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CliniciansAfter teaching at the Lake MacDonald Music Centre for 19 years, Patricia Abbott welcomes the opportunity to serve CAMMAC as its new Artistic Director. Pat has just stepped down as the Executive Director of the Association of Canada Choral Communities, having worked in the position for 16 years. She conducts the Chorale du Gesù women’s choir, the English Montreal School Board Chorale and the Ensemble vocal Cantivo in St-Sauveur. She is a guest instructor in choral conducting at McGill University and was the choral artist in residence at FACE School in Montreal from 1996 to 2007. She has guest-conducted, adjudicated and led workshops across Canada, in the United States, in Europe and in Argentina. Pat holds a master’s degree in voice performance and vocal pedagogy from McGill University as well as degrees in history from Carleton University (Ottawa) and journalism from Concordia University (Montreal).
Dr. Philip Copeland is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He just completed his ninth year of teaching at UAB where he serves as Director of Choral Activities and teaches classes in music education. Choirs under Dr. Copeland’s direction have distinguished themselves on the national and international stage – most recently as a featured performer in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Regional Conference in Memphis, Tennessee (2010) and the 2009 conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his choir are frequent participants and award winners in international choral competitions. Dr. Copeland serves as Chairman of ACDA's Technology Committee and the ChoralNet board of directors. He frequently presents sessions at state, regional and national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association in the area of technology. He is married to Leigh and they have triplet six-year old daughters, Catherine, Caroline, and Claire.
Caron Daley maintains an active career as a conductor, music educator and soprano. A native of Halifax, Caron directs the Junior Choral program at St. Michael’s Choir School in Toronto. She is also currently pursuing her D.M.A. in choral conducting at U of T, where she conducts the Faculty of Music Master Chorale. From 2003-2007, Caron lived in North Carolina, where she was the Director of Music at Salem Academy, Voice Instructor at Salem College, and Chorusmaster for the Tar River Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. Caron has studied the Dalcroze method at Longy School of Music, the New York Dalcroze School, and The Ohio State University. She regularly gives presentations on the applications of Dalcroze to choral singing and conducting, including a lecture-demonstration at the Phenomenon of Singing International Symposium VII in 2009. Dr. Julia Davids is a proud founding member of the Canadian Chamber Choir. Originally from London, Ontario, she has forged a career as a versatile performer, educator and conductor. As a soprano soloist, Ms. Davids is an avid performer and recitalist, having appeared with Opera Atelier, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, the Toronto Chamber Choir, the Toronto Consort, the Guelph Chamber Choir, the Aradia Ensemble, and the Publick Musick. Upcoming engagements include Vivaldi's Gloria with the Jubilate Children's Choir and the Mark Morris Dance Company in Chicago. As a conductor, Dr. Davids recently directed the 2006 Nova Scotia Youth Choir tour. She is on faculty at Loyola University where she teaches a large studio of voice students as well as conducting the choirs. Dr. Davids also serves as Director of Music Ministries at Trinity United Methodist Church and conducts the Camerata Singers of Lake Forest. She has degrees in education, voice performance and conducting from the University of Western Ontario, the University of Michigan, and a DM from Northwestern University. Morna Edmundson is one of Canada’s best-known choral conductors, with special interests in the areas of tone colour, language, and interpretation. As a conductor, singer, and administrator, her professional music career spans over twenty-five years, including eight years as a professional singer in the Vancouver Chamber Choir. Ms. Edmundson is best known for her 22 years of accomplishment as Co-Founder and Co-Conductor of Elektra’s Women’s Choir, with which she has received numerous honours and awards. At the end of the 2008/2009 season, Morna was appointed Artistic Director of Elektra at the same time as her long-time colleague Diane Loomer, C.M. stepped into the Conductor Emeritus role. Morna’s career as a choral musician has followed her passion for a cappella singing, for contemporary music, for early music, and for integrating the beauty of folksong traditions into choral repertoire. For 14 years she shared her love of quality repertoire with a new generation of singers in her role as Associate Director of Coastal Sound Music Academy, where she was Music Director of the mixed-voice Youth Chamber Choir. She has adjudicated in North America and Asia, conducted honour choirs in several states, co-directed the ACDA National Women’s Honour Choir, and gives frequent workshops with choirs of all ages. Ms. Edmundson has given lectures on her work at local, national, and international meetings of choral professionals. For six years she served on the Board of the Directors of the International Federation for Choral Music. In May 2000 she was presented