First Place Clause Samples

First Place. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ (A1) Nanaimo Second Place: (tied with two pieces submitted) Honorable Mention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (A1) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (A1) Summerland DIVISION B1: First Place: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (B1) Rossland Second Place: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ (B1) Summerland Honorable Mention: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (B1) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Division C: First Place: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (C) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ is fifteen years old, and currently lives in Rossland, British Columbia. He is in Grade 11 at Rossland Secondary School. In school, his favorite subjects are Art, Math and English. He is interested in acting, cartooning and writing. He spends a lot of time on the internet, reading comic strips and blogs. He writes a column and a bi-weekly comic strip for the Trail-Rossland News. ▇▇▇ started learning to play the piano when he was in early elementary school, a year after his older brother started learning. Although he wasn’t always able to read sheet music very well at first, he quickly developed a good musical ear. When he was about eleven years old, he started composing music for the piano. His first piece was called “Trains at Night”. It was written for the Kootenay Festival of the Arts. A few years later, again for the Kootenay Festival of the Arts, ▇▇▇ composed another piece, entitled “Battle of the Gods”. ▇▇▇ spends a lot of his time playing the piano, composing music and listening to classical music on his computer. He got high marks in Preliminary and Level 1 music theory, and is currently working through Level 2 theory. In the future, ▇▇▇ hopes to continue his musical education. ▇▇▇ has a variety of musical preferences. He enjoys impressionistic and modern pieces, and can play some pieces by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. Paradoxically, he also enjoys loud, dramatic music from the Romantic period, particularly that of ▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇. His favorite musical piece is ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s Piano Concerto no.2. Graham started piano lessons with ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ at age 4, and began composing right away. It was also around this time that he appeared onstage in his first Musical Theatre production with Four Seasons Musical Theatre. Since then, he has been an active composer, performer, instrumentalist and vocalist. He entered his first composition festival in 1994 at the age of 5. Over the next several years, he consistently won first and second place awards in the ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Composing Competition, Canada Music Week Music Writing Competition, and Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival, including the Adjudica...