Wind and Percussion
Dr. Angela Schroeder
DMus (North Texas)
Assistant Professor, Wind Band Conducting
Director, Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Director, Concert Band
Area Coordinator, Wind & Percussion
A native of Calgary, Dr. Angela Schroeder completed undergraduate studies in Music at University of Calgary, majoring in Secondary Education, with performance studies in piano and trumpet. She also completed the Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Band Conducting at University of Calgary under the supervision of Glenn Price. After 3 years of teaching at various secondary schools in the Calgary area, Angela Schroeder entered the Master's program in Wind Band Conducting at Northwestern University, completing her studies there in 2004 with Mallory Thompson. She completed her D.M.A. in Wind Band Conducting at the University of North Texas under the supervision of Eugene Corporon.
Dr. Schroeder is currently Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Music of the University of Alberta. She is the Director of Bands, the area coordinator for the Winds and Percussion, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the USO Academy Winds and Percussion. She teaches courses in conducting and wind band education, and works with Graduate students in Wind Band conducting. She previously taught conducting at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
Dr William Street
DMus (Northwestern)
Professor
Associate Dean of Arts, Student programs
Saxophone
Dr William Street joined the University of Alberta in 1988 as saxophone and chamber music professor and wind band conductor and is Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Music. He graduated from the Conservatoire National de Bordeaux (Premier Prix and Prix de la Ville de Bordeaux), Northwestern University (D.M) and Catholic University (MMUS and BMUSED) and also holds the Certificat d’Aptitude, France’s highest diploma for teaching in artistic disciplines. Professor Street has also served as Coordinator, and on Departmental Scholarship and Curriculum committees as member and Chair. In the Faculty of Arts he has been elected to serve on FEC, SAS and their sub-committees. At the University level he has served as Chair of the University Awards and Scholarship Committee and a member of General Faculties Council Executive (GFC) Committee and GFC Chair selection Committee representative.
Dr Street has performed as saxophone soloist throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Thailand. He has recorded an album of twentieth century music for saxophone and piano entitled "héliosaxo." "My Very First Solo" (Arktos - SRI- CD 200367) was recorded with Roger Admiral featuring works by Heider, Jan Bach, Swerts, Albright, Fisher and Denisov; and has more recently "Westwind", a recording of new works for saxophone solo and chamber music with piano, organ, strings and percussion by Western Canadian composers. The last was nominated in two categories for the 2008 Western Canadian Music Awards.
Bill performs frequently with pianist Roger Admiral and saxophonist Jean-Marie Londeix and tours North America bi-annually. He has presented masterclasses and adjudicated at International festivals and schools such as: the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, The Royal College of Music in London, Mahidol University in Thailand, International Festivals in Russia and Ukraine and he has been a member of the European Saxophone University faculty. Street performs regularly with the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet and Edmonton’s Improvisation Group Flux and tours internationally annually with the Quatuor International de Saxophones composed of colleagues from France, USA and Japan. He is a past president of the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) and just completed his third term as Secretary of the World Saxophone Congress. He is a member of the advisory committee of the World Saxophone Congress to be held in 2009 Bangkok, Thailand. During the 2006-2007 academic year, he performed a concert tour in the US with Roger Admiral and a concert tour in Japan, Thailand, Slovenia and France with the Quatuor International de Saxophones.
Dr Tom Dust
MMus, DME (Indiana)
Professor of Secondary Music Education
Director of Jazz Band II
Dr Tom Dust is Associate Professor of Secondary Music Education at the University of Alberta where he teaches courses in music curriculum and instruction and directs Jazz Band II. In addition to his duties as music education professor, Dr. Dust has served as the Associate Chair and Acting Chair of the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. He is active as a trumpet performer, band director, clinician and adjudicator.
Dr Dust has a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies and a Doctorate in Music Education from Indiana University School of Music where he studied with David Baker and Dominic Spera. He holds the position of Professor of Secondary Music Education in the Faculty of Education where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate music curriculum and instruction courses. In 2007 Dr Dust received the Faculty of Education Undergraduate Teaching Award, "in recognition of distinguished teaching." Dr Dust has published numerous articles on Music Education and Jazz Education in National and International Journals. He is active as a trumpeter, band leader, Festival adjudicator, guest conductor and clinician.
