Winds and Brass

Telephone:
780-633-3810

Master of Music- University of Western Ontario
Artist Diploma- University of Western Ontario
Bachelor of Music- University of Windsor

Melissa Goodchild has enjoyed teaching students of all levels and all ages for many years. She has coached several chamber music ensembles and is a sought after clinician. Her students have participated in many compititions as well as Royal Conservatory Examinations. Students enjoy a program specifically for them to help achieve their goals.

Melissa has had a variety of musical influences throughout her study which have contributed to her teaching style as well as performances. For years she has performed recitals of solo as well as chamber works in a variety of styles on both clarinet and bass clarinet. She enjoys playing in large ensembles such as the New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia.

Telephone:
780-633-3852

Master of Music – Northwestern University (Chicago)
Artist Diploma – University of Toronto
Bachelor of Music – University of Alberta


Don Ross joined the instructional staff of Alberta College Conservatory of Music in 1991. Don’s students are frequent competition and audition winners and he is sought after as a clinician, adjudicator, conductor and composer. His teaching is practical, upbeat and inspiring at the same time, and always tailored to the individual ambitions and pace of the student.
In addition to his teaching work, Don is the leader of Saint Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, one of Edmonton’s most innovative art music groups. Since 1994 the group has appeared on numerous CD’s, CBC broadcasts and new music festivals and has played over three dozen programs of traditional masterpieces and cutting edge new works. Don also appears regularly as a soloist and orchestra player, most recently with the Edmonton Symphony and Prince George Symphony Orchestras, the Calgary Opera and Citadel Theatre Orchestras. He is a frequent collaborator with the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society and the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society. In 2003 he was named an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. In 2005 his electroacoustic work with Dave Clarke was nominated for a Telus Award for Innovation in the Arts, and a Sterling Award for best theatre soundtrack.

Telephone:
780-633-3831

Master of Music (Applied) – University of Alberta
Bachelor of Music (Performance) – University of Toronto

Dan Sutherland is former head of Winds at Alberta College Conservatory of Music, where he has taught clarinet to all ages and levels of students since 1986. He began teaching his own children clarinet at a very early age and has developed a particular interest in teaching young students. Dan believes in working on basic technique regularly to enable more complex musical accomplishment. More than eleven major clarinet teachers have influenced Dan’s own development. He brings the richness of his own background to his teaching of others.

Dan has a master’s degree in applied music from the University of Alberta and a bachelor’s degree in performance from the University of Toronto. He frequently supplements the clarinet section of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and freelances as a performer on clarinet, bass clarinet and Eb soprano clarinet.

Telephone:
780-430-0724

Bachelor of Music - University of Alberta’s
Jazz Performance - MacEwan University

Tami Cooper began performing professionally with The Plumbers Union recorder quintet, and later co-founded and performed in the Goliard Duo with classical guitarist David Grainger Brown for 10 years, and the long-lived celtic folk band Sheela Na Gigh, which toured and produced two albums. Tami has toured and recorded with David Wilke’s Cowboy Celtic, performed with the chamber trio Mélange (soprano, flute and piano), continues touring with Keri Zwicker’s Harp Rouge Trio, and has performed in professional musical theatre and chamber music ensembles, theatre projects, a film soundtrack, and over a dozen other CD projects. Currently her efforts are focused on teaching, and on performing and recording with her group Celtara: www.celtara.ca.

Tami’s has taught flute students in Edmonton since 1981, taught at Augustana University in Camrose for four years, and has shared practical advice in dozens of flute clinics. She is a certified Suzuki method flute teacher, and is a registered teacher with ARMTA. Her flute students range from four-year-old Suzuki method students to seniors. She is equally delighted to teach beginners at any age, intermediate players in band or individual programs, or advanced students preparing for their grade 10 RCM exams.

Tami fundamentally believes that learning to play music makes each of us a better person, and that there are areas of cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth that we experience by doing this activity that are unique to it. Her approach respects that each student has their own individual style of learning, strengths, and challenges. While she does use some common methods and materials for her students, she does not teach in a ‘cookie cutter’ fashion. Her goals are to teach her students solid skills on the flute, to deepen their broader musical understanding, to foster a love of playing socially, and to enjoy great fun with them!

