CAMMAC - Canadian Amateur Musicians

Teachers resumes

Marie-Ève Arseneau - Monica Asly - Sylvie Beaudette - Elissa Bernstein - Marie-Hélène Bonhomme - Lucie Bouchard - Leslie Bricker - Béatrice Cadrin - Melanie Cancade - Gisèle Dalbec - José Duclos - Céline Dussault - Cécile Gendron - François Gosselin - Isabelle Héroux - Geneviève Jalbert - W. Steven Lecky - François Lessard  - Elizabeth Little -Anne Massicotte - Winston Purdy - Jill Rothberg - Lucie Roy - Michel Szczesniak - Jean-Philippe Tanguay - Christine Vanderkooy

 

 

Marie-Ève Arseneau

Marie-Ève Arseneaucompleted a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Music Education at McGill University. She is a piano teacher in the extra-curricular program at l’École de musique Vincent-d’Indy. Long-time chorister with an increasing list of conducting assignments to her credit, she is the assistant conductor of the EMSB Chorale and a member of La Ceilagh Chamber Choir. Since January 2007, she has also been teaching in the band department at F.A.C.E. School at the elementary and high school levels.

Monica Asly has been involved in music for most of her life as a singer, actress, performer, pianist and composer in her native country, Lebanon. For many years, she was involved as a vocalist with Lebanese composer, songwriter, actor and playwright, Ziad Rahbani and his mother, singer Feyrouz. This involved studio recordings, concerts at various Festivals in Lebanon as well as tours in Europe performing at the Olympia in Paris and the Royal Festival Hall in London to name a few. Tours also included Brussels, Barcelona and several cities in France to perform in Rahbani’s Oriental Jazz concerts. She has also appeared with other musicians as a vocalist and keyboard player at the Carthage Festival in Tunisia.
She is a graduate of the McGill Conservatory of Music where she currently teaches Music Theory and Ear Training. She has done most of her music studies at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University where she is a Course Lecturer in Musicianship.
Monica is also a pianist and has taught Theory and Solfège at CAMMAC in the past.

Sylvie Beaudette

Born in Québec, pianist Sylvie Beaudette has a diversified career as a collaborative artist, vocal and instrumental coach, soloist, and teacher. She has performed with several artists and groups in Canada, USA, and Switzerland. As a member of the Athena Trio, she performed extensively in Northern California, Pennsylvania and New York States, and recorded Fabulous Femmes, a CD of music by women composers released on the Centaur label in July 2000. She has also appeared on clarinetist Richard Nunemaker’s critically acclaimed CD Multiplicities. A graduate from the Eastman School of Music with a doctorate in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music, Sylvie Beaudette has frequently given guest lectures on the history of French mélodie in Lausanne, Switzerland and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. As diction coach, Dr. Beaudette has worked at the Houston Grand Opera in preparation for Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment and at the Université de Sherbrooke, Québec where she teaches lyric diction to master's degree candidates in Choral Conducting. Dr. Beaudette worked as a faculty member at Syracuse University, and at California State University at Chico, where she created an undergraduate program in Piano Accompanying for the Music Department. She was recently awarded the 2007 citation from the New York State Music Teachers Association for her musical contributions as well as her service to the organization. She is currently working at the Eastman School of Music as Assistant Professor of Chamber Music and Accompanying and is the founder and artistic director of Eastman’s Women in Music Festival.

Festival’s website: www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf
Faculty website: www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?id=48

 

Elissa Bernstein has been performing as an actor, singer and dancer, and teaching all three of these disciplines since 1989. She brings the powerful Vox Method to students at all levels; from the nervous adult who finally braves that first singing lesson, to professional opera singers looking for a unique elite training experience, as well as national dance champions seeking to express their uniqueness as performers. Elissa has brought her dynamic and inspiring teaching style to CAMMAC for the past 13 years in Week 8’s Broadway Singing, Dancing and Acting. Elissa also teaches dance at Dawson College, and has a private performing arts studio in Montreal

Marie-Hélène Bonhomme was born in France, in a musical family. At 8 years old, she is accepted in the piano class of the conservatoire of Nîmes, then in Sabine Lardic’s flute class. After completing a bachelor of philosophy and literature, she wins a first prize of the Préparatoire Supérieur of chamber music and in 1990, a first medal in sight reading as well as a first prize in flute.
She then teaches flute in various music schools, leads musical workshops and creates a class in musical awakening.

