JEAN BROADFOOT TROPHY

Family and friends donated the Jean Broadfoot Trophy to the Winnipeg Music Festival in 1997. This trophy is awarded for the most outstanding performance in a Piano Sonata Class, Levels 9 to Honours.

Miss Broadfoot was granted her Licentiate of the Royal School of Music in 1939 and her Licentiate of Music Western Board in 1942. She was the first person to be awarded a Baccalaureate degree in music from the University of Manitoba. Miss Broadfoot has achieved international recognition and distinction as one of Canada's foremost Senior piano teachers. Included among her students are Andrea Battista, Douglas Finch and Emmanuel Ax.

Jean Broadfoot has been associated with the Winnipeg Music Festival as a competitor, an accompanist, and as a member of the Board of Directors. In addition to her involvement with the Festival, she has actively promoted music education and the Festival movement in the Province of Manitoba, serving as a syllabus advisor to the Associated Manitoba Arts Festivals and as an adjudicator at most of the festivals throughout the province. She has also served many local, provincial and national organizations in a leadership capacity.