Faculty Listing
Academic
Ted Greene - B.Mus.A. (University of Western Ontario) - Music and Computers, Rudiments
Phone: 604.599.3313 (voice mail box - 9862)
Office: 1222
After receiving his degree in Music Education at the University of Western Ontario, Ted Greene began teaching at Vancouver Community College. Ted's involvement in music education has led him to the Courtenay Youth Music Centre, the Delta Conservatory of Music, Trebas Institute of Recording Arts, and the Banff Centre and to teaching Music Theory, Ear Training, Orchestration, Computers and MIDI, Ensemble and Choral Conducting, and trumpet and chamber music coaching. He is presently researching and developing computer assisted materials for the study of music "online".
Elizabeth Lamberton - A.Mus. (Western Board), B.Mus. (University of Regina), M.A., Ph.D. (University of British Columbia) - History
E-mail: elizabeth.lamberton@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3360 (voice mail box - 9832)
Office: 2051
Elizabeth Lamberton holds a B.Mus. from the University of Regina and an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of British Columbia. Before joining Kwantlen University College in 1993, she was for several years a Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. She also taught at Douglas College. In addition to teaching, Dr. Lamberton has been active as a writer and editor. Her writings have appeared in Current Musicology, Notes; Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, and Music (published by Early Music Vancouver). Since 1992, she has been a member of the Editorial Committee of Music.
Zdenek Skoumal - B.Mus., M.Mus. (University of British Columbia), Ph.D. (City University of New York) - Theory, Aural Musicianship
E-mail: zdenek.skoumal@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3314 (voice mail box - 9764)
Office: 1223
Zdenek Skoumal studied at the Berklee School of Music, the University of British Columbia, and the City University of New York. Before coming to Kwantlen, Zdenek taught at CUNY, McGill University, and UBC. He has an particular interest in Romantic harmony, text/music relationships, popular music, and jazz. He has published articles on the music of Liszt and Janacek, and is working on a book about the musical language of Janacek. Dr. Skoumal is currently Chair of the Music Department.
Allen Stiles, M. Mus.
Class Piano,Theory
E-mail: astiles1@telus.net
Phone: 604.599.3205
Office: 1150
Allen Stiles has been performing and teaching for over twenty years. He plays with the eclectic chamber group Joe Trio, and is a member of the new music ensemble Standing Wave. He has toured extensively with Broadway shows, and is currently the Musical Director for the Gateway Theatre’s winter musical productions. Allen is on faculty at the Langley Community Music School.
Brass
Gregory Cox - B. Mus. (Eastman School of Music) - Trombone
Trombonist Greg Cox received his Bachelor of Music with Distinction from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Upon graduation, he accepted the positions of second trombone with the North Carolina Symphony and of trombone instructor at the North Carolina School of the Arts. In 1976, he joined the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as second trombone. He currently teaches at UBC, the Vancouver Academy of Music, and Western Washington University in addition to holding the position of trombone instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He is active as a recitalist and has recorded for MARK, Poly Dor, CRI, Orion and CBC.
Wayne Jeffrey - A.Mus. (Western Board), B.Mus. (University of Western Ontario), M.Mus., B.Ed. (University of Toronto), D.M.A. (Eastman School of Music) - Horn, Aural Musicianship, Director of Ensembles
E-mail: wayne.jeffrey@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3313
Office: 1222
Dr. Wayne Jeffrey is presently Director of Ensembles of the Kwantlen Polytechnic University Department of Music. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Western Ontario, Toronto and Cincinnati and was the Music Director of the Wind Symphony and Conducting Instructor in each school. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting and music education from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and has appeared as an Associate Conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble on many concerts. In Europe, he studied and performed in London, Munich, Budapest, Salzburg and Vienna. As a hornist and conductor, he has broadcast and performed in Canada and abroad and has recorded with the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Toronto Chamber Winds, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, CJRT Orchestra and the Erik Schultz Brass Quintet. Orchestral and chamber performances occur across Canada including Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal and Fredericton, He appears frequently as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator at festivals throughout North America and Europe.
