Adjudicators 2012
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Adjudicators 2012
BANDS & BRASS - ALAIN CAZES
Awarded first prize in tuba and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, Alain Cazes pursued his studies in the United States with Joseph Novotny, Donald Harry and Ronald Bishop.
In Brazil, he was solo tuba with the Paraïba State Orchestra, member of the Brass-IL Quintet and professor at the Federal University of Paraïba (UFPB). He has taught at the Université du Québec in Montreal, the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and the Université de Montréal, where he was in charge of Wind orchestras, brass department, teaching tuba, chamber music and conducting. A frequent soloist, he has performed the radio "premier" of several Canadian works for tuba and also lectures on orchestra conducting and brass instruments. He adjudicates regularly at several Festivals and Competitions. He was also a member of the Summit Brass Council in Colorado. He teaches during summer at the Orford Art Center and the Simposio Internazionale d’Ottoni in Ascoli, Italy. Solo tuba with the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, he has also performed with the Montreal Symphony and other orchestras in the world under the direction of conductors such as; Mehta, Nézet-Séguin, Dutoit, Decker, Baudo, Foster, Kmura, Muller, Toppilow, Grossmann, Zukerman, Veltri and many others. He is also co-director of the Orchestre Metropolitain Choir.
Alain Cazes, a founding member of the Philharmonie des vents du Québec. As a full time Professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, he conducts the Wind Symphony and Wind Orchestra, teaches conducting and chamber music. He is the Artistic director of the Orchestre Symphonique Pop de Montréal (OSPM) and has also conducted the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Orchestre symphonique de Drumondville. He has written numerous arrangements for a variety of instrumental ensembles published by GAM. He has also written numerous arrangements for wind orchestra and mixed choir. He is also Vice-President of CIME music.
BANDS & WOODWIND - DENNIS BECK
Dennis Beck holds degrees in music and in education from the University of Western Ontario, as well as a graduate diploma in conducting from the University of Calgary. In addition to teaching experience at the junior and senior high school levels, he is a sessional lecturer in the Faculty of Education of the University of Toronto, was a wind ensemble conductor at Alberta College Conservatory in Edmonton for several years, and was formerly a clarinettist with the Edmonton Wind Sinfonia and the CBC's Edmonton Wind Ensemble. Mr. Beck is active as an adjudicator, guest conductor, and clinician, both in Canada and the United States, and is a member of the Canadian Festivals of Music Adjudicators’ Association. He founded the Ontario chapter of Phi Beta Mu, the international band director’s fraternal organization, and is a member of the College Band Directors National Association. He served as a vice-president of the Alberta Band Association, was a founding director of the Ontario Band Association and is a past- president of the OBA. For several years he was a facilitator for student leaders at the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre. His articles on music education have appeared in several professional journals, and since 2000 he has been a regular contributor to the highly regarded series of music texts, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, published by GIA in Chicago.
Recognized as an advocate for excellence in conducting, Dennis, with colleague John Phillips, founded the Unionville Wind Conductors’ Symposium at their high school in 1994. It was the first ongoing, annual conductors’ workshop in eastern Canada, and has been the catalyst for other conducting workshops around the province. In 2002, his Unionville High School Wind Ensemble was honoured by the Canadian Music Educators' Association with the Rosevear Award. In the fall of 2008, he was one of ten alumni of the Don Wright Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario, named as the inaugural recipients of the university’s Wall of Fame honour. In 2011, the OBA recognized him with an Honourary Lifetime Membership. For twenty years he taught music and conducted bands at Unionville High School, in Markham, Ontario.
CHORAL - HILARY APFELSTADT
Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt is the Director of Choral Programs at the University of Toronto. Canadian by birth, she began her music education in Nova Scotia at the age of five. Her degrees, all in vocal music education, are from the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also has a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
From 1993 – 2010, she was Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the Ohio State University in Columbus where she also served as Associate Director for the School of Music from 2008 – 2010. Choirs under her direction have performed at regional and national meetings of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and at state and regional conferences of the National Association of Music Education (MENC). She has conducted many honor choirs and all-state choruses throughout North America and has guest conducted in Cuba, England, and Europe. She has led choral festivals in Switzerland and Austria, and conducted at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in June 2011. In February 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a public broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word.” She is a frequent lecturer and clinican at professional conferences and universities, and is a mentor to many young conductors and choral educators. National President of ACDA from 2007 – 2009, Dr. Apfelstadt sang with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for several years and recorded two CD’s for Telarc with the Singers in France.
