BCMEA CLINICIANS 2024
(Alpha order sorted by last name. Updated October 21. Page is subject to change)
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Stuart Beatch
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Stuart Beatch is a Canadian composer currently living in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a Master of Music in Composition from King’s College London under composer Rob Keeley, having previously studied composition at the University of Alberta and music education at the University of Regina. Stuart has held Composer in Residence positions with Chronos Vocal Ensemble (Edmonton) and The Fourth Choir (London, UK), and has received mentorship from Sir James MacMillan and Uģis Prauliņš. While Stuart has a special affinity for the Canadian choral community, his music has frequently been sung by vocal ensembles across North America and Europe, including the BBC Singers, Elysian Singers, Voces Nordicae, Pro Coro Canada, National Youth Choir of Canada, musica intima, Luminous Voices, Chronos Vocal Ensemble, Spiritus Chamber Choir, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Cantabile Chamber Singers, Chorus Austin, Empire City Men's Chorus, and Choral Arts Initiative. He is an Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers.
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Michael Beauclerc
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Michael Beauclerc is a Toronto-based touring drummer, singer, author, and Executive Director of the Canadian Drumline Association. He is the Musical Director of multiple Tribute Shows, and the owner and designer of Mad Practice Pads and Mad Cymbal Shields. Michael is a percussion and voice graduate, and world-class marching snare drummer. He is a sponsored artist and clinician for Yamaha Drums, Vic Firth Sticks, Remo Drumheads, and Sabian Cymbals.
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Tori Beil
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Tori Beil is a K-7 music teacher in Quesnel, BC. She holds a PME with a focus on integrating literacy into music. Her clinics are geared towards newer music teachers, general primary teachers, and TTOCs.
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Sabrina Brooks
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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. She moved to her husband’s hometown of Fort St. John and was so lucky to have been taken in by a passionate arts scene and learned the power of community. Sabrina took spent over a decade doing K-6 general music, beginner band and high school band. She now teaches Band 7-9, Guitar, Math and Science at Bert Bowes Middle School. SD60 runs a collaborative music program based on mentorship across grades and team teaching. Her "work husband" (A.K.A. team teacher) was David Price. 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 to turn the small town SD60 Band Program into a nationally recognized source of pride for the community. The program frequently competes 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, in 2012. The band often collaborates with the local choirs and school bands, because Sabrina believes as musicians we are stronger together. Northern Winds has resulted in 2 marriages and 1 baby to date! 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. |
Heidi Buhler (Klassen)
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Heidi Buhler (now Klassen) has her Masters in Music Education from Gordon College in Massachusetts with a focus on Music Learning Theory, which was pioneered by Dr. Edward E. Gordon.
With no prior concert band training, Buhler was hired nearly a decade ago to restart a dormant band program at Eugene Reimer Middle School in Abbotsford BC. Before learning about Music Learning Theory, teaching band was inefficient and unsustainable as the majority of the students did not have prior music making experience in any form including singing. Providing students with the building blocks of music as a language revolutionized the program into a thriving and highly capable community of young musicians. Buhler has long since wished to share these vital tools with other teachers on the West Coast. Buhler enjoys rock climbing during her spare time to keep her cool. |
Dr. Jared Burrows
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Dr. Jared Burrows is a guitarist, composer, and educator in Vancouver, BC, Canada. His music is rooted in the jazz tradition and is influenced by frequent collaborations with musicians from China, Ghana, India, and Iran. He leads the Jared Burrows Sextet and Les Djangophiles, and is involved with many other ensembles in the Vancouver area including The Offering of Curtis Andrews, Naadaleela Ensemble, Dave Robbins Electric Band, Bruce Freedman’s Collage, Clyde Reed Quartet, Thunder Lizard, and Len Aruliah Quintet. Recent performance highlights include concerts, recordings, and a tour of South India with mrdangam maestro, Sri Trichy Sankaran, as well as many performances and recordings with legendary Los Angeles reed player, Vinny Golia. Jared has been an instructor at Capilano University since 2008. There he teaches improvisation, small ensembles, vocal arranging, upper-level research seminars, and directs the renowned new music group, Narwhal. Jared is the founder and director of the Vancouver Jazz History Archive, an online collection of over 1000 items (and growing) including photos, posters, and other ephemera related to the Vancouver jazz scene. In December of this year, Jared and Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo will lead CapU’s first field school in Ghana. Jared holds a Ph.D. in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University. His writing and research has touched on social and embodied models of cognition related to free improvisation, the teaching of improvisation, and Sufi and Taoist philosophies applied to performance practice and education. He has been fortunate to have a long-term musical and academic partnership with improvising bassist and economic historian, Dr. Clyde Reed, and their work has been published on Oxford University Press. Jared’s teachers and mentors have included Steve Owen, Ihor Kukurudza, Rudolph Komorous, David MacIntyre, Martin Gotfrit, David Crumb, and Robert Kyr. www.jaredburrows.com
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Diana Clark
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Diana Clark is Artistic Director of Coastal Sound Music, a multi-level choral organization based in Coquitlam, BC. With an eclectic background that includes a Master’s Degree in Music Performance and a Master of Music Education from Northwestern University, Diana is recognized for her creative work with young people and has served as a choir clinician across Canada. She taught Music in public elementary schools for 32 years, including a few years as Fine Arts Coordinator in SD43. Her workshop sessions offer a treasure-trove of ideas that connect repertoire to curriculum, choral literacies and skills, and performance.
