BCMEA 2022 Clinicians
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Marcus Abramzik
Marcus Abramzik works in Surrey as a Core Music educator. Having spent more than a decade as a professional bassist, composer and producer in the Vancouver music scene, his approach to music education is largely informed by popular contemporary music. Having worked in so many original projects, his pedagogical focus is on using current music and technology combined with Orff and Kodaly inspired pedagogy. |
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Ruby Ba
Ruby Ba is an elementary music educator in the Vancouver School District. A Taiwanese-Canadian graduate of UVic, Ruby recognizes that music is a rich medium that allows for self-exploration and the cultivation of community values and has prioritized practices that encourage self-reflection, personal growth, and building a culture of leadership and connection within the student population. Driven by a desire to continue decolonizing music education and creating equitable and inclusive learning spaces, Ruby has completed postgraduate coursework with a focus on indigenizing music education and hopes to pursue further study with the same concentration in the near future. |
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Steven Beasley
Steven Beasley has taught Music for 15 years in the United Kingdom and is currently teaching at a K-9 School in Edmonton, Alberta. He specializes in instrumental education with a focus on mastery teaching and character development. From his experience teaching general and instrumental music in a K-9 setting, Steven has developed a rigorous, empathetic and supportive pedagogy that enables teachers to motivate, challenge and empower their diverse learners to exceed personal expectation and to cultivate an affinity towards kindness, integrity, imagination and self-discipline. As an educator, Steven has explored the foundations of music literacy from both a notation and oral tradition. From his recent role leading a Hip-Hop Brass grade 4-9 programme in East London, he has found a passion for incorporating both sight reading and playing by ear into his teaching as a means to connect with student's musical tastes whilst developing independent musicianship and a life long passion for learning/performing. Steven graduated from the University of Victoria with a B.Mus, B.Ed and recently completed his MA Philosophy of Education at University College London (UCL), UK. |
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Michael Beauclerc
Michael Beauclerc is a percussionist, singer, composer, and author in Canada. He is also a busy marching percussion clinician for Yamaha Music Canada, having performed over 400 clinics from coast to coast. Michael is also the Executive Director of the Canadian Drumline Association, and percussion head/arranger for many scholastic ensembles. His books “The Mad Practice Pad” and “Developing Modern Drumlines” have become the literal foundations for Canadian drumlines and marching percussion instructors. Michael Beauclerc is an Artist/Clinician for Yamaha Drums & Percussion, Vic Firth sticks & Mallets, Sabian cymbals, and REMO drumheads. Follow Michael on social media @michaelbeauclerc |
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Tori Beil
Tori has been teaching since 2011, but made the switch from intermediate classroom teacher to itinerant K-7 music teacher in 2014. Although she does not have a fine arts degree, the position fell to her as the district faced retirements, teacher shortages, and retention challenges. She leaned into her personal choral and band experience and creativity, and continues to learn at every opportunity along the way. Despite juggling 400+ students weekly across multiple school communities, she prioritizes consistency in her classroom management, behavioural expectations, communicating boundaries with coworkers and admin, and cultivating a sense of belonging and success for her students in the music room setting. Tori is currently working towards her PME through Queens, with a focus on early literacy through music. |
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Jaelem Bhate
Jaelem Bhate is a conductor and composer from Vancouver. He was named to CBC’s hot 30 under 30 classical musicians in 2019 and is a board member of Orchestras Canada. Jaelem founded Symphony 21, is music director of the Vancouver Brass Collective and maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor. In 2022, he’ll lead the Guelph Symphony as a candidate for their new Artistic Director. He has conducted over 20 world premieres and continues to add new music to his growing discography. His works have been commissioned or performed across Canada, including by the symphonies of Vancouver, Victoria, and New Brunswick. As a jazz musician, he’s released two jazz orchestra albums; on the edge, and Carmen, a reimagining of Bizet’s opera. on the edge won the Julian Award, and topped the EarShot national charts. |
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Sabrina Brooks
