Vocal

See the Vocal & Choir syllabus for entry categories.

Our 2024 adjudicator is Kimberley Denis!

Kimberley Denis is known for her energy and enthusiasm both on stage and off, and is sought after as a soloist, vocal coach, choral clinician, and adjudicator for voice and choir.  Upon completion of both a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Music degree at Mount Allison University, she returned to Alberta to complete Master degrees in both choral conducting and vocal performance.  Vocal credits include starring in a year-long tour with Up With People, as well as productions of Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle Songs for a New World, as Cathy in The Last Five Years, and as Kate in Kiss Me, Kate!   She is also a singer with Edmonton’s professional choir, Pro Coro Canada and has toured extensively as a singer with the world percussion group, the Jamani Duo. In addition to her stage work, she has a flourishing voice studio at her own music school – the Purple Door Music Academy and is also the voice instructor at the King’s University in Edmonton.  She has conducted a wide variety of ensembles across the country and presently directs Shumayela (a choir for treble and changing voices for singers between the ages of 11 and 16) with the Kokopelli Choir Association and the River City Chorus (a non-auditioned adult community ensemble).  In addition to her work as a singer, teacher, conductor and adjudicator, she arranges pieces for choirs and in the fall of 2023 she was awarded the Con Spirito Award from Choir Alberta for her work fostering choral singing in Alberta and the Award of Distinction from the Alberta Band Association for her work supporting school music programs in Alberta.