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Sheila Munroe

Published Online June 28, 2007

Last Edited December 16, 2013

Sheila (m Rodgers) Munroe. Pianist, b Winnipeg 3 Aug 1928. She studied piano with her mother, Zoë (b Ekaterinoslav [Dniepro Petrovsk], Russia, 18 Apr 1898), and with John Melnyk won the Aikins Memorial Trophy (the top instrumental award) at the 1946 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Music Competition Festival.

Munroe, Sheila

Sheila (m Rodgers) Munroe. Pianist, b Winnipeg 3 Aug 1928. She studied piano with her mother, Zoë (b Ekaterinoslav [Dniepro Petrovsk], Russia, 18 Apr 1898), and with John Melnyk won the Aikins Memorial Trophy (the top instrumental award) at the 1946 Manitoba (Winnipeg) Music Competition Festival. After a brief concert career, she has taught privately in Winnipeg, interrupted by a year of teaching 1974-5 at the Victoria Conservatory.

See also Lorne Munroe and Gilbert Munroe (her brothers).