Sabrina firmly believes in the science and spirituality of music as the most powerful tool we have to move our society forward. Winner of the 2022 City of Fort St. John’s Arts and Cultural Award, Sabrina believes the most effective form of advocacy is to entrench music so deeply into the souls of community members, it becomes impossible to even consider removing it. Sabrina graduated from the University of Victoria’s Education program in 2010, with a degree in Mathematics and Music. It was there where she met her euphonium playing husband Joe Brooks while playing trombone in the pit together for the musical Copacabana. She moved to her husband Joe’s hometown of Fort St. John and was so lucky to have been taken in by two lovely music teachers looking to retire, Rhonda Scott and Joan Montgomery. It was through Rhonda that Sabrina learned the power of community, and Sabrina took over Joan’s job of K-6 general music, beginner band and high school band. SD60 runs a collaborative music program based on mentorship across grades and team teaching. It was then where she met her "work husband" (A.K.A. team teacher) David Price, and for the last decade the two have for better or worse, richer or poorer successfully doubled the size of the beginner band program to the point where they grew so big, new facilities had to be built, and the 150 kids in beginner band barely fit on any of the stages in the city. This success did not happen overnight. After her first year teaching, Sabrina quickly realized musical skill alone was not going to be enough to save her program from cutbacks, and so she completed a Masters in Leadership and Administration through Gonzaga University. There she learned to speak the language of those in charge and gain the leadership skills she needed to effect change. With her teammates Band Co-ordinator Sandra Gunn, David Price and Joe Brooks, the team used the research Sabrina had accumulated for her Masters thesis on Recruitment and Retention of Band Students to turn the small town SD60 Band Program into a nationally recognized source of pride for the community. This year all students grades 8-12 in district are off to compete at the invitation-only Music Fest Canada, something Sabrina makes sure the whole town takes ownership and pride for. Sabrina also founded the community band Northern Winds, a concert band for anyone with 3 or more years of experience, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. The band often collaborates with the local choirs and school bands, because Sabrina believes as musicians we are stronger together. Sabrina has two children, Cecilia and James, and she is enjoying learning about the Suzuki method as her kids learn Violin and Cello. Her husband Joe is now an administrator at the Arts school in town. When she is not working, Sabrina’s favorite things to do are be Mom and be home with her family. |
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Dr. Jemima Bunn
Dr Jemima Bunn completed a Bachelor of Education from The University of Melbourne (1996), a Masters in Music Education at University of Wisconsin – Madison (2002), and her PhD study in music education from The University of Melbourne (2019). Jemima has administrated and taught in in vibrant classroom, instrumental and ensemble music programs at high school level for several years as a Director of Music. Coordinating the classroom, instrumental and ensemble music programs, she has developed a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of music education in school situations. More recently, she has worked as a casual academic in music education at Deakin University, preparing pre-service teachers with knowledge and understanding of pedagogical approaches in general music across middle and senior years, instrumental pedagogy, conducting and composition. As Director of Brolga Music Publishing Company in Melbourne, Australia Jemima promotes the work of Australian composers writing for Concert and Brass Band, String and Full Orchestra, Jazz and Flexible Ensembles. Jemima has presented practical clinics and conducting workshops for Australian Band and Orchestra Directors’ Association National and State Branches at several events including ABODA Victoria Summer Conducting School, Queensland Band and Orchestra Clinic (2021), Australian National Band and Orchestra Clinic (2021) amongst others. Her PhD research on the experience of music education situation has taken her to European Association of School Music in Malmo, Sweden (2019), Australian Society of Music Education in Perth (2019), and Melbourne University Forums and International Society for Music Education (2022) online. Jemima was privileged to present at the Midwest Clinic in 2004 and 2012, and to be invited along with the Blackburn High School Symphonic Band to perform at the Clinic in 2017. Jemima has conducted ensembles at The University of Wisconsin – Madison Summer Music Clinic and University of Southern Mississippi Honour Band Camp, for Melbourne Youth Music; Queensland State Honours Ensemble Program, the North Eastern Victoria Region and South Eastern Victoria Region Honour Bands. Jemima is in demand as an adjudicator and conductor at Festivals throughout Australia and in the United States. Jemima has been active in the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors’ Association by serving as a committee member, president and vice president at state and national levels. In 2006, she received an ABODA Victoria Excellence Award and in 2018 a National Citation of Excellence for her work in music education. |