Diana has been a member of the BC Choral Mentorship Project since its inception. She proudly served the Canadian choral community on the Board of Choral Canada, where she coordinated the first-ever national choral census and the 2023 “Benefits of Singing” campaign. |
Geeta Das
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Vancouver born Guyanese, Geeta Das, is a very diverse and well seasoned, professional multi-instrumentalist focusing mainly on brass and woodwinds, across countless genres. She has been studying, teaching, conducting, and performing locally and internationally for over 30 years and has had the humbling opportunity of working with a myriad of local legends and world renowned artists alike. Geeta has had the honour of performing with Vancouver’s Hard Rubber Orchestra, Jill Townsend Jazz Orchestra, Vancouver Jazz Orchestra, Sister Jazz Orchestra, as well as international icons such as the historic big band The Glenn Miller Orchestra, UK singer/songwriter Adele, rapper Kanye West, UK pop/rock sensation The Heavy, Iranian/Persian Pop Artist Mazyar Fallahi, and many more.
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Glynis Dawson
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Glynis Dawson studied music at the University of Victoria, obtaining a Bachelor of Music Degree, followed much later by a Master of Education, Leadership Studies. Glynis has been teaching in the secondary school system for nearly 30 years where she enjoys teaching both instrumental and choral music. She hosts an annual regional Choral Collaboration, has mentored many student-teachers, and in the distant past has been clinician at BCMEA conferences, and sessional instructor of Vocal Jazz Methodology at UVic. Glynis continues to teach full time at Belmont Secondary School on the traditional territory the Coast Salish T’Sou-ke and Scia’new, and Nuu-chah-nulth Pacheedaht Nations.
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Michael Dirk
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As one of Canada’s more active and versatile organists, Vancouver Civic Organist Michael Dirk is equally at home offering solo concerts, accompanying the many fine choirs/ensembles of the region, improvising an entertaining accompaniment to a silent film, or serving liturgically in various worship styles. During his BMus program at UBC, he studied organ with Ed Norman and Denis Bédard. Michael then continued as graduate assistant with full scholarship, to the eminent teacher, Clyde Holloway, at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University of Houston, Texas, where he received his Master’s degree. Subsequent studies include the Cavaillé-Coll organs of Paris, as well as the Fr Willis organs and Cathedral choir school systems of London.
Michael has performed for national festivals of the Royal Canadian College of Organists for which he serves as Vancouver Centre’s co-president and Education officer, as well as the Association of Anglican Musicians national conference. Since 2012, Michael has been the Music Director/Organist of St. John’s Shaughnessy Anglican Church. He is frequently invited to showcase the Orpheum’s historic Mighty WurlitZer for the VSO and VCT, having studied with Robert MacDonald (Radio City Concert Hall NYC) and Charlie Balogh (Organ Stop Pizza, Mesa). A sought-after clinician, Michael has offered numerous workshops for the RCCO and British Columbia Music Educator Association, as well as articles for Organ Canada Journal. Recently, with the help of Canada Council for the Arts grant, he was invited to help introduce the pipe organ to Rwanda by means of tele-midi. Michael is on faculty at the UBC School of Music and VSO School of Music, as well teaches K-7 music full time for VSB’s Shaughnessy Elementary. Away from the classroom and organ bench, Michael can be found ballroom dancing with his wife, percussionist/educator Annabelle Ip, and teaching their daughter how to sail around English Bay. |
Dr. Richard Dorfer
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Dr. Rick Dorfer enjoys the great variety he has developed in his career and maintains an active schedule as a violinist, conductor and educator. As a violinist, Rick is a member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra.
For eight seasons, Rick was a conductor with the Surrey Youth Orchestra, working mainly with the Junior Strings and Chamber Music programs. He previously served as Assistant Conductor for the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra and guest conducted the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. Rick also appears on faculty at many summer festivals and is regularly invited to lead masterclasses and adjudicate festivals. Rick’s postgraduate training included an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School and culminated in a Doctor of Music Arts degree from the University of Washington. |
Duncan Frater
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Duncan has dedicated the past 25 years to teaching music to elementary school students on Vancouver Island. Beyond his work in schools, he led the Cowichan Consort Orchestra and Choir for nine years and directed the Victoria Children’s Choir-Intermediate Choir for two years. His school choirs have performed with the Victoria Symphony, and he has personally arranged and produced operas for several of his Grade 5 classes. With a deep passion for music, Duncan strives to make learning an enjoyable experience for children.
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Mia Gazley
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A versatile saxophonist who regularly performs in a variety of genres on all saxophones, Mia Gazley holds a master’s degree from the University of Florida and an undergraduate degree from the University of British Columbia, both in saxophone performance. In her pursuit of being a well-rounded musician, Mia has performed with the Vancouver Jazz Legacy Orchestra, the Vancouver Jazz Orchestra, the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and various other ensembles. She has placed gold with the Azura Quartet and the Orpheus Quartet in the FCMF National Music Festival in 2017 and 2024, respectably. Mia is proud to be a Rousseau Mouthpiece Artist and uses them on all four of her saxophones for her classical playing. For jazz playing, she uses JodyJazz mouthpieces.
As a researcher, Mia wishes to pursue a better understanding of the historical lineage of the saxophone in Japan. Much of her current research addresses the lack of accurate documentation regarding saxophonists and Japanese composers of saxophone music in Western literature. She has been studying possible translation errors that may exist, as well as understanding the impact of the political and cultural unrest in Japan during the 20th century. Mia is currently a contributor of the Japanese Saxophone Database, working alongside Nathan Mertens on providing accurate and easily accessible information on compositions for the saxophone by Japanese composers. In addition to her busy performing and private teaching schedule, Mia currently works as the Winds, Brass, and Percussion Administrator of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s School of Music. Mia was also previously the music librarian for the Vancouver Opera for their 2023/2024 season. She also currently serves on the North American Saxophone Alliance’s sub-committee for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility |
Dr. J. Scott Goble
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J. Scott Goble is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and supervises work of M.Ed., M.A., and Ph.D. students. A specialist in vocal/choral music and philosophy of music education and a conductor of choirs and orchestras, he began his career teaching music in public schools near Seattle, Washington, later serving on the music faculties of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, Boston University, and San Francisco State University. His book What’s So Important About Music Education? is published by Routledge, and he recently concluded a five-year term as Co-Editor of the online, open-access journal Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT). His current research focuses on Indigenous knowledge and musical practices.
