Piano: Sandra Joy
Vocal: Winston Noren
Winds/Brass: Charles Stolte

Piano: Sandra Joy

Sandra Joy is a second-year DMUS student in the Piano Performance program at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on extended piano techniques and new notations in Canadian repertoire. She is in the initial stages of formalizing this research into a pedagogical multi-dimensional resource. Sandra Joy concertizes in Canada and abroad, featuring Canadian piano repertoire.

Voice, Elementary Piano: Winston Noren

Winston Noren is a versatile musician who has been active as a teacher, conductor and soloist for over 20 years. In 1981, he became a faculty member of the distinguished Mount Royal College Conservatory where he has a studio of 40 voice students. As well, Mr. Noren has given master classes throughout Alberta and is frequently engaged as a vocal clinician for numerous choral organizations, including Mount Royal Junior Children's Choir and MusiCamrose. Mr. Noren is also sought after as an adjudicator at regional festivals across Western Canada.

Mr. Noren was a founding member of the Conservatory's successful Academy of Vocal Studies program. Many of his students have gone on to study at distinguished institutions in Canada and abroad, and several are actively pursuing successful careers as singers. He is Past President of the Calgary Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Mr. Noren has extensive experience as a choral conductor and artistic director. For several years, he conducted the Cecilian Singers, a women's choir which was frequently recorded for broadcast by CBC radio. He has been conductor of the Boys Choir at MusiCamrose, Director of the Mount Royal Children's Choir, assistant conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus, and conductor for the Calgary Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He is now Music Director at the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Redeemer in Calgary and the ProArts Men's Choir.

Wind/Brass: Charles Stolte

Dr. Stolte is Associate Professor of Saxophone, Music  Theory and Composition at The King's University College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Instructor of Saxophone at Grant Macewan  Alberta College Conservatory of Music. He has served on the faculties of  Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Roosevelt University and the University of Alberta. He holds a Doctor of Music degree in Saxophone  Performance from Northwestern University, where he was the first Canadian to be accepted  to the doctoral program for study with renowned saxophonist Frederick L.  Hemke.  Dr. Stolte also holds degrees  from University of Alberta and The King’s University College. His teachers include Frederick L. Hemke, William H. Street, Howard Bashaw, Malcolm Forsyth, M. William  Karlins and Jay Alan Yim.