Clinicians
Here are the confirmed clinicians for the 2010 Festival:
Choral
Valerie Long
Born and raised in Newfoundland, Dr. Valerie Long brings to the Rotary Music Festival a lifelong association with music and music education...
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor
Brainerd Blyden-Taylor is the founder, Artistic Director and conductor of The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Canada's first professional chamber choir dedicated to the creation and performance of Afrocentric music of all styles...
Concert Band
Alain Cazes
Alain Cazes, a founding member of the Philharmonie des vents du Québec, is a full time Professor at McGill University where he conducts the Wind Symphony and teaches Conducting and Chamber Music...
Mark Emerson Hopkins
Dr. Hopkins is Artistic Director of the Land's End Chamber Ensemble, and co-director of the Alberta Winds (a professional free-lance wind band) and the National Concert Band of Canada...
Richard Fischer
Dr. Richard Fischer is a professor of music and director of bands at Concordia University, River Forest, Illonois...
Colleen Richardson
Colleen Richardson oversees bands, directs the UWO Wind Ensemble, and teaches graduate courses and seminars in conducting...
Jazz Band
Mike Downes
Bassist, composer, author and educator Mike Downes has earned a reputation as one of Canada's finest jazz artists...
John MacLeod
John MacLeod's credentials as a trumpeter/composer/arranger have been firmly established in a distinguished career spanning almost thirty years on the Canadian music scene.
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