At the same time, she plays in the band of the Saint-Ambroix Orchestra, and leads the soprano section in the Ensemble vocal Cocagne. In 2007, she immigrates to Canada, joins the UQAM choir in Montreal and is invited to play with the Quebec singer Isabelle Larivée.

 

Lucie Bouchard

Lucie Bouchard holds a Concert Diploma in baroque flute from McGill University and from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec (concours) in modern flute; she has also specialized in France for three years with Alain Marion, Raymond Guiot and Philippe Allain-Dupré. She was heard several times on Radio-Canada in chamber music and as soloist with the Orchestre de chambre de Québec (concerto by Hoffmeister and flute concerto by Devienne also broadcast by France-Musique). She also took part in broadcasts such as Récital, Concert intime, Jeunes artistes canadiens and Banc d’Essai. She has been a member and soloist (Suite in B minor by JS Bach and Concerto in E by CPE Bach) of the Orchestre baroque de Montréal and has played with several orchestras as an occasional member on both baroque and modern flutes (Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Ensemble intercontemporain de Paris, etc...) She gave recitals in France, Germany, Belgium, West Africa, Ontario and Quebec. She has taught in several schools such as the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Rimouski during 6 years. She teaches flute and recorder in the Conservatoire de musique of the Collège Stanislas, where she was a coordinator untill June 2007. She is a member of a Flute and Guitar Duo with Ezequias Lira and she teaches for CAMMAC at the Lake MacDonald Music Centre during the summer.

 

Leslie Bricker holds a Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Ottawa. Her training in Orff Schulwerk has taken place in Toronto, Manitoba, Montreal, Illinois and Memphis, and she has Level III certification in both French and English along with the Master Class level.
Leslie has extensive experience in music education with children from two to fourteen years of age, in school, ensemble and conservatory settings. She has given workshops for adults and children across Canada, has presented workshops at National Conferences of Carl Orff Canada and at provincial Music Educators Association Conferences in Ontario and Nova Scotia. She has directed the Ottawa-Carleton Orff Ensemble and has taught Orff Schulwerk courses at the University of Ottawa and Acadia University. Leslie is currently a K-8 Music Specialist with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, where she received the Director's Citation for Teaching Excellence.
Leslie is currently Past President of Carl Orff Canada, and holds a position on the executive of the Ottawa Orff Chapter.

 

Béatrice Cadrin. Active as a violist and conductor, Beatrice Cadrin considers the orchestra to be her real instrument. Her studies in viola and conducting at Laval University (Québec) and in Germany have offered her multiple opportunities to deepen her knowledge of the orchestral repertoire. A turning point in her conducting career was the performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia.

Beatrice Cadrin was musical director of the Lehrte Chamber Orchestra in Germany, a function she now assumes with the chamber orchestra La Sinfonia de Québec. She also serves as assistant-conductor of the Grand Orchestre des jeunes de Québec, which she helped organize.

In addition to her studies with Gilles Auger and Eiji Oue, she has taken part in conducting workshops under Otto-Werner Müller, Karl-Heinz Bloemeke, Jorma Panula and Pinchas Zukerman.

 

Melanie Cancade recently received her Masters of Music in Piano Accompaniment from McGill University, under the guidance of Michael McMahon. Continuing her studies in Austria at the Franz Schubert Institut (2007), Melanie participated in master classes with Elly Ameling, Julius Drake, Rudolf Jansen and Helmut Deutsch. Under conductor Giuseppe Petratroia, Melanie performed with Pacific Opera Victoria’s touring productions of “Carmen”(2004) and “La Cenerentola”(2005), as well as in “Aladdin”(2002), “Cement Shoes”(2002), “Song and Dance”(2004), and Vaughn Williams’ “Riders to the Sea”(2004) with local theatre groups. She worked as accompanist and coach at the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Summer Vocal Academy and Viva Voce Summer programs (2003 and 2005) and is currently working at McGill University as a vocal accompanist.

 

Gisèle Dalbec, violin

Gisèle Dalbec, Concertmaster of the Kingston Symphony Orchestra since 1989, is a Queen’s Faculty Member, teaching Violin and Chamber Music in the School of Music, a faculty member of the CAMMAC Centre at Lac MacDonald, QC, and adjudicates regularly across Canada. Ms. Dalbec has recorded for CBC Radio, and is a frequent soloist with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra. She and pianist Michel Szczesniak have produced 2 CDs, Notes to Myself and Bow and Ivory. This last recording includes a recording of Marjan Mozetich’s L’Esprit Chantant. Prior to coming to Kingston, Gisèle was a violinist with the Winnipeg Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and numerous New Music organizations. A freelance musician and chamber music performer in Canada and the United States, she holds degrees from the Universities of Toronto and Yale. She can be heard as soloist with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, in a new CD entitled A Symphonic Tapestry.