with the Healey Willan Award for outstanding service to the BC Choral Federation, an organization she serves as a member of the President’s Advisory Council. In February 2009 Morna was a recipient of the BC Community Achievement Award, which recognized her gifted organizational talent, leadership by example, and Morna’s encouragement of others to pursue their musical and choral goals. Morna is also an accomplished arts administrator and cultural leader in Vancouver, serving as Administrative Director of Festival Vancouver, Co-Chair of the Arts Festivals Association of Metro Vancouver, volunteer President of the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival, formal and informal mentor to other conductors and administrators, and frequent contributor to cultural planning in the city and province. Prior to these roles, she served as Executive Director of the World of Children’s Choirs 2001 festival and symposium, and Assistant Director of the 1993 World Symposium on Choral Music in Vancouver. Laurier Fagnan holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the University of Alberta and a Master's degree in vocal pedagogy from Université Laval. He recently completed his doctoral studies in choral conducting (U of A/IRCAM, Paris), specializing in vocal technique for choirs. Further studies have brought him to the Mozarteum in Salzburg and to New York and Portland, where he studied with renowned bel canto masters Richard Miller and Dan Marek. Mr. Fagnan has given over three hundred workshops in the area of bel canto vocal technique for choirs from Whitehorse to Newfoundland. Dr. Fagnan is associate professor of music responsible for the vocal/choral program at Campus Saint-Jean in Edmonton where he has directed the dynamic Chorale Saint-Jean for the past 14 years. For seven years he was also artistic director of the acclaimed ensemble Da Camera Singers which enjoyed regular collaborations with Edmonton’s professional orchestras. His recent area of research, choral acoustics, has led to collaborations and presentations at international conferences in Stockholm, Miami and Paris. His thesis entitled “The Acoustical Effects of the Core Principles of the Bel Canto Method on Choral Singing” was recently awarded both Canadian and American National dissertation prizes. He is a fellow of the Fondation Baxter et Alma Ricard,which enabled him to conduct advanced research in choral acoustics at IRCAM in Paris. The recent awarding of a generous grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation led to the opening of Canada’s first vocal acoustics laboratory at Campus Saint-Jean of the U of A in 2006. He has served as vocal coach for the largest choral festival in North America and in July of 2008 was honoured to conduct a choir of 1400 voices amassed to celebrate Québec City’s 400th anniversary. In 2009 he will present several sessions at the Québec Choral Conductors’ Symposium and will be keynote presenter at Festival 500, an international choral festival in Newfoundland. During his 2009-2010 sabbatical year, he will produce a new DVD on vocal technique for choirs and write a book on bel canto vocal pedagogy. He presented the keynote address at the Europa Cantat General Assembly in Sofia, Bulgaria in November of 2009 and has been asked to present his research at the World Choral Symposium in Argentina in 2011. Laurier Fagnan possède un Baccalauréat en chant de l'Université de l'Alberta et une maîtrise en pédagogie du chant de l'Université Laval. Il a récemment terminé ses études doctorales en direction chorale (U of A/IRCAM, Paris). D’autres études l’ont amené à poursuivre sa formation au Mozarteum à Salzbourg, et ensuite à New York et à Portland avec les grands maîtres du bel canto, Richard Miller et Dan Marek. Responsable du programme de musique au Campus Saint-Jean à Edmonton, le professeur Fagnan est depuis quatorze ans chef de la dynamique Chorale Saint-Jean et, pendant sept ans, a dirigé l’ensemble distingué les Da Camera Singers. Il a plusieurs enregistrements professionnels à son actif avec ces deux chorales qui sont souvent invitées par des orchestres de la région. Son nouveau domaine de recherche innovateur, l’acoustique des chœurs, l’amène à être conférencier invité à des colloques internationaux à Stockholm, Paris et Miami ainsi que d’offrir des ateliers en technique vocale pour des chorales partout au Canada. Sa thèse doctorale vient d’être accordée les prix nationaux de dissertation au Canada par l’ACCC et aux États-Unis par l’ACDA. Monsieur Fagnan est récipiendaire de la bourse nationale de la Fondation Baxter et Alma Ricard, ce qui lui a permis de poursuivre sa recherche en acoustique des chœurs pendant six mois à l’IRCAM à Paris. Grâce à une généreuse subvention de la Fondation canadienne pour l’innovation, il a pu ouvrir en 2006 le premier laboratoire en acoustique vocale au Canada au Campus Saint-Jean. En juillet 2008 il a eu l’honneur de diriger un chœur de 1400 voix lors du concert gala du 400e anniversaire de la ville de Québec. En 2009 il sera formateur au Colloque des chefs de chœur du Québec et ensuite au festival international de chant choral Festival 500. Pendant son année sabbatique en 2009-2011, il sera conférencier invité lors de l’assemblée générale d’Europa Cantat en Bulgarie et réalisera un DVD sur la technique vocale pour les chœurs. Il est aussi conférencier invité pour le World Choral Symposium en Argentine en 2011. Mary Lou Fallis holds a unique position in the