Gregory Butler (Piano, Grades 9-10, Diploma, Honours and Adult) Gregory Butler was raised in Belleville, Ontario, and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. Winner of numerous North American competitions, he gave debut recitals at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, presenting premiers of Harry Somers’ Third Piano Sonata. He always includes Canadian piano literature in his solo concerts and encouraged his students to do likewise. Dr. Butler has taught at Mount Allison University, the Eastman School of Music and MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and recently retired as Professor Emeritus and Director of the School of Music at the University of Windsor. He has served on various music organizations including the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators Association. Loyalist College in Belleville awarded Dr. Butler its highest academic tribute, an honorary diploma in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the teaching profession and excellence of musical achievement. In May 2006, Dr. Butler formed Butler Piano Associates, an independent group of teachers united in a common philosophy and pedagogical approach to piano performance. Top
Lynn Channing (Vocal, Grade A, Grade B, Grade C, Honours and Adult) Lynn Channing has performed with the Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras and was a member of the famed Glyndebourne Festival Opera for four years. Recently she sang in Messiah performances in Regina and Medicine Hat, as well as appearing in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s new production of Messiah. Since 1979, Lynn has taught voice at the University of Regina, adjudicated, given recitals and master classes. She is frequently heard on the CBC and recently released a CD with David McIntyre. Top
Steven Fielder (Piano, Grades 7-8) After completing degrees at Waterloo and Western Ontario Universities, Steven Fielder earned Conservatory Canada’s Diploma in Piano Performance before further studies at the University of Durham and in London, England. He has taught piano and theory at the Conservatory for over 20 years and has examined both piano and theory since 1980, in addition to adjudicating across Canada. He has served on the Board of Conservatory Canada, Ontario Music Festivals Association and currently is Vice-President of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals and Executive Director of the Barrie Music Festival Association. Steven gives constant encouragement to competitors and to the volunteers who organize festivals across the country with these words: “Remember . . . we do it all for the young musicians.” Top
Naomi Forman (Vocal, 16 and 18 years and under) B. Mus. (U of MB), M. Mus. (Boston U)
The Edmonton Journal described her as a singer who could act, while the Winnipeg Free Press hailed her as an actor who could sing! Equally comfortable in Lieder, theatre, bel canto or Broadway, Naomi Forman has sung with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Opera, Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Dry Cold Productions and the Brandon Chamber Players. She teaches voice at Brandon University. Top
Noreen Gafic (Choral) Noreen Gafic has just returned from Dresden, Germany, where she worked at an international school with duties including a Junior Choir. She spent most of her teaching career in all levels of music with the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, specializing in the Divisional Children’s Choir.
Noreen has been an active member of the Manitoba Choral Association and has conducted regional choirs throughout Manitoba. She also enjoys singing in the church choir. Top
Margot Jewell (Strings) Margot Jewell has performed with the Hamilton Philharmonic, Symphony Niagara, Te Deum Orchestra as well as many free lance groups. She taught violin and was director at the Hamilton Suzuki School and in 1982 founded the Etobicoke Suzuki School of Music in Toronto where she presently teaches. Margot adjudicates Ontario music festivals, examines for the Royal Conservatory of Music and serves on the Board of the Suzuki Association of Ontario. Top
Joan Linklater (Orff, Handbells and School Recorder) B. Mus. (Brandon), M. Mus. (Michigan), ARCT (Piano Performance), Orff Cert. (Denver)
Joan is Assistant Professor of Music and chair of the Music Education Department at the Faculty of Music, University of Manitoba. She teaches Elementary music education courses and aural skills and coordinates the Orff Certification Program at the University. She serves as First Vice President of Carl Orff Canada. Top
Darrel Loewen (Piano, Grades 5-6) A.M.M, BA (Honours), MA (Queen’s)
Raised in Winnipeg, Darrel Loewen taught piano and theory for an extended period at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Arts as well as adjudicating piano at various Manitoba Music Festivals. Since 2006 he teaches at the Richmond School in B.C. and has a private studio in Vancouver. Keenly interested in languages, Darrel has studied French in Montpellier and Caen, France, and German at the University of Kiel, Germany. He was a member of the Winnipeg Singers and was part of the CBC Hymn Sing Chorus. He has examined for the RCM College of Examiners since 1999. Top
