Awards

Rainbow Harmony Project wins Winnipeg Music Festival award two years in a row!

RHP won its second Helga Anderson Trophy in as many years for its moving performances of “Now Is The Time” and “Over The Rainbow” at the Winnipeg Music Festival on March 2, 2008.

The Helga Anderson Trophy recognizes the most outstanding performance by an adult community choir. Last year, the choir won for singing “The Size Of Your Heart” and “I Ain’t Afraid.” The trophy was presented to us at our Spring concert, Out On Broadway.

Helga Anderson is a Winnipeg musician who has adjudicated festivals throughout Manitoba and Canada, specializing in choral, voice, and piano classes. She is a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association and active in teaching voice, piano and theory.

She is a former music director of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, a church choir director, and participates on several boards in the promotion of music in Manitoba. She taught music in Winnipeg schools at every level, and was founder of two professional choirs - the Bass Clef Chorus and the Better Half Singers.

Founded in 1919, the Winnipeg Music Festival has developed a reputation for the high standards of excellence that it encourages. Thousands of participants come from all parts of the province of Manitoba, from North-Western Ontario and from the northern United States to compete. Many internationally known artists have developed their talents at the Winnipeg Music Festival - to name a few: Emmanuel Ax, Tracy Dahl, Douglas Finch, Irena Welhasch, Tom Wiebe, Philip Ens, Valdine Anderson, Chantal Kreviazuk, and Loreena McKennitt.