to study with Mr. Jones. He plans on continuing his music education in a master’s program next year.