Take the Stage Festival

What Take the Stage Festival does

Take the Stage Festival is a privately held Canadian music festival organization founded in 2021 and domiciled in Richmond Hill, Ontario. It presents an annual in-person music festival for young aspiring musicians, with competition categories in voice and piano, a masterclass component, and adjudication by credentialed professionals including vocalist Elaine Overholt and pianist Christopher Siu. The festival holds qualifying-event status with the Ontario Music Festival Provincials (OMFA), allowing successful participants to advance to the provincial level.

The underlying technology footprint is minimal and non-proprietary. The marketing and participant-acquisition stack comprises a template website (hosted at takethestagefestival.com), organic social media, and email-driven inquiries, while all participant registration is processed through Google Forms. There is no API, no SDK, no mobile app, no disclosed integrations, and no proprietary adjudication or scoring platform.

The revenue model is concentrated and event-driven. The organization collects participant registration fees for the six-day annual competition and solicits sponsorship packages from local businesses on an opt-in basis via email, with pricing not publicly disclosed. The organization appears to operate with a lean two-person leadership team consisting of President Harriet Chung (founder) and General Manager Jennifer Ip, both of whom also operate the aligned Harriet Chung Performing Arts studio, which provides a structural pipeline of student participants. The operation is single-event, single-geography (Ontario), and B2C.

Name

Take the Stage Festival

Legal name

Take The Stage Festival

Website

https://takethestagefestival.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Take the Stage Festival is a Canadian music festival organization, founded in 2021 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, that runs an annual multi-day competition and masterclass program for young aspiring voice and piano musicians, with successful participants qualifying for the Ontario Music Festival Provincials (OMFA).

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Festival / Performing Arts Education

NAICS

Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events without Facilities (711320), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Music Festival Organizers & Promoters (MPAGAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Performance Coaching & Competition Preparation (Auditions, Recitals) (EDAMANAL), Community Music & Dance Festivals (Non-Commercial/Local) (MPAGAEAH), Concerts & Music Festivals (THAJAFAA)

Keywords

• Music festival events
• Youth music competitions
• Voice piano competitions
• Performing arts education
• Music adjudication services

Headquarters

HQ city

Richmond Hill

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Festival Registration Fees: Revenue is generated through participant registration fees for the annual music festival competition. The festival offers scholarships to selected winners based on adjudicator decisions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Take the Stage Festival produces an annual in-person music festival for young aspiring artists, held February 9-14, 2026 at St. Matthew's United Church in Richmond Hill, Ontario. Participants compete in voice and piano categories, receive live feedback from world-class adjudicators, attend masterclasses, compete for scholarships, and gain qualifying entry to the Ontario Music Festival Provincials (OMFA). Registration is open to individual young musicians via Google Forms, with regular registration closing December 27, 2025 and late registration closing January 6, 2026.

Product overview

Take The Stage Music Festival is a single, unified annual event offering young musicians competitive performance opportunities in voice and piano categories. The festival provides a masterclass experience, world-class adjudication, and scholarship opportunities, serving as a qualifying pathway to the Ontario Music Festival Provincials (OMFA).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Take The Stage Music Festival

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Harriet Chung Performing ArtscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHCPA provides singing, dance, and musical theatre training for kids and teenagers. Harriet Chung serves as President of Take the Stage Festival. The organizations are closely aligned with shared leadership and complementary arts education missions.
• Christopher SiucoreOthersChristopher Siu is a pianist, songwriter, composer, arranger, and educator with a degree in Classical Piano Performance from the University of Toronto. He serves as the Piano Adjudicator for the festival and has composed music for film, video games, pop songs, and cinematic trailer tracks.
• Beaunest Property ServicesminorOthersSince 2005, Beaunest Property Services has been providing residential property management services in the Greater Toronto Area. Sponsors the Take the Stage Music Festival.
• Golden Lotus MediaminorOthersAward-winning media company that has produced music and videos, film and theatre productions. 'Where All The Arts Meet' - merges great stories with exciting music and world class talent. Harriet Chung, festival President, appears in their award-winning production.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ontario Music Festival Association (OMFA): The provincial umbrella for music festivals that Take the Stage feeds into as a qualifying event. OMFA's affiliated local festivals operate on the same model of adjudicated competitions for young musicians in Ontario, making it the closest structural peer.
• Canadian Music Competition (CMC): National classical and popular music competition for young Canadian musicians. Comparable in target audience (young performers), competition format, and adjudicator-driven feedback model, though it operates at a national scale.
• Kiwanis Music Festival (various Canadian chapters): Long-running community music festivals for young musicians across Canada. Directly comparable in offering (adjudicated performance, scholarships, multiple categories) and in competing for the same GTA participant pool.
• Greater Toronto Music Festival: Local GTA music festival serving young musicians with adjudicated performances. Most directly comparable in geography and audience, and a primary competitor for the same pool of aspiring young performers and adjudicators.

Others

• Harriet Chung Performing Arts (HCPA): Sister performing-arts school that provides vocal, dance, and musical theatre training to children and teenagers. Not a direct competitor but a tightly integrated pipeline partner that supplies participants and shared leadership to Take the Stage.
• Long & McQuade (Lesson Programs): Canada's largest musical instrument retailer with in-store lesson programs that feed aspiring young musicians into local festivals. Comparable as a feeder into the competitive music ecosystem, though not a festival operator itself.

Broad incumbents

• National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS): Largest association of singing teachers globally, running student voice competitions. Overlaps with Take the Stage's voice category and adjudicator ecosystem, though it operates at a much broader geographic and institutional scale.
• Royal Conservatory of Music: Canada's leading music education institution, which runs its own examinations, festivals, and performance programs. While much larger and broader in scope, RCM's curriculum is explicitly referenced in Take the Stage's piano syllabus, making it a dominant adjacent incumbent.

Regional players

• Music & Beyond: Ottawa-based multi-genre music festival that includes performance and educational components. Comparable in combining performance showcases with learning opportunities, though geographically distinct from Take the Stage's GTA focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/takethestagefestival

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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