 

José Duclos

The watercolors of José Duclos are distinguished by the contrasts of zones of sfumato juxtaposed with others of vigorous brushstrokes in frank colors.The Artist does not fear to abstract the space. Delicate drawings and a refined palette  recall the beauty of her subjects and bring to light a very personal poetry. José Duclos develops and teaches wet-on-wet watercolor techniques  since 1990; she is an inspiring and a sought-after teacher who knows how to transmit her  passion. www.joseduclos.com

 

Céline Dussault

Céline Dussault was born in Thetford-Mines. She obtained a Bachelor of Music from the École Vincent d’Indy, a First Prize from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and a scholarship from the Women’s Committee of the Montreal Symnphony Orchestra. She was the first singer to be honoured with the title of Grande Gagnante of the Concours de musique du Québec et du Canada. She gave her first recital at the Judson Hall in 1973 for the New York Canadian Women’s Club which had given her a First Prize. After touring Canada with the Jeunesses Musicales in a production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, she sang with The Little Orchestra Society at the Lincoln Centre in New York. Then she was asked by the Vermont Opera Theatre to take the main part of Ravel’s l’Enfant et les Sortilèges. As a soloist during three seasons, then invited artist for two more seasons, at the Royal Opera of Liège in Belgium, she held important parts such as Véronique by André Messager and created the part of Alice in Alice au Pays des Merveilles by the Belgian composer Paul Francy. In Québec, she participated in several opera productions at the Théâtre de la Poudrière and toured three times with the Opéra de chambre du Québec. She sang Rosine in Le Barbier de Séville by Rossini for the Société Lyrique d’Aubigny, Sophie in Werther by Massenet at the Opéra de Montréal, Euridyce in Orphée aux Enfers by Offenbach at the Nouvelles Variétés Lyriques and Manon in Manon by Massenet at the Opéra de Québec. Céline Dussault was invited as soloist by the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Orchestre de chambre Pierre Morin, the Orchestre aymphonique de Trois-Rivières, the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke as well as the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Charles Dutoit.

She devoted part of her activities to teaching at the Université du Québec in Trois-Rivières (1979-1999) and in the École nationale de théâtre in Montreal (1985-1993). She teaches singing since 1985 at the Collège Lionel-Groulx where she participates in the new program of musical theatre. During the last few years she has given various recitals and was a member of several juries such as the Concours de Musique du Canada, the Concours Raoul Jobin (Québec), the Concours de l’Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières and the Festival d’Art Vocal in Trois-Rivières.

 

Cécile Gendron. After studies at the Université de Montréal in voice interpretation, Cécile Gendron became a soloist and chorister with important ensembles in Montreal. She was a member of the Tudor Singers of Montreal, a soloist with Ensemble Claude Gervaise, and a chorister with MSO, MO, and SMAM. As a soloist, she toured in Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Mexico, and Brazil. She has performed repertoire of all periods and styles of music. Cécile Gendron has been teaching at Cegep St- Laurent for the last 20 years, and some of her students have been in the national finales of Concours du Canada, winners at Nats and other competitions. She taught at the Amherst Early Music Camp, and for the past three years at the Camp Musical de Saguenay Lac St-Jean. She also serves as a member of competition juries. She is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

 

François Gosselin obtained a master's degree in music interpretation from the Université de Montréal. He teaches flute at the Cégep St-Laurent and at the Collège Stanislas. He is also a conductor and a music teacher at Gérard-Filion's school. Freelance flutist, he plays with different musical groups including the flute ensemble Alizé and la Société de musique contemporaine de Montréal.

 

Isabelle Héroux, guitar

Active on the international scene, Isabelle Héroux performs often in solo, duo and with orchestra. She has played in France, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Algeria, Lybia, Equador, Tunisia, Turkey, Mexico, the United States and Canada. She has done broadcasts with Radio-Canada and on the “Bravo!” satellite channel as a soloist and chamber musician.
Several of her recordings brought her acclaim from the critics, including “!Viva España!”, “Regards” and “Music for guitar and flute” by Georges Delarue.
Mme Héroux teaches guitar and instrumental pedagogy at Sherbrooke University. She also teaches guitar at Laval University, Lionel-Groulx College, Sainte-Foy Cegep, Drummondville Cegep, and History of instrument building at the Limoilou College.
She has done a doctorate on the teaching of classical guitar with a cognitive approach.

