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| Scott Arnold: Scott first began study of the guitar, harmony and composition in Toronto at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Scott has sought out renowned guitarists Norbert Kraft, Jeffery McFadden, Ricardo Cobo and John Holmquist help him to perfect his technique, interpretation, and performance skills. For his theory and composition instruction, he worked with Pierre Gallant, accomplished composer/pianist. Scott continues to work with various people in his lifelong study. He has toured extensively across Canada over the past 20 years, performing in concert halls, music festivals and other venues. Scott, a teacher for the past 20 years, is currently on the faculty at The Conservatory at Mt. Royal University in Calgary where he fulfills his responsibility in sharing his knowledge with the next generation of musicians. Scott was nominated as one of Canada's great guitar gurus by CBC radio 2 in 2009. |
Nigel Boehm (Calgary)
Nigel Boehm has been recognized as an accomplished Canadian cellist through his recordings for
Radio-Canada and National Public Radio (USA), dedication to musical education, and many
performances as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician throughout Canada, United States
and abroad. His musical talents have earned him numerous awards including Laureate of the
Debut Competition in Montreal and prizewinner in the Concours International D’Orford and
Canadian Concerto Competition. In the summer of 2008, Mr. Boehm was awarded a Cultural
Relations grant from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts to travel to the Philippines to
attend Opusfest as an instructor and performer. In Manila, he participated in a series of
solo engagements with the Metro Manila and Philippine Philharmonic orchestras and chamber
music with other international faculty.
Committed to the education of young musicians, Nigel Boehm is a faculty member at Mount Royal Academy and Conservatory of Music in Calgary Alberta, where he is an instructor of cello and chamber music. As well, Mr. Boehm has conducted master classes in Western Canada, the United States, Hong Kong and Japan, and summer classes at the Valhalla Summer Music Festival in the interior of British Columbia. As an adjudicator, Mr. Boehm has participated in regional music festivals, and served as a jury member for such competitions as the Hong Kong Schools Music Festival, the Northern Alberta Concerto Competition and Medicine Hat Concerto Competition and regional music festivals throughout Alberta As an orchestral musician, Mr. Boehm is currently the assistant principal cello with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, principal cello and soloist with the Bow Valley Chorus Orchestra, Calgary Festival Chorus and a frequent extra with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also active as a freelance musician with many orchestras throughout Western Canada and the United States. Mr. Boehm holds a Performance Diploma completed at Mount Royal College (Calgary, Alberta) under the tutelage of John Kadz, a Bachelor of Music in solo performance from McGill University with a minor in Musicology and Music History, and a Masters of Music also completed at McGill University with Italian cellist Antonio Lysy. Following his formal education, Nigel Boehm has on several occasions been accepted as an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts. Aside from his musical endeavors, Mr. Boehm travels throughout North America, the United States and Asia as a consultant, dealer and bow-maker for Wilder & Davis Luthiers, one of Canada’s largest stringed instrument workshops based in Montreal Quebec and Banff Alberta. |
Lauren Eselson
Lauren Eselson is an Instructor of Flute at Mount Royal University and a Teaching Artist at the
University of Calgary. She has been a regular extra musician in the flute section of the
Calgary Philharmonic since 1987. During the seasons of 2003-2006 she was Acting Assistant
Principal Flute with the orchestra. Ms. Eselson has also performed with the National Ballet
Orchestra, Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestra, Calgary Bach Society, Kensington Sinfonia, Chicago
Civic Orchestra, the American Wind Symphony, and in pit orchestras for Theater Calgary and
Broadway touring productions. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Calgary
Philharmonic, Calgary Bach Society, Kensington Sinfonia and the Calgary Chamber Ensemble, and
has been recorded in recital by CBC Radio.
At Mount Royal University, Ms. Eselson is also the Woodwind coordinator for the well-known Academy program for gifted young musicians. She is a Woodwind-Brass examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music, and is in demand as an adjudicator across Canada. Ms. Eselson holds a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute, and a Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her principal teachers were Walfrid Kujala , Maurice Sharp , Jim Walker, Claude Monteux and Geoffrey Gilbert. |
Nicola Everton:
Clarinettist Nicola Everton has recently become a resident of the Kootenays after spending over twenty years as a member of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
As a symphony musician, she has enjoyed touring Asia and North America with the orchestra, performing with a variety of international artists including Yo-Yo Ma,
the Chieftains, Diana Krall and Leslie Feist and for various dignitaries including the Dalai Lama and the Queen. Nicola has also enjoyed performing chamber music
concerts and teaching numerous students as a private teacher and as a member of the Vancouver Academy of Music faculty. She has performed and taught in summer festivals
in Sun Valley, Idaho and at the University of British Columbia.
