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I maintain a busy schedule giving one-on-one piano lessons to students of all levels throughout the year, but I can always find time for new students who are enthusiastic about music and sincerely committed to learning to play the piano well.
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NB! Spring Recital - Wednesday evening, May 21. Save the date!
2025 Winnipeg Music Festival highlights
Congratulations to Marek, Alexus and Aurora who all qualified for the trophy class in their respective levels of the Winnipeg Music Festival.
- At the Diploma level Marek was named runner up for the Aikins Memorial Trophy awarded to the most outstanding instrumentalist at the Diploma level. He qualified to compete for that trophy by coming first in the Canadian Composers and Baroque classes. Also at the Diploma level Victoria was runner-up in the French Composers class.
- At the Grade 10 level Alexus was named runner up for the Beryl Ferguson Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding Grade 10 instrumentalist. She qualified to compete for that trophy by winning all three of her classes - Canadian, French and 20th/21st Century Composers. Alexus chose to play her Canadian piece, Prelude Op.3, No.1 by John Melnyk Sr. who was my piano teacher and a pupil of Beryl Ferguson after whom the trophy is named!
- At the Grade 8 level Aurora won the Concerto class, as well as the Sonata and Canadian Composers classes which qualified her to compete for the Manitoba Music Teachers' Association trophy awarded to the most outstanding Grade 8 instrumentalist. She was also runner up in the Romantic and French classes,
- In the junior grades, Ella received a Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association scholarship as the most promising junior pianist, Grades 1 to 4.
Well done everyone! I'm proud of you.
Congratulations again to Marek, Alexus and Aurora who each placed "runner up" in their respective division of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association Performance Scholarship competition - Marek in the Advanced, Alexus in the Senior, and Aurora in the Intermediate, level. Well done! I'm very proud of all three of you.
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Congratulations also to Marek and Chathuli who received gold medals from the Royal Conservatory of Music for earning the highest marks in Manitoba last academic year for their respective Grade 10 and Grade 6 exams. This is the second year in a row they have both received the gold medal for their grade! |  |
And congratulations as well to Victoria, Alexus, and Tuong, who also earned first class honours with distinction for their Grade 10, Grade 9 and Grade 5 exams respectively, and to Andy who earned first class honours for his Grade 10 exam.
Congratulations again to Victoria who performed at the opening of the June 3 concert of the Agassiz Spring Festival as a winner of the Festival's "Glimpses of the Future" competition. Victoria was also selected to perform at the opening of the January 12, 2025 Virtuosi Concert through that organization's Young Artists Program competition.
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Congratulations to Marek and Alexus who were both awarded substantial scholarships from the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association. Marek received a Phyllis Holtby Scholarship in support of his completion of the Grade 10 and Associate practical and theoretical requirements of the Royal Conservatory of Music; Alexus received a Nita Eamer Memorial Scholarship awarded to a deserving student for her accomplishments in the Royal Conservatory of Music. |
| Congratulations again to Marek and Alexus as well to Seanne and Navindu who were all recommended to represent the Winnipeg Music Festival at the Manitoba Provincial Music Festival held at the University of Manitoba at the end of May. | |
Congratulations to Aurora who was runner up in a field of over 20 competitors in the Intermediate Piano Performance scholarship competition of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association.
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Congratulations to Marek who earned the highest mark in Canada for his Grade 9 Royal Conservatory of Music exam last academic year, and to Alexus (Grade 8) and Chathuli (Grade 5) who earned the highest marks in Manitoba for their respective exams. All three received gold medals at a ceremony at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 19. As well Micah earned first class honours with distinction, Chloe and Pengda earned first class honours, and Emily earned honours for Grade 8 exams; Aurora earned first class honours with distinction for her Grade 6 exam; Ethan and Noor both earned first class honours with distinction for Grade 5 exams; and Ella and Remy earned first class honours with distinction for Grade 1 exams. |
Well done everyone!
| Significant successes for long-time student Seanne | |
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Congratulations to long-time student Seanne who placed first is his age category (17-and-under) at the Canadian Music Competition national finals held in Quebec City in June, 2022. Seanne and I performed Rachmaninoff''s Rhapsodie on a theme of Paganini on two nine-foot concert grand pianos in the Salle Henri Gagnon in the Faculty of Music at Laval University. Seanne began the piano performance program at McGill University in Montreal in Fall, 2022, with a significant entrance scholarship. Seanne also received scholarship offers from the piano performance programs at the Universities of British Columbia and Manitoba, and was accepted to the piano performance program at University of Toronto as well. |
| Congratulations to longtime student Nika who earned her Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto (ARCT) diploma with first class honours with distinction in August 2020.
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| Nika's mark for her ARCT exam was the highest in Manitoba for the 2020-21 academic year! She was presented with a gold medal to recognize this achievement in an online ceremony, Fall, 2021. | |
| Here are links to Nika performing two elements of her ARCT program: Chopin Nocturne in D flat major, Op.27, No.2, and Oiseaux Tristes from Miroirs by Maurice Ravel. | |
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Jacqueline Ryz is a gifted pianist and teacher whose passion for music inspires audiences and students alike. Her professionalism, skilled teaching and approachability allows for her to develop pianists of a very high standard. I highly recommend her as a teacher for beginners as well as students who are already established pianists. Jacqueline's motivational teaching style has inspired my sons to practice and develop an excellent work ethic; they quickly developed into fine young pianists. - Carol L Ridd |
I was thrilled and honoured to receive a "Teacher of Distinction" award from the Royal Conservatory for 2019. Thank you very much to everyone who supported my nomination.