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ADJUDICATORS BIOGRAPHIES - 2012
John White - Bands
John White is an Honours graduate of the University of Calgary (Bachelor of Music). He received his Master of Education degree from the University of British Columbia. His teaching experience includes positions as instructor of strings and woodwinds at the Calgary Conservatory of Music, music teacher at F.H. Collins Secondary School in Whitehorse, Yukon, and roles as an itinerant band teacher and District Resource Teacher in the Langley School District. He also worked as Instrumental Consultant for Northwest Musical Services (Vancouver) before he assumed a position in the Kamloops School District as District Fine Arts Coordinator. The position was followed by time in Coquitlam School District as Program Coordinator for Visual and Performing Arts. Mr. White recently retired after twenty-one years as a Director of Instruction for School District 41 Burnaby - a schools system with approximately 24,000 students.
During the first period of time that Mr. White spent in the Lower Mainland, he was Music Director for the New Westminster and District Concert Band, an ensemble he now, once again, directs. He has also conducted a number of other community groups including the Kamloops Choristers. Mr. White has served as a Director of the British Columbia Music Educators’ Association Provincial Honour Band on two separate occasions, the Saskatchewan Provincial Honour Band and has many years experience as a performing musician. He has served extensively as an adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor throughout British Columbia, Yukon , Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. He has also served as a judge for Canada’s Juno Awards on numerous occasions.
A Past-President of the British Columbia Music Educators’ Association, the British Columbia Choral Federation, the British Columbia Administrators of Arts Education, the Pacific Coast Music Festivals Association, and Art Starts in Schools, John White is also a Past Chairman of MusicFest Canada: Canadian Concert Band Festival. He served on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Music Educators’ Association, the Western Canada Theatre Company and the British Columbia Festival of the Arts. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Michael J. Fox Theatre Society, and the Coalition for Music Education in Canada and serves as President of the BC Choral Federation’s Willan Council, and the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival.
John White has been recognized as an Honourary Life Member by the BC Music Educators’ Association and as a life-member of the Willan Council by the BC Choral Federation.
Dolores Vann - Strings
Calgary born violinist Dolores Vann received early musical training in Vancouver, California, Toronto and New York. She received many awards and scholarships and is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While working toward an Artists Diploma Degree she was heard in recital throughout Ontario and BC as well as in chamber music concerts at Yale University, Juilliard School of Music, The Peabody Institute, as well as radio and TV appearances in Great Britain.
Over a span of 35 years, Ms. Vann was a member of the Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras, the McGill Chamber and CBC Radio-Canada Orchestras (Montreal), the Edmonton Chamber Players ,Musici Allegri, the CBC Vancouver and Vancouver Opera Orchestras. She also has been heard as soloist on the Viola d’Amore in Nationwide broadcast on the CBC.
For almost 40 years Ms. Vann has been a teacher of violin, viola and theory. In Edmonton she was well known for her work with handicapped children. In 1986 she moved to Gabriola Island with her husband Michael, a noted Bow Maker and Luthier. She taught for several years for the Central Vancouver Community Music School, served as Concert Master of the Vancouver Island Symphony from 1995 -2000, and from 2001 -2006 acted as Interim Head of Strings at the Victoria Conservatory of Music . She continues her musical life as a teacher, examiner and music festival adjudicator.
Marilynn Wiwcharuk - Junior Piano
Marilyn has lived and taught piano in Kamloops since 1977, except for a four year hiatus in the early 1990’s which she spent in Manitoba at Brandon University, where she directed the Eckhardt-Gramatte Conservatory of Music, and earned her Master’s degree in music performance and literature.
Her early teaching experience included band and classroom music in high schools in Alberta and Australia. In Kamloops she maintains a busy piano studio, accompanies professionally and keeps generally busy in the community music scene.
She has adjudicated, examined and taught workshops in the four western provinces. She has served as president of the Kamloops Festival of the Performing Arts, Performing Arts BC, and currently sits on the executiv of the Federation of Canadian Music Festivals.
Catherine Anne Bundt – Senior Piano
Catherine Anne Bundt is a graduate of the UBC Piano Performance program where she studied with Jane Coop and participated in master classes with Fanny Waterman, Menahem Pressler,
Elly Ameling and Rudolf Jansen. She was a full scholarship student at the Banff International Centre for the Performing Arts where she studied with Marek Jablonski and later completed two years of further studies with Kum Sing Lee, again at UBC.
Catherine is an active performer, teacher and adjudicator who strongly believes in the value of music in children’s lives and sees teaching music as giving young students ‘a gift for life’.
Catherine has been a BC Registered Music Teacher for the past 27 years and served several terms on the South Fraser branch executive council and festival committees. In an attempt to make music accessible and affordable to her local community, Catherine has also hosted more than 26 “house concerts” in her home over the last 10 years featuring performing artists from universities and music schools.
Catherine has given lessons and workshops throughout the province and presently maintains a full private studio in Surrey, BC.
George (Geordie) Roberts - Vocal/Choral
George “Geordie” Roberts was born in Enderby and graduated from the newly-opened A.L. Fortune School in 1978. He is a graduate of the School of Music UBC and the Vancouver Academy of Music. In thirteen seasons with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, he was a frequent soloist in concert, on recordings and in many CBC radio broadcasts. Geordie also performed with the a capella quartet “Fourtissimo” for 10 years, specializing in vocal jazz and Renaissance repertoire. His solo career has included engagements with Early Music Vancouver, Trinity Western University, the Vancouver Symphony, Masterpiece Music, Festival Vancouver and many community organizations in the Lower Mainland. For 19 summers, George has been the vocal instructor at the West Coast Family Music Festival in Langley, offering group instruction in vocal technique, song interpretation and diction for singers. In May 2000, he was honoured to be the conductor of the Provincial Youth Choir in Victoria and in May 2003, he was the conductor at the Provincial Seniors’ Chorfest in North Vancouver. He has twice conducted massed choirs for the United Churches of the Lower Mainland anniversary worship services. He is a faculty member at Capilano University Music Department, North Vancouver, and the Co-ordinator of Music at Highlands United Church, North Vancouver. He regularly presents solo recitals and is highly regarded for his ease of production and expressive singing. In addition to keeping busy singing, teaching and conducting, George is also a gifted accompanist and coach. A published composer and arranger, George’s choral music is available on the Cypress label. George makes his home in North Vancouver with his wife, Frances, and sons, Aidan, Garreth and Liam.
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