Calgary Arts Summer School Association

"Discover The Fine Arts Within Yourself"

Recital: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Friday, August 15, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
St. Vladimir’s Cultural Centre

See the registration form for camp fees.

2008 Teacher Profiles

Piano Teacher: Linda Kundert-Stoll holds a Bachelor of Music (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance on a Governmnent of Alberta scholarship from the University of Calgary. She obtained her ARCT and AMRC (Gold Medal) teacher's diplomas through Calgary's Mount Royal College Conservatory and was a scholorship student at the Banff School of Fine Arts for three summers.

Ms. Kundert-Stoll has recorded for CBC radio and given recitals in Alberta and California. She was a piano coach for MusiCamrose for three years. She is a board member and a past president of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Calgary Branch; Chair of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’Association Conference that was held in Calgary in 2005; and was the ARMTA representative for the 1996 Esther Honens Calgary International Piano Competition Artistic Committee.

Ms. Kundert-Stoll is also an experienced teacher, accompanist, adjudicator and workshop clinician.She is an examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada and for the Royal American Conservatory Examinations in the U.S.. She has been a reviewer for the Frederick Harris Music Co. She enjoys administrative work, riding horseback and she sings for fun. Mrs. Kundert-Stoll is also the President and Artistic Director of CASSA.

Piano Teacher: Janice Dahlberg began her formal education in music as a piano major and vocal and choral accompanist at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. After raising four children, she earned a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music, University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Music degree from The University of Calgary. An experienced chamber musician, she teaches piano and piano pedagogy. Her activities include serving as a master class clinician, an adjudicator, a book and music reviewer, and a Youth Talent Showdown Judge for the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. She sings with the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus.

Mrs. Dahlberg is Vice-President, and a director of the Calgary Arts Summer School Association. She is the newly elected president of the Royal Conservatory of Music Alumni Association, Calgary Chapter. She has been President of the Alberta Registered Music Teachers’ Association as well as the Calgary Branch of ARMTA, and presently represents Alberta as first delegate to the Canadian Federation of Teachers of Music Association. Mrs. Dahlberg is also the Vice-President and Assistant Artistic Director of CASSA.

Piano Teacher: Edwin Gnandt enjoys a successful career with over five hundred appearances as soloist, accompanist, adjudicator and workshop clinician. He has been praised by the San Francisco Examiner for his “consistently alluring sound,” by the Oakland Tribune for his “ear for phrasing,” and by the Los Angeles Times for his “distinct refinement.” Mr Gnandt’s performances have taken him throughout Canada and the United States as well as to Russia and Scotland. Recent appearances include St Petersburg, Russia; Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver.

Mr. Gnandt completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Calgary and his Master of Music at the University of Washington under Randolph Hokanson. He also studied at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland under a Canada Council grant and did postgraduate studies with Adele Marcus at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He collaborates and records with many of Canada’s finest musicians. Mr. Gnandt currently serves as a full-time faculty member at Ambrose University College, Calgary.

Discography

Piano Music of Chopin And Liszt (2006)
A Beethoven Portrait (2007)

Piano Teacher: Joseph Fridman comes to us from Edmonton. He is an incredible musician who absolutely loves, lives and breathes music.He has earned two master’s degrees, one as a pianist and one as an opera director. Both degrees are from the world-renowned St. Petersburg State Conservatory (Russia ). He is a concert pianist, teacher, vocal coach and accompanist. He taught at the Schools for Musically Gifted Children of St. Petersburg and Kiev and the Pskov Music College and performed with the St. Petersburg and Pskov Philharmonics.

Mr. Fridman served on the faculty of the Alberta College Conservatory of Music from 1991 till 2002 and taught in the Conservatory’s International Music Academy and the University of Alberta. Mr. Fridman is a director and teacher of the Alberta Music Academy. He lectures and gives masterclasses and workshops in Canada, Ukraine Russia and the USA. He has taught in various summer schools: “Strings and Keys” (Bergen), Alberta College summer school (Edmonton) and now as a clinician with CASSA.