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Diana Chan
A passionate musician, educator, and lifelong learner, Diana Chan is entering her eighth year as the Band Director at Argyle Secondary in North Vancouver. She holds a Bachelor of Music with a concentration on oboe and a Bachelor of Education from UBC, as well as A.R.C.T. Diplomas in both Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy with the Royal Conservatory of Music. She also has a Diploma in Special Education, and is in the final stages of completing a Masters of Arts in same field. At Argyle Secondary, Diana leads four concert bands and two jazz ensembles. She has also had experience teaching choir, strings, and guitar in other learning contexts. Over the years of teaching, Diana has developed a keen interest in exploring cross-curricular opportunities for learning. As a Macanese-Canadian, Diana is also curious in understanding the impact of one’s experience in identity development, and the role of self-knowledge in empowering student learning. Her varied interests have allowed her to explore educational practices that extend beyond music and view education through a more holistic lens. Outside of Argyle, Diana is on the Board of Directors and is the Education Outreach Chair of the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. She also volunteers with HirePhD Society, a non-profit organization that seeks to support talents with advanced degrees in finding career paths outside of academia. Aside from teaching, studying, and volunteering, Diana is an avid amateur chef who enjoys cooking and sharing food with others. |
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Mandart Chan
Mandart Chan was born & raised as a visitor on the lands of the Musqueam people, also known as Richmond, BC. Mandart has spent 18 years in the music classroom, and his career has now brought him to the Ministry of Education & Child Care as a Curriculum Coordinator, leading the Anti-Racism Teaching Guide development team. Mandart is a past president of the BC Music Educators' Association and is currently the secretary of the Canadian Music Educators' Association. Mandart now resides as a visitor on the lands of the Lekwungen People, also known as Victoria BC, with his partner Jason and their dogs Tikka & Masala. |
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Kurt Chen & Anican Yu
The Vitara Duo is a piano and violin duo composed of Kurt Chen violin and Anican Yu piano. They have an innate talent for improvisation and performing by ear, so this group can play almost any requested song given fair notice ahead of time to prepare without the need to arrange sheet music! The duo has also received accolades for their numerous videos on social media showcasing improvisation and their arrangements. Their strengths lie in their repertoire consisting of jazz, ballads, and pop songs. The Vitara Duo members have experience performing at weddings, concert series, receptions, company events, and formals. Throughout the past three years, the pair have been playing together on many occasions throughout the Vancouver area. Their versatility allows them to play anywhere (as long as there's an outlet for the electronic piano)! |
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Will Clements
Will Clements is a Vancouver-based performer, educator, recording artist, and published arranger. Described by CBC Music as a "fantastic and easy voice...", he is the recipient of the Greg Quan Prize in Music Education, as well as an Outstanding Ensemble Award for leading and arranging at the 2020 Vocal Impact Festival. Will continues to arrange music for various ensembles in his spare time following graduation from the UBC B.Ed program. He has recently joined the Argyle Secondary music department, teaching choirs and general music classes in the fall of 2022. |
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Steve Clements
Steve Clements is Will Clements’ dad and teaches band, jazz band, and English Language Arts at New Westminster Secondary School. He is balding, tired, and out of shape, and yet he is happy to give away any secrets that he has found in 21 years of teaching music at the high school level. |
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Dr. Adam Jonathan Con
