Con Brio seeks to provide an extremely positive educational experience. Only those who can deliver this experience are selected as adjudicators and workshop leaders.
2024 FACULTY
DR. CHARLES A. MAGUIRE – BAND & MASSED BANDS
received a B.M.E. from Troy State University in 1998, where he studied under Dr. John M. Long, Ralph Ford and Robert W. Smith and holds a Master of Music in Wind Conducting program from the University of Alabama, where he served as the assistant conductor of the University Wind Ensemble. During his teaching tenure, Maguire served as a CMENC clinician, presenting clinics on “How To Teach In Less Than Ideal Situations”. He was named to “Who’s Who Among American High School Teachers” five consecutive years. In 2000 Maguire founded the “Pride of Pleasure Island” Marching Band and the Gulf Shores Symphonic Winds. Among the students, 10 were selected for the Alabama All-State Band Festival, 28 attended honor bands across the state, and 128 received superior ratings at the district-level solo and ensemble festival. In three years, the band grew from 19 students to over 300. He is the founding artistic director of The Desert Winds, established in 2009. In the vocal arena, he has held lead roles in college musical theater productions and has performed with community choral programs. He has maintained his principal instruments, the flute and piccolo, in community musicals and most recently, the UNLV Wind Orchestra. His music affiliations include The National Band Association, College Band Directors National Association, Alabama Bandmasters Association, National Education Association, Alabama Education Association, Music Educators National Conference, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Professional Music Fraternity.
CHRISTOPHER HAAS – BAND
The recipient of numerous student awards, Chris is a graduate of Humber University in Toronto, the University of Calgary and the University of British Columbia, earning his Masters in Conducting from the American Band College in Oregon. He has performing professionally on drums and percussion for over 40 years, performing all styles of music including Afro-Cuban, rock, jazz, funk, vocal/choral, classical, musical theatre and big band. Chris’ current projects include: R&B with soul singer Billy Dixon, New Orleans 2nd Line with Cookin’ with Brass, jazz with Material Culture Project and Afro-Cuban music with Timba Cartel. He currently teaches music at Moscrop Secondary School in Burnaby. Prior to this he was Director of Bands and Head of the Fine Arts Department Head at Magee Secondary School in Vancouver from 1999-2020. The award-winning music program at Magee involved over 400 students in numerous bands, choirs and a string orchestra. Magee Senior Jazz Bands have been frequent performers at the Vancouver Jazz Festival. In addition to teaching at Magee, Haas was a conductor/teacher at the UBC Summer Music Institute from 2000-2015, and associate conductor of the Little Night Music community orchestra for 7 years.
DR. WENDY ZANDER – BAND
is a Professor in the Brandon University School of Music where she conducts the Symphonic Band and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and conducting. Committed to excellence in music education, Zander taught band and general elementary music before pursuing graduate studies. In addition to designing professional development sessions for music educators, she has presented at provincial music education conferences, College Band Directors National Association regional conference, and the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. Her work as a solo and ensemble adjudicator and clinician for concert and jazz ensembles has taken her across Canada and the United States. She serves as guest conductor of university, community, and military ensembles, as conductor at the International and Rushmore Music Camps, and as facilitator of conducting symposia. She has conducted junior high and high school regional, provincial, and state honor bands and was the conductor of the 2018 National Youth Band of Canada. Zander has worked to create professional opportunities for students and music educators in the areas of performance and music education. For fifteen years Zander hosted Avenues: Exploring Band and Jazz Methods, an annual summer professional development workshop at Brandon University. She is Faculty Advisor for the Brandon University Student Music Educators Association (BUSMEA), the organization that hosts the annual Da Capo professional development conference. The Brandon University Symphonic Band, with Zander as conductor, performed as the featured ensemble at the 2009 Atlantic Band Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia and the 2013 Con Brio Music Festival in Whistler, British Columbia. Zander was awarded Brandon University Alumni Association’s Excellence in TeachingAward as well as the Manitoba Band Association’s Award of Distinction and the Canadian Band Association’s National Band Award. She is a Teaching Affiliate with Brandon University’s Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology and an Educational Clinician with the Conn-Selmer Division of Education. Zander holds the Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from Brandon University and completed a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting at the University of North Dakota with Gordon Brock and James Popejoy. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas where she served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate and Teaching Fellow in the Wind Studies Department with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. She completed her cognate studies in Music Education with Deborah Rohwer and Darhyl Ramsey. Zander worked as Lead Writer of the Manitoba Grade 9-12 Music Curriculum Framework, has published in Canadian Winds, and is a regular contributor to the publication and recording series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band and Teaching Music Through Performance in Beginning Band. She is former President of the Manitoba Band Association and Canadian Band Association. McCallum, active as a conductor and clinician, investigates areas related to teaching and learning, conducting, and instrumental literature as curriculum in the music classroom.
