dates November 7th - 26th, 2005 venues Towers & Richmond Chinese Baptist Church 10311 Albion Road, Richmond, BC Located off of No. 4 Road between Francis Road and Williams Road, behind McNair High school. Broadmoor Baptist Church 8140 Saunders Road, Richmond, BC Located off of No. 3 Road between Francis Road and Williams Road. Driving Directions can be displayed using the website: maps.yahoo.com adjudicators Joe Baraducci, Junior Piano Joe Berarducci resides in sunny Kelowna B.C. where he teaches piano and co-directs the children’s choir at the Community Music School. He has been involved with Carl Orff Canada for over twenty years having served as president of the B.C. Chapter and the National organization. He has presented workshops throughout B.C., in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and several neighbouring states in the U. S. He has given sessions at several of the National Orff Conferences in Canada and in the U.S. He has worked for the University of B.C., Simon Fraser University, Seattle Pacific University, Chapman University, University of Victoria, University of Lethbridge, Capilano College, Douglas College and School District #44 in North Vancouver B.C. He has adjudicated music festivals throughout B.C. in piano, voice, choral and ensembles. Joe’s music studies began in Revelstoke with Janice Patrick,and then went on to study at the University of B.C. in the faculty of Music graduating with a B. Mus. in 1966. and a M.A. in Music from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington and has taken many Orff courses in B.C.,Washington, Oregon and Minnesota. For five years he worked for the Ministry of Education as they prepared the new Fine Arts Curriculum and chaired the implementation committee for North Vancouver for 2 years as well as represented North Vancouver on the Metro Fine Arts Committee. In 1992 he was honoured as Professional Teacher of the Year by the North Vancouver Music Educators and in 1993 was honoured by the B.C. Music Educators Association. He was honoured by the Royal Life Saving Society of B.C. for his years as a volunteer with the organization. In 1973 he was given a Citizenship Award for his community service at C.F.B. Baden in Germany. Grant Donnellan, Strings Violinist Grant Donnellan is a native of Ferndale, Washington. He received a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Performance Certificate and Master of Music Degree from Yale School of Music, where he was awarded the Helen Battell-Stoeckel Chamber Music Prize and was a member of the Gillmore Scholarship Piano Trio. Grant has performed with numerous symphony orchestras, including recordings and European tours as a member of the American Sinfonietta. He has been a guest artist at the Olympic Music Festival, the Governor's Recital Series, Arts West, the Bellingham Festival of Music, the Wintergreen Music Festival, the Cascadia Spring Music Festival, the Boulder Bach Society, and the Holzhausen Music Festival, in Germany. He has performed concertos with the Whatcom Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and the Western Washington University Symphony and is active throughout the Northwest as a string clinician, recitalist and chamber musician. He is currently professor of violin at Western Washington University, where he is the Director of the Western Chamber Days Summer Institute. He is also the Music Director for the North Sound Youth Symphony and Ferndale Pops Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra. A believer in classical music outreach to all ages, he coordinates and performs as “Beethoven” for the Bellingham Festival of Music’s Beethoven in the Schools program and Family Concerts. Sandra Joy, Intermediate Piano Ms. Sandra Joy began her music career in Manitoba working with opera singer Philip Ens. Performances have taken her through western and central Canada, the United States and Mexico, including participation in the solo, chamber and musical theatre programs at the Banff Centre for Continuing Education. Sandra has enjoyed numerous collaborations with musicians such as cellist Mark Rudoff in the Pro Series (Brandon University), saxophonist Dr. Shirley Diamond (Central Washington University) premiering a work by Paul Clay in the World Saxophone Congress in Minneapolis and with baritone Dr. Marvin Regier (Western Washington University) recording 20th Century American spirituals and folk hymns. Currently Sandra is working with flutist Larry Krantz recording repertoire for flute and piano and with Julia Nolan commissioning a piece by Stephen Chatman for saxophone and piano for the World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia, 2006. Concerto performances and works with orchestra have been with the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, Fraser Valley Symphony, Octava Chamber Orchestra, Abbotsford Symphony Orchestra and Prince George Symphony. Sandra has focused