We are proud that our students have received Cold Medals for Saskatchewan from the Royal Conservatory of Toronto
An international leader in the fields of music education and performance training, The Royal Conservatory is celebrating its
125th Anniversary in 2011. Gold Medals will be awarded each academic year, September 1 to August 31, by province or region,
to candidates who have obtained the highest marks for practical examinations in each discipline, Grades 1 through ARCT.
In order to be eligible for these awards, recipients must have obtained a minimum mark of 80% on their practical examination
and have completed the theory requirements for their grade.
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Congratulations! Ekaterina, Pletneva , in the recipient of the 2014 Gold Medal for Grade Preparatory Violin in Saskatchewan
Congratulations! Ava Leschyshyn , in the recipient of the 2014 Gold Medal for Grade 4 Violin n Saskatchewan
Congratulations! Ryan Kulbacki , in the recipient of the 2014 Gold Medal for Grade 4 Guitar
Congratulations! Judy Hanly , in the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal for Grade 2 Violin in Saskatchewan
Congratulations! Michael Tirkajla , in the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal for Grade Preparatory Violin in Saskatchewan
Congratulations! Veronica Kmiech (Grade 8) and Ava Leschyshyn (Grade 1), are recipients of 2010 Gold Medals for Violin in Saskatchewan!
Congratulations! Anna Dyson (Grade 1) and Ava Leschyshyn (Grade 2), are recipients of 2011 Gold Medals for Violin in Saskatchewan!
Congratulations! Ava Leschyshyn, is the recipient of the 2012 Gold Medal for Grade 3 Violin in Saskatchewan.
Congratulations! Yaroslav Burmetskiy, is the recipient of the 2012 Gold Medal for Preparatory A Piano in Saskatchewan.
Congratulations! Ryan Kulbacki, is the recipient of the 2013 Gold Medal for Grade 1 Guitar in Saskatchewan!
Congratulations! Yakiv Ponomarenko, is the recipient of the 2013 Gold Medal for Grade 3 Guitar in Saskatchewan!
Congratulations! Grace Smith, is the recipient of the 2013 Gold Medal for Grade 3 Violin in Saskatchewan!
Congratulations! Samara St. Louis, is the recipient of the 2013 Gold Medal for Grade 10 Violin in Saskatchewan!
April, 2011
Click to the small photo to get the full size picture Ava Leschyshyn, age 7, competed in the Canadian Music Competition in Calgary, playing in the First Round and
advancing to the Provincial Final
Ava Leschyshyn, age 7, has been taking violin lessons from Oxana Ossiptchouk for 3 years. She regularly
performs throughout the year for organizations such as the Saskatoon Conservatory of Music, her elementary
school and most recently a senior citizens' home. For two years, she has played in the Saskatoon Music Festival,
and in April she competed in the Canadian Music Competition in Calgary, where she advanced to the Provincial Final.
She has participated in Master Classes with members from Ritornello, and has had private lessons with world
renowned violinist Elena Denisova. Last December, she won the Silver Medal for the highest mark for the RCM Grade
One Violin, and this June completed her Grade Two Violin Exam, receiving First Class Honours with Distinction.
For the past two summers, she has been a regular busker at the Fringe on Broadway!
December 2010
Ava Leschyshyn, age 6, received the Royal Conservatory of
Music Silver Medal for the highest mark in Saskatchewan for her Grade One Violin Exam.
Alexei Kornienko Master Class
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Alexei Kornienko is an outstanding musician whose work is characterized both by an unconditional and
joyful attention to text and also a boldness in interpretation. This seeming contradiction in fact stands
the Austrian conductor Kornienko in very good stead. His work as a pianist of the Russian school, with
his extraordinarily wide Classical and Romantic repertoire, is combined profoundly with his work as a
conductor, which he has steadily expanded in recent years.
Born in Moscow, he began music lessons at the age of five, studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory
in Moscow (piano class Zak) and in Charkow (conducting class Jordania), and was prize-winner at the
International Rachmaninov Piano Competition in Moscow. Since his move to Austria in 1990 he has
made his name as a respected competition juror as well as a teacher at the Kartner Landeskonservatorium
(Carinthian State Conservatory). He is co-founder of the Gustav Mahler Ensemble and a member of the
Bosendorfer Artistic Club.
