adjudicator barbara long, junior piano

Festival Program 2021

ADJUDICATOR Barbara Long, Junior Piano

Barbara was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario where she studied piano. She returned to musical studies as a young mom studying in Fredericton, New Brunswick, earning her ARCT Teachers Degree. Barbara and her husband live on the family farm near Hartland, New Brunswick where she has operated a private piano studio for over 30 years. Barbara is Past President of the NB Registered Music Teachers’ Association and a member the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association. She has been the Provincial Administrator of the New Brunswick Federation of Music Festivals since 2002 and the Executive Director of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals since 2016. Barbara's students have been consistent winners of prizes at the Carleton County Music Festival. Several have earned scholarships to study music at universities. Many others are involved in the musical life of their churches and communities. Barbara continues to mentor other teachers and enjoys adjudicating at festivals. In 2009, the Canadian Music Teachers’ Association honored her with the Hugheen Ferguson Distinguished Teacher Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to music education in Canada.


ADJUDICATOR Dr. Heather Price, Intermediate Piano

Dr. Heather Price has been actively involved in Nova Scotia’s music scene as teacher, adjudicator, accompanist and music therapist for over twenty-five years. Completing graduate degrees in music performance at the University of Toronto, the Hochshűle fur Műsik in Vienna, and the University of Iowa, Heather pursued a teaching career at the University of Eastern Oregon in the 1980’s and early 90’s, during which time she performed regionally as a recitalist, chamber musician, accompanist, and orchestral soloist. In early 2000’s Heather completed her studies in music therapy, and joined the faculty at the School of Music, Acadia University, teaching courses in music therapy and keyboard improvisation. As a music therapist, Heather emphasizes the process of music-making as a creative and holistic activity. Through improvisation and the experience of music as an in-the-moment form of self-expression, Heather encourages a greater dimension of self-awareness and communication, attributes that should be the hallmark of any musical performance!


ADJUDICATOR Dr. David Rogosin, Senior Piano

Pianist David Rogosin has performed across Canada, in the American Midwest, the Caribbean and France. Praised for the brilliance, clarity and passion of his performances, he is highly regarded as a performer, adjudicator and clinician. Aside from solo recitals, Rogosin is a frequent collaborator and chamber player with a particular passion for the two-piano repertoire. He has released two solo recordings: Incandescence (2005) and Evocation (2012), the latter nominated for an ECMA “Classical Recording of the Year” award. A third, Variations, will be recorded in the summer of 2021. Professor at Mount Allison University since 2001, he was awarded that institution’s Paul Paré Excellence Award in 2013, and in March, 2019 he was named to the

prestigious position of Pickard-Bell Memorial Chair in Music for a five-year tenure. In April, Dr. Rogosin served as one of three jurors for the 42nd Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition in Brandon, MB. Apart from classical music, Rogosin enjoys jazz, world music, cooking and woodworking, and holds the rank of shodan in aikido.


ADJUDICATOR Marc Djokic, Upper Strings

Marc Djokic is a Canadian violinist and concertmaster of the Orchestre Classique de Montreal. Winner of a 2020 East Music Award for Classical Recording of the Year, he is also a CQM Prix Opus laureate and former Canada Council for the Arts Instrument Bank recipient. Djokic’s debut album “Solo Seven” as well as his newest collaborative album “André Mathieu – musique de chambre” were both released to critical acclaim. He recently embarked on concert tours in Switzerland, Italy and France. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Djokic first and foremost studied with his father Philippe Djokic, one of Canada’s great soloists and a pupil of the master Ivan Galamian. He continued his studies in the USA with David Russell, Donald Weilerstein and Jaime Laredo. From BC Contact to Jeunesses Musicales and Debut Atlantic, Djokic has toured several times throughout Canada as an accomplished chamber

musician. As a soloist, he has performed with such prestigious orchestras as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Quebec Symphony Orchestra.


ADJUDICATOR Emily Kennedy, Lower Strings

Emily Kennedy is a cellist and educator based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She frequently performs with the Elm City String Quartet, guitarist Steven Peacock, Symphony New Brunswick, Atlantic Sinfonia, and as a part of UNB's music UNB Performance Series. Outside of the classical music world, Emily is active in genre-crossing projects, collaborating with poets, textile artists, and dancers. Her interest in performing and writing new music has brought her to Banff’s Concert in the 21st Century residency, the Britten-Pears: Composition, Alternative Performance and Performance Art program in Aldeburgh, UK, Montreal Contemporary Music Lab, and

RE:FLUX Festival in Moncton, NB with improv trio Terre Wa. Emily is a graduate of the performance program at the University of Ottawa and Wilfrid Laurier University. She has taught cello at Mount Allison University, and maintains a full private teaching studio in Fredericton.


ADJUDICATOR Dr. Ninette Babineau, Junior Strings

Ninette Babineau is an arts education consultant and musician with degrees in education and performance from Hartt College (University of Hartford) and Boston University. A stringed instrument specialist, she has taught in private studio, schools and university programs in Canada and the U.S.

