Voicelliano Trio's Laec Lorentzen, Stirling Clark and Emma Lavigne perform at the Rose Bowl on March 17, 2023. (Screengrab)

By Chris Brown

Voicelliano Trio wins 2023 Rotary Music Festival Rose Bowl

Mar 21, 2023 | 10:31 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The last lyrics have been sung and the final notes hit at the 2023 Medicine Hat Rotary Music Festival.

Voicelliano Trio was awarded the festival’s Rose Bowl prize on Sunday evening and 43 recommendations were made for the provincial festival this spring.

Stirling Clark, Emma Lavigne and Laec Lorentzen make up Voicelliano Trio, who competed in the Chamber section of the festival.

Lavigne pulled triple duty during the Rose Bowl concert on March 17. Lavigne performed solo in the Musical Theatre and Vocal sections. Clark performed solo in Piano as well as with Voicelliano Trio.

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Other Rose Bowl performers were MHC Girls Choir (Choral); Debasri Jena (Speech); Muse Munson (Woodwind); and Denis Kim (Violin/Viola).

You can watch the full Rose Bowl concert on the festival YouTube channel.

READ MORE: Out of tune: Rotary Music Festival facing funding decline

The Alberta Provincial Festival is set for May 29 to June 2 in Edmonton.

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• Grade 1-3 Choir – St. Louis
• Grade 4-6 Choir – St. Michaels
• Junior High Choir – St. Marys Gr 8/9
• Community 19/under – MHC Girls Choir
• 10/under Classical Vocal – Avani Gaekwad
• 12/under Classical Vocal – Ayla Johnson
• 12/under Contemporary Vocal – Mikayla Kurpjewait (Alternate: Ayla Johnson)
• 14/under Classical Vocal – Wyatt Harrington (Alternate: Jeeya Gupta)
• 17/under Classical Vocal – Emma Lavigne
• Senior Vocal – Kenaniah Schnare (Alternate: Macey Marshall)
• 17/under Contemporary Vocal – Dominik Pilgrim (Alternate: Oliver Hopkins)
• 12/under Speech – Meira Chaudhary (Alternate: Tanya Achyra)
• 17/under Speech – Tarquin Galloway (Alternate: Debasri Jena)
• 9/under Piano Plan I – Ali Juma
• 12/under Piano Plan I – Rebecca Zhou (Alternate: Noor Saleem)
• 12/under Piano Duet – Reese Heintz and Luke Trepanier
• 14/under Piano Plan I – Aileen Liu
• 17/under Piano Plan I – Stirling Clark (Alternate: Kunaal Pareek)
• Grades 2/3 Piano Plan II – Abudi Saleem (Alternate: Isadora Leblanc-Knowlton)
• Grades 4/5 Piano Plan II – Callie Martens (Alternate: Oliver Walker)
• Grades 6/7 Piano Plan II – Karn Pareek (Alternate: Erin Bauche)
• Grades 8/9 Piano Plan II – Anders Currah
• Grades 10/ARCT Piano Plan II – Ella Hoffarth
• 12/under Guitar – Evan McOuat
• 17/under Guitar – Andrew Peter
• 12/under Violin – Tanya Achyra (Alternate: Eliana Rosner)
• 17/under Violin – Stirling Clark
• 17/under Viola – Debasri Jena
• 12/under Cello – Nya Sissons
• 17/under Cello – Laec Lorentzen
• 17/under Cello – Voicelliano Trio
• String & Keyboard Sonata Upper Strings – Denis Kim
• String & Keyboard Sonata Lower Strings – Laec Lorentzen
• 6-9 Musical Theatre – Annalise Robins (Alternate: Meira Chaudhary)
• 12/under Musical Theatre Ballad – Avani Gaekwad (Alternate: Kinsey Heninger)
• 12/under Musical Theatre UpTempo – Kinsey Heninger (Alternate: Avani Gaekwad)
• 14/under Musical Theatre Ballad – Wyatt Harrington (Alternate: Hadley Peters)
• 14/under Musical Theatre UpTempo – Avery Lavigne (Alternate: Madison Mauch)
• 17/under Musical Theatre Ballad – Emma Lavigne (Alternate: Danielle Hollingworth)
• 17/under Musical Theatre UpTempo – Dominik Pilgrim (Alternate: Emma Lavigne)
• Senior Musical Theatre Ballad – Kenaniah Schnare
• Senior Musical Theatre UpTempo – Kenaniah Schnare
• 17/under Music Composition – Anders Currah (Alternate: Aidyn Martens)