LCMS students have the opportunity to participate in our annual music festivals and win scholarships. The festivals are the main component of our Scholarship Program.

Festival Schedules

Class Schedule for Scholarship and Awards Festival Week 2025 TBA.

LCMS Canadian
Music Festival

November 23, 2024

This annual festival is devoted entirely to music by contemporary Canadian composers and takes place during national Canadian music week. The festival combines workshop opportunities with student and faculty performances. A scholarship is awarded for the outstanding student Canadian music performance.

Supporting Canadian Music

LCMS is recognized nationally for supporting and presenting Canadian composers and their music. Each year, LCMS-commissioned works are presented at the annual Canadian Music Concert. Some of Canada’s most celebrated composers have created works for our students to perform with faculty and guest artists. Annual commissions are funded through the Ian Hampton Canadian Music Fund.

Scholarship Awards Festival

February 1 – February 9, 2025

The Scholarship Awards Festival was established in 1986 to encourage children to develop their artistry to the best of their ability in a supportive learning environment.  Students perform in various classes based on instrument and level.  Impartial adjudicators (well-known and respected musicians from outside the school) offer critiques at the end of each class, and determine scholarship recipients.

Requirements:

• Students must prepare a concert group of three contrasting pieces.
• Participation is by invitation of the student’s teacher.

Registration deadline:  November 29, 2024

2025 Scholarship & Awards Festival Awards Concert

February 22, 2025

Young Composers’ Competition

Composers’ Workshop: April 12, 2025

Composition Submission Deadline: February 28, 2025

We are inviting young composers to participate in the LCMS Young Composers’ Competition.

Composers will have the opportunity to work with the Rose Gellert String Quartet and professional musicians during a workshop in which their pieces will be performed and critiqued by the musicians and a jury of three prominent composers. Winning works will receive cash awards and a public performance.

Composers must be present for the workshop.

Leonard Woods Memorial Scholarships will be awarded to the winners in each category (cash awards): Junior $200, Senior $300, College/University $500. Winning works will receive a public performance by the Rose Gellert String Quartet and other professional musicians at the Canadian Music Festival Concert in November, 2025.