music scene as "Canada's foremost musical comedienne." Known to thousands of viewers and listeners across the country for the Bravo! television series Bathroom Divas, her CBC Radio series Diva Diaries, and to hundreds of theatre-goers for her Primadonna series of one-woman shows, Ms. Fallis in her inimitable way, has re-invented the classical music comedy genre. A favourite of the late great Anna Russell, Ms. Fallis made her operatic debut at 16 years of age as the Second Spirit in a CBC Television production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. After obtaining the first Master's degree in Performance and Literature from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, her career has encompassed performances of major oratorios and choral works with leading orchestras, as well as opera - with roles ranging from Despina in Cosi fan Tutte to Zerbinetta in R. Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. In addition to her North American engagements Ms. Fallis has toured the United Kingdom extensively, appearing in London's West End, Covent Garden International Festival, the Wexford Opera Festival, and the Edinburgh International Festival. More recent seasons have included appearances in Japan and Iceland. Ms. Fallis is best known as the creator and interpreter of very original one-woman shows: the ACTRA award-winning, Dora-nominated Primadonna, based on her own life as a singer, and its two sequels Primadonna's First Farewell Tour; and Primadonna Does More With Less, which was premiered at the Guelph Spring Festival; Emma, Queen of Song about the real-life Canadian diva, Emma Albani; The Mrs. Bach Show hosted by Anna Magdalena, wife of J.S. Bach; and Ms. Mozart, the story of Wolfgang's sister Nannerl (created for the 1991 Mozart bicentennial). The latest incarnations are are Primadonna on a Moose turned into a popular CD with members of the Toronto Symphony and the Primadonna goes Camping premiered outdoors on a wilderness Lake in Haliburton at the Forest Festival Ms Fallis' Diva Diaries was a popular Friday afternoon series on CBC Radio's Take Five, which featured the Primadonna's personal and hilarious observations about her travels, both real and imaginary, across Canada. Ms. Fallis was the music producer of the Gemini award winning Bathroom Divas, a new six-part reality TV series that quickly developed a cult following. Opera's answer to American Idol, Bathroom Divas featured Ms. Fallis as part of a jury selecting the grand-prize winner from hundreds of hopefuls in a nation-wide challenge. Ms Fallis lives in Toronto with her husband and a very woolly dog named Percy. Dr. Elroy Friesen is Director of Choral Studies at the University of Manitoba where he conducts the University Singers, Cantata Singers and Women’s Chorus as well as teaches conducting, graduate conducting and music education. He has recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Illinois focusing his research on the choral music of Finnish composer, Einojuhani Rautavaara. His ensembles are frequently recorded by CBC, and have received numerous awards for their performances in Manitoba and Canada. As well as touring internationally, they perform with many outstanding local and national arts organizations, including the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Kokopelli, the WSO New Music Festival, Soundstreams Canada, Groundswell, and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Elroy Friesen has studied at the University of Manitoba (B. Mus., B. Ed., M. Mus.) and the University of Illinois (DMA), receiving numerous study grants and scholarships from the Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba. Dr. Friesen is the founder and past artistic director of Prairie Voices, and has recently held the positions of Artistic Director of the Mennonite Community Orchestra, Director of Choirs at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Urbana, and Director of the U of I University Chorus in Illinois. He is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor, having performed throughout Canada and the United States and has recently had conducting engagements in Sweden and South America. Elroy and his wife Heidi are raising their family of four children in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Dr. John Hooper is Professor of Music at Concordia University College of Alberta where he serves as Academic Head of the School of Music, teaching conducting, theory, and aural skills. He earned his D.M.A. in choral music from Arizona State University as well as degrees in theory and composition from A.S.U. and James Madison University in Virginia. Dr. Hooper furthered his studies under Dr. Richard Sparks, Maestro Frieder Bernius, Maestro Peter Phillips, and Dr. René Clausen through grants from the Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund. As a choral conductor, he has led many university, community, semi-professional, secondary school, and church choirs. The Concordia Concert Choir, under his leadership, has continued its long tradition by expanding its repertoire, visibility, and performance opportunities. The choir has toured extensively, including Canada, the United States, and Europe. In addition, they have been invited to sing at music festivals, choral conferences, teacher conventions, and special events for the church and the community. Under Hooper's direction, the choir released three compact discs, the most recent released in the summer of 2002. Concert