Gaye Lynn Kern
Musical Theatre and Speech Arts

Gaye Lynn Kern is well known as a teacher, performer and clinician.  She holds a Master of Music in Voice and has over 20 years of teaching experience in voice, musical theatre and speech arts, including 12 years teaching music and drama at universities and colleges.  She has performed in operas, musicals and plays in Canada, Europe and the US and has 31 directorial credits.  She has adjudicated throughout Western Canada at over 95 festivals since 1990..

Erica Northcott

Vocal and Choral

Italian born, Canadian soprano Erica Northcott has earned a uniquely active performing career in choral, early music, oratorio, operetta and contemporary music.  On the concert stage Miss Northcott has performed in North and South America, Europe and Japan.  In addition to being a favourite soloist with orchestras and choral societies, she is a seasoned recitalist and occasional commercial jingle singer. She has been the recipient of many awards in national and international competitions.  Miss Northcott’s silvery timbre and interpretive powers have earned high praise from audiences and critics on many continents as well as the high seas with World Explorer Cruises and as instructor and singer with the Societa Dante Alighieri in Mondavio, Italy. She has premiered many Canadian works by such composers as Imant Raminsh, Rodney Sharman, Mark Armanini and Elliot Weisgarber on whose CD DIvine Immanences she is the featured soloist.  Her graceful musicianship has gained her respect as an artist, most recently in performances with the New Westminster Symphony Orchestra and the premiere of the chamber opera Elizabeth Margaret  by Bruce Johnson in Kamloops. A graduate of UBC, Miss Northcott is head of the Voice Division in the Music Department of Douglas College in New Westminster.   In demand as an adjudicator she has adjudicated for the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions and extensively throughout B.C.  A member of NATS and BCRMTA, she also teaches privately and leads workshops.

Lori Elder is well known in BC and Alberta as a pianist, teacher and adjudicator.  She holds a Masters Degree in Piano Performance, a Bachelor or Music and an ARCT.  She also completed summer studies at Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.  Ms. Elder has won numerous competitions and has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber player throughout Canada and the United States.  She has broadcast on CBC-TV and has premiered several new Canadian piano works.  An experienced teacher, Lori Elder has taught at the University of British Columbia and Alberta College Conservatory in Edmonton.  She currently maintains a busy teaching studio in Prince George and is active as a festival adjudicator and masterclass presenter.

Andrea Case

Cello