She has published seventy-five articles on choral music in various refereed journals, and wrote two chapters in Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Conductors on their Art, (GIA, 2009). GIA will publish a book on women’s choirs in 2012, including Dr. Apfelstadt’s chapter entitled, “Canadian Repertoire for Women’s Choruses.” She serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, The Choral Scholar, the official publication of the National Collegiate Conductors Organization (NCCO), and the ACDA Choral Journal. She was recently appointed to the editorial staff of the Canadian Music Educator, for which she writes a quarterly choral column. She is a member of Choirs Ontario and of the Association for Canadian Choral Communities (ACCC).
GUITAR - DREW HENDERSON
Drew Henderson holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto where he studied classical guitar with Eli Kassner (Liona Boyd and Jesse Cook’s teacher) and Jeffrey McFadden (Naxos recording artist). Drew continued his education in Italy, where he lived for six months on a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, studying with the great Italian guitarists Lorenzo Micheli and Matteo Mela.
Drew has been very successful in the competition circuit, so far being awarded six international prizes. These competitions include: Les Concours International de Guitare Classique de Lachine (Montreal), The Rantucci International Guitar Competition (New York), the Columbus Guitar Symposium and Competition (Georgia, 2006), and the Concorso Chitaristico "Citta' Di Voghera" (Italy).
Drew performs regularly as one half of the Henderson-Kolk Duo. Their concert engagements have taken them throughout Canada, the United States and Italy. The duo has recorded two CD's to date, which can be heard regularly on CBC's Radio 2, and Classical Guitar Alive!
ORCHESTRA - MICHAEL FERGUSON
Michael
Ferguson has spent more than 30 years in education as a teacher and administrator. Among other subjects, he has taught strings, vocal, keyboard and band music in high schools in Toronto and Alliston. Mr. Ferguson is a former Head of Music at Banting Memorial H.S. and at North Toronto Collegiate, and a former faculty member at the University of Western Ontario. He has also served as a string adjudicator at numerous music festivals across southern Ontario, and has served as a clinician at OMEA conferences and has authored articles for the OMEA Journal.
As a performer, Mr. Ferguson has played with many orchestras in southern Ontario. He is a past concertmaster and soloist with the East York Symphony in Toronto, first violinist of the Artemis String Quartet, and member of the Koffler Chamber Orchestra.
Mr. Ferguson is currently the Music Director of the National Music Camp of Canada, which is held every August on the shores of Lake Couchiching. He has recently retired as a Principal with the Toronto District School Board and plans to devote more time to performing and teaching violin. He is currently volunteering his performing services to the Huronia Symphony Orchestra.
PIANO - AMY BOYES
Born and raised in rural Manitoba, Amy Boyes' love for music was fostered by her mother who was her first piano teacher. In 2005, Amy completed a Licentiate in Piano Recital (LCTL) from Trinity College in England and in 2006 an ARCT in Piano Performance and an ARCT in Piano Teaching. Amy graduated from Brandon University with a Bachelor of Music (Piano, Honours) in 2008, and from the University of Alberta with a Master of Music (Piano Pedagogy) in 2010. While a graduate student, Amy instructed the piano proficiency class and explored student personality types and learning styles as her research project.
Besides winning multiple academic awards, Amy also won the U of Alberta Department of Music Travel Grant for Professional Development and the Alberta Registered Music Teacher's Association: Edmonton Branch's Further Education Scholarship for Studio Teachers.
Amy currently participates on the Council for the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association Ottawa Region
and is active as a teacher, performer and adjudicator.
PIANO - ROGER LORD
Pianist Roger Lord from Moncton, New Brunswick, won First Prizes in piano in the Canadian National Festival of Music as well as in the Canadian Music Competition in 1985. His various engagements have since taken him to some of the world's great cities such as Paris, Oslo, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Quito, Cairo, Melbourne, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, etc. In addition to his numerous concert appearances, Professor Lord is frequently invited as an adjudicator in various music competitions in Canada and abroad. He was recently the Chairman of the jury for the prestigious “Australian Piano Award” Competition in Australia. Dr. Roger Lord studied at Université de Moncton, McGill University, Université de Montréal as well as in Paris and Strasbourg, France. He also attended special summer sessions of the Moscow Piano Institute in Russia at the Gnessin Music Academy. He holds a Doctorate in Music and is now a Professor of piano at the Université de Moncton.
PIPE ORGAN - ANDREW KEEGAN MACKRIELL
One time Assistant Organist of Clifton Roman Catholic Cathedral, Bristol, England Andrew Keegan Mackriell has followed a career in music from an early age.
Having moved to Dublin in 1990 he worked as sectional rehearsal director and chorus master with many of the Dublin Choral Societies. Appointed a Lay Vicar Choral in the National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin, Ireland in 1992, he broadcast frequently for the BBC and RTÉ (the Irish national broadcasting company) both as an organist and as a singer, as well as singing with the RTÉ professional choir and performing as a soloist in a number of Irish premières.
