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Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festivals are powered by our volunteers.

When you volunteer with us, you join over 100 volunteers to help more than 4,000 music students gain performance experience by competing in Canada’s largest professionally adjudicated music festival.

Volunteer Roles

Ambassador

As an Ambassador, you are the first face a participant sees. You'll provide the guests and participants with a point of contact and a friendly face from the festival.

Typically, you will sit at a desk near the entrance to the venue. You'll be able to direct participants to the correct room, take attendance, and sort their sheet music for the appropriate adjudicator based on their performance time.

Adjudicator Secretary

As the Adjudicator Secretary, you will be the Adjudicator’s right hand as they evaluate musical performances. You will:

  • Set expectations with the musicians

  • Introduce the adjudicator

  • Ensure that students enter the class on time

  • Ensure that sheet music is correctly organized, and that adjudication forms and certificates are placed according to the adjudicator’s preference.

We’ll be holding two Volunteer Training Sessions online.

  • Sunday, March 30th from 6 PM to 7 PM. 

  • Thursday, April 3rd from 7 PM to 8 PM.

Zoom meeting links will be emailed to volunteers in advance. If you do not have a link to the meeting, please email volunteer@vkmfestivals.org

Training Schedule.

Incentives.

We appreciate our volunteers, and deeply value those who dedicate their time to improving the experience of our festival participants. In thanks, we offer:

  • Volunteer 10 times to receive a $100 honorarium.

  • Volunteer 5 times to receive a $50 honorarium.

  • Each volunteer shift will enter you in a draw to win prizes from our sponsors, like free tickets to the VSO.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULES

Small & Solo Ensemble Festival

Unitarian Church: (April 7-19)

Fireside and Sanctuary Rooms:

  • April 7-17 (Senior Piano), Mikolaj Warszynski and Patricia Tao -  Adjudicators

Tom Lee Downtown: (April 7-18, 20-21)

  • April 7-18 (Intermediate Piano), Everett Hopfner - Adjudicator

  • April 20-21 (Classical Guitar), Charles Hobson - Adjudicator

St. Faith’s Anglican Church (April 7-17, 23-30)

  • April 7-17 (Junior Piano, Level 4-6), Jean Brown - Adjudicator

  • April 23-30 (Junior Piano, Preparatory – Level 3), Donna Falconer - Adjudicator

St. Philip's Anglican Church (April 5-17, 23-29)

Fireside Room:

  • April 15-16 (Contemporary Voice), Dawn Pemberton - Adjudicator

  • April 7-13 (Cello and Double Bass, Small Ensembles), Brian Yoon - Adjudicator

  • April 24-29 (Junior Violin and Viola), Anni Yu - Adjudicator

Sanctuary: 

  • April 5-11 (Intermediate and Senior Violin, Small Ensembles), Hojean Yoo - Adjudicator

  • April 11-17 (Brass and Woodwinds), Mary Byrne - Adjudicator

  • April 23-26 (Musical Theatre), Melissa Morris - Adjudicator

  • April 27-29 (Classical Voice), Benjamin Butterfield - Adjudicator

Vancouver Academy of Music (April 21-22)

  • April 21-22 (Harp), Josh Layne - Adjudicator  Ensemble Festival

Both festivals will be held at Massey Theatre in
New Westminster

Choral Festival

Wednesday, April 2nd - Friday, April 4th

Concert Band and Orchestra Festival

Monday, April 7th to - Friday, April 11th

Both Large Ensemble Festivals, which feature choirs, concert bands, and orchestras from around the Greater Vancouver area, are during daytime hours, Monday to Friday. Shifts are available from 7 AM to 6 PM. 

Large Ensemble Festival

For the Large Ensemble Festival, in addition to Ambassador (Registration Desk) and Adjudicator Secretary roles, we are also in great need of:

Parking Attendants

A number of school buses will be entering the parking lot for Massey Theatre. This parking lot is shared with the adjacent high school, and we are looking for a volunteer to help us ensure that buses park in the correct parking lot.

Stage Hands

In-between performances, we require crucial stage hands to help us set the stage for different numbers of instruments.

This will involve moving chairs and music stands. This person should be comfortably able to lift 10 lbs.

Festival Venue Locations.

  • St. Philip's Anglican Church.

  • Vancouver Academy of Music.

  • Unitarian Church of Vancouver.

  • Tom Lee Music Downtown Vancouver.

  • St. Faith's Anglican Church.

Your Festival Team.

  • Vicki Cummings

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

  • Krista Pederson

    SOLO & SMALL ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL COORDINATOR

  • Sara Ramsay

    LARGE ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL COORDINATOR

  • Franki Katz

    VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR

Volunteer Today.

Our organization encourages the participation of volunteers who support our mission.

If you agree with our mission and are willing to volunteer for us, please complete the following form.

Want to get in touch with a person? Reach out to us at volunteer@vkmfestivals.org

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