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Nick Godsoe
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Nick Godsoe is the Director of Programs & Education at MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity associated with the JUNO Awards. In this role over the past six years, Nick oversees various grants, artist development programs, awards and resource development initiatives aimed at making music education more accessible, inclusive and sustainable across Canada. Nick has served as a clinician at music education conferences from coast to coast, and has been invited to facilitate workshops for students and educators by different school boards and universities across the country. Nick is also the Chair of the Board of Directors for Rainbow Songs Foundation, which offers free music programming for young children and families living in shelter and refugee services in the Greater Toronto Area.
Prior to his work at MusiCounts, Nick completed a Bachelor of Music in tuba performance from Mount Allison University, and a Master of Arts in Musicology from the University of Toronto. Currently, Nick is based in southern New Brunswick. |
Melissa Goodchild
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Melissa is an active teacher and freelance clarinetist and bass clarinetist, in Victoria, British Columbia. She performs music for solo clarinet, chamber groups, and music for large ensembles. In 2019 she joined the faculty of the Victoria Conservatory of Music and enjoys teaching students of all ages in private as well as group settings including chamber music, clinics for schools, and adjudicating for music festivals across Canada. She has also been a clarinet instructor for schools such as the Alberta College Conservatory of Music, and at the University of Victoria. She received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Windsor and also studied at Western University where she earned her Artist Diploma in Clarinet Performance and Master of Music in Performance and Literature. After her studies in London, Ontario in 2008 she moved to Edmonton, Alberta where she taught at the Alberta College Conservatory of Music and performed throughout the city.
In 2012 she moved to Saskatoon Saskatchewan where she held the position of Second Clarinet with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra until May 2018. While in Saskatchewan Melissa collaborated with percussionist Kevin Grady, and together they continue to perform repertoire including contemporary works with a special interest in, but not limited to, Canadian compositions and have commissioned several works. As a duo Kevin and Melissa were artists-in-residence for the Prairie Wind & Silver Sage museum in Val Marie, Saskatchewan and at the Banff Centre for the Arts winter residency in 2018. In July 2018 the Duo performed at ClarinetFest in Ostend, Belgium. Students in Melissa’s studio enjoy opportunities to perform in festivals, masterclasses, recitals, and ensembles. They are welcomed into a supportive community where learning through curiosity is encouraged. In fall 2023 she began her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and is researching avenues to create a learning community. |
Kevin Hamlin
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Recently retired as head of music at Collingwood Collegiate, Kevin Hamlin has been appointed to be Yamaha Music Canada's first Educator-in-Residence, providing workshops and clinics for high school music programs and bands throughout North America. Kevin was awarded the Keith Mann Outstanding Band Director in 2015, as chosen by MusicFest Canada. Kevin also presents regularly at numerous music conferences throughout Canada, provides workshops for school boards and universities, and adjudicates at Regional Festivals from Coast to Coast, as well as the MusicFest Canada National Festival. Kevin was also awarded the Collingwood Arts Award in 2015 as well as the Order of Collingwood in 2016
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Madeleine Humer
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For over 45 years Madeleine has been involved in Music Education. Teaching students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, her school choirs were consistently invited to perform in concerts with professional local and touring orchestras and choirs, and in multiple Pacific Opera Victoria productions. She was the Founder and past Artistic Director of the Victoria Children’s Choir, whose choristers sang for Canadian and International dignitaries in festivals and special commemoration celebrations both nationally and in Europe, where the choir also was awarded first in Summa cum Laude competition in Vienna, Austria. Beginning her music career as a Baroque Soloist, she now volunteers to work with singers in schools, churches and jazz organizations. In June 2024, Madeleine was awarded the Order of Canada for her dedication to the arts.
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Hussein Janmohamed
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Hussein Janmohamed is a champion of pluralism with over three decades of working internationally in schools and communities. A Canadian-based artist, he is a 4th generation Kenyan of Ismaili Muslim South Asian Gujarati ancestry. Inspired by a mission to build community, unleash creativity and cultivate dialogue, Hussein provides teacher professional development, music integration consulting, choral clinics, artistic curation, and collaborative composing workshops. He holds a PhD in Music Education from the University of Toronto, and Masters degrees in Choral Conducting and Opera Production. His doctoral research focussed on Muslim youth identity and belonging in Canada through choral music participation. Hussein has sung with Chor Leoni, the Phoenix Chamber Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers and National Youth Choir of Canada; and, he has led UBC Choirs, the Nai Syrian Children's Choir, Vancouver Peace Choir, Canadian Ismaili Muslim Youth Choirs and global music ensembles. He has curated cross-cultural vocal collaborations for Nuit Blanche Toronto, U of T Faculty of Music, Luminato Festival, and MABELLEarts. Incorporating his multicultural influences, Hussein’s evocative choral compositions tell stories and invite reflection, offering a unique perspective on inclusiveness. Recent projects include work with Dead of Winter on a new choral work and community collaboration, and a co-creation commission with the Canadian Chamber Choir. Hussein has been recognized for his inspirational leadership and twice awarded the U of T Irene Miller and Koshkish Fellowship in music for his research in music as a language for dialogue and peace.
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Steve Kaldestad
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Since moving to Vancouver in 2008, Steve Kaldestad has become one of the most in-demand saxophonists on the scene, performing as a sideman with Jesse Cahill’s Nightcrawlers, Jodi Proznick’s quartet, and many other groups. Steve has released 4 CDs on the Cellar Live label to great acclaim including Straight Up featuring the Mike LeDonne Trio, New York Afternoon with the Renee Rosnes Trio, and his latest release, Live at Frankie’s Jazz Club.
