The CFMTA/FCAPM Student Composer Competition is a national competition for winners of Provincial and Territorial composition competitions.
Entries are submitted by Provincial and Territorial Student Composer Competition Coordinators for Canada-wide judging before June 1 each year. Scholarships are awarded to winners in each category, and the Helen Dahlstrom Award is given annually to the best national composition as selected by the adjudicator. Helen Dahlstrom was the founder of Canada Music Week.
CFMTA congratulates the following winners of the 2026 Student Composer Competition:
| Preparatory - 8 Years and Under - Class 1 | ||||
| 1st place | Sylvie Hay | SK | The End of a Wonderful Day | $ 100.00 |
| 2nd place | Leo Visscher | BC | Raven Tag | |
| Honourable mention | Malek Abdel Aziz | MB | Falling Through the Clouds | |
| Preparatory - 8 Years and Under - Class 2 | ||||
| 1st place | Marianna Sutherland | ON | Whisky Frisky | $ 100.00 |
| 2nd place | Vera Anyigwe | NS | I Like Candy | |
| Honourable mention | Autumn McClung | AB | A Zebra Was Walking Down the Street | |
| Category A - 11 Years and Under - Class 1 | ||||
| 1st place | Andy Zhang | QC | Quartet in sol mineur | $ 150.00 |
| 2nd place | Yanxi (Yancey) Liu | BC | Ballade | |
| Honourable mention | Daniella Torreon | ON | Ma Réverie | |
| Honourable mention | Benjamin Karolev | YT | Dream Waves | |
| Honourable mention | Serenity Zhang | AB | My Heart Soars | |
| Honourable mention | Shuxin Zhang | SK | Joyful Memories | |
| Category A - 11 Years and Under - Class 2 | ||||
| 1st place | Emily Dietrich | AB | I'm Happy | $ 150.00 |
| 2nd place | Daniel Sutherland | ON | The Swing | |
| 2nd place | Timi Falode | NS | Morning Bells | |
| Category B - 15 Years and Under - Class 1 | ||||
| 1st place | Mason Green | AB | Cascade | $ 225.00 |
| 2nd place | Emmett Flores | NB | To Reminisce | |
| 2nd place | Jack Wang | BC | A Machine's Lullaby | |
| Honourable mention | Emiliya Vasyl'yeva | MB | New Beginnings | |
| Honourable mention | Amy Bouter | NS | Whispering Creek | |
| Honourable mention | Joshua Qisun | ON | Souvenirs des Sommets | |
| Category B - 15 Years and Under - Class 2 | ||||
| 1st place | Nathaniel Mercer | MB | Drunken Dancer | $ 225.00 |
| 2nd place | Kira Boehm | AB | Weeping Willow | |
| Honourable mention | Harley Spencer-Lowe | NS | Purple Pendant | |
| Category C - 19 Years and Under | ||||
| 1st place | Boyan Hu | ON | Cupid Requiem | $ 350.00 |
| 2nd place | Nick Oliver | MB | Winter Symphony | |
| 2nd place | Heinreich Schmuhl | AB | Strixen – Tone Poem No. 1 for Orchestra | |
| Honourable mention | Will Zhu | BC | Velocity | |
| Category D - Open | ||||
| 1st place | Marco Pacheco | ON | As She Danced | $ 400.00 |
| 2nd place | Julia McClung | AB | Crepuscule | |
| Helen Dahlstrom Award | ||||
| Boyan Hu | ON | Cupid Requiem | $ 250.00 | |
| Adjudicator : | Clark Ross | |||