In Toronto, Camille has performed as piccolo soloist with the TSO, and played chamber music with Belladonna, Ergo and HearHere ensembles. She has played with the Canadian Opera Company, onstage with Soulpepper Theatre, and in the pit with Miss Saigon playing western and Chinese flutes. She has performed on many pop and classical recordings, as well as on film and TV soundtracks.

Camille teaches and coaches chamber music at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, and maintains a private teaching studio in the city.

Licensed in the United States as a Registered Massage Therapist, her practice with performing musicians led to her ten-year involvement in the co-creation of the Artists’ Health Centre Foundation, and the opening of the clinic at Toronto Western Hospital.

Ms. Orson has recorded for CBC Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Essay, New World, Parnassus and Technics Records. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and winner of the Oberlin Concerto Competition, Ms. Orson's principal teachers were Laurence Thorstenberg, James Caldwell, and Elaine Douvas.  Before moving to Vancouver, Beth worked as a freelance musician in New York City, performing regularly with the orchestras of the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Orchestra of St.Luke’s, and Orpheus.

Kimball Sykes joined the National Arts Centre Orchestra as principal clarinet in 1985.

Born in Vancouver, he received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of British Columbia where he studied with Ronald deKant. In 1982 Mr. Sykes was a member of the National Youth Orchestra and was awarded the first of two Canada Council grants to study with Robert Marcellus in Chicago.  While in Chicago he performed with the Chicago Civic Orchestra.  Mr. Sykes has participated in the Banff School of Fine Arts Festival, the Scotia Festival, the Orford Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.  He has performed and toured with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and was a member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra. While in Vancouver, he was a founding member of the Vancouver Wind Trio. From 1983 to 1985 he was principal clarinet of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Sykes has performed as a soloist with the NAC Orchestra on numerous occasions. In May 2000, he gave the premiere performance of Vagues immobiles, a clarinet concerto by Alain Perron commissioned for him by the National Arts Centre.  Other groups he has appeared with as soloist include Thirteen Strings, the Honolulu Symphony and
the Auckland Philharmonia.

Mr. Sykes has performed numerous solo and chamber music programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He can be heard on the recent Chamber Players of Canada recording of Schubert's Octet. His recording of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with Pinchas Zukerman and NAC Orchestra string principal musicians was nominated for a 2004 Juno award.

Mr. Sykes has taught masterclasses throughout Canada and the US including classes at the Peabody Conservatory, Royal Conservatory and the State University of New York. He is currently on faculty at the University of Ottawa.

A native of Toronto, he has played with the National Ballet Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, and the Stratford Festival Orchestra. He has also played with L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He is a regular guest at prestigious Canadian music festivals, among them the Festival of the Sound ((Parry Sound, ON), and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival.

David is a regular visitor to Indiana University where he has been a guest instructor and has taught classes. In January, 2005, he adjudicated a clarinet competition at IU with Alfred Prinz, former principal clarinet of the Vienna Philharmonic. In 2004-2005, David was a visitng professor at Mount Allison University where he taught studio clarinet and saxophone, instrumental conducting and was director of the Symphonic Band and the Jazz Band. In 2005/06, David is returning to his position in the Toronto Symphony and is teaching at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

Mr. Bourque has been very active in film and television sound recording. His clarinet playing can be heard on the TV series Road to Avonlea, Street Legal, and Emily of New Moon. he can also be heard in the kids' shows Franklin and Little Bear. He has performed in many feature films including Moonstruck, The Ice Storm and Free Willy 3 as well as numerous made for TV including The Arrow, James Mitchener's Texas and The Music Man with Matthew Broderick.

A big fan of and expert on the subject of Harmoniemusik (wind octets of the 17th and 18th centuries), David is the editor of the first editions of wind octets attributed to Mozart, the octets of K. Anh. C. These works have been recorded by an all star cast of musicians including clarinettist James Campbell of Indiana University and hornist James Sommerville of the Boston Symphony. The works are available on CBC Records.

David can be reached through his website at www.davidbourque.ca

As well as teaching bassoon at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec, he is also associated with l’Académie du Domaine Forget and has been a member of the Faculty of the World Orchestra of Musical Youths.

As a soloist he has been invited to play with various ensembles including l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, le Nouvel orchestre de chambre de Québec and l’orchestre symphonique de Trois-Rivières, where he premiered Argument, a work for bassoon and orchestra dedicated to him by the composer Gilles Bellemarre.

