Gaye-Lynn Kern is a Performer, Teacher and Clinician. Her areas of specialization are Voice (Solo & Choral), Music Theatre, Drama and Speech Arts. She has a Master of Music (Voice) and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, UK. Other post-graduate studies include the Mozart Opera Studies Institute and the Pacific Voice Conference.
Ms Kern has performed over 28 leading roles in opera (The Medium, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute), operetta (The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore), Music Theatre (The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady) and plays (Dancing at Lughnasa, Murder at the Howard Johnsons). Her 34 directional credits include Anne of Green Gables, The Boyfriend, Grease, Li'l Abner, Oliver! The Real Inspector Hound, Blithe Spirit and Nunsense. At the International Saxophone Conference 2000 in Montreal, Ms. Kern premiered Songs of Childhood.
Ms. Kern has enjoyed adjudicating at over 178 Music Festival in Western Canada since 1990. For many years she was active in the Saskatoon Music Festival Association and served as it's President and Provincial Representative for the CMFAA. Twelve of her forty years of Vocal Pedagogy have been at universities and colleges where she taught for both Music and Drama Departments and her students are frequent festival scholarship winners at both local and provincial levels. Her students have ranged in age from 4 years (pre-kindergarten) to 90 years (Elderhostel). Ms. Kern coaches professionals in a wide variety of careers and is the Music Director at St. Matthew's Anglican Church.
Gaye-Lynn Kern has performed professionally in England, Europe, the United States and Canada. She performed in Improv Theatre and currently on the Concert Stage as a soloist and as a member of The Gala Trio. She resides in Saskatoon with her rescue feline companions, Flynn and Louie.
Alan Crane holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of British Columbia. For over 35 years, he has been teaching a full class of students ranging from young beginners to pre-professional young musicians to adults. Many of Mr. Crane's students have gone on to pursue careers in music.
In addition to being on the faculty of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music where he recently completed a term as Chair of the Piano Department, Mr. Crane teaches part time at the Langley Community Music School where he served for many years as Coordinator of the Piano Program.
As well as teaching, Alan Crane is an active performer. He is a founding director and pianist with the popular Vancouver concert series West Coast Chamber Music, is a much sought after accompanist and has presented numerous solo recitals in Canada and the UK. He is also active as a festival adjudicator sand is a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators Association and the College of examiners of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Dennis Colpitts is a graduate from the Department of Music, University of British Columbia, 1976. He has taught music in the Lower Mainland and Okanagan at all levels of the school system.
Mr. Colpitts has been second chair in the horn section of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra for 23 years and plays regularly with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra. He also plays trumpet in the Fish On Five Brass Quintet and the Okanagan Jazz Festival Big Band.
Mr. Colpitts retired in 2011 after 34 years of teaching, but keeps busy by volunteering in the schools and working with the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Joanne has been dancing most of her life with a teaching career that encompasses over 40 years. Her training spans from England to LA California with repertoire in ballet, modern contemporary, jazz, tap and National dance. She is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University/Canadian College of Dance in Toronto where she obtained her Royal Academy of Dance Teacher Credentials in ballet and her ISTD credentials in Modern and National Dance. She holds the Licentiate designation with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance, London, in ballet and the Advanced Teaching Certificate RAD. She is an experienced adjudicator and producer of dance productions and dance festivals.
Joanne has taught in Toronto and in the Lower Mainland for the past 40 years at many schools as well as her own and currently run lady's dance group, Dance Divas, in Abbotsford. She has danced professionally in Toronto with Dance Breakers, Folk Ballet Theatre and Capricho Espanol.. Joanne also holds her Pilates Level One Certification and the 200 Hour Yoga Teacher qualification, International Yoga Alliance. She currently guest teaches at various schools in the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley areas and resides in Abbotsford with her husband and two grown children, Cale her son and Marissa her daughter.
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