After retiring from the position of Instrumental Consultant for the Halifax School Board and as instructor in Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Music, she held leadership roles on many regional, provincial and national boards and advisory groups, among them the National and Provincial Music Educators Associations, Coalition for Music Education in Canada, the provincial Department of Culture, Nova Scotia Arts Council, Canada Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage and Orchestras Canada.

She is called upon as an adjudicator/assessor and consultant and continues to take an active role as Board Member for Scotia Festival and advisor for their Young Artist Program.

Dr. Babineau has published internationally on the subject of education in and through the arts and has been the recipient of several national and institutional awards for her work in education.


ADJUDICATOR Anthony Rissesco, Fiddle and Traditional Music

Anthony Rissesco is a contemporary violinist who performs folk, fiddle, rock, classical, and more. He grew up playing in the "down east old time tradition" and has competed in fiddling competitions across the country. He was a student of both Jan Wicha and Prof. Philippe Djokic, and has toured for many years with Lennie Gallant. Anthony appeared on Lennie's album Live Acoustic at the Carleton which received a Canadian Folk Music award, and he has been on many festival stages across the U.S with roots rock band, Pogey. He has also played

and toured with many Maritime artists including Bruce Guthro and Anne Murray. Anthony has been a guest performer with Symphony Nova Scotia several times, either performing with Lennie Gallant or playing fiddle medleys and singing folk songs. He is part of the trio Papilio which has just released its second CD, and whose first CD was nominated for both an ECMA and Music Nova Scotia award.

With almost 30 years’ experience as an educator, Anthony has given many workshops for fiddle organizations and clubs such as the Maritime Fiddle Association. He has often been a string and fiddle adjudicator for the Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival and other music festivals. He is a first place prizewinner in five Canadian provinces and has represented Nova Scotia at the Canadian Grand Masters several times. Anthony is third prizewinner at the Canadian Open. He is also a past Maritime Fiddle champion and recently was a judge at that competition.


ADJUDICATOR

Dr. Jack Brownell, Brass

Jack Brownell grew up in Truro, NS, and upon completing his undergraduate degree at Acadia University spent two years playing with Symphony Nova Scotia. Following a residency at the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Jack was invited as a scholarship student by Daniel Perantoni to pursue graduate studies at Arizona State University where, as a Dean’s List student, he completed his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts (performance) work

with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. While chamber music is his genre of choice, having long been involved in professional brass quintets in both Germany and the US, he has been found in Canadian, German, and American symphony orchestras and performing with touring Broadway productions. Following performance endeavours in Japan, the USA, and Europe, Jack returned to his native province where he currently combines professional performing with involvement in academia: he currently serves on the faculty of Dalhousie University, having also taught at Université de Moncton, Acadia, St. FX, and Arizona State universities. Accomplished and respected in both classical and popular genres, Jack is also widely recognized as a multi-instrumentalist and arranger. A musician of great versatility and ability, he has shared the stage with some of the world's finest musicians, including Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Howard Cable, Tommy Banks, members of the Summit Brass, Tommy Johnson (top LA studio tubist), Patrick Sheridan and Daniel Perantoni (internationally renowned tuba soloists), David Hickman (solo trumpet artist and Past-President of the International Trumpet Guild), Mark Lawrence (principal trombone ret’d, San Francisco Symphony and formerly Empire Brass), and the Canadian Brass.


ADJUDICATOR Dr. Stanley Fisher, Woodwinds

Dr. Fisher, a Canadian clarinetist, has been heard frequently on CBC Radio and TV. In addition, he has taught all the woodwinds and percussion methods, as well as various ensembles at Acadia University for 38 years where he was awarded Professor Emeritus. He is now retired and this marks the 6th time he has adjudicated at the Nova Scotia Kiwanis Music Festival. He has adjudicated all across Canada, local festivals, Provincial and National levels, Canadian Music Competition and Quebec Conservatories.

Dr. Fisher has given many masterclasses at leading Canadian and International institutions. He conducts full orchestras and has worked with many fine string quartets. Dr. Fisher is a Yamaha performing artist and conducts clinics for this corporation at the National Musicfest and at numerous locations across North America. He has released two CDs to date, one as a performer and one as a conductor.


ADJUDICATOR Marie Bouchard, Early Music and Recorder

Well-established in the Baroque music world, Marie leads an active performing career as a chamber and orchestral musician, accompanist and soloist. She regularly collaborates with the Ottawa Baroque Consort, Thirteen Strings, Seventeen Voyces, Symphony Nova Scotia, and Sacabouche! Her career path included concerts with the MSO, Les Violons du Roy, SMAM and Tafelmusik. Marie has recorded with Les Boréades, Les Voix Baroques, Aradia, the Ottawa Bach Choir, Tempest and Thirteen Strings. A project dear to her heart is the Sacabouche! recording: How Do We Listen?

