Eli Bennett wins Oscar Peterson Grant

[Lois Gilbert]

Congratulations to young Vancouver tenor saxophonist Eli Bennett who has won the Oscar Peterson Grant for Jazz Performance, awarded by The Hnatyshyn Foundation, a private charity established by the late Right Honourable Ramon John Hnatyshyn, Canada's twenty-fourth Governor General. Each year their Developing Artists Grants program provides eight $10,000 scholarships to exceptional young Canadians in post-secondary performing arts training programs.