Piano, Voice and Speech Arts
Terry holds her ARCT in voice and piano and has been teaching for over 50 years. She took her advanced studies with mezzo soprano Phyllis Mailing and piano with Edward Parker.
Her students have won countless top awards at local and Provincial festivals. The Logan Studio has won over 20 Provincial Conservatory Gold medals for excellence in practical exams from grade 1 to ARCT.
Choral music is her passion. As a teenager, Terry formed her first youth choir and also sang in the Vancouver Cantata Singers under James Fankhauser. Her last youth choir, Chantant, won numerous local and provincial awards as well as being recommended to the National level. She has given choral and vocal workshops around the province.
Terry has been a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and has sung many operatic roles with the Kelowna Opera. Among them, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro and Papagena in The Magic Flute.
She has been the conductor of the Aura Chamber Choir and the Vernon Community Singers and currently conducts the Ancora Women's Ensemble and the Melodia Singers.
Instrumental
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 I 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.
Dennis retired in 2011 after 34 years of teaching but keeps busy by volunteering in the schools and working with the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Dance
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.