MICHAEL PERKINS – JAZZ BAND
is a professional classical and jazz trumpeter, composer, clinician, and adjudicator who spent over 40 years as an internationally award-winning music educator with experience in both the public and private school systems in B.C. He is a past coordinator of the Vancouver Kiwanis Jazz Festival, the B.C. Interior Jazz Festival and was involved in founding/directing multiple groups including the original funk band, The Mammals, from Kelowna; the Sea’T’Sky Big Band, in Squamish; the Nicola Valley Brass Quintet, in the Thompson-Okanagan; the Playmor Junction Big Band, in Nelson; and the Night Owl Orchestra, Central Okanagan. As a freelance trumpet/flugelhorn player, clinician and adjudicator, Michael works with the Okanagan Symphony, the Kamloops Symphony, the Michael Garding Big Band, Symphonic Rock Revolution, Perkins/Landsberg Duo, the Clinton Swanson R&B Band and the Justin Glibbery Quartet. He has also served as Music Director for musical theatre, the 100th Centenary celebration for Kelowna and the BC Summer Games and enjoys every opportunity he gets in the recording studio, just recently releasing a new compilation CD, “Michael * Perkins * Reflections”. Michael has performed throughout Europe and North America and has worked with such artists as Cleo Laine/John Dankworth, Holly Cole, Laila Biali, Jann Arden, Mike Murphy, Dee Daniels, Dianne Shuur and the great Greg Yasinitski. Michael’s other passions include downhill skiing, motorcycles, and is discovering his talent for visual art.
FRANCES ROBERTS – CHOIR & MASSED CHOIRS
In the fall of 2022 Frances assumed the role of professor, teaching the Secondary Choral Pedagogy course at UBC in the faculty of Music Education after spending thirty two years teaching secondary choral music at Argyle Secondary, North Vancouver where she directed 2 concert choirs, a chamber choir, 2 vocal jazz ensembles and a strings ensemble. She is also on faculty at the West Coast Amateur Musicians Family Summer Camp at Quest University. Over the years her school choirs toured extensively: within North America, Europe, the Baltics, China, and the U.K. Her choirs have been fortunate enough to be selected to appear with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Chamber Choir and annually at Christmas with the Vancouver Welsh Men’s Choir and the Argyle Senior Vocal Ensemble and alumni to have workshopped with “Rajaton” from Finland, “The Idea of North” from Australia and the “Swingle Singers” from U.K. As a result of her outstanding work, Frances is in demand as a clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor and has presented workshops for BCMEA, the Alberta Choral Federation, the BC Choral Federation and the Association of Canadian Choral Communities. She also teaches at summer choral conducting workshops: BCCF Da Capo, Convivium and Inspirare. She was the director of the BC Youth Choir for the BCCF at ChorFest 2013 in Nanaimo. She returned to UBC in 2014 to complete her Masters in Choral Conducting with Dr. Graeme Langager. In 2017 she received a District of North Vancouver “Outstanding Supporter of Youth” award. In 2018 after participating with her choirs in the festival, she received the “Most Inspiring Conductor” award (John Trepp Memorial ) from Vancouver Kiwanis Festival, and then was honoured by her music teaching colleagues in BC when she received the BCMEA Outstanding Professional Music Educator Award – Secondary in 2020. Frances retired from North Vancouver School District in January of 2023, opening up more time to adjudicate and do workshops with choirs and choral conductors, something she really enjoys doing.