Chamber music has long been a passion for Nicola and since moving to the Kootenays, she has taken on the
role of artistic director of two new chamber music series, at the Rouge Gallery in Rossland and at the Kootenay Gallery in Castlegar.
Her post secondary music studies
began with a full scholarship to Arizona State University and continued for a further four years at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she obtained a
Bachelor of Music degree. Before joining the Vancouver Symphony in 1989, she spent the winter at the Banff School of Fine Arts.
Nicola is thrilled to be living in the
Kootenays closer to nature. She loves to hike, telemark ski, bike and is an avid competitor on the World Masters Track and Field scene in the 800m and 1500m.
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Gwen Hoebig
Recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding violinists, Gwen Hoebig is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New
York City. As a student she won every major Canadian music competition, and in 1981 was the top
prizewinner at the Munich International Violin Competition. A champion of new music, she has
given the Canadian premieres of violin concertos by S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté,
T.P. Carrabré, Randolph Peters, Gary Kulesha, Joan Tower, Christopher Rouse and Philip
Glass, and as soloist with orchestra she has performed all the major violin concerti with
orchestras across Canada, the United States and Europe. As a chamber musician she appears
frequently in recital with her husband, pianist David Moroz, and has performed at many of the
country's foremost festivals including The Banff Arts Festival, the Festival of the Sound at
Parry Sound, the Domaine Forget, Festival Vancouver, the Scotia Festival of Music, the Stratford
Summer Music Festival and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival. Gwen Hoebig
joined the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster in 1987, having been awarded the
position as the unanimous choice of the audition committee. In 1993 she was honoured by the
Government of Canada when she received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of
Canadian Confederation, in recognition of her contribution to the Arts. She has always taken a
great interest in the development of young musicians and maintains a private teaching studio in
Winnipeg. She has also been a member of the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Music and
teaches regularly at the Mount Royal College in Calgary, where she is a member of the Extended
Faculty. She is founder and Co-Director of The Morningside Music Bridge, an international summer
program featuring the finest young violinists, cellists and pianists from across China, Europe,
the United States and Canada.
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Yuri Hooker:
Yuri Hooker is the Principal cellist with both the Manitoba Chamber and Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestras. Since his arrival in Winnipeg in 1999, he has become a well-known figure in the
Manitoba music scene. He appears regularly with the Winnipeg Chamber Music Society, the Brandon
Chamber Players, Groundswell, and the Clear Lake Chamber Music Festival. In past seasons he has
performed concertos with the WSO, MCO and Musikbarock, and he has arranged and performed music
for the MCO Chamber Music Night. He can also be heard regularly on CBC Radio Two. As well as
performing, Yuri maintains a private teaching studio, is Sessional Instructor of Cello at the
University of Manitoba and is the founder and director of the Winnipeg Summer Cello Institute,
which had its inaugural session in 2007. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Brandon
University, followed by graduate studies under Janos Starker and Stanley Ritchie (period
performance) at Indiana University.
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John Kadz:
John Kadz' career as chamber musician and teacher spans more than thirty five years and includes
extensive touring throughout Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. As a member of the One
Third Ninth piano trio, Mr. Kadz performed hundreds of concerts in many of the world's finest
venues as well as doing extensive grass roots work to develop and promote chamber music in
Western Canada. Other professional activities have included serving as the principal cellist
with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and performing with the chamber music groups Aubade
and the Lyric Chamber Players. Mr. Kadz began his professional career at the age of seventeen
as a member of the Houston Symphony under the baton of Sir John Barbirolli. Mr. Kadz is
currently a cello instructor in The Conservatory at Mount Royal College and the University of
Calgary. Formerly, he managed the Academy Program at Mount Royal College Conservatory which he
continues to serve as artistic advisor and string coordinator. Mr. Kadz has also managed the
Summer Strings Academy at Mount Royal College, and was a faculty member of the Indiana
University String Academy Program. He currently is co-artistic director for Music Bridge, a
unique summer program bringing together the finest students from Mainland China and Canada.