An accomplished recitalist and chamber musician, Richard Gagnon has been involved with a number of miscellaneous chamber music groups, a specialty that he teaches at the Quebec Conservatoire in addition to bassoon.  In touch with every style of music, he participates with oboist Philippe Magnan in the baroque ensemble Les Vents Réunis , takes part actively in l’Ensemble Contemporain de l’OSQ and records film and studio music.

James McKay maintains an active schedule as a bassoonist, conductor, acoustic researcher, university professor and adjudicator. He appears on over a dozen recordings with artists including James Campbell, Jamie Summerville, Anton Kuerti and Steven Staryk and with ensembles including the Festival of the Sound, the Amadeus Ensemble, and the Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago. He is frequently featured as a soloist or conductor in broadcast concerts on CBC and NPR and in many North American music festivals. He is a founding member of the York Winds, Triptych, and the Poulenc Ensemble and has toured as a soloist, chamber  musician  and conductor in Canada, the United States, Japan and Europe. His book, The Bassoon Reed Manual, which details Lou Skinner’s  theories and practise of bassoon reed making, was published by Indiana University Press in 2000.

Prof. McKay is the Chair of the Department of Music Performance Studies in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario, and is the Director of the Reverberation and Acoustics in Performance Studio and lab. He has been the Music Director of Symphony Hamilton since 1994.  

Brian has been active as a teacher over the years, for a time as a high school band instructor, then as a horn teacher at the Vancouver Academy of Music, the University of BC, the University of Victoria and at numerous local colleges. Summer programs in which he has been involved include the Courtenay Youth Music Camp, the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and CAMMAC at Shawnigan Lake, BC, a most enjoyable experience working with adult amateur musicians. He has been a board member of the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra and has served on awards panels for BC Cultural Fund and the Canada Council.

In addition to the VSO, Brian has been the Principal Horn of the CBC Radio Orchestra since 1976 and is heard as such in their many recordings on CBC's SM5000 series, as well as on the orchestra's regular radio broadcasts. A noteable studio performance was of the 'Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings' with tenor Ben Heppner and the CBC Orchestra, conducted by Mario Bernardi. Other performing has been with Vancouver New Music, Masterpiece Music, the Vancouver Chamber Choir (Brahms 'Songs for Women's Voices, Horns and Harp', Op. 17, recorded on Virgin Classics), the eclectic woodwind quintet 'Bayside Winds' (doubling on Flugelhorn), opera, ballet and broadway-show pit orchestras, plus countless radio and TV jingles, television series and film scores. He has also, over the years, performed with the Calgary, Victoria, Winnipeg and National Arts Centre orchestras.

In addition to performances of the classical repertoire, Larry has developed six critically-acclaimed Pop programmes for orchestra with conductor/trombonist David Martin. Larry is in much demand by Toronto recording studios for his work on motion picture soundtracks and commercial jingles. You can hear him every night, in fact, trumpeting in the CTV News with Lloyd Robertson. He has had the great pleasure to work in back-up orchestras for Diana Krall, Brian Wilson, Jann Arden, Holly Cole, Anne Murray, Dennis DeYoung, Roger Hodgson, and Yes.

After a dormancy of about 20 years, and with great encouragement from pianist and composer Glenn Buhr, Larry has enjoyed re-awakening the sleeping giant that was his jazz playing, performing in various venues in Kitchener-Waterloo – and loving every minute of it.

And yes, you’ve probably seen Larry at the Stratford Festival each summer for the past several years, fanfaring patrons into the Festival Theatre or performing in the pit for the musicals. Performances at the Elora Festival and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival round out his summer playing.

Larry and his wife, trumpeter Mary Jay, live in Waterloo, ON, with their two beautiful children and three enigmatic cats.

Canadian pianist and conductor Gregory Oh has always had commitment issues, and believes firmly in keeping his options open.  He holds graduate degrees from the University of Toronto, where he completed his studies with Marietta Orlov as the top graduating pianist, and the University of Michigan, where he worked with Martin Katz. 