From 1995 until 2006, he was the Accompanying Organist for the Choir of St. Bartholomew's Church, Dublin working with the choir both in St. Bartholomew's and on choir trips to Hereford, Exeter, Gloucester, Worcester, Wells, Lichfield and Southwark Cathedrals in England, Armagh, Belfast and Downpatrick Cathedrals in Northern Ireland and the churches of La Madeleine, Saint-Sulpice and St. George’s in Paris, France and Chartres Cathedral also in France. He is featured on two CDs of the Choir recorded in 1996 and 2006.
From September 1999 until April 2003, he was Cathedral Organist and Director of Music at St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, Ireland and in 2001 he was also Acting Assistant Organist at the National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin, Ireland.
2001 saw him establish Saint Patrick's Cathedral Chamber Choir, a mixed-voice adult choir which specialised in twentieth and twenty-first century European and American choral repertoire, both sacred and secular. The choir received critical acclaim for its performances of Irish premières of these modern works.
From 1990 Andrew was also a member of the tutorial staff of the Roman Catholic Irish Church Music Association Summer School held annually at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth – Ireland’s Pontifical University and Seminary just outside Dublin [from where he holds a post-graduate Diploma in Sacred Liturgy]. In the summer of 2006 he was invited to be Guest Director of the Summer Course, following in the footsteps of well-known liturgical musicians such as Marty Haugen, Fr Michael Joncas, David Haas and Tom Kendzia.
For many years Andrew combined his extensive choral and organ work in Dublin with teaching posts at St. Kilian's German School and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Andrew’s work in Canada dates from the Summer of 1994 when he began an ongoing, thirteen year collaboration with St. James' Cathedral, Toronto, where he acted as Assistant Organist and Choral Director during July and August each year. He took part in many of the recital series in and around Toronto, including at St. James’, and he first performed in the noon hour organ recital series at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London in 2000. He has continued with a monthly recital in that series since his move to London in May 2007 to take up the position of Associate Organist at St. Paul’s and has been heard in recital both in Toronto and in venues around south western Ontario and in Quebec since that time.
STRINGS - JOAN BARRETT
Violinist Joan Barrett - BM, MM (University of Indiana), ACPC has a wealth of experience as a performer, teacher, adjudicator and examiner. Her performing experience includes Principal, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Assistant Concert Master, Stratford Festival Orchestra as well as recital and orchestral soloist in Canada and USA.
A dedicated and enthusiastic educator, Joan Barrett has taught at universities in Calgary and Toronto, as well as the Royal Conservatory’s YAPA and Glenn Gould School. Deeply involved in the founding of the Academy at Mount Royal University (Calgary), she was also the first String Coordinator of Royal Conservatory’s YAPA program. As conductor and coach Joan was a regular faculty member at the Canadian Festival of Youth Orchestras and Banff International Festivals, and also worked with youth orchestras in Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Her students have been competition winners at the national level in solo and chamber music with a number now active professionally. Joan is a recipient of Mount Royal University’s Distinguished Teaching Award and receives frequent invitations to give her highly engaging and informative masterclasses. Joan Barrett’s passion is coaching people to perform at their best both on and off stage. Trained as a certified professional coach (OISE/Adler International Learning) and instructor in various modalities including integrative body movement, she addresses challenges with performance anxiety, technical confidence and stress responses, sharing applicable tools and perspectives with her clients and students. Currently based in Toronto, Joan has given workshops for such diverse organizations as Wilfrid Laurier University, Ottawa Suzuki Society, Glenn Gould School, MADD, Durham Region Social Services, International String Workshops and University of Waterloo. The enthusiasm for her work has lead to invitations in western Canada, California, Texas and Ontario as both presenter and adjunct consultant to music teachers and their students.
STRINGS - DEBBIE HAMMOND
Violinist Debbie Hammond holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her principal teachers have included Geri Arnold, Dr. Robert Skelton, Mark Fewer, Annalee Patipatanakoon, David Zafer and Yehonatan Berick.
Debbie has performed in numerous solo master classes for renowned artists including James Ehnes and Ilya Gringolts. As an orchestral musician, Debbie was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada from 2000-2002, touring Canada, Japan and Hong Kong. Debbie has performed with the Jackson and Battle Creek Symphony Orchestras as well as the Windsor Symphony.
Debbie has studied violin pedagogy with Robert Culver and Mimi Zweig, and completed certified Suzuki training for Violin book 1-10. Debbie was a member of the Suzuki String School of Guelph faculty from 2007-2010. Presently she is a faculty member of the National Capital Suzuki School of Music.
