Assessments

FALL:

Sunday, November 30, 2025 (Instrumental) | 1:30 – 8:30 pm

NEW – Fall vocal assessments and Mature Student category (details to be announced)

Registration Deadline (December Assessments): October 24, 2025

Christ First (Sanctuary)

1700 Mazo Cres., Mississauga ON L5J 1Y8

Clinician: Ann Edwards

Ann Edwards studied piano with Elsie Bennett, Margaret Poole, Boris Lysenko, and Marietta Orlov. She studied at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music where she received her Bachelor and Master of Music Performance degrees.  She also earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Education from York University.

A member of the piano faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music since 1990, she served as Chair of the Oscar Peterson School of Music’s Keyboard department from 2007-2013.  Ann was also a mentor teacher in the Glenn Gould Professional School’s Artist Diploma Programme in Performance and Pedagogy while the programme ran.  She has also been involved in curriculum development, been on Academic Counsel, and been a performer on Faculty Recitals.

Ann’s students have won prizes in community music festivals, performed in Festival of Stars concerts, received Gold medals for RCME exams, and gone on to University music programmes.

While Ms Edwards has a large roster of private students at the RCM, she has also been teaching children’s group piano classes and adult group piano classes since 1995.

In addition to her teaching, Ann is active as a Senior Examiner on the RCME’s College of Examiners having been an examiner for 33 years and seen most of Canada while doing so!

Outside the RCM, Ms Edwards has been an adjudicator for music festivals and ORMTA groups all over Ontario.

In addition to attaining her ARCT in Piano Performance as well as her ARCT in Piano Pedagogy from the RCM, she also received an ARCT in Vocal Performance from the RCM, winning the Gold Medal.  Ann was a church soloist in Toronto for 14 years, as well as a singer with the Mendelssohn Choir for a short time, only stopping because its demanding rehearsal and performance schedule conflicting with her large teaching schedule at the RCM.

Outside of her life at the RCM, Ann has numerous interests.  After an enjoyable six years of part time study while still teaching at the RCM, Ann received a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from the University of Toronto’s Victoria College in 2006, the seminary for the United Church of Canada.  Ann has written for religious periodicals on biblical themes, lectured at Bible study workshops in the US and Canada, and has written a handbook on Acts for use in bible study.  She is an active member of Metropolitan United Church in Toronto.

Ann is an avid ballroom dancer having competed in competitions with her husband, Michael, and with her teacher in Pro Am events.  Ann also loves to write, read, go to the theatre, travel, study French, is a political news junkie, and a proud Canadian!