May 2015 – La Société de guitare Claude McKinnon

Jean-Victor Paris-Laflamme Wins Two Contests

This entry was posted on Monday May 25th, 2015

Congratulations to Jean-Victor Paris-Laflamme (13 years old) from Beauceville. This student of Daniel Langlois’ class won the first prize of two music contests.

Concours de musique de la Capitale 2015

The finals of this contest were held Saturday, May 16th, at Collège Jésus-Marie of Sillery, Quebec City.

In the 9 to 13 years old instrumental category where five contestants compete, Jean-Victor obtained the first place with a note of 94%, and a 500,00$ scholarship. The comments of the judges (Linda Dumont – Singing, Francis Perron – Piano and Nicole Trottier – Violin) were eulogistic about Jean-Victor’s performance of Sept étoiles of Claude McKinnon. Jean-Victor obtained the third best note among 47 contestants to the finals.

Festival Clermont-Pépin 2015

The finals were held Sunday, May 17th in Saint-Georges de Beauce. In the category Provinciale-classique (high school), Jean-Victor obtained the first place with a note of 92%, and a scholarship of 300,00$. The judges (Marie-Hélène Dubé – Piano and Maryse Violette – Violin) mentioned the excellent interpretation of Prélude no 1 of Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Congratulations Jean-Victor!

This entry was posted on Thursday May 7th, 2015

Congratulations to Jean-Victor Paris-Laflamme (13 years old, from Daniel Langlois’ class in Beauceville) for his achievement on the 31st “Concours de musique de la Capitale” 2015.

The preliminary test was held on Saturday, May 2nd, and Jean-Victor received a gold medal, along with a grade of 92.7%. He is the only contestant of his category to reach the finals, which will be held Saturday May 16th in Dina-Bélanger auditorium of Collège Jésus-Marie de Sillery, Quebec City.

His program consisted of the following musical pieces : Jean-Sebastian Bach’s “Gigue en Ré M”, and Claude McKinnon’s “Sept Étoiles”.