Mr. Fridman has adjudicated a number of festivals and competitions, including the prestigious Canadian Music Competition (2004). His piano students have received first class honors and medals in RCM Exams, first and second prizes in the Kiwanis Festival, Northern Alberta Concerto Competition and Fall Festival. Mr. Fridman performs in solo and chamber recitals and has been broadcast frequently on CBC Radio.

Piano Teacher: Dorothea Johanson studied music in Central Alberta from an early age. Her natural aptitude for teaching children was recognised and rewarded by the Western Board of Music when she received her Silver Medal for Pedagogy. A scholarship to attend the Banff School of Fine Arts allowed Ms. Johanson the honour of studying under the highly respected teacher, Mr. Boris Roubakine, who directed her to ongoing studies with Mrs. Egbert in Calgary. In time, Ms. Johanson became one of her assistants. She is a long time member of the Calgary ARMTA and 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 Teachers of Music Association

In addition to etablishing a large class of private piano students ranging from pre-school to adults, Ms. Johanson taught in the community, including the Yamaha Music Course, numerous kindergarten music classes and her own Music Enrichment Classes held in Bel-Aire and Elboya Schools.

Competing successfully in music festivals and taking conservatory exams have provided valuable opportunities to test and display the excellence of her students. Always conscious of having them heard and appreciated, she has escorted young people to various audiences in the city. Highlights include performing in the Esther Honens Promenade Concerts and regularly appearing in Steinway Hall where the artist is beautifully and professionally staged. Some of her students have pursued musical careers but most significant is the great love of music and the fondness with which her students look back on ther piano studies.

Ms. Johanson is an enthusiastic member of the Calgary Arts Summer School and is continually upgading her skills. She is eager to share her love of music with her students and colleague. Ms. Johanson is also the Special Projects Director of CASSA.

Piano Teacher: Lana Henchell received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Calgary, where she studied with Marilyn Engle under major scholarships. She has played in masterclasses for Janina Fialkowska, Sergei Babayan, Georgy Sebok, Nikolai Demidenko, John Perry, Marc Durand, Dang Thai Son, Jean-Paul Sevilla, and Stéphane Lemelin; and during the 2003 Esther Honens Competition, with Ursula Oppens.

Winner of the 1994 Calgary Kiwanis Music Festival Rose Bowl and a first-round competitor in the 2000 Esther Honens Competition, she has also received second prizes in the Shean Piano Competition (Edmonton, 1998), the International Stepping Stone of the CMC (Montréal, 1997), the Austrian-Canadian Society Mozart Competition (Calgary, 1996), the National Music Festival (Sackville, NB, 1996) and the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition (Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1993), and took third prizes in the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Piano Competition (1997) and the CIBC National Music Festival (Montréal, 1994).

Miss Henchell has played numerous recitals in the Calgary area as soloist and as accompanist, and has appeared with Calgary orchestras, performing concerti by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Grieg. She participated in the 2003 “Barbara Krakauer” Academy in Vaison-la-Romaine, France, through a major grant from the Alberta Foundation of the Arts. In January 2004, she performed in concerts for the University of Calgary’s New Music Festival, “Happening”.

As a result of winning First Prize at the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Piano Competition in May 2004, Miss Henchell travelled across Canada to perform a sixteen-concert tour. This included a performance of the Mozart C Major Piano Concerto, K.503, with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra. In 2005, Miss Henchell performed a solo recital at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for the 2005 Alberta Scene Festival, which was broadcast on CBC Radio Two.

Miss Henchell has taught private piano and theory lessons, adjudicated festivals and accompanied both professional and student musicians in the Calgary area. Currently, she is working towards her D.M.A at McGill University under the tutelage of Richard Raymond.

Improvisation Teacher: Jennifer Aumentado has been embellishing music ever since she was young. Starting on the organ, Jennifer learned to chord quickly and orchestrate sound and rhythm settings. At the age of 16, she began teaching, using new and creative embellishing techniques with students of all ages. Later, as an adult, Jennifer went on to study piano and keyboard graduating from Mount Royal College with a Diploma in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance and completing her Grade 8 Royal Conservatory of Music. Jennifer continues to teach, accompany for choir and perform for events and functions around Calgary. Jennifer is also the proud mother of 2 boys and is active school volunteer.

