Lunenburg County Music Festival

06/07/2026

Valerie Sia in her master class Lunenburg County Music Festival🎶🎹🎼

06/05/2026

05/27/2026

The schedule for the Nova Scotia Provincial Music Festival is out! Best of luck to our LCMF performers who will be participating. It's sure to be a wonderful weekend of music.

05/11/2026

And finally, we would like to take a moment to acknowledge the following graduating students who have participated in Festival over the years:

Luc Breaugh, Sofia Andreu, Valerie Sia, Thea Cavicchi, Ella Ernst and Jack Salzman.

LCMF would like to thank you all for taking part in the Festival and for sharing your musical talents! We wish you all the very best as you move on to the next chapter of your lives.

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05/08/2026

And to round out our award winner features for 2026!

Strings

Perry Nauss Intermediate Strings Trophy Winner:
Sachi Biancolin
Leland Wentzell Senior Strings Trophy Winner:
Luc Breaugh
Maureen Mossman Outstanding Fiddler Trophy Winner:
Sachi Biancolin

Band and Instrumental

Bridgewater Fire Department Concert Band Trophy:
Bluenose Academy Junior Concert Band

Jazz Band Trophy:
Bluenose Academy Junior Jazz Band

Angela Lake Outstanding Instrumentalist Trophy:
Maria Trethewey

Congratulations to all 2026 Award Winners!

05/04/2026

2026 Piano Awards

Congratulations to the following award winners!

Festival Award Winners:
Eadlin Fraser, Evelyn Schmidt and Benjamin Mosher

Young Performer Medallions:
Caris Martell, Raina Dopierala and Max Mosher

Rhodenizer Family Elementary Piano Trophy:
Archer Karesemeijer

Josephine Skinner Most Promising Junior Pianist Trophy:
Adriana Palao

Frank Gow Intermediate Piano Trophy:
Sophia Yu

Frank Gow Senior Piano Trophy:
Serena Sia

Maureen Hopkins Memorial Piano Rose Bowl:
Valerie Sia

05/01/2026

2026 Vocal and Musical Theatre Awards

Congratulations to the following award winners!

Vocal Young Performer Medallions:
Izzy Conrad, Chloe Bower, and James Gerhardt

Clarice Wile Junior Vocal Trophy:
Lucy Gerhardt

Intermediate Vocal Trophy:
Chloe Tibbo

Senior Vocal Rose Bowl:
Ella Ernst

Pearl Oxner Vocal Trophy:
Thea Cavicchi

Maritime Concert Opera Award:
Ella Ernst

Helen Creighton Awards:
Sofia Andreu & Felicity Risser

Folk Harbour Festival Awards:
Thea Cavicchi & Saryn Bezeau

South Shore Chorale Lesson Tuition Award:
Eden Risser

Festival Awards:
Caris Martell, Felicity Risser & Eden Risser

Musical Theatre Awards

Junior Musical Theatre Trophy:
KJ Jackman

Intermediate Musical Theatre Trophy:
Chloe Tibbo

Senior Musical Theatre Trophy:
Thea Cavicchi

Festival Awards:
Sam Frampton, Charlee Francis, & Sofia Andreu

Pictured below are some of the award winners.

04/29/2026

We'll be featuring some photos of our awards winners over the next little while.

2026 Choral Awards

Congratulations to the following award winners!

Wendy Fraser Memorial Elementary School Choir Trophy: Bluenose Academy Grades 1-2 Choir

Barbara Butler School Choir Trophy:
Bluenose Academy Grades 3-5 Choir

Clarice Wile Community Vocal Ensemble Trophy:
Hodgepodge (Sofia Andreu, Ella Ernst, Thea Cavicchi, and Anna Louise Tingley)

Community Choir Trophy:
South Shore Children's Choir

Afford Studio Family Ensemble Trophy:
The Ernst Family (Evelyn, Ella and Ben)

Margery Hubert Dahn Adult Amateur Trophy:
Seaside A Capella

If you have any photos you'd like to share, feel free to add them in the comments.

04/27/2026

It's hard to believe that it has been over a week since our Stars of the Festival Concert! Lunenburg County sure has a lot of musical talent and it was on full display last Friday night. Thank you to everyone who came out to support these performers.

Congratulations to our students who will be going on to represent LCMF at the N.S. Provincial Music Festival in June:

Voice: Ella Ernst and Thea Cavicchi
Musical Theatre: Thea Cavicchi and Sofia Andreu
Piano: Valerie Sia and Serena Sia

Also featured are the representatives for the National Music Festival Virtual Stream:

Benjamin Mosher and Sophia Yu

Stay tuned for more features of 2026 award winners.