Petar Dundjerski was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has lived in Canada since 1994. He received his Master's degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Toronto and continued his studies at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen, Colorado and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His principal teachers were Mark Gibson, Raffi Armenian and Earl Davey. Mr. Dundjerski has also studied with David Zinman, Jorma Panula, Boris Brott and Gary Kulesha.
In 2002 he was the Assistant Conductor with the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and in summer of 2004 served as a Resident Conductor at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
Mr. Dundjerski has received various awards including a 2003, 2006/08 Canada Council for the Arts Grants. He has worked with several distinguished instrumentalists including Shauna Rolston, Scott St. John and Jens Lindemann.
Mr. Dundjerski also teaches at the Alberta College Conservatory of Grant MacEwan College and within Edmonton Public School Board Music Enrichment Program. Petar was the Assistant Conductor in Residence of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 2006/08, under the mentorship of Music Director William Eddins. This was a two-year appointment, funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Clarinettist Jeff Campbell holds a Master's degree in Performance from DePaul University in Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Performance from the University of Victoria. His principal teachers were Larry Combs and Patricia Kostek.
Jeff is a member of Edmonton's Royal Canadian Artillery Band and is active as a chamber musician and soloist. He is a founding member of the WindRose Trio, a successful Edmonton-based reed trio that has premiered a number of works by local composers. Jeff has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Saskatoon Symphony and Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico. As a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band and other ensembles, Jeff has toured to Japan, Mexico, Bosnia, South Korea and Sweden.
He has been an Assistant Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta since 2000. Jeff also has a strong interest in jazz both as a pianist and clarinettist and has taught for the music program at Grant MacEwan University since 2003.
In 2007 he was featured as a soloist with the New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia, the University of Alberta Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Royal Canadian Artillery Band, performing Allan Gilliland's Dreaming of the Masters, Weber's Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and Scott McAllister's Black Dog.
Charles Hudelson
BMus (California State-Fullerton)
Clarinet
Charles Hudelson has performed as Principal Clarinetist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 1975 to 2009 and appeared as soloist many times. He has played with the Calgary Philharmonic, Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and Orange County Symphony (California).
Charles has performed many times on CBC Radio and CFRN Television and was a featured soloist on the Edmonton Wind Ensemble's Concert in the Park recording. In 1997 Charles participated in the recording of a soundtrack for a National Film Board of Canada documentary, Lost Over Burma.
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Shelley Younge, Assistant Principal flutist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, is a native Albertan who received her Bachelor of Music degree from the prestigious Indiana University School of Music. Her work there led her to master classes with notable flutists such as Julius Baker (former principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) James Galway, Walfred Kujala (piccolo player of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra), Peter Lloyd and Jean Pierre Rampal.
She has performed as a soloist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Alberta Baroque Ensemble, Edmonton Chamber Orchestra, and with such notable performers as Celtic harpist Mary O’Hara and soprano Lois Marshal. Shelley’s orchestral career has included work with as principal flutist of the Banff Ballet Orchestra, as well as performances with the Banff Festival Orchestra, Pro Coro Canada and the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and numerous chamber music performances.
Renowned for her teaching, Ms. Younge held the distinguished position of Francis Winspear Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta Department of Music for several years, where she continues to teach. Her other activities as flute instructor have included the Music Camrose and MusiCamp Alberta provincial music camps, the Alberta College Conservatory of Music and the Banff International Music School. Shelley has championed the music of new composers and has recorded several discs for the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society.
Alvin Lowrey, played Principal Trumpet with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra from 1975 to 2009. He participated in sixteen recordings of the ESO including fourteen for CBC. He was also co-principal cornet on the Edmonton Wind Ensemble’s often aired CBC recording Concert in the Park.