As a pedagogue, Marie is very involved in teaching harpsichord, organ, piano, accompaniment, chamber music and Kindermusik. As a guest teacher in workshops, conservatories and universities, she

happily shares her expertise of Baroque music with students of all ages and skills. With Ontario’s “Concerts in Care”, Marie plans to share more concerts in senior residences. Music is vital!

Since March, 2020, Marie has recorded video performances with Ottawa’s Thirteen Strings ensemble, Music and Beyond, as well as the On-a-Cloud series of Halifax Inner Space Concerts. Her summers usually include camping in the woods and participating in festivals such as Music and Beyond, the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival and Boxwood, Nova Scotia.


ADJUDICATOR Erin Bardua, Voice

Soprano Erin Bardua is a frequent soloist, voice teacher, and stage director. She is also a co-founder of Essential Opera, a concert opera company performing and creating in Ontario and Atlantic Canada. Ms. Bardua has been lucky to maintain a busy teaching and performing career in the 2020-2021 season, including producing and performing in two operatic films: Mirror, mirror, an operatic retelling of Snow White by Anna Pidgorna; and December, the world streaming première of Monica Pearce's "holiday opera" filmed in the largely-deserted Halifax Stanfield International Airport). In spring 2021 she plays the role of Helen in the musical Fun Home, streaming online from the Motyer-Fancy Theatre at Mount Alison University. Her company, Essential Opera, is

currently developing a new work with Nova Scotia composer Fiona Ryan Erin has performed with Orchestra Toronto, the Talisker Players, Nota Bene Baroque, Pax Christi Chorale, Toronto Sinfonietta, Oshawa-Durham Chorus, Arcady Baroque Ensemble, St. James Cathedral Choir, Capella Intima, London Pro Musica, the Menno Singers, Pacific Opera Victoria, Vancouver Opera, and Opera Anonymous, among others. Erin has provided dramatic coaching and stage direction for the Halifax Summer Opera Festival, where she directed Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea in 2018 and Handel's Alcina for the 2019 season. She also often works with Mount Allison University's Opera Workshop, and was Assistant Director on the Mount Allison Drama Department's production of Godspell in 2019. She operates a private voice studio in Sackville, NB.


ADJUDICATOR Patrick Maubert, Musical Theatre Patrick Maubert, a native to Fredericton, New Brunswick, has a Master’s Degree in Musical Theatre Creative Practice from ArtsEd: City, University of London where Andrew Lloyd Webber is Patron and Mentor. He Studied Musical Theatre Performance at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York City. As a performer, Maubert has been a member of the 12 Tenors, touring internationally for seven years. He has worked with such companies as Musicals Tonight Off-Broadway, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Tokyo Disneyland, Canada’s Wonderland, South Holland Centre UK, Halifax Fringe Festival, Eastern Front Theatre, Neptune Theatre Chrysalis Project and Theatre New Brunswick. Patrick is the former staging director of the acclaimed London Gay Men’s Chorus and was the Associate Artistic Director of Toronto’s No Strings Theatre and London’s A Friend of a Friend Productions where he directed such shows as: Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Shop of Horrors and the world premiere of Liam: the musical. Maubert is currently Head of the Voice Department at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and is a private singing, musical theatre & drama teacher at such institutions as the Fountain School of Performing arts at Dalhousie University, Stagecoach Academy, Neptune Theatre School, No Strings Theatre School, Northwood, YouthNet, and Theatre New Brunswick Theatre School. He has adjudicated music and drama festivals across Canada. Patrick Maubert is simply THRILLED to be adjudicating at this renowned festival and commends everyone for their courage and tenacity in making it work during these Covid times. Thank you, and have fun!


ADJUDICATOR Ryan Billington, Jazz/Pop Vocal and Singer/Songwriter

Ryan Billington is a versatile vocalist, arranger and conductor. Since 2004, he has taught private voice, choral/vocal jazz ensembles and various classes in the music department at St. Francis Xavier University including Vocal Improvisation, Songwriters and their Songs, Songwriting Workshop, Women and Popular Music. His main areas of interest are jazz/pop vocal performance, vocal pedagogy, choral ensemble direction and arranging for small vocal ensemble settings. In 2011, his student vocal ensemble EXTRA from St. FX was featured nationally on CBC Radio 2 Choral Concert with host Peter Togni.

Ryan completed a Master of Music in Voice performance and Jazz at Western Michigan University in 2002. Prior to his appointment at St. FX, Ryan performed as a professional choral singer in Toronto with the Nathaniel Dett Chorale and other choral ensembles. In more recent years, Ryan has performed across Atlantic Canada in jazz, oratorio, musical theatre and choral settings.

Recent original compositions of Ryan’s include “Atacama, Gateway to the Stars” written for Toronto mezzo-soprano Ali Garrison and piano (2015), and original music for plays by American playwright Sarah Ruhl – Eurydice (Theatre Antigonish, 2017), and Stage Kiss (Festival Antigonish, 2017).

Ryan has been serving as Artistic Director and Conductor for the Cape Breton Chorale since 2017.

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