Dr. Adam Jonathan Con | 簡仁翰 Adam was born and raised on the traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. As a 4th generation descendent of the Chinese Diaspora in Canada, he is grateful to be able to embrace his rich cultural and spiritual lineage while living and working as a guest on the beautiful traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples in Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Con is Associate Professor of Music at the School of Music housed in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. He currently serves as co-head of Music Education and conducts the 170-voice UVIC Symphonic Chorus which serves all majors of the university from first year to doctoral students, staff, faculty and a long-standing Victoria community participation. Dr. Con supervises Graduate Choral Conducting, and serves as graduate faculty supervisor for the accordion applied area. His undergraduate teaching duties include music education foundations and methods courses and the Faculty of Fine Arts ADEI (Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) course. At the university level Adam serves as Chair of the Senate Committee on Curriculum and has recently completed 2 years as Acting Associate Dean for the Faculty of Fine Arts. Each fall and spring Adam coordinates all the music and student musicians for UVic’s convocations as well as serving as convocation organist. Adam taught for 15 years in the Surrey and Vancouver School Districts as well as at York House Senior School before pursuing his Ph.D. in Choral Conducting and Music Education at The Florida State College of Music. As Director of Choral Activities and Head of Music Education, Dr. Con worked at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and California State University Long Beach. A respected music educator, choral conductor and teacher of choral conducting, his invitations to perform, conduct and present keynotes and workshops include: Foro Coro Americano in Argentina, I Foro Internacional De Educación Musical in Mexico, HCES Music Festival in Australia, Podium Choral Conducting Symposium, ISME The International Society for Music Education, the Canadian GALA Conference, the Canadian and the American Orff-Schulwerk Conferences, the Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia Provincial Music Educator’s Conferences, the British Columbia Choral Federation, the Unitarian Universalist Musicians National American Conference, the Ohio and Georgia State Music Educator’s Conferences and the American Choral Directors Association. In 2016, Adam completed for the BC government, one of the most comprehensive surveys and studies on the State of K-7 Music Education in British Columbia and in 2021, he completed his role as principal researcher for the National Coalition for Music Education and the document: Everything Connected: A Landscape of K-12 Music Education in Canada. |
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Sandra Dackow
Sandra Dackow holds three degrees from the Eastman School of Music and currently serves as Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, of the Hershey Symphony Festival Strings, and of the William Paterson University Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey. Dr. Dackow has published over 120 works for student orchestras and is an author of several methods, technique, and reference books. She has appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. Dr. Dackow is a former President of the Conductors’ Guild, a Lowell Mason Fellow with NAfME, and has won or placed in conducting competitions held in Switzerland and Ukraine. |
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Larry Dureski
Larry Dureski (B.Mus. U.Vic., M.Ed. Gonzaga) is an experienced Band/Music specialist teaching in Cranbrook. In addition to his teaching duties and BCTF work, he operates a Band instrument repair shop to serve the needs of his community. This places him in the unique position of being both the director and the repair technician. Larry's interests include composing music for concert and jazz bands as well as developing teaching resources in the field of Music Education. |
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Gail Evans
Gail Evans has been an elementary (K-7) music educator for 36 years. She is Kodaly Certified and was trained by the amazing Ilona Bartalus whose voice is still in her head! More recently, she has benefited greatly from the gifts of the wonderful Marcelline Moody. Since 1999, Gail has been the coordinator of Victoria Sings, a four day choral concert series bringing together school choirs of all levels. Elementary choral conducting is her passion as is teaching music through orchestral listening. Musicals are another big source of joy in her teaching life and together with a hard working team she has put together a musical most years of her career. Her biggest accomplishment to date, however, was in teaching her three kids how to drive! |
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Matt Falker