Originally from the prairies, Steve spent the ’90s in Montreal, obtaining his Bachelors and Masters degrees from McGill University. During this time Steve was awarded a grant to study with Lee Konitz in New York. In 2000, he began an eight year stint in London, England and joined the Kate Williams Quartet, the Matt Wates Sextet, the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, the Gareth Lockrane Septet, and played regular gigs in the BBC big band, the Humphrey Lyttelton Group and others. He has also played and/or recorded with Renee Rosnes, Denzal Sinclaire, Mike LeDonne, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Peter Bernstein, the Karl Jannuska Group, Kevin Dean and many others. Steve now resides in Port Moody, BC and teaches at Capilano University. Steve is a D’addario artist and plays D’addario Select Jazz reeds on all his saxophones and D’addario Reserve reeds on clarinet. https://stevekaldestad.com/ |
Susan Kiddie
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Susan Kiddie gained her BMus and MMus in Musicology from the University of Auckland in NZ and her Dip.Tchg. from Christchurch Teachers’ Training College in Christchurch in NZ. She taught secondary school Music in Auckland, NZ for 5 years and has been teaching elementary Music in Coquitlam School District for 23 years; she presently teaches at Nestor Elementary School. Susan has Level 3 Orff and Level 1 Kodaly. She is a singer (ARCT), pianist (LTCL, BCRMT), violinist and choral specialist. Susan has been a professional soprano church soloist for over 30 years at St Andrews Wesley United Church and Spirit of Life Lutheran Church and has sung in elite choirs, such as NZ National Youth Choir and Vancouver Cantata Singers. She has produced 2 CDs, Memories of Prague, and Dreams and Songs of Love. Susan is an avid Music advocate and is currently President of the CMTA. She is also Vice President of the Kodaly Society of B.C., B.C. Rep. to the Kodaly Society of Canada, Chair of Fundraising for the National Orff Conference Steering Committee, Constellation 2024 and a Director on the BCCF board. Susan runs a busy home piano studio in which she teaches private and group (Music for Young Children) piano.
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Jonathan Krueger
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Jonathan Krueger is a dedicated Music Educator at North Surrey Secondary in the Surrey School District. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Victoria and a Master’s in Music Education from the University of British Columbia. Jonathan specializes in developing foundational music literacy skills, incorporating the Zoltan Kodaly method to enhance sight-singing abilities in his students. During his high school years at the Mennonite Educational Institute, Jonathan was actively involved in both band and choir, experiences that shaped his teaching approach. His passion for music extends to a particular interest in folk songs and storytelling.
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Ben Litzcke
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Ben Litzcke holds a Master of Music in wind conducting from the University of Victoria, where he also completed a Bachelor of Music on clarinet. He teaches band and clarinet workshops in schools and guest conducts in various community bands around Victoria. Ben is also the founder and music director of Island Chamber Winds, a new professional ensemble based in Victoria dedicated to playing new and underperformed repertoire for winds and brass.
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Dr. Scott MacLennan
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Dr. Scott MacLennan is an active adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor who frequently works with ensembles, schools, honour groups, and festivals across Canada. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and has been the Music Director of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Wind Ensemble and the Music Director at the Byng Arts Academy in the Performing and Visual Arts in Vancouver, B.C. For more than 30 years, he has taught bands and orchestras at all levels from elementary to post-secondary and performed extensively on bassoon. He has conducted his award-winning ensembles in various locations throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, China, the United States, and Canada. His ensembles have performed in such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, New York, USA, and Santa Maria della Pieta (Vivaldi’s Church) in Venice, Italy. In March 2011, with Johan de Meji’s endorsement, Dr. MacLennan conducted the Canadian premiere of his composition At Kitty O’Shea’s. He holds a Bachelor of Music (1988) and a Bachelor of Education (1990) from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Music (2010) in Conducting (Wind Band) from Sam Houston State University, Texas, and a Ph.D. (2015) from the University of British Columbia. He studied conducting with Ken Hsieh, Morihiro Okabe, and Wayne Toews and participated in numerous conducting master classes given by Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Anthony Maiello, Ralph Hultgren, and Robert Ponto. His published Ph.D. research involved studying students’ conceptions of ancillary movements (physical movements not necessary in the production of sound) in instrumental music performance. His teaching philosophy is based upon striving for musical excellence in performance as well as the education of the whole student through an embodied approach to teaching. Through this approach, student engagement is increased through linking conceptual images of past experiences (physical and non-physical) with expressive musical qualities in the music being performed. Moreover, students become active participants in the decision-making process surrounding the subtle details of their artistic response, while the music director still holds overall artistic license of the music to be played. As an active music educator, he has worked for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to edit and draft curriculum for their VSO Connects (Secondary) program, chaired the BC Music Educator’s Association’s Conference Pulse 2006, and currently sits as a board member of the Chamber Music in the Schools Society. He is a recipient of the BC Music Educators’ Association’s Outstanding Professional Music Educator’s Award in recognition of exemplary commitment, talent, and leadership for music education in British Columbia. Please feel free to contact him via email.
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Camden McAllister
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Camden McAllister has been a percussion clinician and educator for 16 years, teaching a broad range of orchestral and marching percussion, and has extensive experience setting up percussion sections in concert band settings. A graduate of the Canadian Cadet Program, he has been a music instructor for the program since the late 2000’s, and taught full band and marching percussion following the Canadian military tradition over ten separate summers and countless clinics in Alberta and throughout BC.
