
The St. David's Society donated the Alma Wynne Memorial Trophy to the Winnipeg Music Festival in 1949, in memory of Alma Wynne, who died tragically as a youth in a train accident. This trophy was originally awarded in an annual competition of Junior Vocal Class winners. Since 1960, it has been awarded for the most outstanding performance in a competition of vocalists, 18 years of age & under.
Alma Wynne was born in 1929 and died tragically in the Dugald train wreck on Labour Day 1947. She was a student at Laura Secord School and Gordon Bell High School. She studied singing with Doris Mills. Alma was a talented young lady, with a beautiful singing voice and outstanding dramatic and artistic abilities. She performed in her school operetta productions, and in 1946, at age seventeen, participated in the Winnipeg Music Festival, winning the Junior Contralto solo, Junior Folk Song solo and Junior Gilbert & Sullivan Operatic solo classes. In the latter class, she received a mark of 95 for her interpretation of Mad Margaret's Song from Ruddigore. The adjudicator Mr. Golsbrough said, "No words of mine could do justice to this performance. It is so mature and imaginative - it was a staggering performance".
| Year |
Winner |
Year |
Winner |
| 1949 |
Elaine Noreene Oakley |
1981
|
Viviana
Zarrillo
|
| 1950 |
Shirley Vincent |
1982
|
Carla
Lother
|
| 1951 |
Heather Lindsay |
1983
|
Raymond
Sokalski
|
| 1952 |
Henriette
Platford |
1984
|
Tuesday April Royko
|
| 1953 |
Lorraine
Mensforth |
1985
|
Cheryl
Martin
|
| 1954 |
Peggy
Dryden |
1986
|
Matthew
Ball
|
| 1955 |
Donna
Joan Neily |
1987
|
Melinda
Enns
|
| 1956 |
Edward
Ewanko |
1988
|
Sung Taek Chung
|
| 1957 |
Marcelle
Monette |
1989
|
Millicent
Scarlett
|
| 1958 |
Helmut
Rischer |
1990
|
Jaylene Reigh McBurney
|
| 1959 |
Bill Thiessen |
1991
|
James Ross McLennan
|
| 1960 |
James
Ryan |
1992
|
Glen
Nowell
|
| 1961 |
Joy Gislason |
1993
|
Kristjan
Hayden
|
| 1962 |
Mary Nowell |
1994
|
Gillian Dawn Storsley
|
| 1963 |
Niels
S. Lund |
1995
|
Amanda Hammond
|
| 1964 |
Diane
Landry |
1996
|
Valdine Ritchie
|
| 1965 |
Judy Lander |
1997
|
Rachael Harwood-Jones
|
| 1966 |
Barbara Dumas |
1998
|
Paula
McLeod
|
| 1967 |
Sandra Head |
1999
|
Cindy
MacDonald
|
| 1968 |
Elizabeth Adams |
2000
|
Kayla
Vande Kraats
|
| 1969 |
Olivia
Belyea |
2001
|
Cherise
Kotelniski
|
| 1970 |
Carla
Norris |
2002
|
Sarah Halmarson
|
| 1971 |
Ken
Maslowsky |
2003
|
Heather Kozak
|
| 1972 |
Irene
Koenecke |
2004
|
Alastair Thomson
|
| 1973 |
Carol Justice |
2005
|
Kathryn Patrick
|
| 1974 |
Peter Barnes |
2006 | Lara Secord-Haid |
| 1975 |
Andrew Thomson |
2007 | Ashley Klassen |
| 1976 |
Lisa Cosens |
2008 | Matthew Fletcher |
| 1977 |
Bruce Murray Waldie |
2009 | Jessica Kos-Whicher |
| 1978
|
Andrea E. Ilchena
|
2010 | Demi Lough |
| 1979
|
Lisa Topham
|
2011 | Colleen Furlan |
| 1980
|
Tracy
Dahl
|