performances and recordings have received excellent reviews – a "bona fide died-and-gone-to-heaven experience," according to the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. He also was the founding conductor of Sine Nomine, a community-based young adult choir started in 2000 to focus on sacred choral music. Dr. Hooper established the handbell program at Concordia, having conducted the Concordia Handbell Ensemble and Jubiloso!, an auditioned community handbell choir which has twice performed at the Handbell Guilds of Canada's biennial national convention, The Ringing Link. Dr. Hooper was a featured conductor at the 2008 Ringing Link in London, Ontario. He was invited by the Handbell Guilds of Canada to be the Canadian conductor at the International Handbell Symposium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in August 2006. There he also taught masterclasses on advanced conducting technique. His conducting teaching continued at the 2008 International Handbell Symposium and the National Seminar held in Orlando, Florida, USA, sponsored by the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers. He has written and arranged music for handbells, choirs, and other instruments. His Toccata won the Alberta Guild of English Handbell Ringers composition contest in 2003. An active guest conductor, workshop leader, clinician and adjudicator, Dr. Hooper has presented at the Alberta Music Conference, the Alberta Sings Conference, the Alberta Guild of English Handbell Ringers' Handbell Discovery and conferences of the Alberta Teachers' Association. He has appeared as a guest lecturer and conductor at the Australian National Choral Association's Choralfest, once in Brisbane in 2002 and again in Tasmania in 2006. Dr. Hooper has served as interim conductor of Edmonton's Da Camera Singers and has twice conducted Men Making Music, working with four of Edmonton's finest male choirs. He was selected as the resident conductor of the 1997 Alberta Honour Choir. Dr. Hooper twice served as a clinician at Choralfest South in Calgary, sponsored by the Alberta Choral Federation, and twice at the Canadian Cantando Festival in Edmonton. In addition, he has served the church through presentations and guest conducting at conferences and symposia sponsored by Lutheran Church-Canada, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Camp Pioneer (Angola, NY), and the Edmonton Chinese Christian Choir. He has served as adjudicator for the Singapore Youth Festival, the City of Hobart Eisteddfod, and several places throughout Alberta. Dr. Hooper's interest in repertoire has resulted in presentations at the American Choral Directors' Association 2008 Northwest Division Conference on Canadian sacred a cappella choral music and the 2007 Royal Canadian College of Organists national conference on choral-organ repertoire. His academic focus is on conducting and pedagogy, resulted in a set of three videos, The Art & Work of Choir, designed for the novice choir director, which are regularly broadcast on ACCESS-TV. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Music Alberta Magazine, ACF's Quires, the Canadian Lutheran, the Manitoba Music Educator, and the ACDA Choral Journal. An active singer, Dr. Hooper performs as a professional chorister, having sung with Pro Coro Canada, Da Camera Singers, and the Phoenix Bach Choir. He is a member and served on boards of the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, the Alberta Choral Federation, the American Choral Directors Association, the Alberta Guild of English Handbell Ringers, and the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers. He has also served as chair of the Lutheran Church-Canada's Committee on Worship and Music. Until recently, Robert Ingari was an assistant professor and coordinator of the choral program at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University where he taught choral conducting and conducted the McGill University Chorus and Chamber Singers. Since June 1, 2008 Mr. Ingari has been the new director of choral activities and assistant professor at the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec). During his time at McGill, his choruses participated in a variety of projects, notably University Voices 2000 and University Voices 2006 in Toronto, as well as a performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He was also the conductor of Le Choeur du Musée d'art de Joliette from 2000 to 2008, as well as the musical director of the Choeur classique de Montréal from 2002 to 2008 and Le Choeur de la Montagne de Beloeil (Quebec) from 2007 to 2009, with whom he toured in France and Belgium in July 2007. In the fall of 2006, Mr. Ingari prepared two of his amateur choruses for the opening concert of the Maestro Kent Nagano’s first season with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) featuring Beethoven Ninth Symphony. In addition to his duties at the University of Sherbrooke, Mr. Ingari is currently the music director of L’Ensemble vocal Amadeus de l’Estrie and Le Choeur symphonique de Sherbrooke. Since 2001, he is regularly invited to conduct the choirs at CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians/Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) during its summer season. He is also regularly invited to conduct choral week at l’Académie de musique du Domaine Forget in Saint-Irénée, Quebec. In June 2008 he conducted the Brahms Festival as part of the summer choral singing program