Email:
damurw2@macewan.ca

Telephone:
780-633-3849

BMus, BEd, MMus

Bill Damur, a descendant of Jean de Muris, medieval music theorist and author of the treatise Summa Musicae, studied in the U.K. with Wilfred Smith, Christopher Taylor, Adrian Brett, and in Edmonton with Alan Clarke and Harlan Green to attain the first Masters Degree granted in Flute Performance at the University of Alberta. While there, he received the Sklove Award for chamber music and the Eva Shaw Prize for the Most Outstanding Student in any year of study. He has taught flute, guitar, theory, composition and ensemble coaching at Alberta College Conservatory of Music since 1983. He has performed with the Plumbers' Union Recorder Consort, members of the E.S.O, Edmonton Wind Symphonia, Griffin Concert, Café Musique, Baffin Island Party, Chanticleer, Amati Trio, Möbius, B.E.A.M.S., Baroque Resurection Groups and other music embracing its earliest forms to the avant-garde. Bill has also written, arranged, performed and directed for all of them. He has shared the stage with Rod Stewart, The Birds and Iron Butterfly. Bill is also an ARIA Award Nominee, and in 2000 was nominated for a STERLING Award for his co-writing of the Post Punk Opera production of “The Illumination of Marshall McLuhan.” His students often attain University Degrees and many move on to become working musicians.

His knowledge of the subject is scholarly. He is no stranger to the media, producing his own radio shows at C.J.S.R. from 1988-2000. Among his awards for music, Bill holds an award from the Edmonton Journal, the Golden Pen. Bill has finished music for films, is active in theatre, is well known as a composer/arranger, and clinician. He has taught in the public school system and enjoys his role as a festival adjudicator. He continues to tour and in 2002, Nunavut Tourism awarded Bill with the Order of Arctic Explorers (OAE) for his live music and educational services to the North.

Email:
conservatory@macewan.ca

Telephone:
780-633-3805

Bachelor of Music - University of Alberta

Liane Gayler has taught at Alberta College Conservatory of Music since 1991. During this time many of her students have received first class honours and silver medals in Royal Conservatory of Music examinations, scholarships and honours at Alberta College Conservatory of Music Fall Festival and Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival and won auditions for scholarships, masterclasses, workshops and the Edmonton Youth Orchestra. Some have gone on to study music at the post secondary level, while others continue to simply enjoy making music an important part of their lives.

Liane studied flute and piccolo while at the University of Alberta, and gained performance experience by playing with the Cosmopolitan Music Society, Edmonton Youth Orchestra, University of Alberta Wind Ensemble and Collegium Musicum. She now regularly performs with such ensembles as the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Opera, Alberta Ballet, Citadel Theatre, Richard Eaton Singers, Opera Nuova and Concordia Symphony Orchestra (of which she is a founding member). In addition, Liane is involved in numerous and diverse freelance performances with many of Edmonton's finest musicians.

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Telephone:
780-633-3818

Margaret King earned her Bachelor of Music in piano performance, studying with Glen Montgomery, at the University of Lethbridge in 1994. Since moving to Edmonton in 1995, she has been fortunate to work with numerous choirs/choral programs including The Cantilon Choirs, Singspiration, Edmonton Children’s Choir, the Greenwood Singers and Pro Coro Canada. As well, Margaret enjoys her work as a collaborative pianist. In 2010/11 she worked with students of Jolaine Kerley at the University of Alberta. She also maintains a class of piano students at Alberta College Conservatory of Music (Grant MacEwan University). In addition, Margaret loves writing music. Two of her pieces for treble choir, ‘The Unsuitable Suitor’ and ‘Norwegian Trilogy’, are published by Boosey and Hawkes. Her most recent composition, ‘Transformations’ was commissioned by Belle Canto in January 2010.

Telephone:
780-633-3725

Bachelor of Music – University of Toronto
Bachelor of Education – University of Alberta

An instructor at Alberta College Conservatory of Music since 1994, Mary Fearon holds a bachelor of music degree from the University of Toronto, and a bachelor of education degree from the University of Alberta. While in Toronto she performed with groups such as the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto Symphony, the Toronto Pops Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the York Brass.

Since returning to Edmonton she has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Citadel Theatre and Alberta Baroque Ensemble. She has given solo recitals at All Saints’ Anglican Church, Call of the Wild Horn Festival, Festival Place, and the McDougall at Noon concert series, and has been featured on Our Music on CBC 1. She is a founding member of the innovative chamber group Wind, Women and Song and is in constant demand as a clinician and adjudicator.

Mary’s active studio includes horn players of all ages and stages. They regularly perform solo and ensemble music in various venues and festivals.

Telephone:
780-633-3874

Master of Music – University of Alberta
Bachelor of Music – Wilfrid Laurier University

Suzanne Langor has been teaching at Alberta College Conservatory of Music since the fall of 2001 and enjoys teaching students of all ages and skill levels. She especially delights in sharing her love of Viennese music with students and in encouraging them to explore their own musical talents and abilities.

She received her bachelor of music from Wilfrid Laurier University and master of music from the University of Alberta. After completing her degrees, she also spent considerable time refining her musical talents in Vienna, where she studied the Viennese Horn under Vienna Philharmonic masters Roland Horvath and Robert Lorenzi. There she made two recordings with the Vienna Horn Society: Schloss Konzert (2001) and Masses and Sonatas (2001). Suzanne has considerable performance experience in Canada and Europe.