DOMINIQUE HOGAN – CHOIR
is a Conductor/Musical Director/Arranger/Composer and Educator who has worked across the United States and Canada. Dominique’s greatest passion is working in community, demystifying music and singing, and bringing the idea of “playing” back into the term “playing music”. She loves to find creative ways to teach music and singing to everyone with a desire to learn. In her private teaching she teaches people to release their voice and find their authentic sound. Dominique loves to use her creative energy to produce engaging and dynamic productions, concerts and theatrical productions, working in both Musical Theatre and Opera. She has directed and taught public speaking, acting and is an expert at event management and planning, as well as working with and staging large groups in productions. She holds a Master’s Degree in Musical Direction for Musical Theatre/Lyric Opera from Arizona State University under full scholarship, a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Theory, from McGill University, and a Diploma of Collegial Studies in Piano Performance from Marianopolis College in Montreal. A trained classical pianist and conductor she has also studied jazz piano and voice, is the Founder, Executive and Artistic Director of Burstin’ with Broadway and works as a gospel pianist with Marcus Mosely and the Mount Seymour United Gospel Choir. Dominique has become known for her engaging leadership and ability to teach music to people from all backgrounds and training to enjoy creating music together. Having spent many years learning how to sing in various genres and with various vocal placements depending on style and genre of the music, Dominique has become a specialist in teaching singers to sing with the proper vocal placement for the genre of the music being sung.
DOUGLAS MACAULAY – INSTRUMENT INTENSIVES & MASSED BANDS
works as a Conductor, Composer, Arranger, Educator, and Producer. He is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician at music festivals throughout Canada and the U.S., from the North Vancouver schools’ band and strings festival to the Southern Alberta Band Festival and the Pearl City Band Festival in Hawaii. As a guest conductor, he has directed Vancouver’s Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the UBC Summer Music Institute Senior Band, the Southeastern United States (SEUS) High School and Middle School Honor Bands, the Troy University (Alabama) Symphonic Band and many schools and community bands throughout BC and Alberta. He has also been a guest lecturer in Music Education at UBC and several music educational conferences. He has composed for a wide variety of genre including band, orchestra, film, and dozens of theatrical scores (a recipient of the Jesse Richardson award for outstanding Theatrical Composition). He is an independent record producer, music consultant for the film and television industry and has worked as Music Director for CBC Television and Radio, the Pacific Music Industry Association, The Cambie Street Brass Band, the Vancouver Community College Wind Ensemble, Theatre Under the Stars, and the Vancouver Firefighters Band. He is the co-founder, Artistic and Managing Director of Con Brio Festivals where, since 2000, he has produced the respected Whistler and Sun Peaks Music Festivals. As a volunteer, Doug has taught instrumental music and band to visually impaired youth in a program he founded for the CNIB and volunteers as a board member and consultant with a variety of music and arts organizations. Doug continues to support local artists serving as Executive Producer for Malcolm Aiken’s debut CD Paper Star, as Associate Producer for Robert Buckley’s album of Wind Band works and is a co-founder and producer for the Marcus Mosely Chorale. In his community, Doug was instrumental in the creation of the unique and visionary “Community Music Hall” – a dedicated large ensemble rehearsal space within the new West Vancouver Community Centre. The facility provides space to many community music ensembles and is home to the West Vancouver Youth Band, for which Doug has been Principal Conductor and Program Director since 1993. During that time, the WVYB has grown from 39 musicians in three ensembles to nearly 200 in five ensembles.
LIVEN CARLSON – PERCUSSION INTENSIVES
is a percussionist and music educator from Calgary, Alberta who recently graduated from the University of Victoria with a bachelor’s degree in Music Education. Liv has been involved in numerous performances across the province, and has performed multiple times with the Victoria Symphony. For the past 4 years she has been a private percussion and piano teacher, has taught the front ensemble and drumline at Belmont High School in Langford, BC, and leads percussion clinics around the city of Victoria. Her educational and performance abilities have been recognized and awarded by many scholarships, most notably the John F. Nickel award and scholarship for aspiring band directors, the Naden Band of Maritime Forces Pacific Scholarship in Music Performance, and multiple Don Wright Scholarships in Music Education.
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