Derek Morphy (Choral) Born in England, educated in Wales, Derek sang as a Choral scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge and has sung in a number of chamber choirs in England and Canada. He has sung the bass solos in many oratorios, and most recently, the role of Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic Flute with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. His Neelin High School Chamber Ensemble in Brandon won the George S. Mathieson National Choral Trophy in 1982 and 1983, and his Winnipeg Kelvin High School Chamber Choir was twice awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Trophy for the most outstanding performance in the Winnipeg Music Festival. Derek has conducted four Manitoba Regional Youth Choirs. He presently conducts the Chamber Choir, Renaissance Voices and Trinity United Church Choir and sings in the Winnipeg Singers. Top
Debra Parker (Vocal, Musical Theatre and Gilbert & Sullivan) B. Mus. (UBC), M. Mus. (Juilliard)
Born in Sanford, Manitoba, soprano Debra Parker has performed on CBC Radio and Television and with orchestras in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal and Nova Scotia in addition to the Toronto Chamber Players. She won a CBC Talent Competition and the Canadian National Music Festival, and was a prize winner in the Montreal International Voice Competition as well as the New York Oratorio Competition. She is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England, the Aspen Music Festival and Banff School of Fine Arts. Debra initiated the Singers Can Act! Program at the University of Manitoba and continues the program now in the Boston area where she lives with her husband and two children. Top
Patrick Roux (Classical Guitar) Patrick Roux was born in Marseille, France, in 1962 and came to Canada in 1967. He began studying music at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Hull under Jean Vallières. He has also studied with David Russell and such masters as Manuel Barrueco, Léo Brouwer, Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel. Patrick has won may competitions, as both soloist and in duo with Robert Latreille. Since 1990, his passion has been composition. In 1998, he founded with the famous Canadian guitarist Philip Candelaria, the Canadian Guitar Quartet that made his concert debut in march 1999. Patrick has performed as soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Hull and the Quatuor Morency and is heard on CBC. Patrick Roux played for the Queen of Jordanie, the princess of Holland and the governor general of Canada. He is a tenure professor of guitar at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Hull and teaches at the Faculty of Music at the University of Ottawa. During the summer, he teaches at the Music Academy of the Domaine Forget. Top
Margot Sim (Vocal, 8, 10, 12, 14 years and under and Choral) ARCT (Piano, Voice, Organ) AMM (Recorder), LMM (Voice), B.A. and Diploma in Operatic Performance (U of Toronto)
Margot began her musical training in Winnipeg and later studied with Mary Morrison in Toronto. Margot has performed with the Mennonite Oratorio Choir, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Innis College Theatre and Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre. As a “Young Artist” tour winner, she toured western Canada as a soloist with accompanist Angela Cheng. Margot won the Rose Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival in 1978. She is Minister of Music at Grace Bible Church and has taught voice at the Canadian Mennonite University for two decades. Top
Fiona Wilkinson (Woodwinds and Brass) Fiona Wilkinson was recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Awards, has trained internationally and is in demand throughout Canada as a performer, adjudicator and clinician. She has recorded widely and currently is Professor of Flute and Chamber Music at the University of Western Ontario. She has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, Hamilton Philharmonic, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with nationally acclaimed jazz musicians. Fiona is a founding member of the Aeolian Winds and Triptych and a world music ensemble, The Antler River Project. Her pedagogical book entitled The Physical Flute is published by Waterloo Music. Top
Kerrine Wilson (Piano, Grades 1-4) (AMM, LMM, B.Mus. (Manitoba)
Born into a musical Winnipeg family, Kerrine is well known as a piano recitalist, accompanist, organist, teacher and adjudicator. She studied piano with Jean Broadfoot, William Aide and Leonard Isaacs in Winnipeg and at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Kerrine has served as President of the Junior Musical Club, Manitoba Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Wednesday Morning Musicale and the Royal Canadian College of Organists. She is a member of the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and a past member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. Top
Gregory Butler was raised in Belleville, Ontario, and graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music. Winner of numerous North American competitions, he gave debut recitals at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, presenting premiers of Harry Somers’ Third Piano Sonata. He always includes Canadian piano literature in his solo concerts and encouraged his students to do likewise. Dr. Butler has taught at Mount Allison University, the Eastman School of Music and MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and recently retired as Professor Emeritus and Director of the School of Music at the University of Windsor. He has served on various music organizations including the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators Association. Loyalist College in Belleville awarded Dr. Butler its highest academic tribute, an honorary diploma in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the teaching profession and excellence of musical achievement. In May 2006, Dr. Butler formed Butler Piano Associates, an independent group of teachers united in a common philosophy and pedagogical approach to piano performance.
