Editor:
As I prepare to return to my studies at UBC, I have to express my gratitude to the Coast Recital Society (CRS). They have been instrumental in my music interest and education.
Several years ago, when I was studying flute, I attended a wind ensemble concert presented by the CRS. In that concert I heard a bassoon, live, for the first time.
Following that, Carolyn Mitchell, my music teacher at Chatelech Secondary, arranged for me to play the bassoon “for fun” in our school band. The next summer I attended the UBC band camp as a bassoon player. It was at the UBC band camp that professor Marty Berinbaum asked me to consider moving from the flute to the bassoon.
And now, here I am, preparing to start my second year of studying the bassoon at the music department of UBC. Not only did the Coast Recital Society give me valuable opportunities to audition, but truly, without hearing that bassoon performance at the CRS concert three years ago, my life would be far, far different today.
So, thank you to the Coast Recital Society for the opportunities to audition, thank you for the scholarships, and all the years of support.
But most of all – thank you for that wind ensemble concert.
How often can someone say, “A Coast Recital Society concert changed my life?”
Breanna Picard, Sechelt