at l’Université de Sherbrooke, a program for which he is now the artistic director. He was musical director of the Champlain Valley Oratorio Society in Plattsburgh (N.Y.) and several vocal ensembles in the Boston region, notably The Master Singers of Worcester and the Montage Chamber Singers. Mr. Ingari frequently gives seminars on choral conducting and was an invited professor at l'Université de Montréal in 2003-2004. He received a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance from the New England Conservatory in Boston and continued his studies at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. He received his master’s degree in choral conducting at Westminster Choir College and taught at the Boston Conservatory from 1989 to 1999 and at Simmons College from 1990 to 1996. As a composer, Mr. Ingari has written several works for chorus, including Dona Nobis Pacem, Three madrigals, Deux Chansons and The St. Philips Mass. In January 2006, the Choeur classique de Montréal premiered his Psalm 23 for soprano, tenor, choir and strings. In May 2007, the chorus and orchestra of Le Musée d’art de Joliette and the baritone Marc-Antoine d’Aragon premiered his Chants d’amour. Mr. Ingari is currently working on a recording project of Psalm 23, Dona Nobis Pacem and the world premier of his Three psalms for mixed chorus and marimba, with colleague Mario Boivin on marimba.
Julia Jamison has been teaching acting and voice classes in the Drama Department at the University of Saskatchewan for the past five years. She returned to her home province after twenty-five years of training and performing as a professional singer and actor across North America and Europe. After completing a Master of Music in Voice from the University of Regina, Julia continued her training at The Banff Centre and apprenticed as a lyric mezzo-soprano with the Montreal Opera. She continued to study and perform classical repertoire in London, New York and San Diego, after which she returned to Canada to perform in the long running Pantages Theatre production of Phantom of the Opera. While in Toronto Julia completed the MFA Acting program at York University, moving on from there to do a couple of seasons with the Stratford Festival. Upon returning to Saskatchewan Julia has performed and directed at the Globe Theatre, Dancing Sky Theatre, Persephone Theatre, the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company and Souris Valley Theatre. She is currently directing the musical ‘john & jen’ for the Live Five Independent Theatre Series in Saskatoon. Diane Loomer, C.M., director and founder of Chor Leoni Men’s Choir co-founder and conductor emerita of Elektra Women’s Choir, and most recently founder and conductor of EnChor Chamber Choir is internationally recognized as one of Canada’s leading musicians. She is a sought-after conductor and clinician on the international choral scene with engagements taking her to all corners of the world. Her choirs have repeatedly won first place prizes in national and international competitions and her choral compositions have been published and recorded internationally. Diane has conducted ACDA State Honour Choirs, ACDA National Honour Choirs and has conducted Provincial Youth Choirs and Honour Choirs in every province in Canada. Ms.Loomer has received many awards for her work in choral music, the three most recent being her appointment in 2005 by the University of Victoria to the University Women’s Scholar Lecture Series, in 2006 as conductor Emeritus to Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and in 2009 named as a Paul Harris Fellow to the International Rotary Foundation for her tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding among the peoples of the world. She established Cypress Choral Music as a valuable publication source of new Canadian choral music. In recognition of her achievements in and service to music and humanity throughout Canada, Diane was honored to receive in the country’s highest civilian honour, the Order of Canada. Dr. Marta McCarthy, Conductor, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph, where she has been directing the choirs and teaching musicianship for ten years. She also conducted the University of Waterloo Choir for five years, and taught choral techniques at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the University of Toronto. A graduate of Westminster Choir College of Princeton (M.Mus), the Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT, piano performance) and of the University of Toronto (B.Mus, B.Ed., Ph.D.), Marta was awarded the 1999 Elmer Iseler Conducting Fellowship. She also received an Ontario Volunteer Service Award, was named a member of the June Callwood Circle of Caring and, in 2005, was named a Woman of Distinction for Arts & Culture in Guelph. Dr. McCarthy conducts the University of Guelph Symphonic Choir, Chamber Singers, Women's Choir and Women's Chamber Choir. The Women's Chamber Choir were finalists and received an Honourable Mention award in the 2006 CBC National Radio Competition for Amateur Choirs. The Chamber Singers perform at national events such as Podium 2002, University Voices 2002 - 2008, Festival 500 (2005) in St. John's, Newfoundland, and at Kathaumixw International Choral Festival in Powell River, British Columbia (2006). In the fall of 2005, the choir joined the Elora Festival Singers for a conducting workshop led by Noel Edison, and were featured in July 2006 at the Elora Festival.