Since moving to the Comox Valley two years ago, he has accompanied the Celebration Singers Community Choirs in their centennial concert on percussion, been the percussionist in the local musical productions of: Matilda, Spamalot!, and Cabaret, and is the timpanist for the Comox Valley Concert Band. He received a Bachelor of Music (Performance, Percussion) from the University of Victoria, and a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) from the University of British Columbia. He currently teachers K-7 music at a large elementary school in the Comox Valley, where he lives with his wife, Erin. |
Luke McAndless-Davis
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Luke teaches choir at New Westminster Secondary, the very high school he was lucky enough to graduate from. In addition to directing several school choirs, Luke is the Assistant Conductor for the Vancouver Youth Choir where he also conducts their Junior and Treble choirs. In 2023, Luke assisted the preparation and conducted the Vancouver Youth Choir in a piece at the World Symposium on Choral Music at Istanbul, Türkiye. A graduate of the UBC Music Education Program, Luke has previously taught at Collingwood School and Mulgrave School and served as Assistant Conductor for the Vancouver Orpheus Male Voice Choir and the 2019 BC Youth Choir. Luke’s school choirs have performed at festivals throughout Canada and recently received a gold rating at the Anaheim Heritage Festival in California. In addition to teaching and conducting, Luke has also sung with professional ensembles musica intima, and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Luke’s work has taken him many places and he has had the privilege of singing and conducting in cathedrals in Prague, London, and Dublin; in Carnegie Hall in New York, and J.S. Bach’s St. Thomas Kirche in Leipzig, Germany.
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Matthew Martin
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Matthew Martin is a full time elementary music educator in the Greater Victoria School District and is currently in his 14th year of teaching. Matthew is a trumpet player in the Victoria area playing with The Midnights R&B Band (horn leader), The Commodores Big Band (lead), and the Civic Orchestra of Victoria (2nd).
Matthew is highly engaged in professional association and professional development. Matthew has been a board member of the British Columbia Music Educators' Association for the past 11 years in the roles of Conference Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. Matthew has also been a board member of the Canadian Music Educators' Association for the past 2 and a half years in the roles of Public Relations and Secretary. Matthew is currently completing a Professional Master of Education from Queens University at Kingston. |
Sandro Massullo
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Sandro Massullo has been a prominent figure in the music business since 1985. With a passion for music and a commitment to quality service, he has built a reputation as a trusted expert in the field of musical instrument repairs.
In 2002, Sandro took a significant step by opening Massullo Music, where he combines his extensive knowledge with a welcoming environment for musicians of all levels. His store not only offers a wide selection of instruments and accessories but also features a dedicated repair shop, where he and his crew work meticulously on brass, woodwinds, and more. Known for his exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail, Sandro is dedicated to ensuring that every instrument is restored to its optimal performance. He believes in fostering a strong connection with his clients, helping both amateur and professional musicians alike achieve their musical goals. |
Alice Maundrell
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Alice Maundrell (She/Her) is a music educator currently teaching high school concert band, jazz band, musical theatre, and choir at Edward Milne Community School, located on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish: T'Sou-ke Nation and Sc'ianew Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth: Pacheedaht Nation (also known as Sooke) in British Columbia. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Secondary Instrumental Music Education (2014) and a Master’s degree in Special Education (2017), both from the University of Victoria (UVic).
Prior to her current role, Alice spent four years teaching band, jazz band, and musical theatre at Bert Bowes Middle School in Fort St. John. She also conducted the North Peace Community Choir and Northern Lights Youth Choir, and has worked with Cadets, leading band clinics across British Columbia. |
Michael Meroniuk
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Michael Meroniuk is a dedicated music educator at Nookta Elementary in Vancouver, BC, and the founder of "The New Sound," a music education company committed to keeping music education thriving in schools.
With a professional music career spanning over a decade and a Master's in Educational Technology, he integrates practical musicianship with innovative teaching. Michael's curriculum at Nookta Elementary focuses on technical skill-building while fostering a creative passion for music, aligning with his vision to ensure music remains an essential part of every child's education. Michael is a session guitarist and mandolinist. Michael’s performance history includes performances with JoJo Mason, Shawn Austin, Mathew V, Hey Ocean, Andrew Hyatt, Sophia Danai, John Reicshman, Greg Drummond, Portiia and many more. Michael has had his guitar playing featured in many films/movies, one of the most recent being Ali Wong’s “Always Be My Maybe” and Virgin River. He's won the BC Country Musician Associations “Mandolin Player Of The Year” award in 2022, had his original music nominated at the 2019 Breakout West Awards, and has been fortunate to tour internationally. https://www.michaelmeroniuk.com/ |
Marc Micu
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Marc Micu is on a perpetual search for uniquity and unfeigned self-expression within the musical core, its complexion, and all in-between. Based in lək̓ʷəŋən territory, colonially known as Victoria BC, Marc is a Filipino multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, arranger, researcher, and advocate for all things music. He has etched his name into BC’s musical realm by dedicating his life to performing a variety of genres in several ensemble formats such as jazz, funk, fusion, art-music, contemporary, ska, reggaetón, indie, orchestra, and pop. Marc has had 8 years of ensemble leadership, dating back from running jazz combos in high school. Now, Marc is the director and bandleader of his lively funk-fusion band “Marc Micu & Friends” and dynamically eclectic brass quintet “Kasperl Quintet”, both having played sold out shows across BC. In March of 2023, Marc received the prestigious Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award for his research on brass mutes titled “The Spectrum of Sound: the Obscure Timbres within Muted Brass”. Marc always had a fascination with the vast timbral potential ever since he was young - and wanted to inspire others to be creative and explore their means of interpretation.
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Christina O'Brien
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Christina O'Brien is an elementary school music teacher from Calgary, Alberta. With plenty of experience in the classroom and studio, Christina has been able to blend the individualized lesson approach with large group instruction, ensuring that each student can feel successful with a part in each song that she teaches or arranges for the ukulele. Christina completed the James Hill Ukulele Initiative teaching program in 2020 and along the way he helped her publish the “Ukulele for Children” music books. Christina is passionate about teaching music literacy skills to young students and building community through music making. Ask her about CommUKEity! Christina is also an avid runner, fitness enthusiast and lover of lattes. She can often be found sneaking squats, lunges and songs about coffee into her music lessons at school.