As a soloist, he has garnered praise for his “crystal clear tone, musical structure-conscious thinking, highly sensitive art of touch” (Graz Neue Zeit - Austria) and was described as an “exceptional performer…mesmerizing…intelligence and insight…a visceral sense of tempo, excellent voicing, a wonderful pianistic palette, and a warm, honest sound.” (National Post - Canada) 

He has appeared with the UTSO, the Graz Hochschule Orchestra, the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London, the Brott Festival Orchestra and the Festival Players, and has given recitals throughout North America and Europe.  As a chamber musician, he has shared the stage with musicians like Shauna Rolston, Patrick Gallois, Alain Trudel, Jens Lindemann, James Thompson, John Marcellus, Lorand Fenyves, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Mark Fewer, Michael Colvin, Allyson McHardy, Lori Freedman, NEXUS, Beverley Johnston, Noreen Burgess and Jean MacPhail. 

He has served as music director of the San Diego Opera Ensemble, and has also worked with Florida State Opera, the University of Michigan Opera Program, Michigan Opera Works and Lyric Opera San Diego.  He has held faculty positions at the Banff Centre for the Arts, both in Music and Sound, and Theatre Arts, where he worked with the Contemporary Opera and Song Training Program.  He recently joined the music staff of the Canadian Opera Company.

He is the artistic director of the highly acclaimed new music group Toca Loca with Simon Docking and Aiyun Huang, and “is clearly on his way, through performances, commissioning and programming, to making a lasting contribution to new music in this country.” (National Post – Canada)  Toca Loca has been relentlessly branding the cattle of the new music world, and has been Provost Distinguished Visitors at USC and Ensemble-in-Residence at the Music Gallery.  Dubbed “vibrant” by Alex Ross in the New Yorker magazine, the Globe and Mail's Robert Everett-Green raved that they "clearly believe that contemporary music should grab the listener as much as any other kind...they put on a passionate, disciplined performance that at times rocked harder than many shows I've heard in clubs."

He is the conductor of Continuum Contemporary Music and has also directed CONTACT, the McGill Percussion Ensemble, the CBC Kieser Gala and Companion Star in Sweden.  No stranger to the popular scene, he has worked with Kurt Swinghammer, Andrew Downing, Andrew Craig, Quinsin Nachoff, John Gzowski and the Redemption Steel Orchestra, and as the keyboardist in uberband The Lollipop People has played Pop Montreal, NXNE, Wavelength, Galapagos, the Guelph Folk Festival and the Brampton Indie Arts Festival.  He performs regularly with cabaret performer Patricia O'Callaghan all over North America, and has also performed in the Festival of the Sound, Sound Symposium, the Colours of Music Festival, soundaXis, the Wordless Music Series at the Lincoln Center, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche Festival, Music Around Us, Two New Hours, the Music Gallery and with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Brave New Works, Esprit Orchestra, Nouvelle Ensemble Moderne, la Chapelle historique de Bonpasteur, Tapestry New Opera, Soundstreams, Arraymusic, Ergo and the Soulpepper Theatre Company.  His performances are often heard on CBC Radio One and Radio Two, and seen on CBC Television, TV Ontario, BravoFACT and Bravo's Live at the Rehearsal Hall.

Upcoming engagements include appearances at the Festival Internationale de Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, Suoni per il popolo, Cool Drummings, soundaXis and the X-Avant Festival.  With Akemi and Rachel Mercer, he has been invited to perform the entire cycle of Haydn’s Piano Trios for the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music Society.  As a board member and the music committee co-chair of the Toronto Arts Council, he is committed to supporting the arts through civic action and engagement.  He teaches at the University of Toronto and is the contemporary music curator at Toronto’s Music Gallery.  He spends his spare time trying to fix his bike and watching bad television.

Currently concertmaster of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, he has also led the Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, London (Ontario), Portland (Oregon) and Canadian Opera Company orchestras as guest, and is commonly asked to lead various freelance ensembles in concert and recording. As a soloist, he has performed with the Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Niagara, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto symphony orchestras. He has commissioned and premiered violin concertos by acclaimed Canadian composers Glenn Buhr and Kelly-Marie Murphy.

Stephen is on the faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Glenn Gould School) in Toronto, Sir Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and his students regularly win professional orchestral positions.

He is the 1st violinist of the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble, and is a frequent participant in diverse chamber groups and festival events both nationally and internationally with many of Canada’s finest musicians. His recent performance of Messiaen’s ‘Quartet for the End of Time’ at the 2006 Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival was deemed the best concert of the festival by the Ottawa Citizen’s music critic Richard Todd.

