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Meet Candace
Originally from Morden, MB, Candace Hamm's instructors have included Dr. Darryl Friesen, Barbara Cornish, and Cameron Friesen (piano) and Dr. Charles Horton and Dr. Karen Sunabacka (theory). Her education has included the completion of degrees with the Marcel A. Desautels Faculty of Music (University of Manitoba) and the Royal Conservatory of Music as well as pedagogical studies with Dr. Edmund Dawe, Gregory Chase, and Irina Gorin among other notable instructors.
Candace is a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association, the Southeastern Manitoba Music Teachers Association, a Royal Conservatory of Music certified Piano and Theory specialist at all levels, and is privileged to be on faculty with the Cadenza Music Week affiliated with the Douglas Kuhl Foundation. In heavy demand for her creative, invested teaching style, Candace maintains a piano and theory studio of over sixty students. Her students have met with success in competition, auditions for post secondary music studies, and in other performance opportunities at a local, provincial, and national level. Former students have gone on to study piano performance, music education, music theory, music therapy, and composition at various schools across Canada.
Candace believes in investing in the music community. She has been privileged to help piano instructors from Manitoba and Ontario in their own journey's as instructors. Candace has worked to bring musical opportunities to students across the Southeast through various avenues of community involvement including time spent as the past president of SEMF, and facilitation of masterclasses, recitals, fundraisers, and competitions through the Southeast Centre for Music and SMMTA. She is currently working on an innovative Music Learning Theory based program for infants and toddlers, preparing a beginner piano method for her studio, and introduced a conservatory prep program for university bound students in 2021.
Candace lives in Steinbach with her husband Colin and their son Asher. She spends much of her spare time outdoors and is a validated search and rescue dog handler with the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner attached to Winnipeg Search and Rescue. Candace LOVES to teach and will often wake up with a new idea or a solution to a problem a student has presented her with.
Candace is a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association, the Southeastern Manitoba Music Teachers Association, a Royal Conservatory of Music certified Piano and Theory specialist at all levels, and is privileged to be on faculty with the Cadenza Music Week affiliated with the Douglas Kuhl Foundation. In heavy demand for her creative, invested teaching style, Candace maintains a piano and theory studio of over sixty students. Her students have met with success in competition, auditions for post secondary music studies, and in other performance opportunities at a local, provincial, and national level. Former students have gone on to study piano performance, music education, music theory, music therapy, and composition at various schools across Canada.
Candace believes in investing in the music community. She has been privileged to help piano instructors from Manitoba and Ontario in their own journey's as instructors. Candace has worked to bring musical opportunities to students across the Southeast through various avenues of community involvement including time spent as the past president of SEMF, and facilitation of masterclasses, recitals, fundraisers, and competitions through the Southeast Centre for Music and SMMTA. She is currently working on an innovative Music Learning Theory based program for infants and toddlers, preparing a beginner piano method for her studio, and introduced a conservatory prep program for university bound students in 2021.
Candace lives in Steinbach with her husband Colin and their son Asher. She spends much of her spare time outdoors and is a validated search and rescue dog handler with the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner attached to Winnipeg Search and Rescue. Candace LOVES to teach and will often wake up with a new idea or a solution to a problem a student has presented her with.
