ANNUAL REPORT 2018

HELPING KIDS THRIVE THROUGH MUSIC MASK HELPING KIDS THRIVE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR THROUGH MUSIC NEEDED 1,000 STUDENTS Regent Park School of Music started in 1999 in a church basement with just 71 kids. Thanks to the incredible support of so many friends found joy in over 40,000 hours this year 1,000 kids across Toronto are now receiving a music of music education education that is bringing them joy, raising their aspirations and helping them develop all the right skills and traits to do well in school and pave the way for a bright bold future. RPSM students are unique, and our two-fold goal is: to provide them with a great music education and to help them thrive. Inspiring and engaging them, and giving them a sense of accomplishment, 500

belonging and choice are uppermost in the minds of our 80 music STUDENTS 112 faculty teaching our students. Unlike any other music school in the in Regent Park studied KIDS 165 city, our students have a cornucopia of instruments and genres to everything from classical in summer camps STUDENTS choose from in private, ensemble and large group lessons in voice, music to sound engineering, in Regent Park at First Nations School performed in over and Jane & Finch strings, piano, woodwinds, percussion, brass and new technologies. of Toronto took weekly 70 events and aced music lessons with RPSM Something very special happens to kids here at RPSM – on 80 Royal Conservatory stage they learn to sing, play and perform, while backstage their of Music exams. confidence, courage and self-esteem soars. Year after year we watch our students blossom, graduate high school and go on to university 47 and college – all with this beautiful gift called MUSIC. STUDENTS 10 Your investment in these children’s lives is so vital. Thank you for explored music in our STUDENTS believing in them and enriching their lives in so many ways. 166 programs for children graduated . . . all STUDENTS with special needs, bound for college RICHARD MARSELLA MARTIN ABEL in Jane & Finch took part aboriginal youth, children & university Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors in a year-long musical in refugee shelters and Regent Park School of Music Regent Park School of Music adventure thanks to the youth in remand homes

Laurenz, choir & ukulele incredible Carswell Family Atisa, piano Every student’s experience is unique, Vocalist In RPSM’s intensive A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A STUDENT AT RPSM but to give you a flavour of what kids JULY 3 week summer Song do here at RPSM, here’s 16 year old Interpretation Program vocal student Katherine to tell you a little bit about her year.

Choir trip to Stratford with SEPTEMBER backstage tour and great seats to Treasure Island OCTOBER Mentored Junior Choir Students

Sang to celebrate RPSM’s Since I was able to talk, I’ve been great friend David Howard’s 100th birthday passionate music. I would sing Performed two nights at constantly but didn’t have much Air Canada Centre with DECEMBER confidence in my performance Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters “abilities. In the 3 years I’ve been at Regent Park School of Music I have Performed with Vocal Quartet at Arts and Letters Club of improved my singing technique, am Toronto Sang for Carswell Family at coming out of my shell and becoming FEBRUARY the unveiling of Carswell Hall more confident in music and in life. at RPSM In studio with Bob Ezrin to This year I took private voice lessons record on Andrea Bocceli’s MARCH and was also in the vocal quartet new album Performed alongside and senior choir. I have had so many Jully Black at CRESCENDO incredible experiences that I will treasure forever. Sang at George MAY Stroumboulopolos’s House Thank you. Concert

Sailed through Level 6 RCM Katherine, voice, Voice Exam vocal quartet atherine , K senior choir OUR REMARKABLE 2018 RPSM GRADUATES 10 STUDENTS are graduating from RPSM this year and all of them are university & college bound We are so proud of them. April Megan Alma Thank you for investing in their lives. business management architectural engineering nursing ryerson university waterloo university queen’s university

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Leo aerospace engineering ryerson university