Matt Falker is a jazz and gospel pianist, vocalist, arranger and clinician. As a full-time professor at MiraCosta College, Matt directs the Downbeat award-winning Frequency vocal jazz program, teaches theory and piano classes, and is founder and director of the Oceanside Jazz Festival, a non-competitive vocal jazz festival hosted at MiraCosta. Matt was also one of a select group of teachers chosen as a quarter-finalist for the GRAMMY’s Music Educator Award. Driven by a passion to ensure that quality vocal jazz music is available to educators, Matt’s arrangements are written for choirs of all levels. He now distributes his music through his publishing company, Anchor Music Publications (formerly Sound Music Publications founded by Frank DeMiero in 1988), as well as the music of dozens of other arrangers and composers in the vocal jazz community. Anchor Music also runs a series of one-day vocal jazz workshops for teachers and students called the Vocal Jazz Academy, and hosts an Educator Support community for hundreds of educators on Facebook. The Academy workshops will be hosted in numerous locations around the United States and Canada, resuming in the Fall of 2022. As a vocalist and pianist, he has presented featured sets at both the Jazz Education Network (JEN) Conference and the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Western Division Conference, with both the Matt Falker Quartet and the ensemble True North. In 2019, he presented a performance of his singing, playing, and arranging at the International Jazz Voice Conference in Helsinki, Finland. A native of northern Michigan, Matt received his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo in jazz piano and his graduate degree from the University of Southern California in jazz voice. His recent appearances as a guest clinician or performer include festivals in Washington, Oklahoma, Illinois, Alberta, Manitoba, and California, including prominent events such as the Monterey Jazz Festival and the ACDA National Convention. He has also served as the guest conductor for All- State Vocal Jazz Ensembles for Washington, Colorado, Iowa, Arizona, and others. He has also served on staff for Jeremy Fox’s “Jazz Harmony Retreat”. During Matt’s last sabbatical, he arranged and scored a new musical based on the life and music of Nat ‘King’ Cole. The musical premiered at Morgan State University in Baltimore, and was most recently presented as a virtual stage reading with New York equity actors. facebook.com/ThereWasaBoy100 anchormusic.com / oceansidejazzfestival.com / vocaljazzacademy.com |
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Julie Fisher
Julie Fisher has been an educator in SD 57 for over 35 years, and has had the privilege of teaching both in the regular classroom, and then as an Elementary Music teacher. She is currently in the District role of Fine Arts Support Teacher K-12. She is incredibly honoured to have been involved in this project, and to have grown in her personal knowledge and understanding of Indigenous culture as she did so. |
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Denise Gagne
Denise Gagne has taught instrumental, choral and classroom music from babies and preschool to College levels for 40+ years. She has degrees in music and education, as well as Level 3 certification in both Kodaly and Orff. Denise has authored or edited many publications including the Musicplay and Musicplayonline.com curriculum. Denise has been a workshop presenter in every Canadian province and territory and all 50 states, and has done hundreds of webinars worldwide since 2020. Denise is a virtual teacher via Musicplayonline – now in more than 10,000 schools in countries all over the world. Denise is a frequent guest teacher in schools and will co-direct the Red Deer Children’s choir this year. |
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Nick Godsoe
Nick Godsoe is the Manager of Programs and Education with MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with the JUNO Awards. In this role, Nick manages several national grant, scholarship, and learning resource programs aimed at making music education in Canada more inclusive, sustainable and accessible. Through this work, Nick advocates for all approaches to music education to be celebrated, supported and represented in Canadian schools. Through working with teachers and artists across the country, Nick has overseen the creation of comprehensive, interdisciplinary teaching resources that explore contemporary Indigenous music, Canadian hip-hop & social justice, and non-performance careers in the Canadian music industry. Nick has offered professional development workshops on these resources for school boards and educator associations across Canada, and has spoken at the Ontario Music Educators Association Conference, the Saskatchewan Music Educators Association Conference, and the British Columbia Career Education Society Conference. Nick is also a co-investigator on a multi-year, federally-funded research project that aims to understand issues of access to music education in Canada, in collaboration with the University of Prince Edward Island and Queen’s University. Nick has been with MusiCounts for four years. Prior to this, Nick received his Bachelor of Music From Mount Allison University in tuba performance and his Masters of Arts in musicology from the University of Toronto, where he also started his PhD in musicology. In 2018, Nick received the University of Toronto Faculty of Music’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. As a researcher, Nick has presented his work at conferences including Music and the Moving Image and the Canadian University Music Society. In addition to his work with MusiCounts, Nick is also the Chair of the Board of Directors with Rainbow Songs Foundation, a Toronto-based charity that provides free music programs for families living in shelters in the GTA. |