In September of 2003, Mr. Kadz was invited by the Central Conservatory of China, Beijing to
be a guest instructor there. Mr. Kadz has also been Artistic Aadvisor and cello instructor
here at the VSSM since its inception. Mr. Kadz is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator
throughout Canada. He has been awarded the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award at Mount
Royal College and the Alberta Achievement Award for Excellence in Music.
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David Moroz:
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Winnipeg-born pianist David Moroz enjoys a career as one of
Canada's most versatile artists. As a soloist he has performed in every major Canadian city, and
as a collaborative artist he appears regularly in recital with Canada's most distinguished
musicians. Twice nominated for Manitoba's Artist of the Year, he is a frequent guest of CBC
Radio and is a veteran performer at Canada's most important music festivals. A member of the
Hoebig/Moroz Trio since 1979, he has performed much of the significant music written for piano
trio, and he appears regularly in recital with his wife, violinist Gwen Hoebig. He has performed
for the Governor General of Canada, and in 2002 was a featured soloist in a Celebratory Concert
marking the Golden Jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, which was performed in her
presence and telecast live across Canada. A devoted advocate of new music, he has given
premieres of dozens of solo and ensemble works, including concertos by Kelly-Marie Murphy
(Hammer of the Sorceress) and Gary Kulesha (Partita for piano and orchestra), which was
written especially for him.
David Moroz was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Montréal, and holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the celebrated Juilliard School in New York City. He has been Artistic Director of The Winnipeg Chamber Music Society since 1987, and served as Assistant Program Director for Music & Sound at The Banff Centre from 1995-99. A gifted and dedicated teacher, he was guest instructor at The Banff Centre's Special Studies for Young Musicians in the mid-1990's, and in 1998 was named to the Extended Faculty of the Conservatory at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada's leading institution for the education of young musicians. He was appointed to the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Music in 1999, where he heads the Piano Department, and teaches piano, piano repertoire and chamber music. He has served as coordinator of the Piano Department at The Morningside Music Bridge since 2000. |
Sheldon Nadler:
Born and raised in Chicago, Sheldon Nadler has been a violinist and music educator in Calgary
for over 30 years.
Over the many years that Mr. Nadler has been active in the music scene in Calgary, he has played in a wide variety of groups, both classical and popular. He was a member of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974 to 1993. Other groups include: CBC Calgary Strings, Alberta Chamber Players, the Beau Quartet, Music Mosaic, Nota Bene String Quartet, Vad Ensemble, the Centre Street Ragtime Orchestra, Take the Oy Train Klezmer ensemble, Heavy Shtetl Klezmer ensemble, and many more. Mr. Nadler has also taught at a number of other summer schools, including the Saskatchewan Summer School for the Arts, the Tidewater Music Festival (St. Mary's College, Maryland) and Strings and Keys (Bergen, Alberta). Currently Mr. Nadler is a manager at the Mount Royal College Conservatory in Calgary, and teaches courses in music history for the Conservatory's Diploma Program in Music Performance. He is a recipient of Mount Royal College's Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. He also teaches courses in string literature for the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory, Toronto. |
Audrey Nodwell:
Audrey received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Music degree from the University of Victoria. She had further studies with Kurt Engert at the Richard Strauss Konservatorium in Munich, Germany. A former member of the Victoria Symphony, the Vancouver Baroque Ensemble and the Rossetti Piano Trio, Audrey now performs with the Pro Nova String Quartet. She has been a member of the quartet for over twenty years. The Pro Nova Quartet is professional group which presents ten concerts in its annual series and provides educational concerts to schools. Audrey taught cello and music history at the Victoria Conservatory and at Capilano College. At present, she teaches cello at the Vancouver Academy of Music, where she has been a faculty member for many years. In addition to her regular teaching and performing activities, Audrey has taught at numerous workshops, institutes and summer music camps in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Washington, Montana and California. |
Johanna Perron:
Born in Chicoutimi, Québec, Johanna was awarded the first-prize in cello and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Québec with Pierre Morin.
As a Canada Council grant recipient, she obtained a Master's degree at Yale with Aldo Parisot and thereafter studied with Leonard Rose at the Julliard School of
Music in New York. She has attended several master classes with distinguished artists including Janos Starker in Banff, Pierre Fournier in Geneva and Paul Tortelier
in Los Angeles. She has won several awards including the Prix d'Europe as well as first prize in strings at the Tremplin International des Concours de Musique du Canada.
