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GODFREY HEWITT ANNUAL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
2005 CRAIG HUMBER
Craig Humber is a Canadian graduate student from Newfoundland who plans to continue his organ studies
with Michael Radulescu in Vienna in 2005 - 2006. After graduating from Acadia University in 1999, he
studied for five years at the Hochschüle in Leipzig with Arvid Gast and Tobias Schade. In 2000, the
Royal Canadian College of Organists awarded him the John Goss Scholarship for advanced organ studies
outside Canada. In 2002 and 2004, he was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant. In 2003, he
was the first-ever North American prizewinner at the Gottfried Silber-mann International Organ Competition
in Freiberg, Germany. He has played recitals and has been broadcast in Austria, Germany, and Holland,
as well as in Canada.
2006 ISABELLE DEMERS
Isabelle Demers is a Canadian graduate student from Québec who is beginning a doctoral programme in organ performance
at the Juilliard School in New York 2006.
After graduating from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in 2003, where she studied with Jean LeBuis
and Regis Rousseau, Ms. Demers went to New York to earn an M.Mus. in organ performance at the Juilliard School,
studying with Paul Jacobs.
In 2005, she was the third-prize-winner of both the Royal Canadian College of Organists National Organ
Playing Competition and the Miami International Organ Competition, where she also won the Audience Prize,
and she was also a finalist in the Dublin International Organ Competition.
In 2003 she was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for Professional Classical Musicians (Emerging Artists).
She has played recitals in Italy, the Czech Republic, Paris, and Bucharest, as well as in many places in Canada
and the eastern United States.
2007 MICHAEL UNGER
Michael Unger is a Canadian graduate student from Ontario who is working towards a doctoral degree in organ performance
at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studies with David Higgs.
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario in 2002, where he won the Gold Medal,
Michael completed a Master of Music in Organ Performance at Eastman; as well as his doctorate in organ performance,
he is also presently pursuing a Master of Music in Harpsichord at Eastman.
In 2006, he was a semifinalist at the national competition of the American Guild of Organists, in 2004 at the Odense
International Organ Competition of Denmark, and in 2003 at the National Competition of the Royal Canadian College of Organists;
in 2002, he won the first prize in the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors Composition Competition.
He has appeared in recital in many parts of the united States and Canada, as well as in Denmark. He has been the
Director of Music at South Presbyterian Church, Rochester, since 2002. During the summer of 2007, he will be attending
organ and harpsichord academies in Italy, Germany, and Sweden.
2008 RYAN JACKSON
Ryan Jackson is a Canadian graduate student from Ontario who is beginning a doctoral degree in organ performance at the
Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he will study with Paul Jacobs.
After graduating from the University of Toronto in 2006, where he was the inaugural recipient of the Tecumseh Sherman
Rogers Graduating Award of $25,000, he completed the Master of Music in Organ Performance at Yale University,
Institute of Sacred Music, where he was awarded the Baker Stipend.
In 2005 he won the First Prize at the National Competition of the Royal Canadian College of Organists,
and in 2007 he won Second Prize at the Fort Wayne National Organ Playing Competition.
He has served on the National Council of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and was the University Chapel Organist
at Yale University in 2007 - 08. He was presented in recital at the National Convention of the Royal Canadian College
of Organists in Halifax in 2006.
2009 Matthieu LATREILLE
Matthieu Latreille is a Canadian graduate student from Québec who is studying at the Conservatoire de musique
de Montréal, specializing in the work of Maurice Duruflé.
He won the First Prize in the Concours de musique du Canada (2007) and at the Lynnwood Farnam Competition (2005)
(previously the John Robb Competition).
He was awarded the Prix du lieutenant gouverneur du Québec in 2005 on graduating from the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau.
He is the organist of Église Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and of the Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury, both in Montréal.
He has been presented in recital in many parts of Canada. Matthieu Latreille intends to study with Olivier Latry at the Conservatoire
national supérieur de musique de Paris in the summer of 2009.
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