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Chris Haas
Chris is a multi-talented musician/conductor/teacher/photographer with over 40 years of performance experience in the areas of popular, jazz, Afro-Cuban, choral and classical music. In addition to performing, Chris has been a high school band director since 1996 and, for twenty years, was the director of bands at the award-winning Magee Secondary School in Vancouver. In 2008, he began frequent recordings of concert bands, jazz bands, community orchestras and chamber ensembles. From 2011 to 2019, he was the associate conductor of A Little Night Music. While working with ALNM, he conducted (and recorded) 4 concerts a year. Through the many recording opportunities as a conductor and musician, Chris honed his skills as an engineer to create outstanding recordings. Chris now teaches at Moscrop Secondary School in Burnaby and in 2019 started West Coast Recordings. Since 2019 he has recorded orchestras, big bands, concert bands, chamber ensembles, jazz combos and solo artists. More info can be found at westcoastrecordings.weebly.com. |
Michelle Hartley
Originally from Stephenville, Newfoundland, Michelle has taught across Canada from NS to NWT, as well as abroad in England, France and the USA. A graduate of Mount Allison University (BMus) and Memorial University (BMusEd), Michelle also completed a Masters of Music at Westminster Choir College where she sang with the acclaimed Westminster Choir and Westminster Kantorei, and performed with major symphonies such as the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, at Princeton University, ACDA national conferences and international festivals. While living in the US, Michelle also worked with the American Boychoir School as the Tour Manager for their Training Choir and Concert Touring Choir. Since her arrival in BC in 2016, she has been developing a Kodály-based curriculum for students aged 4-18, integrating the method along with the Orff Approach as a certified Kodály and Orff Schulwerk teacher. Michelle currently directs Vancouver Youth Choir Kids and Treble choirs, and is the Senior School music teacher at Crofton House School where she conducts the Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, Grade 8-10 Choir, Senior Orchestra and Beginning Band. |
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Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill is of Nlaka’pamux, Metis, English, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish and Austrian ancestry. She was born, raised and currently resides in Victoria, BC on the territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ speaking peoples. Jennifer had the great privilege of working with Sarah Rhude and Nella Nelson to implement a district-wide Indigenous drumming initiative in the Greater Victoria School District. She works with classroom teachers to include drumming, and other teachings in their classrooms, including working with students in maintaining an Indigenous medicine garden and camas meadow. Jennifer is a teacher at Ecole Arbutus Global Middle School, where she has taught music and drama since 2006. She holds a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the University of Victoria. Jennifer is the co-recipient of the 2017 VCPAC Fine Arts Champion Award, and has twice co-taught winning submissions to the CBC Music Class Challenge. She is a Past-President of the Greater Victoria Music Educators’ Association. |
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Alana Johnson
Alana Johnson haan.uu dii kiiG̱aaga. T’alang kaayxal ga. T’alang kyaanuusali ga. Alana Johnson belongs to the Raven matrilineage of the Haida nation, specifically to the kyaanuusali clan and Star house. She is Haida and British-Canadian. c̓awanakatʔiš. ʔiiḥatisʔaqsupʔiš. She has one child who belongs to Ehatis. She also carries her role as aunty as a sacred responsibility, as the Haida language uses the term awaay for both mother and aunty. Until her recent move to Wiwek̓a̱m (Campbell River), she was the choir teacher at Pkols Secondary (Mount Doug) in the Greater Victoria School District. She is a piano teacher, an Indigenous role model in the Sooke School District, teaches Indigenous Studies at Camosun College, and actively pursues language studies in both nuučaan̓uł (Nuu-chah-nulth) and Xaayda kil (Skidegate Haida). She is grateful for the strength of her kuuniisii (ancestors) and to her many Indigenous and musician mentors over the years, and is excited to be part of (re)conciliation in c\a\n\a\d\a by equipping music educators to gain new skills, engage in challenging conversations, and build relationships between individuals and communities. |