Often heard on disc and on the radio, Sitarski has performed many television and film scores (including the violin solos for the recent film “Being Julia”). He is also known as an arranger for the Emperor Quartet and Quartetto Gelato.

In recognition to his outstanding artistic contribution to the Kitchener-Waterloo community, he was awarded the 2002 Kitchener-Waterloo Arts Award for Music.

“If you didn’t know that Sitarski was a brilliant violinist before, now there would be no doubt whatsoever.” (Harry Currie, Kitchener Record - April 1, 2006)

Best known as the concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Marie Bérard is also a sought-after chamber musician, soloist, recording artist and teacher.

Ms. Bérard received her training at the Trois-Rivières Conservatory and further studies took her to the University of Toronto where she studied with David Zafer. Other teachers include Lorand Fenyves, Sydney Harth and Nathan Milstein.

Highly regarded as an interpreter of contemporary music, Ms. Bérards recording of A Paganini by A. Schnittke was voted best performance of the year by the CBC Radio audience and in 2002, she released a recording of a concerto by Henry Kucharzyk for violin and brass ensemble.

Ms. Bérard is a regular performer at numerous chamber music festivals, notably the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, The Blair Atholl festival in Scotland and Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Québec and holds the position of Associate Concertmaster of the Mainly Mozart festival orchestra in San Diego, California.

Ms. Bérard was recently heard in a performance of Time Chant by Wolfgang Rihm with the Esprit Orchestra and in a performance of the Brahms Double Concerto with the Peterborough Symphony Orchestra as well as a performance of Beethovens Triple Concerto with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 2007.

In the fall of 2000, Ms. Bérard joined the faculty of the Glenn Gould School in Toronto and is an active member of their chamber ensemble ARC with whom she toured China in 2006. The ensemble has also recorded two discs of chamber music for Sony Records, the first of which was nominated in 2008 for a Grammy Award.

Marie plays a 1767 Pietro Landolfi violin.

A native of St. Catharines Ontario, David Hetherington is currently the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Associate Principal cellist. He received his musical training at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto, and furthered his studies in New York, Italy, and Germany with Claus Adam, André Navarra and Paul Tortelier. A member of the TSO since 1970, Mr. Hetherington also teaches cello and chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto. He coaches the cello section of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and is Music Director of the Inter-Provincial Music Camp. As a chamber musician, he has toured Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, and has performed at the Ottawa, Elora and Kincardine Music Festivals. Mr Hetherington is a founding member of the Amici Chamber Ensemble, which presents an annual series of concerts at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. With his own string quartet, Accordes, David performs regularly for New Music Concerts and other contemporary music organizations. The Canadian Music Centre, through Centrediscs, released Accordes’ recording of Harry Somers’ String Quartets in 2001 for which it received a Juno Awards nomination. As soloist, he has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Niagara Symphony and at the Elora Festival. Mr Hetherington has appeared on several recordings for the CBC and for Centrediscs, with whom he made the Canadian premiere recording of Talivaldis Kenins’ prize-winning cello sonata. In addition, he has recorded eight discs with Amici for Summit Records, Naxos and CBC Records. Mr. Hetherington plays a 1695 cello made by Giovanni Grancino of Milan.

As a member of the Krutzen/McGhee Duo with flutist Lorna McGhee, Heidi has appeared in recital, chamber music concerts, and concerto performances in Canada and the United States. Recent performances include a recital at the 2006 British Flute Society Convention in Manchester, England and performances of Mozart’s Flute and Harp Concerto with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra 2004 and the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra 2005. The Duo have commissioned four new works for flute and harp and released two CDs, “Taheke – 20th Century Masterpieces for flute and harp” and “Canada, New Works for flute and harp”, both on the Skylark label. They have given recitals and masterclasses at several North American universities, as well as outreach tours for the Piatigorsky Foundation in the United States. Heidi is a member of the Turning Point Ensemble and is featured on their new CD “Disasters of the Sun” on the Centredisc label. She has also recorded “Incense and Flowers” with the Latvian National Symphony, a concerto written for her and yangqin virtuoso Vivian Xia, by Canadian composer Mark Armanini.

Heidi is a prizewinner in the American Harp Society National Competition. She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, with both a Bachelor and Masters of Music and Eastman’s highest honour, the Performer’s Certificate. She continued her studies with renowned pedagogue Jacqueline Borot in Paris, France.