STRINGS - KATHERINE RAPOPORT
Violinist and violist Katharine Rapoport teaches at the University of Toronto, where she is an Adjunct Professor and member of the Graduate School. Katharine has performed as soloist, in recitals, and in chamber music concerts in Canada, the United States and Europe. She is a Senior Examiner for RCM Examinations, where she creates, compiles and edits their publications, and is also much in demand as an adjudicator at festivals and competitions. Her best-selling book Violin For Dummies, is due to appear in its Second Edition and in eBook format in January 2012. Katharine is a long-time member of Esprit Orchestra, with which she has also toured across Canada and recorded several CD’s and soundtracks. Her students have won major scholarships to major music schools, including Eastman, Cleveland and Juilliard, and many of her former students enjoy successful careers with such orchestras Boston Symphony, Tafelmusik, and other professional ensembles, and teach at schools, colleges and universities in Canada and throughout the world.
VOICE - KIMBERLY BARBER
Mezzo-soprano Kimberly Barber was born in Guelph, Ontario, and began her singing career as a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, soon establishing herself on the international scene with a soloist position at Frankfurt Opera in 1989.
The list of major performing arts companies and world class venues where Ms Barber has performed is long and illustrious. Operatic credits include Opéra de Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Seattle Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Grand Theatre de Genève, Opéra de Marseille, ENO, and the Canadian Opera Company in a diverse and eclectic repertory. She is r ecognized for the verisimilitude, intensity and depth of her interpretations of Strauss’s Composer, Handel’s Xerxes (for which she was nominated for Toronto’s Dora Award as Best Singing Actress), Ariodante and Nerone (AGRIPPINA), and Mozart’s Cherubino and Annio (CLEMENZA DI TITO), among many others. She recently performed the title role in the Canadian premiere of Marc Blitzstein’s REGINA for Pacific Opera Victoria,Jessica in the world premiere of John Estacio’s FROBISHER, and a critically acclaimed Sister Helen in Jake Heggie’s DEAD MAN WALKING for Calgary Opera—all broadcast nationally on CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera. Her recent debut with Opera Atelier as Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA garnered critical acclaim. She makes her Utah Opera debut in March 2011 as Cecilia March in Mark Adamo’s LITTLE WOMEN.
On the concert stage she has performed with the London Symphony, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, the Minnesota Orchestra, Montréal’s I Musici, the Chicago, Montréal and Toronto Symphonies,the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Penderecki String Quartet in repertoire ranging from Duruflé, Fauré and Mahler to Stravinsky, Argento and Schoenberg. Her frequent collaborations with pianist Steven Blier and the New York Festival of Song, with performances at Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Hall, and the 92nd Street Y in New York, have shaped her interest in presenting art song in an accessible format. Her deep attention to text and musical interpretation are hallmarks of her performances as a recitalist.
Her discography includes her Concepción in Ravel’s L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE for Deutsche Grammophon under André Previn, her first solo recording for CBC Records, “Faustina Bordoni: Faces of a Prima Donna”, the title role of Handel’s RINALDO for Naxos Records, and most recently, “L’accordéoniste”, an eclectic mix of German and French cabaret, Neapolitan songs and tangos, with her eponymous instrumental ensemble.
In addition to her busy performing schedule, Kimberly Barber is increasingly in demand as a guest lecturer, adjudicator, panellist and pedagogue. She has worked with young artists’ programs and post-secondary institutions across the continent, and was also the featured commentator for CBC Radio’s live broadcasts of the 2005 Montreal International Voice Competition. Kimberly Barber has developed and presented workshops for every aspect of the creative process: from voice care, freedom of artistic expression and successful auditioning techniques to the specific performance of the “trouser” roles which were the staple of her early performing career. She is an Associate Professor and Administrative Coordinator of the Opera Program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where she has been on faculty since 2002.
VOICE - PEGGY DWYER
Ms. Dwyer is in much demand as a soprano: she is a frequent guest artist with the Juno award-winning Windsor Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Detroit Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the Niagara Symphony, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. She appeared as Marina in Toronto's Opera in Concert Canadian premiere of Marina (Arietta), as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute with Opera Lyra, at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. Peggy is equally at home with Music Theatre repertoire, most notably as Lily, in The Secret Garden (Simon), and as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe). Her performances include Handel's Messiah, various Mozart and Bach oratorio, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, and she was featured in the documentary Cleary Symphony, performing Richard Strauss' "Vier Letze Lieder" with the WSO. Ms. Dwyer is featured on the Windsor Symphony's 1999 CD release performing Mozart's "Vorrei Spiegarvi".
Peggy Dwyer maintains a studio at the University of Windsor, and also teaches at St. Clair College, on the Music Theatre faculty, as the Vocal Technique classroom instructor. She also maintains a small private studio. Peggy has adjudicated at many Kiwanis Festivals throughout Ontario, and always enjoys hearing the amazing talent each community has to offer!