 

Geneviève Jalbert. Pianist Geneviève Jalbert recently completed a Master’s degree in piano accompaniment at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, where she studied with Michael McMahon. Geneviève also holds a BMus (piano performance) degree from McGill University, receiving the “Marion Magor Memorial Scholarship”, the “Bruneau prize” and a “James McGill scholarship”. She is also the recipient of a Canada Council travel grant. Since beginning her studies, Geneviève has collaborated and appeared in recital with numerous soloists and ensembles, including “Lakeshore Light Opera”, the “McGill University Choral Workshop”, and the “McGill Savoy Society”. She is currently the accompanist for “Les jeunes chanteurs de FACE” and the “Yellow Door Choir”. She is a founding member of the Montréal-based song collective “Liederwölfe”. Geneviève is an alumni of the “Opera NUOVA Intensive Summer program” (Edmonton, AB, 2006) as well as of the “Vancouver International Song Institute” (2007), where she participated in masterclasses with Margo Garrett and Graham Johnson.

W. Steven Lecky. One of this country’s foremost voice trainers, W. Steven Lecky lives and works in Montreal, where he has been active as an educator, director and performer for the past 30 years. His training techniques have influenced an entire generation of actors and singers, and he has been instrumental in establishing high standards of voice training at Dawson College’s Professional Theatre Program and the National Theatre School of Canada, as well as with the drama and theatre programs of McGill and Concordia universities. He is a much sought-after training consultant to professional actors, singers, theatre companies and professional voice users. He conducts workshops in voice, auditioning, acting technique, dialect and singing.

 

François Lessard obtained a Master’s Degree in Interpretation (recorder) from the Université de Montréal, where he studied with Francis Colpron. He teaches the recorder privately in the Montreal area, and at the Lake MacDonald Music Centre (CAMMAC) during the summer. He taught for many years at the Collège Regina Assumpta and at the École préparatoire de musique de l’UQAM.
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Elizabeth Little After graduating from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, Elizabeth Little studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London and at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, Netherlands. She performed in many solo and chamber music concerts and recordings and played with Early Music ensembles (such as the SMAM). From 1980-2012, she was a professor at the Collège Lionel-Groulx where she taught cello, chamber music, music theory and conducted the choir. She has taught at the CAMMAC Lake MacDonald Music Centre since 1972 and was Artistic Director from 1999 to 2009.

 

Anne MassicotteAnne Massicotte is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Québec in clarinet and chamber music. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra, Orchestre des Jeunes du Québec, and Orchestre Symphonique de Trois-Rivières. She is an Orff specialist and now teaches elementary music for the Toronto District School Board.  Her children`s choir have won many gold awards at the Toronto Kiwanis Festival, and won a second place at the Ontario Music Festival in 2010. She teaches recorder, and is playing in a recorder consort. Anne has been teaching for CAMMAC since 1984.

 

Winston Purdy began his early musical training on the clarinet and subsequently studied composition at McGill University. While there, he met Jan Simons and began extra curricular voice studies. He was a founding member of the Tudor Singers of Montreal, under the direction of Wayne Riddell, and sang often with George Little. After further voice studies in Germany, England, and the Eastman School of Music, Winston Purdy settled in Montreal. He has been teaching at McGill University since 1973 and has given recitals of Lieder and mélodies, including the major song cycles of Schubert and Schumann, and sung oratorio solos with choirs in Montreal, Ottawa, and the Maritimes. Students and former students are winners of international competitions and are singing in opera houses in Europe and North America, including the Metropolitan Opera of New York. He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

 

Jill Rothberg. Born in Winnipeg, Jill Rothberg studied the flute with Albert Horch and later with Anne Emond at the University of Western Ontario. After moving to Montreal in 1982, she studied with Carolyn Christie and received her B.Mus. (High Distinction in Performance) at McGill and M.Mus. (Interprètation) at the Université de Montréal with Lise Daoust.