Presently located in the Vancouver area, he performs as a freelance hornist regularly with orchestras on Vancouver Island and throughout the lower Mainland including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia: Orchestra of the North Shore. Recent guest conducting appearances include the Toronto Wind Orchestra, the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, the Surrey Youth Orchestra and the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble.
Thomas Shorthouse - B.Mus. (Northwestern) - Trumpet, Jazz Ensemble
Tom Shorthouse studied in Vancouver and Toronto before graduating from Northwestern University in Chicago. He spent six years in Taipei as principal trumpet for the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. While there he taught (in Chinese) in two university music departments, recorded and made radio and television appearances, becoming one of Taipei's major figures in classical and jazz performance. He was a founding member of the Yeh Shu-Han Brass Quintet. In Vancouver he has played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Fred Stride's Westcoast Jazz Orchestra and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. Tom has been principal trumpet with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra since June 1995, and first trumpet in A Touch of Brass Quintet since 1997.
John Van Deursen, D.M.A. (UBC), M.Mus (Northwestern), B.Mus (UBC) - Trombone, Tuba
John performed for 17 years as Principal Trombone of the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, and left Asia as the Orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor. While living in Taiwan, John was on the faculty of the Taipei National Institute of the Arts where he taught trombone and chamber music. In Vancouver, John continues to perform in Canada as a member of the Vancouver Chamber Brass, leads his own group, Orchestra Armonia, and is also on the faculty at UBC where he teaches ensembles and conducting classes."
Guitar
Don Hlus - B.Mus., M.A. (University of British Columbia) - Guitar, Guitar Ensemble, Fretboard Studies, Social History of the Guitar
E-mail: don.hlus@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3316 (voice mail box 9854)
Office: 1225
Don Hlus holds a Bachelor of Music degree in classical guitar performance from the University of British Columbia, where he studied with Michael Strutt. He has also performed in master classes for Elliot Fisk, Mark Teicholtz, William Kanengiser, Benjamin Verdery, and Stephen Robinson. Post-graduate studies were with the Canadian guitarist Harold Micay. Don is founder and coordinator for the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival, the largest festival of its kind in Canada. He recently completed his Masters Degree in Higher Education at the University of British Columbia. His research examined how different educational beliefs and values affect the design, development, and implementation of curriculum. Outside of Kwantlen, Don is an external examiner for the University of British Columbia guitar program, is a member of the BC Registered Music Teachers Association as well as the Canadian Association of Music Festival Adjudicators, teaches privately in the South Surrey / White Rock peninsula, and maintains a very active performing schedule in the Lower Mainland (solo and chamber music).
Percussion
Robert Caldwell - B.Mus. (University of Victoria) - Percussion, Percussion Ensemble
E-mail: bob.caldwell@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3316 (voice mail box - 9847)
Office: 1225
Robert Caldwell completed his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion at the University of Victoria in 1982. In 1986, he studied gamelan music at Simon Fraser University. In recent years, Robert has had special interest in African music, incorporating that style in his compositions and performances and in his ensemble, Percussionworks!. Robert has toured Canadian schools for many years, introducing students to electronic music and percussion. In addition to teaching percussion at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, he teaches percussion and MIDI at Douglas College and at Trinity Western University and performs as a freelance percussionist with the Vancouver and Victoria Symphonies.
