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, February 9, 2025 - Emmanuel Fraser, piano
Emmanuel, age 10, is a grade five student at Elmer S. Gish. He has been playing piano for five years and takes lessons from Cameron Watson at MacEwan University Conservatory of Music. He has performed and been recognized at the St. Albert Rotary Music Festival the last three years. He is also part of the Music Ministry at St. Albert Parish and Holy Family Parish singing and playing during Sunday mass. He enjoys Pokemon and solving Rubik's cubes.
Sunday, November 24, 2024 - Jenny Xu, violin
Jenny Xu is a grade ten student at Paul Kane High School, who moved from Winnipeg to St. Albert in 2023. She has been playing the violin for nearly five years and is currently a first violin in the senior Edmonton Youth Orchestra. A regular attendant of music festivals, Jenny has participated in the Winnipeg Music Festival, the Associated Manitoba Arts Festival, and the St. Albert Rotary Festival. She was recommended to the Manitoba Provincial music festival twice, placing second province-wide in 2022. In 2022 and 2023, Jenny played in the ARMTA scholarship competition, placing first both years. Jenny also plays the piano, trumpet, oboe and enjoys figure skating.
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - Dillan Couillard, cello
Dillan Couillard (17) has been learning and practicing cello for close to 12 years now, ever since he was a kid it has been his dream to be a cellist. This instrument has allowed him to have wonderful experiences within the music world, such as being able to play in the Edmonton Youth Orchestra, and of course, here tonight at the St. Albert Chamber Music Society.