Larry Nickel was a high school performing arts teacher for 25 years, teaching Drama, Acting, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Choirs and handbells. He has directed over 50 stage productions, including several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Before returning to University to complete a doctorate in composition, Larry’s Senior Choir was selected two years in a row, 2001 and 2002, by Varsity Vocals’ international search for the Best of High School Choirs. While currently singing with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Larry is active as a music festival adjudicator, clinician and commissioned composer. Vernon Sanders has been a rock musician, a college professor, an expatriate, a jazz pianist, a non-profit arts foundation administrator, an author and a music publisher. He served for many years as Associate Professor/Director of Choral Activities at the University of Regina and was Director of Music Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Carlos, California, for 16 years before 'retiring' to devote more time to his family and his position as publisher of Creator Magazine, a resource for balanced music ministries. Creator's website serves as the focal point for the Creator Leadership Network, a virtual community of over 2500 church musicians, pastors and worship leaders who look forward each week to the leadership resource Monday Morning Email. Dr. Saunders has been involved in Church Music and Worship Ministry in some capacity since 1957, and as a professional since 1968. His education includes a BA (Music Education) and MA (Historical Musicology) from UCLA and a DMA (Conducting) from Stanford University, but he learned the most about what music is about and how to interpret it from John Nelson in Aspen and John Alldis in Europe. He was the founding president of the Saskatchewan Choral Federation, the founding Executive Director of the Schuyler Institute for the Arts in Worship and the founding Charter Member of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors. Dr. Sanders served for nearly ten years as the Executive Director of the National Association of Church Musicians. He was for 20 years the managing partner of Thomas House Publications, a music publishing company which was subsequently purchased by the Fred Bock Music Company. His published choral works appear in a number of catalogues and choirs under his direction have appeared on regional and national radio and television in the United States and Canada. He is a frequent workshop leader and guest speaker throughout North America. Brett Scott is Assistant Professor of Ensembles and Conducting at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, home to one of the top choral conducting programs in United States. At CCM he directs the select CCM Chorale and teaches conducting and literature at the graduate and undergraduate level. Dr. Scott’s previous position was at the University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music, where he taught undergraduate and graduate conducting, and directed the University of Rochester Glee Clubs and Chamber Singers. From 2004 to 2007 Brett was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, a position he was awarded after a national search. He regularly conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus in concert and directed the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus Chamber Singers in successful concert series. Originally from Canada, he has received national broadcast as a conductor in that country. An acknowledged expert on and advocate for contemporary choral music, Brett has lectured at regional and national conventions in the United States and Canada. He has published articles in the Choral Journal, American Choral Review, Anacrusis and the Research Memorandum Series, and conducted several regional, national, and world premieres. He has recently been appointed editor of the Research Memorandum Series, published by Chorus America. Brett received his Doctor of Music Arts at the College Conservatory of Music in 2002, and currently lives in Cincinnati with his wife Krista and children Aedhan, Colum and Kenna. A native of Kingston and graduate of Queen's University, Mark Sirett holds both masters and doctoral degrees in choral conducting and pedagogy from the University of Iowa. He has taught at the University of Alberta, the University of Western Ontario and Queen’s University and for six years served as Organist/Music Director at St. George's Cathedral, Kingston. Under his direction the Cathedral Girl Choristers won first prize in the 1996 CBC Choral Competition for amateur choirs, church category. He is currently the Artistic Director of the Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, a multi-choir educational programme that involves seven choirs and three hundred singers. The choirs have received