NATS Manitoba Contemporary Music Scholarship Competition
and Musical Theatre Competition

The NATS Manitoba Contemporary Music Scholarship Competition was established in 2009.  The goal was to provide students with an opportunity to learn and perform contemporary classical music. A Musical Theatre Competition was added along the way and performers today can perform in either or both disciplines with the promise of singing for and hearing other singers, to receive feedback from an adjudicator and to compete for scholarship prize money.

Sunday, November 27th - Grace Bible Church - 366 Oakwood Ave. Winnipeg

Entry and payment deadline is November 7, 2022
Be sure to make the date as we cannot accommodate late entries

Competition is open to students of NATS members only. 

Audience welcome! Invite your friends and family! Admission for the day $5 per person.

We encourage everyone present to wear masks at the competition in order to protect the health of all and to make it possible for vulnerable audience members to be present to hear their loved ones. Singers and pianists may perform unmasked. 
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Musical Theatre Competition Criteria - classes begin at 2pm
Contemporary Classical Competition Criteria - classes begin at 7pm​

Fill out the attached application form and send your etransfer to mbnatschapter@gmail.com no later than November 7, 2022.

We encourage everyone present to wear masks at the competition in order to protect the health of all and to make it possible for vulnerable audience members to be present to hear their loved ones. Singers and pianists may perform unmasked. 

Our Adjudicator - Donna Fletcher
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​Donna Fletcher is an accomplished actor, singer, and concert performer with a wide range of national experience.  Proud of her prairie roots, Donna received her early training in Winnipeg and earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Manitoba, a diploma in Music Theatre from The Banff Centre for the Arts, and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from The University of Toronto. 
As an actor, Donna has been acclaimed in principle roles from east to west with the Charlottetown Festival, Drayton Festival, Rainbow Stage, Theatre Calgary, Stage West Calgary, the National Arts Centre, Manitoba Opera, MTC, PTE, MTYP, WJT, the Belfry Theatre and Persephone Theatre. As a director Donna has helmed the Rainbow Stage/WSO concert presentation of South Pacific; for Opera on the Avalon Phantom of the Opera, Into the Woods & The Sound of Music; for NUOVA Kiss Me Kate, Carousel and City Workers In Love; for Dry Cold Productions The Bridges of Madison County, The Addams Family, A Man of No Importance and Sweeney Todd; as well as Brundibar for the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Donna conceived the WSO presentation of Send in the Clowns: The Music of Stephen Sondheim where she took the stage with TONY Award winner Len Cariou.     
Donna serves as First Vice President & Manitoba/Nunavut Councillor for Canadian Actor’s Equity and was inducted into the Rainbow Stage Wall of Fame in 2012. Always seeking new challenges, she co-created Winnipeg Musical Theatre Company Dry Cold Productions which is celebrating its 22nd season. Donna is a nationally respected clinician, Voice and Musical Theatre Instructor at the University of Manitoba Desautels Faculty of Music as well as the University of Winnipeg Theatre Department and is a member of the NUOVA Opera and Musical Theatre Summer Training Programme Faculty. Most importantly, she is mum to Amalia.

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