Kornienko stands out as an extraordinarily dynamic interpreter of the works of Beethoven and Brahms,
but also of the Modern, and his ability to master highly challenging works ensures his position as a much
sought-after conductor for premieres of complex scores. He has worked with countless internationally
renowned orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the Moscow Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra and as a permanent guest conductor of
the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and he has garnered enthusiastic praise from critics and public alike. In
2010 he will conduct the Moscow Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra on a large US tour.
Kornienko has been artistic director of the Worthersee Classics Festival since its foundation in 2000, and
strives each year to create a programme of the highest quality.
Tuesday, November 16, 7pm
Yamaha Piano Centre
1011 Broadway Ave.(corner of Broadway & 8th St.)
Interested participants contact: Kathleen Solose for more information
kathleen.solose@usask.ca 966-6179
Auditors welcome!
Sponsored by the Department of Music, University of Saskatchewan, Yamaha Piano Centre,
Saskatoon Conservatory of Music, City of Vienna, Thomastik Strings.
Ambassador of Tonal Sensuality
Elena Denisova ranks as one of the finest and most charismatic violinists of her generation. Known for her
great musical maturity, individual style of interpretation and supreme virtuosity, her performances have won
critical acclaim from press and public alike.
Denisova was born in Moscow .Highly influential among her teachers were two of David Oistrach’s most
renowned students, Valery Klimov and later Oleg Kagan at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, which
ranks as the foremost institution for Russia’s most talented musicians. She graduated with distinction.
She has won many violin competitions and initially was active as a soloist and chamber musician in the
former USSR – for example as soloist of the Moscow State Philharmonic and first violinist of the Moscow
National Quartet.
In 1990 she extended her concert performances to Western Europe, and found a second home in Austria.
Elena Denisova has been an Austrian citizen since 1992.In Austria she founded the Osterreichische Gustav
Mahler Vereinigung, the Gustav Mahler Ensemble and the Classic Etcetera Musikvereinigung. She is also
the artistic director of the Carinthian-based Woerthersee Classics Festival, which she founded in 2002 and
which has already gained a strong international reputation. Countless tours have taken Elena Denisova
throughout the world, to the USA and Canada but also to exotic regions such as Egypt and Taiwan, and to
western and central Europe and also in recent years increasingly to the new EU countries, such as Bulgaria,
Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. She has performed at numerous festivals, such as the
Carinthian Sommer Ossiach, the Bodensee Festival, the Flandern-Musikfestival, the Vienna Horgange and
Klangbogen festivals, the Ljubljana Festival, the Russian Winter Festival in Moscow, the Concerti di
Primavere in Parma and many others.Elena Denisova has been accompanied by numerous orchestras,
such as the Moscow Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the Munchener
Symphonikern, the Budapest Radio Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Trondheim
Symphonie-Orchester, the George Enescu Philharmonic, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovakian
Philharmonic, the Berliner Rundfunk Orchester, the Zagreb Symphonic Orchestra, the Slovenian
Philharmonic and the Kiev National Philharmonic, the Capella Istropolitana, Jose Carreras and Friends and
of course her own formations, the Gustav Mahler Ensemble and the Collegium Musicum Carinthia.
Sunday, November 14, 2.00 pm
Yamaha Piano Centre
1011 Broadway Ave.(corner of Broadway & 8th St.)
Interested participants contact: Oxana Ossiptchouk for more information
oxana.ossiptchouk@gmail.com 880-6962
Auditors welcome!
Sponsored by the Department of Music, University of Saskatchewan, Yamaha Piano Centre,
Saskatoon Conservatory of Music, City of Vienna, Thomastik Strings
Maestro Master Class
Saskatoon Conservatory of Music organizes masterclasses for orchestral conducting in cooperation with famous maestro
Victor Sawa.
Advanced conducting Master classes, and individual lessons on request. Contact Saskatoon Conservatory of Music for more information..
December 2010
