2015 Tempo Festival Adjudicators
Piano - Julianna Enns
Julianna Enns comes to us from Winnipeg, MB. She holds an ARCT (teachers)
degree and is a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers’ Association.
Her teachers have included Erna Elias, Jean Broadfoot, Marlene Pauls Laucht and
Frances Sanderson.
Mrs. Enns works as a music teacher, accompanist, adjudicator, clinician, and guest
lecturer. Mrs. Enns has taught in southern Manitoba for 40+ years and has recently moved
to Winnipeg where she continues her career. Her students range from beginner
to professional and include: piano, theory, and pedagogy.
Mrs. Enns gives master classes, workshops and does consulting for auditions and
exams. She is presently teaching privately as well as at three Hutterite Colonies.
Mrs. Enns has adjudicated festivals for AMAF for more than a decade, has given
workshops at Manitoba Conservatory of Music on topics such as “Motivating your
piano student” and “How to teach beginners”.
Mrs. Enns serves as an accompanist at Grant Memorial Baptist Church, is married
and has three children and two grandchildren.
Dance - Tamara Hicks
Ballet, Pointe, Lyrical Instructor, R.A.D.R.T.S (Royal Academy of Dance Certified Instructor
Tamara Topsnik Hicks R.A.D.R.T.S. moved to Brandon in 1993 after teaching for four years in British Columbia at her own school, Marpole Studio of Dance. She is a graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet professional Division.
Tamara Topsnik Hicks performed with the Royal Winnipeg in their productions of Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Giselle in 1988. She toured with the R.W.B. to Japan. In 1989 she danced in Germany in the “Nick Haberstich Ballet Company”.
Mrs. Hicks is a registered Royal Academy of Dance teacher and is qualified to enter students in R.A.D. exams. She has been an adjudicator with A.M.A.F. since 1995 and has loved every opportunity of sharing her knowledge with others.
Speech Arts and Vocal/Choral - Margot Sim
Margot Sim began her musical training in Winnipeg, achieving performance diplomas in Voice – ARCT, LMM; Piano - ARCT; Organ - ARCT; and Recorder - AMM. Furthering her vocal studies at the University of Toronto with Mary Morrison, she received her Bachelor of Arts (English Literature) and Diploma in Operatic Performance (with Distinction).
Margot has appeared in opera and musical theatre roles with the Toronto Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Innis College Theatre (Toronto), and the Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre. She has worked with the Canadian Opera Company, the Canadian Opera Company Children’s Chorus, and received the Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Award at the regional finals in Minneapolis. Margot has been a soloist with the Winnipeg Mennonite Oratorio Choir and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
An experienced teacher, adjudicator and clinician, Margot is currently in her 25th year teaching voice at the Canadian Mennonite University and she is the Minister of Music at Grace Bible Church. Her church choir has been an award winner in the CBC Radio National Choral Competition.
Margot is a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers’ Association and Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and serves on the Board of Directors of the Winnipeg Music Festival. She has a reputation as an energetic encourager of musicians of all ages and levels of ability. In her spare time, Margot tries to keep one step ahead of her three daughters.
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