- B14 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 15, 1991 Who are... Our zone Festival of the Arts competitors? by Betty Barton - The B.C. Festival of the Arts begins May 22 in North Vancouver. Regional music festival winners from all over the province will compete. Delegates: from the Northwest were chosen by the adjudicators at the 26th annual Pacific Northwest Music Festival to attend as participants, alternates and observers. This week Who is... interviews two of the Northwest’s festival competitors, and next week’s col- umn will feature two others. Jennifer Zucchiatti Fifteen-year old Jennifer Zucchiatti will represent the North- west in the junior voice category. At the Pacific Northwest Music ‘ Festival she won the Knights of Columbus scholarship for $500, an award for the instructor rather than the participant. Jennifer has com- peted in vocals at the Music Festi- val since the age of seven and says she has enjoyed every minute of it. "I like music theatre best because I can be someone else," she adds. This will be the first time she has attended the Festival of the Arts as a competitor. She has been before, both as an alternate (available to perform if the competitor in that category can’t) and as an observer. "As a family, we've always enjoyed the arts", she and her mother Carol agree. Jennifer began piano lessons at age six and voice lessons at age - seven. She started with classical, and as she moved into the higher grades of voice (she’s now between Grade 6 and 8), she’s moved on to operas and musicals. Jennifer is fortunate to have Marilyn Brodie as her weekly coach. Carol says, “Marilyn is calming, co-operative and very supportive." An instructor in Vancouver gives her monthly 1% hour lessons. There she learns more about the voice and tech- niques. Jennifer once had a voice instructor confuse her with the instruction, “Raise your soft palate". Finally, an instructor last year said, "Make an owl noise" and then it all came together, Each lesson is taped and passed on to Marilyn so that she and Jennifer can refine the skills taught in Vancouver. Jennifer also does daily voice lessons as home. She starts with voice warm-ups on different scales. She works at the piano to get the right pitch. Then she works on all her songs from the tapes. She explains, "If your voice isn't warmed up, you can hear the static in your voice and you can feel it, It took a long time to be able to identify it, though.” Jennifer says ones voice docsn’t mature until about age 25. Her voice is siill changing. She and her instructors - have to work with those changes, rather than against them. “It’s like puberty," says Jennifer, "You can’t go against it.” Her voice was lower when she was younger. Now she has a much wider range on the higher side. At the Festival of the Arts, she will perform June and Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal by Roger Quil- ton and Vergin Tuto Amor by Francesco Durante. Joelle Walker Thirteen-year-old Joelle will atiend the upcoming Festival of the Arts, for the first time, as an alter- nate to Mark Tessaro in age 13 speech arts. As an alternate, Joelle will attend workshops and watch other performers in her discipline, with hopes of competing herself next year. Joelle explains, "As an alternate, I think I'll be able to learn more without the pressures of competition." If for any reason, Mark can’t perform at the Festival, Joelle will stand in for him. The piece that Joelle would per- form is The Runaway, a dramatic poem by Robert Frost. Her per- formance of The Runaway at the Pacific Northwest Music Festival was recommended by the speech adjudicator James Eadie, was performed by Joelle at the Gala performance and won her the A&W speech award of $100. At this year’s music festival, she also presented a lyric poem, a Shakespearean dramatic scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a speech on stage fright. "I’ve sort of gotten over the stage fright", says Joelle confidently. "It (the poem) is still in there. I usually recite it to myself outside (the performing area) and then sit quietly until it's my turn." Joelle became interested in Speech Arts in Grade 4 when her teacher, Mrs. Wilson, encouraged her to write and perform her first original com- position at the Music Festival. She won and "that’s what got me inter- ested,” she says vivaciously. Each year since then, Joelle has participated in speech arts with instructors Bonnie Shaw, Judy Tessaro and Jo Falconer. Her cur- rent teacher is Cheryl Parks, a previous competitor in the music festival herself. Joelle also does drama at school with teacher Brian Koven. She is one of the 35 the- atre arts and drama students from Skeena who will be travelling to Vancouver to see Phantom of the Opera next month. Joelle used to attend the Terrace Little Theatre summer school until she got too old. Now, she’d love to register for the Aurora Summer School, but feels it’s too expensive. "I’m most interested in theatre. That’s what I'd like to go on it, It runs in the family," Joelle says. Aside from speech arts, Joelle plays baskciball, tennis, goes to the malls with her friends, and is active in students’ council and peer counselling at Skcena. For newcomers into specch arts, Joelle has this advisc, "Go for it. It’s lots of fun. Do it for learning as well as for the competition.” Jennifer Zucchiatti: | like music theatre best because | can be someone else. Drama fest winner to have two-night run at McColl Contributed by Terrace Little Theatre Joelle Walker: Theatre runs in the family. other winning plays in June. Tickets are a minimum $5 To raise funds forthe show to donation at the door. Refresh- When the lights went up on the sparse set of A Chip in the Sugar at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre travel, and to give Terrace a chance to enjoy this remarkable performance, two shows will be ments will be served upstairs. Please come out and support the Terrace Little Theatre’s closing at the drama festival April 19, staged at the McColl Playhouse show of the season. no one knew exactly what to ex-. on May 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. pect. Actor Alan Weston entered, changed into a dressing Sing you r Ww a y to the top of the charts gown and sat down. Within one minute, he had the audience in Come out to Karaoke Night and sing. along. with the lyrics as they appear on video. the palm of his hand, beginning - his one-man show, ‘‘] had just taken up her tea this morning...” Weston won best actor; his director Merry Hallsor won best director; their play, best produc- tion and their set and lighting designer Dave Battison received a Certificate of Special Recogni- tion for his work. ‘‘All the marbles’’, so to speak, after a 40-minute performance which left the adjudicator speechless and the audience amazed. A Chip in the Sugar now travels to Mainstage ‘91, the provincial drama festival, to represent the Terrace Little Theatre and the Skeena Zone. Chip will compete against nine Sundays 8 - 12 midnight & Thursdays 9 p.m. - 1:00 a.m Join the chorus at George’s Pub! Northern Motor Inn, 3086 Hwy 16 E., Terrace phone 635-6375 WEED & FEED 9 kg. $9.99 per bag 4500 sq. ft. 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