In 1976, Alvin was featured as trumpet soloist with the ESO in Rossini’s famous aria, “Largo al factotum” from Il Barbiere de Siviglia on a televised live concert. Later that year, he recorded Hummel’s Concerto for Trumpet in E major with the ESO for a CBC radio broadcast. Over the past three decades, Alvin has been a soloist in such works as Frank Martin’s Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments and Percussion, Charles Ives’ Unanswered Question, Alexandra Pakhmutova’s Concerto for Trumpet, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra, Michael Haydn’s Concerto for Trumpet in C, and Bach’s Cantata No. 51 for Soprano, Trumpet and Strings. He has also been the trumpet soloist in the ESO’s annual performance of Handel’s Messiah. In 2002, an ESO Pops concert featured him in a performance emulating Bunny Berigan’s rendition of I Can’t Get Started.
In addition to solo appearances with the ESO, Alvin has been featured frequently with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and has presented numerous recitals with local organists, Carol Otto, Martha Hubert, Marnie Giesbrecht, Bruce Wheatcroft and Jeremy Spurgeon. In 2003, Alvin and Jeremy Spurgeon received an immediate, spontaneous standing ovation from a full house for a recital presented for CBC’s popular Wednesdays @ Winspear series.
During his career, Alvin has performed concerts in six Canadian provinces plus the Northwest Territories, in about half of the states of the U.S. plus the District of Columbia, and in a dozen countries in Europe and Asia. Concert tours have taken him north as far as Inuvik; east to Warsaw; south to Melbourne; and west to Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Alvin Lowrey was commissioned by the International Trumpet Guild to compile a research project documenting the LP-era of classical solo trumpet recordings. This extensive 1700-page project, Lowrey’s International Trumpet Discography, was published in 1990 by Camden House.
Prior to coming to Edmonton, Mr. Lowrey taught at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), University of Northern Colorado (Greeley), Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) and at Michigan State University (East Lansing). Among his teachers have been Richard Brummett, Kenneth Bloomquist, Haskell Sexton, Vincent Cichowicz, Edward Tarr and Robert Nagel.
Russell Whitehead has distinguished himself in every aspect of the trumpet.
Russell was appointed Acting Principal Trumpet of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra for the 2004-05 season. Currently he holds the position of Third Utility Trumpet with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, freelances with many of the ensembles in Edmonton, and teaches at the University of Alberta, King’s University College and through his home.
He has been a featured soloist with the Edmonton, Saskatoon and Red Deer Symphonies, the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, the University of Alberta Music Department MACH series, the International Cantando Band Festival, the New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia, and has recorded solo and chamber concerts for CBC Radio. Over the past 20 years he has toured throughout Saskatchewan and Alberta performing solo concerts and teaching clinics at colleges, universities and high schools. Russell has also enjoyed adjudicating for festivals in both Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Russell has fueled his passion for new music as a founding member and past Artistic Director of the NOWAge Orchestra (1992-2000), an eclectic group dedicated to the 'theatre' of New Music. The NOWAge Orchestra received numerous grants from both Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts in order to explore their interdisciplinary collaborations with dance and drama. He has also performed in numerous music and Music Theatre Contemporary Opera productions at The Banff Centre and in 1996 was a performer and assistant music director for a contemporary opera, The Nature of Water, written by Georges Aperghis.
He has a Master's degree in Performance from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Performance degree from the University of Saskatchewan. From 1986 to 1991 was Principal Trumpet with the Saskatoon Symphony. Russell can also be heard on the CDs Prairie Sounds and Bashaw, both on Arktos Recordings.
He released his debut CD, Prairie Scenes on the Arktos label in June 2006.
A native of Vancouver, Allene Hackleman began studying the horn under the tutelage of her father, Martin Hackleman (former member of the Canadian Brass and former Principal Horn of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and currently member of the Washington, D.C.-based National Symphony Orchestra). She later attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, earning her bachelor of music degree in performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with Randy Gardner. In 2002, Ms Hackleman served as an apprentice in the National Academy Orchestra of Canada. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), the Montréal Symphony, and the Evansville Philharmonic.
As a soloist, Allene Hackleman has performed with the Victoria Symphony, as well as the Conservatory Philharmonia and Chamber Orchestra of Cincinnati. She has attended the Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca (Italy). Recently, Ms Hackleman completed a long-term career development residency at the Banff Centre. She pursues an avid interest in chamber music.
Since 1980, John McPherson has been Principal Trombone of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. A native Edmontonian, John has been both a trombone and euphonium soloist with the ESO; as well the Orchestra has performed many of his compositions.
