Breaking News!  17 year old violinist BLAKE POULIOT from Ontario has just won the prestigious $5,000 GRAND AWARD at the National Music Festival in Antigonish, NS with an incredible performance of the Carmen Fantasy Op. 25!  Ontario pianist Anna Vertypolokh was brilliant too, in her performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in c minor, Op. 37.  We had two great finalists in the Grand Award Concert, plus several second and third place finishes by our talented competitors!  More details soon!