A tireless advocate for effortless singing at all stages of evolution, baritone MARK DABOLL enjoys a dynamic and diverse career as a voice teacher, performer, and music educator. His 21st-century solution-based, structural approach to singing successfully serves the building of all voices, garnering him a reputation as a master vocal technician. He is sought after as a reliable voice-renovator to professional opera and music theatre singers in all stages of their careers, equipped with immediate solutions to reaffirm individual, authentic vocal identity, and maximize vocal and artistic capability at the highest level of performance. A legion of soloists, actor-singers, choral singers/conductors, and music educators count among his many students from across North America.

An Instructor of Applied Voice at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto for the past eleven years, Mr. Daboll's students have won or placed in national and international competitions and have been accepted into several professional development programs, including the International Lyric Academy Summer Program in Vicenza, Italy and Charlotte, North Carolina, where he also teaches. He is also the vocal coach for the Canadian Opera Company's Summer Opera Intensive, which caters to ten emerging singer-artists selected from across Canada each year. One of his principal mentors is W. Stephen Smith, author of The Naked Voice, and teacher of many of the world's elite singers. He has also served as a vocal coach and master class teacher for the Ontario Youth Choir, the COC's Summer Youth Intensive program, and for the Marigold Music Program – founded by his students to bridge the gap between marginalized youth and music education.

Although originally classically trained, Mark is uniquely qualified to teach a myriad of vocal styles including Music Theatre (legit to contemporary, including Broadway belting), and sub-genres of Pop, Rock, Jazz, and R&B, to name a few.

Mr. Daboll has performed in Canada, the US, UK, Italy, and Germany in opera, oratorio, concert, and recital. Academic accolades include a B.Mus. in voice performance from Westminster Choir College (Princeton, New Jersey), an Opera Diploma from Wilfrid Laurier University, and an M.Mus. in vocal pedagogy and performance from the University of Toronto.

Arianne Ewing-Chow has a passion for teaching students how to make music an integral part of their lives. She believes in finding joy in music making through freedom of expression through sound. Arianne runs a full studio in North York, is a member of the College of Examiners with the Royal Conservatory of Music, is a festival convener for the ORMTA North York-York Region branch, and is also an active adjudicator. She holds a Bachelor of Music from University of Toronto, and received an Artist Teacher of Pedagogy and Performance from the Glenn Gould School. She holds both Performers ARCT as well as Teacher's ARCT diplomas. She has received numerous awards and scholarships and is a proud recipient of the Steinway Gallery Teacher of the Year Award in 2018. Arianne performed in international masterclasses in Bad Bertrich, Germany with John Perry, and at the Almalfi Coast, Italy with Luiz de Moura Castro and Brian Ganz. The ten-piano monster concert with Toyich International Projects in Rome was an incredible collaboration. She has organized fundraising concerts through Music With a Cause to raise funds for various charities including The Canadian Cancer Foundation, Cystic Fibrosis Canada, Crohn's and Colitis Canada.

Simon Farintosh is an award-winning guitarist, composer, and educator based in Toronto, ON. Named one of CBC's '30 Under 30 Classical Musicians' in 2023, he is known for his unconventional programming choices, connecting with audiences by integrating the classical guitar with more contemporary musical forms such as electronica and jazz.

Simon studied with Dr. Alexander Dunn at the University of Victoria, where he earned his Bachelor of Music Degree in 2018. Simon's musical pursuits later took him to Milwaukee, WI, where he completed a Master's Degree at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2020. Here, he was a student and teaching assistant to Rene Izquierdo, a renowned Cuban virtuoso and revered pedagogue. Currently, Simon is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the University of Toronto, where he is a student of Jorge Caballero and Dr. Jeffrey McFadden.

Simon's performances have garnered him top awards in various national and international competitions, including 1st Prize at the 2018 Northwest Guitar Festival in Spokane, WA. As a composer, he was recently awarded First Prize in the 2022 Ottawa Guitar Society Composition Competition for his original piece 'Distant Light.' He is a six-time recipient of the British Columbia Arts Council Award, and has been a featured performer for organizations such as the Vancouver Classical Guitar Festival, Victoria Conservatory of Music Summer Guitar Intensive, The Classical Guitar Society of Tri-Cities, Madison Classical Guitar Society, Victoria Guitar Society, Ottawa Guitar Society, Guitar Society of Toronto, and Higher Ground Music Festival.

Gail Hakala has led an active professional career as a singer, actor, educator, clinician and adjudicator from coast to coast. Gail holds a Bachelor and Master's degree in Voice Performance and Literature from the University of Toronto. Equally at home in all genres of voice, her passion is evident in her fearless and playful approach to her adjudications.
Gail was a member of the Shaw Festival Theatre Company for nine years and 20 productions. Favourite roles at Shaw include Minerva in Mr. Cinders, Bonnie in Anything Goes, Tinkerbell in Peter Pan and Netta Lake in Cavalcade. Other favourite roles: Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera (Pantages Theatre and the Canadian tour), Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show (Bathurst Street Theatre), Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Sudbury Theatre Centre), and the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella (Stage West Calgary). Gail has also starred on the concert stage with Patty LuPone, Betty Buckley and Mandy Patinkin in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Pantages Theatre). Most recently, Gail was seen as Mavis in Church Basement Ladies (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia), Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man (Capitol Theatre), Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma (Drayton Entertainment), Mrs. Barry/Mrs. Blewett in Anne of Green Gables (Charlottetown Festival) and Widow Corney in Oliver (Centaur Theatre).
Gail was the former Head of Music Theatre and Vocal Discipline at Sheridan College in the Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance Program, as well as the Resident Voice Coach at the Shaw and Charlottetown Festivals and Artistic Director and Advisor of The Toronto Youth Music Theatre Company. Gail is an active member of Canadian Actors Equity, ACTRA, CMFAA and NATS. She is thrilled to be coming to Barrie to do what she loves best, adjudicating music theatre and popular voice.