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Claire Oliverio
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Claire Oliverio (she/her) is a Filipina-Canadian educator who believes music embodies the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She is honored to teach on the traditional territory of the Katzie First Nation and Kwantlen First Nations peoples in the lower mainland. Claire has earned a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University, a Bachelor of Education in Fine and Performing Arts from Simon Fraser University, a Bachelor of Music with Distinction from Kwantlen Polytechnic University on a full-tuition scholarship, and an ARCT Teacher’s Elementary/Intermediate/Advanced Specialist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. For the past five years, she has shared her love of music at Maple Ridge Secondary School as the choir director. In the program, Claire works with junior concert choir, senior concert choir, chamber choir, girls’ chorus, boys’ chorus, and musical theatre. It has been an honor for Claire to connect the MRSS singers with her valued mentors and choral educators including Sandra Meister, Sarona Mynhardt, Dr. Jim Sparks, Dr. Mark Sirett, Dr. Rollo Dilworth, and many more, through BCCF workshops and extracurricular educational experiences. A large portion of Claire’s focus has been on building community. In her music journey, she has cultivated strong relationships with her peers, professors, and pupils, building connections in her various roles as the former manager of the KPU Wind Symphony (2014-2016), co-music director at St. John the Divine Historical Anglican Church (2010-2021), accompanist for the Maple Ridge Chorus Community Choir (2018-2023), and as a private piano instructor at her home studio. In her free time, Claire enjoys traveling the world with her loved ones, exploring the beauty of the Philippines, Cuba, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, Germany, Austria, Portugal, and South Korea; the human experience is truly magnified by seeing through new eyes. Claire looks forward to sharing her session at the BCMEAs, drawing upon the valuable lessons shared by her esteemed mentors, beloved students, and extraordinary colleagues.
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Brandon Peters
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Brandon Peters was born in the Tla'amin village of Tishosem (the Murky Waters From Herring Spawn). Brandon grew up singing traditional Salish music, and immersed in Coast Salish Culture. Brandon has done drumming sessions around the province, children and adults alike. Brandon teaches Coast Salish drumming protocols when passing on songs and teachings.
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Dr. Anita Prest
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Dr. Anita Prest is Associate Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Victoria, Canada, located on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. She was born and raised in Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and is of Italian descent. Alongside multi-First Nation, Métis, and non-Indigenous partners, she engages in community-based participatory research to examine the embedding of local Indigenous knowledges, pedagogies, and worldviews in British Columbia’s public school music classes. Four studies have been supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). In 2020, she was awarded a University of Victoria Faculty of Education Award for Excellence in Research. Anita is co-founder of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) Decolonizing and Indigenizing Music Education special interest group. She currently serves on the UVic Senate and Human Research Ethics Board. Anita teaches music education courses to both secondary music specialist and elementary generalist teacher candidates, and research methodology courses to graduate students. She has presented papers in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Prior to her appointment at the University of Victoria, Anita taught K-12 music for 20 years in rural and metropolitan settings.
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Bob Rebagliati
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For over 40 years, Bob Rebagliati has directed many award-winning junior and senior high school ensembles. Bob frequently adjudicates at community music festivals in both the concert band and jazz band areas. Mr. Rebagliati is Adjudicator of the Conn-Selmer Centerstage Jazz Band at the annual MusicFest Canada and Adjudicator of Scholarships for MusicFest Canada's Instrumental Jazz Division. Bob has been the recipient of the British Columbia Music Educator's Professional Educator Award, Canada i25 medal, North Vancouver Music Educators' Award of Excellence and the Leadership in Music Education Award from the Coalition for Music Education In BC. In addition to being an in demand adjudicator of concert band and jazz festivals, Bob is a frequent guest conductor in both concert and jazz idioms. 'Reb' as he is also known, is also a frequent guest classroom clinician in concert band and jazz band rehearsal techniques, repertoire, percussion section, jazz interpretation and rhythm section instruments.
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Elizabeth Riegert
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Elizabeth graduated from the University of British Columbia with her Bachelor of Music in Bassoon and Bachelor of Education (Secondary) in 2016 and 2017, respectively. She is passionate about music education and regularly advocates for affordable options for students to enhance their learning. Elizabeth has founded a district wide band in the VSB, and is an intern conductor with the Sea to Sky Wind Ensemble. She enjoys playing bassoon in her spare time with A Little Night Music Orchestra, and plays bass trombone in her school's VanTech After Dark Jazz Band.
Elizabeth has taught at Vancouver Technical Secondary for 7 years now, where she teaches Chamber and Concert Choir, Vocal Jazz, Concert Band and Junior String Orchestra. She has had the wonderful opportunity to work alongside and learn from her Practicum Advisor, Amanda Kilburn, who is also a wind player that took on learning a string instrument to teach strings and is well known around the VSB. Elizabeth now studies the violin and is keen on improving her technique in strings, and supporting strings students with proper technique and pedagogy. |
Frances Roberts
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Frances Roberts recently retired from teaching high school music at Argyle Secondary School in North Vancouver where she directed concert, chamber and jazz choirs, for thirty-two years. During her many years of teaching her award-winning choirs toured extensively throughout North America, Europe, the Baltics, China, England and Scotland. Now in her retirement she is enjoying working with adult community choirs: VOX PANACEA, a women’s physicians choir in the Phoenix Choir Community, and CHORISMA, an SATB Jazz choir at the Kerrisdale Seniors Centre.
