Festival Awards

Award Winners

Each week, the adjudication panel selects bands that went above and beyond in their performance at the Festival and these bands are awarded the Adjudicator's Choice Awards. In addition, any band that receives a Superior rating in all components of their performance will receive a Superior Band Award.

Alberta Band Association Provincial Festival of Bands
2026 Adjudicators' Choice Awards

Adjudicator’s Choice – Week 1
Assumption Junior Senior High School Senior Concert Band – Cold Lake – Meredith Keizer, Director
Madeleine d’Houet Junior High School Honor Band – Calgary – Michael Carlucci, Director

Sightreading Adjudicator’s Choice – Week 1
Madeleine d’Houet Junior High School Honour Band – Calgary-Michale Carlucci, Director

Adjudicator’s Choice- Week 2
Western Canada High School Grade 11 Symphonic Band – Calgary – Brendan Hagan, Director
Holy Trinity Academy Wind Ensemble – Okotoks – Brianne Coventry, Director

Sightreading Adjudicator’s Choice – Week 2
Webber Academy Senior Concert Band – Calgary – April Waterbury, Director

Alberta Band Association Provincial Festival of Bands
2026 Superior Band Awards

Grade 1

Laurier Heights School Grade 6 Concert Band – Edmonton – Melanie Andony, Director
Calgary French & International School Grade 6 Concert Band – Calgary – Andrew Bacsalmasi, Director
Ecole Charlie Killam Grade 6 Beginner Concert Band – Camrose – Bob Bailey, Director
Westmount Charter School Gr. 7 Concert Band – Calgary – Dr. Ilkim Tongur & Kelsey Crandell, Directors
Ottewell Junior High School Grade 7 Concert Band – Edmonton – Stephen Fong, Director
Foothills Junior Concert Band – Okotoks – Breanne Jamieson, Director
Senator Riley Middle School Grade 7 Concert Band – High River – Paul Stelter, Director
Webber Academy Grade 7 Concert Band – Calgary – Kendra Martinussen, Director
Vernon Barford Junior High School Grade 8 Concert Band – Edmonton- Rachelle Shyshka, Director

Grade 2

Westmount Charter School Gr. 8 Concert Band – Calgary – Dr. Ilkim Tongur & Kelsey Crandell, Directors
Assumption Jr. Sr. High School Gr. 9 Concert Band – Cold Lake – Meredith Keizer, Director
Captain Nichola Goddard School Gr. 9 Concert Band – Calgary – Aisling Tonn & Kevin Willms, Directors
St. John Paul II Collegiate Grade 8 Concert Band – Okotoks – Jennifer Ralph, Director
G.S. Lakie Middle School Concert Band – Lethbridge – Dr. Keith Griffoen, Director
Ottewell School Grade 8 Concert Band – Edmonton – Stephen Fong, Director
Holy Rosary School Grade 8 Concert Band – Lloydminster – Aaron Sikora, Director
St. Peter the Apostle High School Concert Band – Spruce Grove – Julian Eveneshen, Director
Cremona School Junior Concert Band – Cremona – Alex Hutcheon, Director
Swift Current Comprehensive High School Grade 9 Wind Symphony – Swift Current, SK – Aaron Thingelstad, Director
Bow Valley High School Grade 9 Concert Band – Cochrane – Taylor Grant, Director
Tom Baines School Grade 8 Concert Band – Calgary – Blake Doucet-Lewis, Director
Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School Grade 9 Concert Band – Red Deer – Jennifer Mann, Director
Webber Academy Grade 8 Concert Band – Calgary – Kendra Martinussen – Director
Calgary French & International School Grade 8 Concert Band – Calgary – Andrew Bacsalmasi, Director

Grade 3

Westmount Charter School Gr. 9 Concert Band – Calgary – Dr. Ilkim Tongur & Kelsey Crandell, Directors
Assumption Jr. Sr. High School Senior Concert Band – Cold Lake AB – Meredith Keizer, Director
Living Waters Christian Academy Concert Band – Spruce Grove – Zach Smith, Director
John G. Diefenbaker High School Concert Band – Calgary – Harry Faunt, Director
Madeleine d’Houet Junior high School Honor Band – Calgary – Michael Carlucci, Director
Ottewell Junior High School Grade 9 Concert Band – Edmonton – Stephen Fong, Director
William Aberhart High School Concert Band – Calgary – Nathan Gingrich, Director
Webber Academy Grade 9 Concert Band – Calgary – April Waterbury, Director
Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School Symphonic Band – Red Deer – Jennifer Mann, Director
Strathcona Christian Academy Grade 8 & 9 Concert Band – Sherwood Park – Mark Lietz, Director
Ernest Manning High School Concert Band – Calgary – Jenine Maystrowich, Director
Holy Trinity Academy Symphonic Band – Okotoks – Brianne Coventry, Director
Walter Murray Collegiate Grade 10 Concert Band – Saskatoon SK– Debra Tilk & Allison Titus, Directors
Cremona School Senior Concert Band – Cremona – Alex Hutcheon, Director
Western Canada High School Grade 10 Concert Band – Calgary – Brendan Hagan, Director
Edmonton Catholic School District Junior All-City Concert Band - Edmonton - Jolene Wong, Director

Grade 4

Lethbridge Collegiate Institute Gold Symphonic Band – Lethbridge – Samuel Yamamoto, Dir.
Highwood High School Gr. 9-12 Concert Band – High River – Jace Stearn & Dylan Wiest, Dir.
Strathcona High School Senior Concert Band – Edmonton – Jerrold Dubyk, Director
Hunting Hills High School Concert Band – Red Deer – Amanda Fitch, Director
Ecole Notre Dame High School Concert Band – Red Deer – Tim Brehaut, Director
Victoria School of the Arts Grade 10-12 Concert Band – Edmonton – Nadya Ajani,Director
Camrose Composite High School Senior Concert Band – Camrose – Graham Green, Director
Webber Academy Senior Concert Band – Calgary – April Waterbury, Director
Bow Valley High School Symphonic Band – Cochrane – Taylor Grant, Director
Salisbury Composite High School Concert Band – Sherwood Park – Rob Graves, Director
Harry Ainlay High School Concert Band – Edmonton – Joel Forth, Director
Archbishop MacDonald High School Senior Concert Band – Edmonton – Dale Chapman, Director
Western Canada High School Grade 11 Symphonic Band – Calgary – Brendan Hagan, Director
McNally High School Concert Band – Edmonton – Peter Sicotte, Director
John Maland High School Concert Band – Devon – Sean Bumstead, Director
Alberta High School of Fine Arts Concert Band – Okotoks – Matthew Ellis, Director
Holy Trinity Catholic High School Senior Concert Band – Edmonton – Morgan Kavanagh, Director
Ernest Manning High School Wind Ensemble – Calgary – Jenine Maystrowich & Brett Madill, Directors

Grade 5

Strathcona Christian Academy High School Concert Band – Sherwood Park – Mark Lietz, Director
Edmonton Catholic Schools All-City Senior Concert Band – Edmonton – Dale Chapman, Director
Holy Trinity Academy Wind Ensemble – Okotoks – Brianne Coventry, Director
Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School Grade 11 & 12 Concert Band – Calgary – Victoria Scott, Director