Daniel Tones - B.Mus. (University of Victoria), M.Mus. (University of Toronto), D.M.A. (University of British Columbia)
Daniel Tones is an award-winning percussionist who devotes a great deal of time to fostering creative development in aspiring musicians. He holds a doctorate in performance and ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia, and has studied with some of Canada’s most well respected percussionists, including Salvador Ferreras, Russell Hartenberger, and John Rudolph. He has appeared at music festivals on three continents, and has been broadcast nationally on radio and television. A love of global percussion has led Daniel to study frame drumming, West African drumming and dance, Balinese gamelan, and Cuban percussion with master musicians. Equally at home in the field of Western art music, he has performed with the Toronto, Vancouver, and Victoria symphonies, the CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra, and the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. In addition, he appears regularly as a chamber musician with Vancouver New Music, the Turning Point Ensemble, and the Fringe Group
Piano
Jane Hayes - A.R.C.T., B.Mus. (University of Toronto), M.Mus. (University of Cincinnati) - Piano, Class Piano, Piano Literature, Theory
E-mail: jane.hayes@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3205 (voice mail box9745)
Office: 1150
Since her debut with the Toronto Symphony, Jane Hayes' concerts have taken her across Canada, the United States and Europe. She can be heard frequently on CBC radio and has recordings available on the Fanfare, EMI, Centrediscs, ATMA, Artifact, CBC-Musica Viva and CBC SM5000 labels.As a performer and teacher, Jane has been noted for her involvement in making contemporary music accessible to audiences, students and teachers.To that end, Jane has premiered many new works written for her and for her two-piano Yarilo Ensemble.She is a featured artist on five CDs devoted to the music of Canadian composers including Remember Your Power (the music of John Burke), Expressivity (solo piano music of Christopher Ludwig), and Far Other Worlds (the music of Euphrosyne Keefer).SheHer performing edition and CD of Barbara Pentland’s Early Piano works waspublished by Avondale Press in 2010.
Jane enjoys a busy performing schedule.She is a regular partner of clarinetist François Houle, appearing in recitals and workshops throughout Canada. She is also a founding member of Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble and the Yarilo Ensemble.In addition to concerts with the two ensembles, this year she will be a guest artist in Mexico as part of an educational exchange with INBA.Jane is currently Director of Keyboard Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and was awarded Honorary Life Member status in 2011 for her work in the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association.
Meijane Quong - A.Mus. (Western Board), B.Mus. (University of Alberta), M.Mus. (McGill University), Concert Diploma (McGill University), D.M.A. (University of Oregon) - Piano, Class Piano, Rudiments, Aural Musicianship
E-mail: meijane.quong@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3317 (voice mail box - 9763)
Office: 1226
Meijane comes to Kwantlen from teaching positions at the University of PEI, University of Oregon and McGill. She has presented recitals recorded by CBC Radio (Halifax) and NPR in the United States and has given piano workshops at the Central Vancouver Island Community Music School and at Elizabeth City State University (NC). At present, she is active as an adjudicator, teacher and performer.
Strings
Calvin Dyck - Violin
From the age of five, Calvin showed an aptitude for music and soon discovered his love for performing. Despite a college aptitude test recommending a career as a “tug-boat captain”, he went on to study at Biola University and the University of Southern California where he received his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Violin Performance. He is in demand as a violin teacher and adjudicator, and performs around the world with his interactive show “The Golden Violin.” His eclectic career has taken him to surprising places, from Mexico to Cuba, France, and Ukraine. Currently Calvin is concertmaster for the Vancouver Island Symphony in Nanaimo. He is also the director of the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra, and producer of the popular series “Songs Strings and Steps”.
Ian Hampton - London Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Radio Orchestra - Cello
Ian Hampton began his career in the UK as cellist in the Edinburgh Quartet, and as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St. Martins. He immigrated to Canada in 1966, becoming principal cellist of the VSO and the CBC Radio Orchestra. He was a member of the Purcell Quartet, resident at Simon Fraser University for over a decade, and has been principal cello and personnel manager of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. In 1999 he received an Award from the BC Arts Council for his extraordinary contribution to music as a performer, teacher and administrator.
Chris Light - B.Mus. (University of British Columbia) - Bass
Voice
Gail Suderman - B.Mus. M. Mus (University of Victoria), B. Ed. (University of British Columbia) - Kwantlen Chorus, Vocal Jazz, Voice
E-mail: gail.suderman@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3237 (voice mail box - 9842)
Office: 1152
Gail Suderman began her musical training studying piano, accompanying extensively for choirs, instrumentalists and singers. She went on to study voice and was accepted into the School of Music at the University of Victoria in Voice Performance. Gail was awarded a Fellowship for Graduate Studies at UVic in Voice Performance and a Teaching Assistantship conducting the University Orchestra and Chorus. She has performed with the Victoria Symphony in Opera Gala and Oratorio Concerts. In addition to teaching at Kwantlen, Gail is also teaching at Gladstone Secondary in Vancouver where she has developed and extensive and highly respected Vocal Music and Choral Program. Gail is also Music Director of Jubilate Chamber Choir in Vancouver.