Jill Rothberg has received numerous scholarships and prizes and has performed with a large variety of chamber groups and orchestras across Canada in concert and for CBC/Radio Canada. She is currently on staff at the Marianopolis College, McGill Conservatory, the CAMMAC Music Camp, the MIMC (Montreal International Music Camp Lower Canada College, and gives flute classes at a variety of elementary and secondary schools. She has a teaching studio in Beaconsfield. Ms. Rothberg was also the editor of the CAMMAC magazine “Le Musicien Amateur/The Amateur Musician”. Ms. Rothberg currently performs a large variety of repertoire with Trio Amore, a chamber group consisting of flute, violin, cello, performs as soloist frequently in the West Island of Montreal, and is a member of the orchestra of Lakeshore Light Opera, Montreal Light Opera, Orchestre de chorale St. Eustache and others.

 

Lucie Roy

Before starting choir conducting, Lucie Roy took advanced instruction in singing and piano and received in 1985 a degree in interpretation from McGill University. In the same year, she became a member of the Tudor Singers and of the Montreal Opera Choir in which she sang during more than 10 years. In 1989 she received a Second Cycle Diploma in Opera from the Ontario University Wilfrid Laurier. She was then invited in 1992 to participate in an advanced level worikshop in Salzburg in Austria. Back in Montreal, she added private teaching to her professional activities.

In 2000, she became a member of the teaching staff of the Villa Maria highschool where she taught for 6 years. During that same period, she obtained under the direction of Nicole Paiement, a Second Cycle Diploma in Choral Conducting from the Université de Sherbrooke where she is at the moment completing an MA.

Madame Roy gives vocal technique workshops as one of the formative activities of the Alliance des chorales du Québec. She also offers perfecting workshops to various ensembles of the Montreal and Quebec regions. Since 2001 she is Music Director of the Disciples de Massenet and for the past 12 years has been conducting the Ensemble vocal féminin Modulation with devotion and passion. Next July, she will be in charge of the choirs and vocal ensembles at the CAMMAC Music Centre during the Chamber Music Week.

 

Michel Szczesniak, piano

A faculty member of the Queen’s University School of Music since 1990, Mr. Szczesniak is known in the Kingston area for his solo and collaborative work at Queen’s, and with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, the Cantabile Choirs of Kingston, “Music on the Rideau”, “More than Music”, St. George’s Cathedral, and numerous chamber music concerts with Kingston’s finest musicians. Originally from Long Island, NY, he has degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He’s recorded for CBC Radio, and on CD with violinist Gisèle Dalbec,

 

Jean-Philippe Tanguay, flûtiste

He has played with major orchestras in the Province of Québec. He has performed as a soloist and in chamber music ensemble. Among others he performed with Ensemble Polymnie and La Flute Enchantée, flute quartet.

After completing his studies at the Quebec Conservatory of Music in Montreal where he has granted first prize in flute and chamber music, he has studied with Thimothy Hutchins, flute soloist at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He also participated in numerous Master Classes with Jeanne Baxtresser, Robert Aitken, Robert Stallman and Paula Robison.

 Christine Vanderkooy

Praised for her “sensitive and passionate artistic expression”, Christine Vanderkooy performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician across North America and has completed solo recital tours of Canada and Europe.  Christine is a laureate of numerous competitions including the Eckhardt-Grammaté National Competition, the Gaudeamus International Competition for Contemporary Music, and she completed the Young Artist Tour as winner of the ORMTA Competition.  Completed in 2005, her Doctor of Music in Piano Performance at McGill University included specialized focus on Russian piano Music and Politics in the 20th century, the Development of the Piano and its Influence on Composition, and the Psychophysiology of Music Performance Anxiety, for which she received an FCAR (currently FQRSC) Research Fellowship.  Dr. Vanderkooy travels frequently as a clinician, adjudicator, and as a senior examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music.  Dr. Vanderkooy has taught at McGill University, University of Prince Edward Island, University of Windsor, and Lakehead University, and is currently Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Regina.  Her solo CD featuring works by Schubert and Schumann is due for release this year.  Christine has been enjoying coming to CAMMAC every summer since 2006!

 

Marie-Ève Arseneau - Monica Asly - Sylvie Beaudette - Elissa Bernstein - Marie-Hélène Bonhomme - Lucie Bouchard - Leslie Bricker - Béatrice Cadrin - Melanie Cancade - Gisèle Dalbec - José Duclos - Céline Dussault - Cécile Gendron - François Gosselin - Isabelle Héroux - Geneviève Jalbert - W. Steven Lecky - François Lessard - Anne Massicotte - Winston Purdy - Jill Rothberg - Lucie Roy - Michel Szczesniak - Jean-Philippe Tanguay