Olivia Edwin Sabrina Nyah Alena Rebecca human resources computer science drama civil engineering life sciences architectural technology george brown college waterloo university nyu tisch school of the arts university of ottawa university of toronto george brown $5,000–$9,999 THANK YOU FROM ALL THE KIDS AT RPSM Martin Abel & Kathleen Flynn John & Deborah Harris Cameron & Christina Mingay S.M. Blair Family Foundation Burgundy Sharon Hudson & Family F.K. Morrow Foundation Asset Management Ltd Cadillac Ivest Properties NEI Investments Fairview Jackman Foundation Ontario Arts Council $500,000+ We are delighted Carpenters and Allied Workers Local 27 JJR Private Capital Pioneering Technology Corporation Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Mitchell The Ben and Hilda Katz Charitable The Racioppo Family Foundation to recognize the following Cohen Foundation RBC Foundation Carswell Family Foundation Earlaine Collins Kensington Capital David & Jennifer Smith individuals and organizations Diamond Integrated Marketing The Kololian Foundation Smith Family Foundation $250,000–$499,999 for their generous gift, The Mariano Elia Foundation Lang Family Foundation Gary & Louise Sugar Fasken John McGowan TD Securities Underwriting Hope David & Elizabeth Howard current pledge, third party Andrea & Andrew Federer The McLean Foundation Torkin Manes LLP event or sponsorship of Judith & Clinton Miller Anonymous (2) $100,000–$249,999 $1,000 or more over the $1,000–$4,999 Alberto Acosta Pamela Hallisey Omicron Chapter of Ontario Lucile Pratt Music Award at Toronto Foundation past fiscal year (July 1, 2017 The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto David & Catherine Hamilton Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan to June 30, 2018). Foundation Chris Hatley & Lindy Cowan John & Maire Percy Sun Life Financial Brian Bimm & Margaret Lynch Tim Hockey Alex Pettes Andrew & Ann Brown The Howitt/Dunbar Foundation Richview United Church $50,000–$99,999 Charles Brown Isberg Charitable Trust Round Table Toronto Bitove Foundation Kevin Burke Family Foundation at Kingsway-Lambton United Church Roy Russell Memorial Fund at Toronto Listen Communications* Anonymous Toronto Foundation The Daniels Corporation Women Foundation Ministry of Children and Youth The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation The Henry White Kinnear Foundation RX Music Peter Gilgan Foundation Services Paul Caston & Cathryn Gregor The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation Salsa Cubana David & Valerie Christie The Leonard Foundation Geoffrey B. Scott Memorial Fund at $25,000–$49,999 Closer to the Heart IX Anthony Lisanti Toronto Foundation Beacon Securities Manulife TD Bank Group Marsha Copp Lucia Liscio & Trond Lossius Carol Shea & Doug Brady Ian Cule Helen Sinclair The Bryant Darville Bursary Fund Jane Orton Ward Family Foundation Vicki Loftus D’Addario Foundation Marion MacKenzie James & Leslie Snell Penny Fine & Hugh Furneaux Scotiabank R. Howard Webster Foundation J.S. Darville Stephen & Janet MacPhail The Gale and Rick Stone Foundation Brad & Gigi Doores Catherine Martin Peter & Alberta Stringham $10,000–$24,999 The Duke Ellington Society Maybank Friesen Family George Stroumboulopoulos Aston Family Foundation The Giving Tree Foundation Barrie D. Rose, Enterprise Holdings Foundation Joan McCalla Fund at Toronto Stephen Douglas Sword Martin Blake of Canada Karen Solomon & Family Abraham & Marcy Fish Foundation Dawn Tattle Family Foundation Aaron Brock Foundation GMP Securities L.P. SiriusXM Forté Financial Solutions McCarthy Tétrault Foundation Chris Taylor CIBC Children’s Foundation Patrick Hodgson Family Foundation The Slaight Family Foundation George & Susan Fowlie Ron & Lesley Miller Dennis Tmej Mark & Wanda Cowie Donner Linda Javorski TELUS The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Mondelēz International Webb Family Foundation Foundation Alice J. Morgan Jane Williamson Canadian Foundation East The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Tippet Foundation Patricia Gouinlock Bill Morneau & Nancy McCain Stan & Ros Witkin Harbour, First Gulf Corp and Foundation Toronto Arts Council Guild Electric Charitable Foundation Fred & Rhonda Myers Charles & Marilyn Wright Colliers International The Mindham Fine Jewellery* Julian Vardy’s CEOL KIDS Clayton Gyotoku Fund at Toronto Mary & Milan Nastich Anonymous (8) Evershed Family FigLeaf and The Minstrel Foundation Dale Varney Foundation Nexus Investment Management Friends Peter Naylor William R. Waters New Gold Inc. Anonymous (2) *In-kind donations of $20,000+ We strive for accuracy in our listings. Please let us know of any errors or omissions. OUR STUDENTS ARE LEARNING WHERE THE MONEY COMES FROM

Piano Violin GRIT Classical Guitar TRUMPET Flute PURPOSE Thanks to our great friends, we raised $1,810,000 CELLO Saxophone VOICE TEAMWORK CHOIR Steel Pan to give 1,000 young people music this year Percussion RESILIENCE Hand Chimes Recorder MELODICA

Electric Guitar Early Childhood Music LEADERSHIP Clarinet Fiddle PRIVATE FUNDING Ukulele THEORY CURIOSITY Ear Training PERSEVERANCE 68% Contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations give children music year after year and help them thrive. Improvisation Composition LIFE SKILLS Harmony iPad CREATIVITY TABLA Turntable HARP PERFORMANCE SKILLS Song Writing CRESCENDO 2018 SOUND PRODUCTION Recording 17% Presented by Manulife and led by Sherry Evershed, our incomparable CRESCENDO Chair.

FRIENDS ORGANIZING 6% EVENTS FOR US

in REGENT PARK JANE & FINCH TUITION FEES PERFORMANCE Students pay as little as and other neighbourhood 5% & HONORARIA $1 a lesson improvement areas Students performed at 75 events 4% GOVERNMENT

Emily & Elizabeth, guitar 2017 Audited financial statements are available upon request. Just call 416.364.8900. DONATE NOW TO HELP KIDS THRIVE THROUGH MUSIC

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Regent Park School of Music Martin Abel, Chair Hon. Justice Donald McLeod Catherine Bradley Jesse Mighton Steve Greenidge Marsha Rothstein Bina John Doug Tames John McGowan Chris Taylor

Regent Park School of Music Foundation Linda Javorski - President Brian Kellow Martin Blake Louise Sugar Sherry Evershed Chris Taylor Daniel Goldenberg Dale Varney Sharon Hudson

REGENT PARK SCHOOL OF MUSIC 585 Dundas Street East, Suite 220 Toronto, ON, M5A 2B7 416.364.8900 Charitable Registration Number: 87211 6025 RR0001 To learn more go to: www.rpmusic.org

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Front Cover: Quincey, piano & choir; Alva, violin & string ensemble; Kebron, recorder/melodica

Back Cover: Liam, violin & string ensemble