The Arlene Nimmons Pach Endowment Fund

Mom's Connection to The Royal Conservatory of Music:

• Arlene Nimmons Pach received her ARCT in Piano Performance from The Royal Conservatory of Music and was the recipient of RCM scholarships herself in the process.
• She went on to become a fine pianist and pursued a full and productive career in music spanning over 50 years - 29 of those as Musician in Residence at UNB.
• She had many students whose musical and private lives were enriched by her teachings - All of us, of course sat RCM examinations!
• The RCM examines 120,000 students a year across this country making it one of the largest conservatories of its kind in the world.
• The RCM was actively recruiting Mom to be an examiner prior to her death.
• Mom was a Canadian born in Kamloops, studying in Vancouver and Toronto, living the last half of her life in Fredericton, engaging musicians from all of Canada in her projects, performing across Canada and often broadcasting nationally on CBC. It seems fitting that a national institution present this scholarship rather than a regional one.
• Mom believed musicians be taught in conservatories because they provide a consistent and consolidated music curriculum from early childhood through adulthood thereby being most qualified to cultivate the professional musician.
• I see a scholarship fund in her name as a vehicle through which the country can both remember her and benefit from her work and beliefs for ever.
• It would be a shame should a student stop their music studies for financial reasons, especially if their musical future holds the potential to be as vibrant, fulfilling and far reaching as my Mother's.

Photo: Mother, me, Cimarron - Fall 1996

Created by Laurie
Last updated: Jan. 11, 2001