Festivals
PALENAI has spear-headed new cultural and educational initiatives in various provinces of Canada. These projects involved international exchanges, collaborations with Parks Canada, CBC, Canadian Heritage, Tom Lee Music, the west coast Nuu-chah-nulth Council, State University of NY at Potsdam, school boards, tourism associations and Provincial Arts Councils in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.
Pacific Rim Summer Festival 1996-2002. Directors, Joy Innis, Adrienne Shannon.
"One of Canada's finest showcases of chamber music." (Department of Canadian Heritage.) PALENAI, Heather Hay, American Piano Trio at Greenpoint Theatre.
World music, chamber music, and summer school. Musicians from the U.S., Canada, Israel, England, Korea, Brazil, Zimbabwe, Japan.
Vienna: A Musical Heritage. Calgary's Mozart Bicentennial Series in cooperation with CBC.
Festival on the St. Lawrence - Music Art and Heritage along the seaway - Kingston, Brockville, Cornwall, Potsdam NY.
Sponsored by Canadian Heritage, St. Lawrence College, Dept. of Human Resources Canada.
Young and Emerging Artist competition in collaboration with Alberta College.
The winner of the Young Artist competition was awarded the opportunity to perform at the Winspear Center in Edmonton.