her career on contemporary music. This commitment is heard in her SOUND REFLECTIONS lecture-recitals, regularly featuring Canadian composers in which music is presented as a ‘Soundscape Journey’ through which the listener travels. The complete intermediate piano works by Vancouver composer Alain Mayrand are the most recent addition to SOUND REFLECTIONS. Equally at home as an educator, Sandra dedicates time to adjudicating and master classes (member of the Canadian Music Federation of Adjudicators Association), teaches in the Music Department of the Kwantlen University College, (Langley), and is President of the Mission Branch: BC Registered Music Teacher’s Association. Sandra earned a Master’s degree, Piano Performance from University of British Columbia. Formal piano teachers were Jane Coop, Douglas Finch and Jean Broadfoot; master class instructors have included Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode and Marek Jablonski. Antonia Mahon, Woodwinds Antonia Mahon received her early musical education in Nova Scotia followed by a Bachelor of Music degree from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick. She spent the next seven years in Germany studying in Freiburg and Munich and playing with orchestras in Pforzheim and Munich. Antonia has also played with orchestras in Atlantic Canada and Great Britain. She has performed as soloist with orchestras in Australia, Canada and Germany. Antonia has made her home in the Okanagan since 1987, where she teaches, leads a flute choir and performs with the Okanagan and Kamloops Symphony Orchestras, numerous chamber groups and in recital. Dr. Patricia Tao, Senior/Open Piano Dr. Tao received her undergraduate education from Radcliffe College at Harvard University, her master’s degree with distinction from Indiana University and her doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where her principal teachers were Leonard Shure, Gyorgy Sebok and Gilbert Kalish and in chamber music, Bernard Greenhouse, Leon Fleisher, Julius Levine and Timothy Eddy. She has given master classes at numerous schools, including the University of Ottawa, Ithaca College, and the Conservatories of Barcelona, Prague and Bratislava. She has taught at the University of Virginia, Western Washington University, and in 2002, was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. Patricia Tao is a founding member of the Guild Trio, and has led an active career as both soloist and chamber musician. As pianist of the Trio, her international performing career spanned the globe from Turkey to Australia, with appearances in major North American cities, including New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. With the Trio, she won the prestigious USIA Artistic Ambassador competition, resulting in a seven-country European tour. The following year, her trio was awarded the position of Trio-in-Residence at the Tanglewood Music Center, where they were lauded by the Boston Globe as a “beautiful new landmark” on the concert stage. As soloist, Dr. Tao toured the United States for Columbia Artist’s Community Concerts series, and in 1990, was reinvited as an “Artistic Ambassador” for the USIA, with recitals in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Winner of numerous awards, she was the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein scholarship and the David McCord Arts Award upon graduation from Harvard University. Summer festival credits include the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, Rutgers Summerfest, the Cape May Music Festival, Apple Hill Music Festival, the Summer Serenades at the Staller Center, Niederstotzingen Festival in Germany, and the International Arts Festival in France. Dale Throness, Voice Lyric Baritone Dale Throness, a native of Grande Prairie, Alberta, received his early musical training in Winnipeg and subsequently obtained his Master of Music in Voice Performance at the University of British Columbia. Post-graduate studies were undertaken at the Vancouver Academy of Music and the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England. Mr. Throness has an active career as a soloist in opera, concert and recital. He has sung a number of operatic roles including the title role in Don Giovanni under director David Walsh, and Marcello in La Boheme with conductor Tyrone Patterson and the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra for Viva Musica in Kelowna. Recent Concert engagements include Tea & Trumpets with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a concert of Brahms lieder for the VSO’s Brahms Festival, and performances of the Brahms and Faure Requiems. He has also sung Carmina Burana on a number of occasions, including a performance at the Orpheum Theatre under conductor Kazuyoshi Akiyama. In addition to his performing schedule, Mr. Throness is on the voice faculties of the University of British Columbia and Kwantlen College.