Lynn Channing has performed with the Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras and was a member of the famed Glyndebourne Festival Opera for four years. Recently she sang in Messiah performances in Regina and Medicine Hat, as well as appearing in the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s new production of Messiah. Since 1979, Lynn has taught voice at the University of Regina, adjudicated, given recitals and master classes. She is frequently heard on the CBC and recently released a CD with David McIntyre.
After completing degrees at Waterloo and Western Ontario Universities, Steven Fielder earned Conservatory Canada’s Diploma in Piano Performance before further studies at the University of Durham and in London, England. He has taught piano and theory at the Conservatory for over 20 years and has examined both piano and theory since 1980, in addition to adjudicating across Canada. He has served on the Board of Conservatory Canada, Ontario Music Festivals Association and currently is Vice-President of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals and Executive Director of the Barrie Music Festival Association. Steven gives constant encouragement to competitors and to the volunteers who organize festivals across the country with these words: “Remember . . . we do it all for the young musicians.”
B. Mus. (U of MB), M. Mus. (Boston U) 
Noreen Gafic has just returned from Dresden, Germany, where she worked at an international school with duties including a Junior Choir. She spent most of her teaching career in all levels of music with the St. James-Assiniboia School Division, specializing in the Divisional Children’s Choir.
Margot Jewell has performed with the Hamilton Philharmonic, Symphony Niagara, Te Deum Orchestra as well as many free lance groups. She taught violin and was director at the Hamilton Suzuki School and in 1982 founded the Etobicoke Suzuki School of Music in Toronto where she presently teaches. Margot adjudicates Ontario music festivals, examines for the Royal Conservatory of Music and serves on the Board of the Suzuki Association of Ontario.
B. Mus. (Brandon), M. Mus. (Michigan), ARCT (Piano Performance), Orff Cert. (Denver)
A.M.M, BA (Honours), MA (Queen’s)
Born in England, educated in Wales, Derek sang as a Choral scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge and has sung in a number of chamber choirs in England and Canada. He has sung the bass solos in many oratorios, and most recently, the role of Sarastro in Mozart’s Magic Flute with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. His Neelin High School Chamber Ensemble in Brandon won the George S. Mathieson National Choral Trophy in 1982 and 1983, and his Winnipeg Kelvin High School Chamber Choir was twice awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Trophy for the most outstanding performance in the Winnipeg Music Festival. Derek has conducted four Manitoba Regional Youth Choirs. He presently conducts the Chamber Choir, Renaissance Voices and Trinity United Church Choir and sings in the Winnipeg Singers.
B. Mus. (UBC), M. Mus. (Juilliard)
Patrick Roux was born in Marseille, France, in 1962 and came to Canada in 1967. He began studying music at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Hull under Jean Vallières. He has also studied with David Russell and such masters as Manuel Barrueco, Léo Brouwer, Hubert Käppel and Roberto Aussel. Patrick has won may competitions, as both soloist and in duo with Robert Latreille. Since 1990, his passion has been composition. In 1998, he founded with the famous Canadian guitarist Philip Candelaria, the Canadian Guitar Quartet that made his concert debut in march 1999. Patrick has performed as soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Hull and the Quatuor Morency and is heard on CBC. Patrick Roux played for the Queen of Jordanie, the princess of Holland and the governor general of Canada. He is a tenure professor of guitar at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Hull and teaches at the Faculty of Music at the University of Ottawa. During the summer, he teaches at the Music Academy of the Domaine Forget.
ARCT (Piano, Voice, Organ) AMM (Recorder), LMM (Voice), B.A. and Diploma in Operatic Performance (U of Toronto)
Fiona Wilkinson was recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Awards, has trained internationally and is in demand throughout Canada as a performer, adjudicator and clinician. She has recorded widely and currently is Professor of Flute and Chamber Music at the University of Western Ontario. She has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, Hamilton Philharmonic, Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with nationally acclaimed jazz musicians. Fiona is a founding member of the Aeolian Winds and Triptych and a world music ensemble, The Antler River Project. Her pedagogical book entitled The Physical Flute is published by Waterloo Music.
(AMM, LMM, B.Mus. (Manitoba)