Brett Kingsbury is a multi-faceted performer, active as both a solo and collaborative musician. He has worked with many ensembles and performers including the Madawaska String Quartet, Magisterra Soloists, London Symphonia, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, and members of the Hamilton Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony Orchestras. He is very active as an adjudicator and masterclass clinician, working frequently with pianists across the province. His doctoral dissertation was written on Busoni's Fantasia Contrappuntistica, a rarely heard work he has performed on numerous occasions. He has also been involved in the world of opera as a repetiteur for Vancouver Opera, TrypTych concert and opera, Opera York, and other companies in Ontario.
Brett is an assistant professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University, where he teaches studio piano, Performance Research, and undergraduate and graduate level Piano Literature. Brett is also a former sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough and at Brock University. He is in demand as an adjudicator for music festivals across the province. While a student at the University of British Columbia, he was named R. Howard Webster Fellow at Green College.

Originally from Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Dr. Dylan Rook Maddix is Assistant Professor of Instrumental Conducting and Community Engagement at Memorial University in St. John's, NL. In this role, he conducts the Memorial University Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting.

Before this role, he worked as a Professor of Music and headed the wind and brass studies department at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario. There, he conducted the wind ensemble and taught courses in music theory, wind/brass methods, and pedagogy. He also served on the conducting faculty at Laurentian University.

Outside of his teaching and conducting duties, Maddix is actively involved on the board of directors of the Newfoundland and Labrador Band Association and the Canadian Band Association. He is also the founder and host of "The Band Room Podcast", alongside composer Cait Nishimura, and hosts the conducting leadership podcast titled "Changing Your Pattern."

Maddix's academic journey includes a Bachelor of Music degree from Mount Allison University, a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Toronto, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from Arizona State University. Throughout this academic journey, he had the privilege of learning from accomplished mentors, including Jason Caslor (conducting, Arizona State University), Joe Burgstaller (trumpet, Arizona State University/Canadian Brass), Gillian MacKay (conducting, University of Toronto), Jim Spragg (trumpet, University of Toronto/Toronto Symphony), Linda Pearse (trumpet, Mount Allison University), and Alan Klaus (trumpet, Mount Allison University).

His professional career as a trumpeter is diverse and engaging, involving collaborations with artists such as Sarah McLachlan, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, The Video Games Live Orchestra, Johnny Reid, The Broadway Tenors, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Toronto Concert Orchestra, Hogtown Brass Quintet, and Vox Aeris Trio.

Maddix has conducted masterclasses at esteemed institutions, including the University of Toronto, Western University, Acadia University, Mount Allison University, and McMaster University. He has also provided his expertise as a conducting and music consultant for Netflix's "Umbrella Academy" and Global TV's "Private Eyes.

Susan obtained her ARCT in 1986 and studied at the University of Toronto where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education in 1990. She was one of the first graduates of the Licentiate Diploma in Performance and Pedagogy in what is now the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (1992), and also received her Fellowship Diploma in Piano Performance from Trinity College of Music, London.

Susan was on the piano faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music from 1991 to 1999, and has been a member of the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners since 1993. Susan is an active member of the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association and has served twice on ORMTA Provincial Council. She is a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicator's Association and has traveled across Canada for her adjudicating and examining. Susan enjoys her private piano studio in Kitchener, and teaches students of all ages.

Violinist, Irene Tandberg's career as performer and pedagogue spans four decades. She has established vibrant private and university studios where her students have been honoured with many prestigious scholarships and awards, obtained positions at notable international & domestic schools & orchestras, and pursued distinguished solo careers.
Irene's long tenure as Co-Director of Forest City String School FCSS in London Ontario, inspired her to further enrich students' experience by creating the Young Artists Pre-College Academy (YAPCA) and Young Artists Orchestra (YAO, a full symphonic orchestra for beginner/intermediate musicians). YAPCA's diverse programming cultivates motivated high school & university students who are inspired to explore a high level of technical finesse and artistry through chamber music in a collegial, non-competitive environment. Weekly Performance, Chamber and Master classes offer students the opportunity to master their skills and expand their musical knowledge under the tutelage of a dynamic faculty and guest artists. YAPCA is actively engaged in collaborative projects throughout the community and is partnered with Western in Community Engaged Learning.
Irene was born in Denmark. Her first teacher was her grandfather, Wolf Notkin (a member of the Royal Danish National Symphony Orchestra), who is to be credited with nurturing her deep love of music and inspiring a lifelong journey of discovery through sound. In later years, her principal teachers were Gwen Thompson and Dana Mazurkevich at the University of Western Ontario. Irene then went on to follow her passion and vocation for performance and teaching with acclaimed pedagogues, while concurrently pursuing Suzuki teacher training.
Past recordings and performances reflect an eclectic range of engagements on Modern and Baroque violin. She has had the privilege to perform in core, principal and solo positions with many fine orchestras and chamber groups including L'Harmonie Universelle, Nota Bene and Arcady. In 1989 she founded the string quartet, Octo Mani.
Irene is a vastly experienced and fervent pedagogue who has both written and given invited talks on performance, teaching and practice strategies. She is in high demand as a festival adjudicator, master class teacher and workshop clinician in music programs and teaching institutions across Canada. She is co-editor for the RCM 2021 Violin Series and co-writer for the RCM String Teachers Course.
In addition to running her private studio, acting as the Coordinator for Western 360 and Directing YAPCA, she is a very active faculty member in the Performance Department at Western and recipient of the student council "Award of Excellence" in teaching.