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Emerging Artists

SACMS is excited to be able to offer performance and scholarship opportunities to young local emerging artists. Each concert begins with a performance by an accomplished student musician from the St. Albert area. This gives up-and-coming performers valuable performing experience. Student performers receive an honorarium to encourage them to further their studies in music.

 

This season we welcome the following Emerging Artists: 

Sunday, October 5, 2025
Ava Mihalcheon & Elizabeth MacDonald, violins
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Ava Mihalcheon has been playing violin and fiddle for ten years. Throughout those years of playing, she has developed a love for many genres of music, including chamber music. She has a passion for playing music and sharing that passion with others. Over the last three years, Ava has been involved with the St Albert Rotary music festival where she has won multiple awards for violin and fiddle. She has also been invited to perform in the festival’s encore performance for the last two years and has had the opportunity to perform for the Winspear’s Musicians in the Making program. Ava’s future plans are to continue her musical education by obtaining her bachelor’s degree in music at King’s University. She also has dreams of one day playing with the symphony. Until then, she will immerse herself into the world of music as much as possible and take every opportunity to perform. 

Elizabeth MacDonald was born with a love for music and from a young age wanted to play the violin. After what felt like an eternity of waiting, she was put into lessons when she was four years old. She quickly learned that she loved to play with other musicians, and liked to perform for her friends and family. Since then, Elizabeth has played in multiple music festivals, won a Chamber Music Society award for a duet, and has also had an opportunity to participate in the Musicians in the Making program at the Winspear Centre. She has recently been accepted into the Edmonton Youth Orchestra and is looking forward to turning her love for music into a career!

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