2026 Pentland Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
David Pay
Awarded on March 23rd, 2026
Dave is Music on Main’s founder and Artistic Director, earning a reputation as one of today’s leading-edge concert programmers. He is a frequent curator and speaker at conferences and festivals around the world and served as Artistic Director of ISCM World New Music Days 2017, the largest new music festival in Canada’s history.
Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence
Music on Main
Presented on March 23rd, 2026 for their extraordinary contribution to Canadian music
Outstanding Performance
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music Piano Festival
Highest Mark at the VSO School of Music Piano Festival presented on March 7, 2026
Owen Hui (Junior Division) – Douglas Firs by Stephen Chatman
Hugo Abiaad (Intermediate Division) – Halley’s Comet by Nancy Telfer
Cynthia Lian (Senior Division) – Butterflies & Bobcats by David L. McIntyre
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Each Winner was awarded a Framed Certificate and $100 Prize
Vancouver International Music Festival
TBA
The Murray and Dorothea Adaskin Prize
Michelle Wolfenden
$2,500 scholarship presented at the West Coast Student Composers Symposium February 6th, 2026
Pentland Prize
Atticus Dachsel Kerr
$2,000 scholarship presented at West Coast Student Composers Symposium February 6th, 2026
Southam Prize
Faith Fehr
$1,000 scholarship presented at the West Coast Student Composers Symposium February 6th, 2026
Outstanding Composition
Chor Leoni C/4 Canadian Choral Composition Competition
TBA