numerous distinctions at the regional, national and international levels including a Gold Award at the Young Prague Festival in 2004. Dr. Sirett has won two international awards in conducting the Jury Prize for Imaginative Programming and Artistry at the 2002 Cork International Choral Festival, and Outstanding Conductor Award at the 2004 Young Prague Festival. In 2008 he received the President's Award from Choirs Ontario for his leadership and arts advocacy in the province. An award-winning composer, as well as an accomplished and versatile musician, choir director, and educator, Brian attributes the success of his multifaceted career to a love of working with people and a passion for the arts. Brian received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia, and went on to further music studies in London, England, and Toronto. His love for music of many kinds has led to a diverse career that includes orchestral and choral conducting and performing, musical theatre, and composing music for film, television, stage, and the concert hall. Brian has twice received Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Award for original theatre music, and his choral music is performed worldwide. As a vocalist, Brian performs with his jazz quartet at festivals, clubs, and in concert. He also performs a solo unaccompanied vocal show entitled "Head Full of Voices," in which he creates layers and textures using live digital looping. For eight seasons, Brian directed Vancouver's popular multi-faith Universal Gospel Choir. Currently, he directs the 100-voice Island Soul Choir in Parksville, BC, and three choirs at Mt. Seymour United Church in North Vancouver. In partnership with First United Mission in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, he started the City Soul Choir, a 120-voice chorus that sings soulful music from many traditions in September 2009. Brian is known far and wide for his lively choir workshops, excellent conducting skills and gift for bringing out the best in choirs, and for his exhilarating and inspiring choral compositions. Brian is on the faculty of Studio 58, Langara College's professional theatre school. He is also on the faculty at The Banff Centre for Leadership Development, where he uses music and theatre as tools for organizational training. As a speaker, educator, and facilitator, Brian takes the elements of creativity, intuition, and improvisation from the performing arts and transforms these elements into powerful, interactive group experiences that develop leadership, innovation, and teambuilding. His programs include groundbreaking work, such as using musical improvisation to enhance leadership and teams, and using the voice as a tool for personal development. Brian brings spontaneity, humour, and originality into all of his presentations. Participants experience growth not only in their work, but in all areas of their lives. Brian lives in historic Strathcona, Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, with his wife, Patricia, their dog, Daisy, and cat, Abbey.
Peter Tiefenbach’s unique combination of talents has established his reputation as a gifted performer, composer, writer, broadcaster and teacher. A native of Regina, he studied in Canada, the U.S. and England before settling in Toronto in 1986. One of Canada’s leading accompanists and vocal coaches, he has appeared in recital with many of the country’s foremost singers. His collaboration with Mary Lou Fallis began in 1997, and has taken them across Canada, to Japan, England and Iceland. They have co-written several shows, including Primadonna Does Shakespeare, Primadonna Does More with Less, and Primadonna Goes Camping. Last summer saw the release of their new CD, “Fallis & Tiefenbach More or Less LIVE at the Gould”. A Juno Award-nominated composer, Mr. Tiefenbach’s current commissions include works for soprano Wendy Nielsen, Music Niagara, the Saskatoon Children’s Choir, the Toronto Masque Theatre, and soprano Adrianne Pieczonka. Other recent commissions include works for the Borealis String Quartet, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Canadian Brass, and the Elora Festival Singers. He has been a member of the faculty of the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory since 1997. In addition to coaching singers in the Performance Diploma and Artist Diploma programs, he also teaches an Artist Diploma course in orchestral literature. Known to listeners of CBC Radio from his years as host of The Arts Tonight and Radio Concert Hall, Mr. Tiefenbach’s interview subjects included such major figures as Witold Lutoslwaski, Luciano Berio, Henri Dutilleux, Isaac Stern, Andras Schiff and Krystian Zimerman, among many others. An avid choral singer, he sings bass in the award-winning Exultate Chamber Singers, and in the choirs of St Thomas’s Church.
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