Critics of the Musical America magazine have described her as "an artist of extraordinary musical dimension, compelling intensity and deep inner serenity." The day
following a recital which she had given as part of the series Sons et brioches, Gilles Potvin wrote "her sonority is unswervingly beautiful and of great fluidity.
What is most striking about her are the musical gifts which enable her to phrase with sensitivity and elegance..." Johanne Perron has served on the faculty of the
University of North Carolina, Greensboro and at the Lynn University Music Conservatory at Boca Raton, Florida formerly known as the HARID Conservatory. She has taught
and given master classes at festivals in Brazil, Canada, and the United States. Since 2000, she has been on faculty at the Domaine Forget, international summer music
festival. In 2005, after a twenty year absence from Canada, Johanne Perron returned to serve on the artist faculty at the University of Montréal strings department,
which attracts young and talented musicians from around the world. For her, the purpose of teaching is not only to transfer knowledge but also to create a dialogue with
younger people. Attesting to this are her three daughters who have in turn adopted a passion for musicianship. Johanne adds, "This human dimension demands a lot of personal
investment of time and energy but results in a great satisfaction within my teaching career." She plays a 1901 Gustav Bernardel cello made in Paris.
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Susanne Ruberg-Gordon:
Quoted by the Chronicle Herald as "A superb musician" and other critics as "accomplished, experienced ... providing an evening of musical magic", Swedish-born pianist
Susanne Ruberg-Gordon's passion for chamber music is evident. She has collaborated with artists such as Andres Cardenes, Ron Leonard, Andras Diaz, Desmond Hoebig,
Ian Swensen, Alain Trudel, Jens Lindemann, Ning Feng, Ni Tao, Arnold Choi and Nikki Chooi.
Upcoming events in the 2011 season include a tour for Debut Atlantic of the Canadian East Coast with violinist Catherine Monoukian, performances with Andras Cardenes and Nikki Chooi, a recording project featuring Banff composer Sebastian Hutchings and a perfomance of Messiaen's Quartet for the end of time with the Lands End Ensemble. Susanne has been on faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory since 1991 where she is the coordinator of Collaborative Pianists and teaches chamber music. She has also been a Collaborative Artist for the acclaimed Morningside Music Bridge program in Canada, China and Poland since 2001. |
Karl Stobbe:
Karl Stobbe is a member of a group of gifted musicians who emerged from Prince George, BC, in
the 1980s. He began violin studies at the age of four, was awarded the Senior violin trophy at
the Prince George Music Festival when he was 11, and at age 14 made his orchestral debut with
the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, premiering a work written especially for him. He has won
prizes from the Vancouver Women's Musical Club, the Indianapolis Musicale Matinee and Eckhardt-
Gramatté competitions, and has performed solo recitals and chamber music throughout
Canada and the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of British
Columbia and a Masters Degree in Violin Performance with a minor in Violin Repair and
Construction from Indiana University. An avid woodworker, Karl enjoys building new violins and
has restored several older instruments. He appreciates the beautiful craftsmanship of the master
luthiers as much as he enjoys playing their instruments.
An active performer, teacher and chamber musician on the Winnipeg music scene, he appears regularly with the The Winnipeg Chamber Music Society, as well as on the GroundSwell and Virtuosi concert series. He performs a diverse body of music, from large orchestral repertoire to small chamber orchestra works, concertos, chamber music, and other solo pieces, which has enabled him to perform and record with many of Canada's finest musicians throughout the country. A dedicated teacher, he has maintained a private studio for the past seventeen years, and his students have gone on to do advanced university music degrees in Canada and the United States. This year marks his eleventh season as Concertmaster of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and his thirteenth season as a member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he holds the position of Associate Concertmaster. |
Aleksandra Danicic van der Sloot:
Aleksandra is presently on violin faculty at the Conservatory at Mount Royal University. As
coordinator and coach for the Junior Academy for Gifted Youth, she works intensively with
outstanding young string players in Mount Royal’s flagship program. Alumni from Aleksandra’s
class include Canadian Idol sensation, Kalan Porter. Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Aleksandra
received most of her formal music training in Germany. Her principal violin teachers include,
Sylvia Reichard, Eberhardt Klemmstein, and Dr. Lise B. Elson. Aleksandra holds a Diploma in
Violin Performance.