Email:
LeviaB@macewan.ca

Telephone:
780-633-3725

Beth Levia has played third oboe and substitute Principal Oboe with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and frequently freelances with several Edmonton based ensembles including the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Pro Coro Canada, Edmonton Opera, Alberta Ballet, and Richard Eaton Singers. She has also played with the Red Deer Symphony, Lethbridge Symphony, New Brunswick Symphony, National Ballet of Canada, Citadel Theatre Orchestra, and Kamloops Symphony. A founding member of WindRose Trio, Ms. Levia can be heard on their debut recording Path of Contact, the 2009 winner of the Western Canadian Music Award for Best Classical Recording. She has been a featured soloist performing Albinoni's Double Concerto Op.9 with ESO Principal Oboist Lidia Khaner and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble; Bach's Double concerto with the Wye String Ensemble and ESO Principal flutist Elizabeth Koch; and Vaughn-William's Concerto for Oboe with the Concordia Orchestra. She is a teaching artist at the Conservatory of Music at Grant MacEwan University, maintains a private studio and is in demand as a Clinician and Adjudicator. For more than a decade Beth has spent part of her summer teaching at MusiCamp Alberta. Ms. Levia holds a Masters degree in Oboe Performance from McGill University and a Bachelors degree in Oboe Performance (with honour) from Michigan State University. Her principal teachers have been Suzanne Lemieux, Daniel Stolper and Normand Forget and she has attended Master classes with oboists John Mack and Richard Kilmer.

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Telephone:
780-633-3853

Saxophonist Dan Davis graduated with a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from the University of South Florida in 2009. While at school, Dan was privileged to study and perform with the likes of Grammy-nominated Nnenna Freelon, Adam Nussbaum, grammy winner Conrad Herwig and Jack Wilkins. Outside of school, Dan has played as a sideman and a leader with some of North America’s finest musicians including P.J. Perry, Mike Lent, John Novello, and Jim Head. Newly back to Edmonton, Dan has been performing and recording with groups as diverse as the Shumka Dancers, MacEwan University’s Big Band, the Fusionauts, and the Marty Majorowicz Syndicate. Dan’s new project—A/B trio—is maintaining a busy schedule playing in and around his home province. The group recently finished their debut recording “Take No Prisoners” which will be released in March 2012. Dan is the Saxophone instructor at Alberta College Conservatory of Music.

www.dandavismusic.ca
www.abtrio.com

Telephone:
780-633-3839

Doctor of Music, Northwestern University (Chicago)

Charles Stolte is assistant professor of music theory and saxophone at The King’s University College in Edmonton, AB and instructor of saxophone at Alberta College Conservatory of Music, Grant MacEwan College.

CBC radio has broadcast his performances and compositions across Canada and his music for saxophone has been performed throughout North America and in Europe. He has performed for such musical luminaries as Jean-Marie Londeix, Claude Delangle, Ned Rorem and Frederick Rzewski and is a featured composer and performer at conferences and festivals throughout North America. He can be heard on recordings as soloist, as alto saxophonist with the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet and as tenor saxophonist with IMPULS Saxophone Quartet. He has enjoyed reviews in the Chicago Tribune and in Classical Music magazine.

Dr. Stolte has served on the faculties of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Roosevelt University and University of Alberta. He holds degrees from Northwestern University, University of Alberta and The King’s University College. His teachers include Frederick Hemke, William Street, Malcolm Forsyth and M. William Karlins.

Email:
lowreya@macewan.ca

Telephone:
780-633-3859

Bachelor of Music - University of Alberta

Alden is an enthusiastic performer, teacher and clinician. He plays regularly with a wide range of groups from symphony orchestras and chamber ensembles to jazz groups and salsa bands. In March 2009 he was the featured guest soloist with the Cosmopolitan Music Society's Monday Night Band. He has been teaching trombone, euphonium and tuba since 2001 and joined the faculty at the Conservatory of Music in 2007.

Email:
conservatory@macewan.ca

Telephone:
780-633-3819

Bachelor of Music - University of Toronto
Performance Diploma - MacEwan College.

Trumpeter Jeff Bryant was born and raised in Edmonton, AB and has quickly established himself as a promising young talent. Fluent in all styles of music, Jeff, has performed with diverse groups such as the National Band of The Naval Reserve, Grant Macewan/University of Alberta Big Band, University of Toronto Wind Ensemble and 11 O'Clock Big Band, the Pergolesi Brass, and the Calgary Jazz Orchestra. As well, he performed with the National Youth Band of Canada for 5 years.

Jeff is in high demand as a clinician and performer around the city and currently teaches trumpet at the Alberta College Conservatory of Music.

Telephone:
780-633-3725