As a result of her outstanding work, Frances is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor. She has presented workshops for BCMEA, Alberta Choral Federation, BC Choral Federation, Long & McQuade and the Association of Canadian Choral Communities. Frances is a UBC School of Music graduate from 1986 and again in 2017 attaining her Masters of Music in Choral Conducting. In 2018 she received the “Most Inspiring Conductor” award from the Vancouver Kiwanis Festival and in 2020 she was honoured by her colleagues when she received the BC Music Educators Association Outstanding Professional Music Educator Award. Frances is happy to be back amongst her dedicated colleagues sharing strategies and stories at this BCMEA. She recently traveled to South Africa for a two week choral intensive in Capetown under the tutelage of Bongani Magatyana where she learned traditional songs and dances. |
Clinton Ryder
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Providing a strong musical and creative foundation across a broad musical palette inspires Clinton Ryder's work as a professional bassist, music educator, and music producer. Based in Montreal, Canada, the two-time Juno-award-nominated bassist embraces many musical styles, which include jazz, folk, rock, R&B, musical theatre, country, and pop. His live performances, international tours, and studio recordings reflect this diverse musical palette, which includes projects with Nikki Yanofsky, The Dears, The Irish Rovers, Holly Arntzen, Félix Stüssi, Tania Gill, Jim Byrnes, Petru Guelfucci. Proficient on both electric and acoustic (double) bass, in 2023 he expanded his activities by founding a music production studio in Montreal dedicated to nurturing and empowering artists to realize their creative visions.
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David Sabourin
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A graduate of the University of British Columbia in 1979, David's career in business and the arts has taken him across the globe to such countries as Russia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and England as an international performer. Since 1979 he has performed as a professional musician with such noted organizations as the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (principal tuba 1980-81 season), Vancouver Opera (principal tuba - present) and was a founding member of A Touch of Brass. He has studied with Dennis Miller (Montreal Symphony), Charles Daellenbach (Canadian Brass) and the late Arnold Jacobs (Chicago Symphony). As an educator, David has taught at Kwantlen College, Vancouver Community College and the University of British Columbia. He has owned his own retail music store, Tapestry Music, in White Rock since 1996.
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Hannah Salmon
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Hannah Salmon is a music educator from Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, with an extensive background in music education and performance. She earned her degrees in Music Education from the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College Dublin. While at Trinity College, Hannah made notable contributions as the conductor of both the Trinity College Singers and the Boydell Choir. A highlight of her tenure included conducting these choirs on an international tour to Paris, where they performed at the American Cathedral.
Following her studies, Hannah taught secondary school music across Ireland, where she also directed and choreographed numerous musicals and theatrical productions. Her expertise in guiding young performers and fostering musical talent has been a hallmark of her career. She strives to make music enjoyable and accessible for all. Currently, Hannah teaches elementary music and band in West Vancouver, where she continues to inspire and cultivate the musical abilities of her students. |
Colleen Sheridan
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Colleen has been teaching since 2003 and is currently the Music Department Head at Fleetwood Park Secondary in Surrey, BC. She taught at four different schools in Canada and in England, gaining a diverse and rich teaching experience. She is a dedicated music educator with a passion for enhancing students' understanding of theoretical concepts through practical-based learning. With a focus on developing musical literacy strategies, Colleen aims to cultivate musicianship and foster greater independence among students. Colleen holds a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Education from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and a Master of Education from the University of Cambridge. This academic foundation, combined with a hands-on approach to teaching, equips Colleen to develop and grow musicians in her program. Colleen lives in Coquitlam with her husband, their three active children, and their dog, Jack. When Colleen’s not at work, you can find her driving to soccer games and diving practices or walking Jack around Mundy Park.
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Sam Shumka
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Sam Shumka is currently the band and choir director at Agassiz Elementary Secondary School. He holds a B.Mus in Performance, a B.Ed in Secondary Music, and an M.Ed in Curriculum Design with a focus in music education. He has performed internationally as a jazz and classical pianist, has adjudicated in festivals in BC and Alberta, and is in demand as a clinician. Mr. Shumka and his co-presenter Mr. Werner are big believers in collaboration across all facets of education. They have collaborated numerous times, where their choirs combined to be the top rated ensembles at the Calgary Performing Arts Festival and Cantando Whistler Festival.
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Corey Smith
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Corey is a musician and educator based in Port Moody. He has been teaching music at high schools for 9 years and has taught with VSB, NVSD, ISABC, and SD43-Coquitlam. He has experience teaching Concert Band, Jazz Band, Jazz Studies, String Orchestra, Music Production, Guitar, Rock School, and Drumline. He currently operates as a Director of Music at Port Moody Secondary School, Director of Operations - BC for the Canadian Drumline Association, and Musical Director of the Port Moody Community Band. He holds a Bachelor of Music (UofA '12), Bachelor of Education (UBC '15), and Master of Music (Boston University '20). Corey grew up in a family of music educators; watching his grandfather’s bands rehearse and perform in Southern California at events such as the Rose Parade were incredibly influential in the shaping of Corey’s development as a musician and educator. Corey has been specifically focused on the development of drumline and marching groups across the Greater Vancouver Area and hopes to help support the scholastic marching arts’ continued growth in British Columbia and Canada.
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Ellie Smith
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Ellie is a graduate from UBC and holds a B.Ed in Secondary Music Education, B. Mus in Viola Performance, Voice and Piano Studies and completed the Diploma in Conducting program from Capilano University. Ellie is currently a Music Education Specialist for the Comox Valley School District, Co-Director of the West Coast Amateur Musicians Society music camp and enjoys performing with many local groups, including the Island Voices Chamber Choir in Black Creek, B.C. She is an avid chamber musician, soloist, recording artist, clinician and conductor on beautiful Vancouver Island.
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Tyler Swick
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Tyler Swick is an elementary music teacher in Las Vegas, NV where he runs an award-winning general music program and manages the YouTube channel, "Swick's Classroom." Swick is an inaugural Yamaha 40 Under 40 Music Educator, a Heart of Education recipient, and the 2024 Nevada PTA Teacher of the Year. Swick has presented on music education at NAMM, NAfME, IMES, Ti:ME, NSSBE, and state-level conferences. He serves on the Communication & Outreach Committee for the National Society of Steel Band Educators and the Advocacy in Action Advisory Team with Music For All. On stage, Swick has performed at the Latin Grammys, Panorama, and was featured in an international LG phone commercial.