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Michael van der Sloot:
A native of Medicine Hat, Michael van der Sloot began studies at the age of five with his
brother William van der Sloot and received his Bachelor and Master degrees on the viola at the
University of British Columbia studying with Gerald Stanick. He spent a year with the Edmonton
Symphony and then pursued his doctoral studies at the renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria
with Thomas Riebl. Van der Sloot has had success at various solo and chamber competitions. He
was the Canadian representative at the 1992 and 1996 ASTA Competitions, and a finalist at the
1997 Patrons of Wisdom Competition in Toronto. In 1996, he recorded for CBC as a result of the
CBC West Coast Young Performers Competition, and in 1997, he was awarded the Johann Strauss
Foundation Scholarship for study in Austria. In addition to his success in competitions, Van
der Sloot has played with various symphonies including the Winnipeg Symphony, the Vancouver
Symphony and the Vancouver Opera. He has toured with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Salzburg Chamber Soloists throughout Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and Italy, including
performances at the Theatre Rue Champs Elysées in Paris, and the Musikverein in Vienna.
He is currently principal viola of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra in Edmonton. Michael joined
the Medicine Hat College Faculty in 1999 as a violin/viola instructor and Academy Director, and
he has been engaged to instruct at various summer and winter workshops throughout Canada. He and
wife Daphne have three children.
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William van der Sloot:
William van der Sloot has established a reputation as a leader in the development of young artists in Canada.
His students have won international acclaim, having won prizes in many major national and
international competitions, including Grand Prizes at the Canadian National Festival, the
Canadian Music Competition, The Alberta Provincial Music Festival, the Montreal Symphony
Standard Life Competition, Klein Competition, and prizes at the ASTA Competition, the Michael
Hill International Violin Competition, Concertino Praha, the Montreal International Competition,
and the Tchaikovsky Competition. His students are heard on concert stages throughout Canada
and abroad. They have performed often as guest soloists with many of Canada’s major symphony
orchestras. He is in demand as a guest clinician and judge at music schools and competitions.
Mr. van der Sloot has given many master classes for major music organizations in Canada, the
United States, Germany, Russia, Poland, Serbia, and China. He is a regular guest artist at the
Sichuan, Central, and Shanghai Conservatories of Music, in China, the San Francisco Conservatory,
Northwestern University (Chicago) and the Medicine Hat College Conservatory. He will again
be a faculty member at Mount Royal College’s international Morningside Music Bridge program
this summer and at the Valhalla Summer School of Music. Invitations for
2010 include The National Arts Centre (Ottawa), The San Francisco Conservatory of Music,
the Meadowmount Summer School of Music, the Central Conservatory (Beijing), and Escuela
Superior de Musica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Northwestern Univeristy, and Rice Univeristy
(Houston).
As a former violinist of the Villa Marteau Quintet (artist in residence at the Haus Marteau in
Germany), he has toured extensively in Eastern and Western Europe and North America and has
recorded for German, American, and Canadian National radio. Before moving to Calgary, he was
instrumental in the development of the Conservatory at Medicine Hat College and its program for
gifted youth. Mr. van der Sloot is presently Manager of The Academy for Gifted Youth, Choral
Programs, and Shakespeare in the Park at Mount Royal College, Calgary.
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Mary Jane Vandekerkhove:
Mary Jane Vandekerkhove presently teaches as a branch instructor with the Mount Royal
Conservatory of Music in Calgary, Alberta. As a mother of five, she not only takes pride in
teaching her young children, but also several young and promising students, some of which have
taken placements in the finals of the Canadian Music Competition, RCM exams as well as provincial
and national classes. Mary Jane received her Bachelor of Music in violin performance from her
combined classes from the University of British Columbia and Eastman School of Music, under the
instructors including Gerald Stanick, Zvi Zeitlin, Andrew Dawes and Jane Coop. She continued to
play for several years with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and other groups including the
Banff Opera Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony and the BC ballet company. She has toured around the
world with various groups including countries such as Taiwan, the United States, Germany, Spain,
and cruise lines. Presently she plays principal second violin with the Bow Valley Orchestra and
performs regularly with the Cantare Childrens Choir.
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