Jennifer is delighted to share her musical experience and knowledge with both the teachers and students with whom she works.

Piano Camp Assistant: Nancy Frank holds a Bachelor of Music degree with distinction in Vocal Performance (2002) from the University of Victoria as well as an ARCT (1997) in Piano Performance and AVCM (1999) in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Victoria Conservatory of Music. She has studied with Robin Wood, May-Ling Kwok and Susan Young, as well as participated in master classes with the distinguished Canadian soprano Edith Wiens and master teacher, Richard Miller. As well as working with the Cantare children's choir as a vocal coach, she is a church accompanist, private piano and voice teacher and performer. Nancy will pursue graduate studies in choral conducting in Toronto this fall.

Piano Camp Assistant: Victoria Chow began studying piano at the age of seven with Eileen Craig and met Ingrid Clarfield at the age of ten while attending Calgary Arts Summer School Piano Camp. Miss Chow has won First Prize every year at the Annual Westminster Choir College Piano Competition. She was selected by the Piano Department to give a solo recital as part of a concert series in Fort Myers, Florida and and a Recital at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania. Her outstanding academic standings have placed her on the Dean's List throughout her undergraduate career; she was also recognized as a Rider Scholar in both her freshman and sophomore year, an award that acknowledges students with the highest GPA). Miss Chow graduated in May 2008 with a Bachelor's of Music in Piano Pedagogy and Performance with Magna Cum Laude.

Piano Camp Assistant: Rebecca Leshures is currently a BM student at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. She grew up in Brooks, Alberta, and began piano lessons at age seven. At age fourteen, she began studying with Edwin Gnandt in Calgary. At the 2004 CASSA piano camp she had the opportunity of meeting Professor Ingrid Clarfield, with whom she is now studying. She has completed her second year of study towards her undergraduate degree in Piano Performance. Rebecca's teaching experience includes teaching piano for three years before college.

In 2005 Rebecca was a finalist in the Canadian National Piano Competition. She has won several awards at Westminster Choir College over the past two years, including the Undergraduate Piano competition and the Freshman Piano Competition. Last year she had the opportunity to attend the MTNA Conference held in Toronto, where she performed Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto during Mrs. Clarfield's and George Litterst’s Workshop. This past spring, Rebecca performed Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor with the Westminster Community Orchestra.

Piano Camp Assistant: Caroline Johnson has been a piano camper since 2002.

A year ago Ms. Johnson went to Germany as a Rotary International Exchange Student. While she was there she studied with a German Piano Teacher who only spoke German so Caroline had to learn the language quickly to communicate. In September 2008 Ms. Johnson will attend the University of Victoria to study Piano in the School of Music there which is part of the Fine Arts Faculty.

Art Instructor: Ken Morgan received his diploma from the Alberta College of Art in fine art painting and sculpture in 1974 and his Bachelor of Education at the University of Calgary in 1977. During the last twenty-eight years he has been employed by the Calgary Board of Education mainly at the junior high level. He worked with children from grades 1 through 6 for two years at the Victoria Community School. He enjoys the enthusiasm and spontaneity of the young and enjoys working with this age group. Mr. Morgan presented two workshops at the Arts 2000 conference and was on the organizing committee for the Arts 2000 and 2001 Conferences. He is currently the fine arts curriculum leader at Tom Baines School where he teaches visual arts to grades 7 through 9.

Creative Writing Teacher: Simon Rose was born in Derbyshire, England. He graduated from university with a degree in history and has lived in Canada since 1990. He is also a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature of West Redding, CT. Simon and his two children, dog and cat live in Calgary, where he is active in the local community as a junior soccer coach.

Mr. Rose's first novel for young readers, The Alchemist's Portrait, was published in 2003 and The Sorcerer's Letterbox followed in 2004. The Clone Conspiracy was published in 2005 and The Emerald Curse in 2006. A fifth novel, The Heretic's Tomb, is due to be released in September

Mr. Rose offers a wide variety of presentations, workshops and author in residence programs for schools and libraries, full details of which can be found at his website.