Still only in the 10th grade, Erica Rogers has been awarded three times for outstanding work in the arts.
And on Feb. 19, Erica performed at UBC and received a gold medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music, the national standard for fine arts testing. Rogers’ mother Christina Hansen is a speech arts instructor, and Rogers found that she had a passion for music and performance from the early age of five. Now, Rogers plays the cello, the piano, and is a vocalist.
This year Rogers will be taking her level nine speech arts exam, which includes a theoretical component involving phonetics, public speech writing, theatre, and literature interpretation.“I will be doing singing this year, and I’m very, very excited for that,” she said. “I haven’t done singing in the festival for a few years now, or speech arts, due to COVID. It’s really exciting to come back and be on the stage again.