Dale Throness - B.A. (University of Winnipeg), M.Mus. (University of British Columbia) - Voice, Lyric Diction
E-mail: dale.throness@kwantlen.ca
Phone: 604.599.3429 (voice mail box - 9810)
Office: 1152
Dale Throness, a native of Grande Prairie, Alberta, received his early musical training in Winnipeg and subsequently completed a Master of Music degree in voice at UBC. He has pursued further post-graduate vocal studies at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England. Dale has performed a number of operatic roles, including the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos, Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Frank Maurrant in Kurt Weill's Street Scene. Dale is also very active as a soloist in concert and recital and as teacher at UBC.
Winds
Paolo Bortolussi - B.Mus, (University of Ottawa); M.MUS, (Indiana University); D.M.A (Indiana University) - flute
Flutist Paolo Bortolussi is known as a passionate and provocative performer of a wide range of musical styles. Raised in Halifax, and presently living in Vancouver, he has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across Canada and the US. As a specialist in contemporary music, Paolo is the Artistic Director of the Nu:BC Collective, a new music and multimedia arts ensemble in residence at the University of British Columbia. To date he has premiered over seventy solo and chamber works, more than a dozen of which were written for him.
Currently principal flutist with the Vancouver Island Symphony, Paolo has appeared as soloist with the VIS as well as the Albany (NY) Symphony and has performed with the Turning Point Ensemble, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, The Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra, as well as the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony Orchestras, in addition to broadcasts on CBC and SRC radio. He is a featured soloist on Vancouver Visions , a Centredisc release of Canadian composer Stephen Chatman's music as well as Mirages , a CD of chamber works by Dorothy Chang available through the Canadian Music Centre.
Marea Chernoff - B. Mus. (University of British Columbia), M. Mus. (Boston) - Oboe
Marea Chernoff began studying oboe in Vancouver at the age of thirteen, and graduated from U.B.C. with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1995. She received an artist diploma from the Vancouver Academy of Music in 1997, and completed a Master of Music degree at Boston University in 1999. As a freelance musician in Vancouver Marea plays principal oboe with Sinfonia Orchestra of the North Shore, and has played with Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Ballet B.C., Turning Point Ensemble, Abbotsford Symphony and several other groups, including the Ad Mare wind quintet. Marea is also on the faculty of the U.B.C. Summer Music Institute.
Campbell Ryga - Saxophone, Jazz Combo
Campbell Ryga was honored the Jazz Report Magazine’s Award 'Canada’s Alto Saxophonist of the Year 2000' presented to him at the annual Jazz Report Awards Ceremony held in Toronto in May of the year 2000 (the two former recipients of this award were Moe Koffman and PJ Perry). Since 1987 Campbell has received 3 Juno Awards, two for his work with the Hugh Fraser Quintet, and one for his work with Colin James. Campbell has contributed to fifty seven Jazz Recordings; these include his two current releases as a leader, 'Coastal Connection' and 'Spectacular', both for Radioland/Universal Records.
Robert Sheffield - B.Mus. (University of British Columbia), M.Mus. (University of Cincinnati) - Clarinet
Clarinetist Robert Sheffield has a vast range of experience as an orchestral player, chamber musician, and teacher. Currently he is the Principal Clarinet of Orchestra London Canada, a position he has held since 1981. During the summer months, Mr. Sheffield has worked for a variety of organizations including the Aspen Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, Johannesen International School of the Arts, and the Courtney Youth Music Festival. In recent years, he has also been working with the Vancouver Opera orchestra and the CBC Chamber Orchestra. In addition to Kwantlen, Mr. Sheffield has been a faculty member of the University of Victoria and the University of Western Ontario. He is currently secretary for the organization of Canadian Musicians (OCSM).
Allan Thorpe - B.Mus. (University of Victoria, M.Mus. (Indiana), D.M.A (University of British Columbia) - Bassoon