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Dr. Kari Turunen
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Kari Turunen is the Artistic Director of the professional Vancouver Chamber Choir since the beginning of the 2019/20 season. Before moving to Vancouver, he played a major role in choral music in Finland as a conductor, teacher of conducting, singer, clinician, administrator, adjudicator and lecturer. Concert tours and teacher, clinician and adjudicator assignments regularly took him around Europe and Asia. His choirs and ensembles won numerous prizes both in Finland and abroad. Kari Turunen was educated at the University of Helsinki and the Sibelius Academy where he studied choral conducting (MA). He holds a doctorate in early music performance practice from the University of the Arts, Helsinki. In addition to his artistic activities, Kari Turunen has been active in many festivals, of late, mainly as an Artistic Director. He was the Artistic Director of the annual Aurore Renaissance Festival in Helsinki 2015–2020 and the Finnish-Swedish Song Celebration in Helsinki in June 2022 and was the AD of the Tampere Vocal Music Festival in 2023. He even has a shady past in administration and served as chair of the Finnish Choral Directors’ Association (FCDA) for almost 20 years and was the Executive Director of a national choral organization for six years in his youth. He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).
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Vancouver Chamber Choir
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The Vancouver Chamber Choir is Canada’s longest-running fully professional choral ensemble. Formed in 1971 by Founder & Conductor Emeritus Jon Washburn, the choir has become an amazing success story, ranking with the handful of North America’s best professional choruses and noted for its diverse repertoire and performing excellence. The choir has presented concerts at home in Vancouver and on tour across Canada. International excursions have taken them to the USA, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Finland, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Artistic Director Kari Turunen began leading the Vancouver Chamber Choir in September 2019, its 49th concert season. Honoured with the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence by Chorus America, the choir has performed countless concerts and broadcasts, has released nearly 40 recordings and has received numerous awards. Foremost supporters of Canadian music, they are responsible for commissions and premieres of over 400 choral works by 150 composers and arrangers, most of whom are Canadian. Over the years the choir has sung over 4,000 performances of works by Canadian composers, in addition to their extensive international repertoire. The choir’s award-winning educational programs include the Conductors’ Symposium for advanced choral conductors, Interplay interactive workshops for choral composers, Focus professional development program for student singers, OnSite visitations for school choirs, the biennial Young Composers’ Competition, and many on-tour workshops and residencies. For more information, please visit www.vancouverchamberchoir.com.
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Dr. Héctor Vázquez-Cordoba
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Dr. Hector Vazquez-Cordoba is originally from Naolinco, Mexico. Hector is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and the Department of Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria. He completed his PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Victoria. His research was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, and it focused on the embedding of music with Indigenous roots into Mexico’s national elementary curriculum. Hector’s postdoctoral research project addressed collaborations between teacher candidates and Indigenous culture bearers in the Coast Salish Territory (Canada) and the Huasteca region (Mexico). His postdoctoral research was supported by a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, an ISME-SEMPRE Music Education Research Grant and Agrigento: Music for Social Change.
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Janine Webster
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Janine Webster began her musical studies on Oboe and English horn in Kamloops with the amazing Dick Dickens. Upon graduating from high school, she completed a Bachelor of Music with distinction, and a Master of Education in Conducting from UVic. For 32 years, Janine had the privilege of creating music with thousands of students in the Chilliwack School District, encountering many challenges along the way, including misogynistic university professors, administrators and colleagues. She chose to fight the good fight, always putting her students first and striving to improve the working environment for all music educators. Janine received the Keith Mann Outstanding Band Director Award from MusicFest Canada, the B.C. Music Educators Professional Music Educator – Secondary Award, and Rotary International honoured her with the Paul Harris Fellow Award in appreciation of better understanding and encouraging friendly relations among people of the world. Janine continues to adjudicate, present workshops, guest conduct and work with young musicians. She now lives in Victoria, where she enjoys the cultural scene and is active in the musical community.
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Kris Werner
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Kris Werner is currently the director of bands and drumline at Sardis Secondary School in Chilliwack BC. He holds a B.Mus in Jazz Studies, B.Ed in Secondary Music, and an M.Ed in Educational Leadership and Administration with a focus on assessment. He maintains an active performing schedule on a variety of instruments, and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician. Mr. Werner and his co-presenter Mr. Shumka are big believers in collaboration across all facets of education. They have collaborated numerous times, where their choirs combined to be the top rated ensembles at the Calgary Performing Arts Festival and Cantando Whistler Festival.
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BCMEA Conference - by music educators, for music educators
The BCMEA Conference takes place every October and is organized entirely by a team of volunteer music educators, working in the Province of British Columbia. The purpose of the BCMEA Conference is to provide a world-class, one-stop-shop for professional development for all members of the BCMEA. Any music educator in public, private, independent, and post secondary education (including undergraduate students) in BC is welcome to membership in the BCMEA. Any music educator world-wide is welcome to register and attend the BCMEA Conference.
The British Columbia Music Educators' Association (BCMEA) is a Provincial Specialist Association (PSA) of the British Columbia Teachers' Federation (BCTF). PSAs are channels for members to exchange ideas on research, teaching strategies, curriculum development, and other shared interests.
Additionally, the BCMEA is an official affiliate organization of the Canadian Music Educators' Association/L'Association canadienne des musiciens éducateurs (CMEA/Acme). All members of the BCMEA are members of the CMEA/Acme and entitled to all benefits offered by way of an official signed and notarized Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Additionally, the BCMEA is an official affiliate organization of the Canadian Music Educators' Association/L'Association canadienne des musiciens éducateurs (CMEA/Acme). All members of the BCMEA are members of the CMEA/Acme and entitled to all benefits offered by way of an official signed and notarized Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
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