Previous orchestral experience includes the Toronto Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra, and the Canadian Opera Orchestra.
As a chamber musician John has performed and recorded as a member of the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, the Malcolm Forsyth Trombone Ensemble, the Albertasauras Tuba Quartet, the Old Strathcona Town Band, and the Plumbers Union. He is a founding member of E-SWAT, a tactical musical strike team of the ESO which launches surgical attacks of music where it’s least expected.
An active musician in many areas, John has played with the Tommy Banks Band, the New Orleans Connection, the Canadian Hot Stars Dixieland Band, the Alberta Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Bad for Business Big Band and many others.
As an educator John has been part of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s Adopt a Player program, taught at numerous music camps, and since 1985 has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Trombone and Euphonium at the University of Alberta.
Composition has become an increasingly important part of John’s career. He has received commissions from Grande Prairie Regional College, the Wild Rose String Quartet, and the Alberta Foundation for the Performing Arts. His works have been performed by such groups as the Edmonton Symphony, the Hammerhead Consort, Take 3, the NOWage Orchestra, the Beau String Quartet of Calgary, Bestiality of Toronto, and the Festival City Pops Orchestra. Many of these performances have been recorded and broadcast on programs such as Arts National, Two New Hours, and Alberta In Concert.
A native Edmontonian, Christopher Taylor has been Principal Bass Trombone of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra since 1975. He obtained his BMus (1976) and MMus (1981) in performance from the University of Alberta where he studied under Dr. Malcolm Forsyth. Further studies were with Jeffrey Reynolds, Bass Trombone of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
He has been Instructor of Bass Trombone and Trombone Ensemble at the University of Alberta since 1984. He has performed with the Banff Festival Orchestra, Canadian Chamber Orchestra in Banff, and has taught at MusiCamrose.
Brian Jones
BEd (Alberta)
Percussion, Timpani
Brian Jones began his professional career in 1968 when he joined the Edmonton Symphony. Further studies lead him to Los Angeles with Forrest Clarke and Earl Hatch. Brian performed with the UCLA and Pasadena Orchestras and won first prize in their Southern California Percussive Arts Society Timpani Competition. Summer studies included the National Youth Orchestra and three summers at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. In 1973 Brian joined the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. Besides the large symphonic repertoire performed, Brian also performed regularly with the opera and ballet orchestras. In 1975 Brian returned to the Edmonton Symphony as Principal Percussionist.
He has performed as soloist in the Milhaud Marimba Concerto, Concerto for Percussion by Allan Bell, and the Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion in its symphonic version. Many of Brian's students have become professional musicians across Canada and the United States.
Allison holds a Bachelor’s of Music Performance and Education from Bowling Green State University, where she studied with Dr. John Sampen, and has the honour of being the first—and only—saxophonist to earn a joint degree from the Université de Bordeaux and the Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux where she studied with Marie-Bernadette Charrier. Currently, Allison is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts under the direction of Dr. William Street at the University of Alberta.
In 2003 Allison toured Italy, performing five concerts in the Faenza Estate Musica. During her undergraduate degree, Allison won first place in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2005. Amongst notable collaborations are Jean-Marie Londeix and Henri Pousseur in 2006 in France. Since beginning her Doctoral studies in 2007, Allison has also won the University of Alberta Concerto Competition (2008) and the Edmonton Composers’ Concert Society Concerto Competition, also in 2008, where she performed the North American premier of Piotr Grella-Mozejko’s Dream Daemon.
In Edmonton Allison leads an active performance career as an executive board member of the Tonus Vivus Society for New Music and frequently collaborates with the city's many composers.
In 2009 to 2010, Allison performed in Bangkok, Chicago, and Georgia, premiering works such as Balcetis by Piotr-Grella-Mozejko, and works for Anubis Quartet. The 2010-2011 concert season promises a tour of Eastern Canada with Ensemble Mujirushi and a tour of the American Midwest with Anubis Quartet.
Jerrold Dubyk
Woodwind Technique
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Robin Doyon
Trumpet
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Lidia Khaner
Oboe
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Mark Maynor
Percussion Techniques
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Julianne Scott
Clarinet
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Dennis Prime
Band Conducting
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