LAMP Alumni awards and accomplishments
2024
Danial Sheibani, SOCAN Foundation Young Composer Award winner July 2024
Paulina Francisco, Soprano - La Scala Debut: The Fairy Queen, June 2024
David Potvin, Piano; Album Debut - Catharsis (leaf music) April 2024
2023
Danial Sheibani, SOCAN ‘Under 21’ Emerging Composers’ mentorship Program winner.
Anna Han, Naumburg International Piano Competition 2nd($15,000), New York, NY, November 2023
Roydon Tse, Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize of $25,000, plus $10,000 to a protégé (Sami Anguaya), December 2023. Ontario, Canada.
2022
David Potvin, Winner: 45th Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition , Manitoba, Canada, April 2022 and Cross Canada Tour 2022
2021
Tong Wang, Awarded support from the Canada Council for the Arts ‘Research to Creation’ Grant and Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et culture (FRQSC) Doctoral Research Scholarship for development of “Labyrinth of Tears,” a new operetta/triple-concerto in collaboration with composer Michael Kim-Sheng, May 29, 2021
Anna Han, Semi finalist and Bita Cattelan Award at the Concours musical international de Montréal (CMIM). Awarded scholarship for continued studies abroad from the Kathleen Trust of Britain, May 14, 2021 and June 2021.
Ian Tomaz, Bourse Marandon fellowship, June 2021
2020
Elisabeth Pion, Winner of the Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize 2020, currently scheduled to perform a solo recital at Wigmore Hall, London on June 15, 2020 , February 2020
Josue Ceron, Performed alongside celebrated Mexican tenor Javier Camarena in a production of Donizetti’s La fille de regiment to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his debut at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, February 2020
Arlan Vriens, The classically trained violinist, graduate teaching assistant at UofT and Fellow of the Emerging Arts Critic Programme at The National Ballet, recently celebrated publication of his first review, of the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Hansel and Gretel for Opera Canada, February 2020.
Geoffrey Conquer, University of Toronto Student Engagement Award for “Shared Isolation: The Music of Nature in the Midst of COVID-19”, June 14, 2020
Gavin Fraser, University of Toronto Student Engagement Award for “Shared Isolation: The Music of Nature in the Midst of COVID-19” and New work Bone Clock Skylark premiered at 21st Century Guitar Conference, performed Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, June 24, 2020
Matthias Mcintire, Named a Composer Fellow of the Hamilton Philharmonic, Nov. 24, 2020
Rachel Tremblay, Awarded the Francis Poulenc Scholarship through Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques, Nov. 26, 2020
Jillian Bonner, Awarded the Francis Poulenc Scholarship through Les Jeunes Ambassadeurs Lyriques, Nov. 26, 2020
Taylor MacGillivray, Kenneth Elloway Award for Composition via the NS Talent Trust, Dec 13, 2020
Laura Johnston, Sheila K. Piercey (Legacy) Award from NS Talent Trust, Dec 13, 2020
Devin Huang, Peggy Corkum Legacy Award, NS Talent Trust, Dec 13, 2020
Ross Macintosh, Nova Scotia Talent Trust and Arts Nova Scotia Endowment Fund Scholarship for continued studies (brass), Dec 13, 2020
2019
Yusuke Kobori, First Prize, Mt. Fuji International Opera Competition of Shizuoka, Japan’s biggest opera competition, October 2019
Roydon Tse, First Prize in the SOCAN Foundation’s Geoffrey Ridout Awards for And the Ocean was Gone, which he created and premiered as part of LAMP’s Composition Academy, August 2019
Sarah Bissonette, Finalist for Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage Ensemble Studio Competition, November 2019
Marcel d’Entremont, Finalist for Canadian Opera Company’s Centre Stage Ensemble Studio Competition, November 2019
Mikayla Sager, Finalist in the Mildred Miller International Voice Competition, and a Semi-Finalist in the Opera Index Competition, October 2019