Ilic has been involved in the Festival since she moved to Newmarket from Toronto and saw the need for her own music students to have somewhere to go and get feedback from such independent adjudicators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI grew up in the States and never had the festival experience that is so rich in Canada, and I wanted to provide that opportunity for my students who, from a young age, can get feedback and just grow and learn. I try to hire adjudicators I feel I can learn from, too. We have been fortunate enough to be at the top of our field and associated with their own academic institutions, universities, Sheridan College in the case of musical theatre, and have had performing careers themselves. They are very inspiring when they give that feedback both in how to improve their technique as singers, but also tips on performing and how to be more effective when they perform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To participate in the Festival, interested performers must submit their application forms by January 31. The forms and further information are available at newmarketvoicefestival.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBy expanding our categories, we\u2019re hoping to attract new people, too, because it\u2019s for pop music as well as speech arts,\u201d says Ilic. \u201cWhether you\u2019re studying privately with someone, are self-taught, or just love to sing, those are all the requirements needed, really. You want to sing and perform and you want feedback on how you\u2019re doing and what you can to do improve by someone who is a qualified professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s for anyone in York Region and beyond, it\u2019s for all ages, and even with more genres being offered, I think we\u2019re going to get more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Newmarket Voice Festival is supported by, among others, the Optimist Club of Aurora, which has donated a total of $1,000 to create several scholarships for participants residing in Aurora and who are chosen by adjudicators; additionally, Mayor Tom Mrakas has donated a Town of Aurora scholarship for an outstanding Aurora singer, which will be presented March 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By Brock Weir For 25 years, the Newmarket Voice Festival has provided singers classes and professional feedback to help them on to the next stage of their passions and careers \u2013 and to mark their milestone, the Festival is offering new opportunities for performers of all ages. Set for February 21 \u2013 25, culminating with The Concert of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8sB","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 04:18:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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