Board of Directors and Advisors
Linda Kundert-Stoll, President & Artistic Director
Ms. Kundert-Stoll holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Calgary. She obtained an Associate Teacher's Diploma in Piano from the Mount Royal College Conservatory and an ARCT Piano Teacher's Diploma from The Royal Conservatory of Music. For three summers, she attended the Banff School of Fine Arts as a scholarship student. Ms. Kundert-Stoll's performance experience includes recordings for CBC radio and giving solo and chamber recitals both in Canada and the United States.
Ms. Kundert-Stoll is a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music, is a reviewer and editor for the Frederick Harris Music Company and is the Co-Founder, President and Artistic Director of the Calgary Arts Summer School Association. Ms. Kundert-Stoll is actively involved in many music teachers' associations and received the Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association Recognition Award in 2006.Ms. Kundert-Stoll has been a successful independent studio teacher for over thirty years. She has worked as a Mount Royal College branch teacher, was a piano coach for Musicamrose, and accompanied for the Elaine Case voice studio for several years. Many of her former students are now professional musicians. Her students regularly excel in festival classes and often win awards (including RCME silver medals) for highest marks in exams. In addition, Ms. Kundert-Stoll is an experienced adjudicator and workshop clinician. For fun, she likes to sing, and she enjoys riding her horses, Doc and Jack.
Janice Dahlberg, Vice-President, Secretary & Assistant Artistic Director
Mrs. Dahlberg is president of the Royal Conservatory of Music Alumni Association, Calgary Chapter. She has served as president of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association, both provincial and Calgary branch, and she has represented Alberta as first delegate to the Canadian Federation of Teachers of Music Association. She was the founding vice president of the Alberta Music Education Foundation.
Teaching piano and piano pedagogy in Calgary has been Mrs. Dahlberg’s career for many years. She has also served as a master class clinician, an adjudicator, and a book and music reviewer. She is an experienced chamber musician, and a vocal and choral pianist who currently sings with the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus.
Derek Stoll, Advisor
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Dorothea Johanson, Special Projects Director
Miss Johanson is a long time member of ARMTA, the Alberta Registered Music Teachers' Association, and has served on the executive in many capacities. She is presently the ARMTA Provincial Past President and represents Alberta as second delegate to the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (CFMTA). Miss Johanson is an enthusiastic member of the Calgary Arts Summer School Association and is the Special Projects Director on the CASSA Board.
Miss Johanson teaches private piano students ranging from pre-school to adults. Her students have competed in music festivals and taken conservatory exams, providing valuable opportunities to test and display their excellence. Always conscious of her students having the opportunity to be heard and appreciated, she has escorted young people to various audiences in the city, including the Esther Honens Promenade Concerts. Some of her students have pursued musical careers. Equally significant is that she has nurtured in her students a great love of music.
Diane Bertram, Treasurer
Ms. Bertram joined the Board in January 2007. She has a bachelor of commerce and works as an accountant in the oil and gas Industry. Her musical involvement began when she took up the piano as an adult student, which inspired her husband to do the same. Her two children started music early, with her son pursuing piano and voice, and her daughter playing guitar. Her husband Dave first attended CASSA's Piano Camp in 2005 and has come back every year since. He participated in the newly formed Adult Piano Camp in 2008, and her son has attended the Jazz Connections camp for the last three years.
Tara Aldred-Gundesen, Advisor
Ms. Gundesen's professional training is in nursing and she is employed as a public health nurse with the Calgary Health Region. Ms. Gundesen has been on the board now for three years. She has been involved in music for most of her life through her own piano training as a youth as well as involvement in school bands. She has three daughters who are very involved in music through piano, voice, school bands and marching band. In addition she has been teaching rudiments and basic harmony for the past ten years. Last year she created the APTA festival program and will do so again in 2009.
Kathy Milani, Advisor
Susan Savage, Advisor
Ms. Savage holds a bachelor of commerce from the University of Calgary and is a chartered accountant with experience in public accounting and income tax compliance. She has three children, all of whom take piano lessons and are involved in many music-making activities. She and her family are enthusiastic supporters of the CASS programs.
Rob Whitworth, Advisor
