Holding degrees from Queen's University in Kingston and the University of London Hugh is an active trumpet player, conductor and music educator in the Kingston area. In recent years he has performed as a regular extra player in the Kingston Symphony and numerous community groups. His playing experience has been relatively varied ranging from the symphony orchestra to a circus band at a Club Med and just about everything in between.

Hugh is currently music teacher and Head of Arts at Regiopolis - Notre Dame High School in Kingston. When he is not performing, rehearsing or thinking of creative ways to introduce pieces for BrassWerks, Hugh enjoys spending time with his family, golfing and windsurfing.

Lawrence House has had a wide and varied musical career as a professional trumpeter, most notably as a soloist and chamber music player, where he has more than 30 first-performances to his credit. During his extensive career he has been heard in frequent broadcasts for the CBC, CTV, STV and several other networks. He was the founder and director of both the Toronto Brass Quintet and the Saskatchewan Brass. A solo CD, Festival Music for Trumpet, and a video, Basic Trumpet performance, are currently available. A new CD, When You and I Were Young, Maggie, will soon be released. He has won numerous awards and scholarships including the J.M.Greene Music Prize, the Julia Silliman Memorial Scholarship, the Aspen Composition Prize, and several Canada Council and Arts Board awards. He regularly appears as a soloist with orchestras and in concert with his wife, Aurora Dokken, presenting recitals, workshops and masterclasses.

As a freelance trumpeter, Lawrence House has performed with numerous orchestras including the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre, National Ballet, American Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, and with such popular performers as Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby, Mel Torme, Woody Allen, and The Supremes. For 18 years he held the position of Principal Trumpet with the Saskatoon Symphony. In Saskatoon, Dr. house also spent over 20 years as professor of Trumpet at the University of Saskatchewan, and was head of its Department of Music from 1990 to 1995. In 1998, he moved to Texas to freelance in the Dallas area. Recently returning to Canada, he is a member of the Kingston Symphony and the Kingston Symphony Brass Quintet.

Wayne Tindale is the principal trumpet in the Kingston Symphony and has been a member of the orchestra since 1973. He has studied with Jimmy Reynolds, Dr. Duane Bates and Robert Oades. Mr. Tindale has a Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education degrees from Queen's University. Wayne has been selected twice for the Outstanding Service Award for the old Frontenac Board of Education, once in 1980 as a teacher at Sydenham High School and again in 1998 at Frontenac Secondary School. In 1980 Wayne was selected to be on faculty for the Ontario Ministry of Education Music Leadership Course. In 1984 Mr. Tindale was asked to be on the administrative team which ran the Music Leadership Course for the Ministry of Education and served in that capacity until 1990.

Mr.Tindale has been a faculty member at the National Music Camp of Canada. He has taught trumpet majors in the Bachelor of Music program at Queen's University and has done this off and on since graduating from Queen's in 1974. He is also an original member of the Quintessential Brass formerly known as the Kingston Symphony Brass. Mr. Tindale is a well known trumpeter in the Kingston area not only for playing in the symphony and the brass quintet but also from solo performances, performing in the annual Kinsmen shows since 1970 and performing with many choral groups around town doing such works as the Messiah, Mass in B Minor, the Christmas Oratorio and many others.

Janet began playing the trumpet in elementary school 24 years ago. In her teens and while attending Queen's University for music, she studied with acclaimed trumpet teacher, educator, and National Arts Centre Orchestra trumpeter, Robert Oades. She is an active member of the Kingston musical community and has played with various groups such as the Greg Runions Really Big Band, Don McCallum's Big Band, The Soul Survivors, Funklestiltskin, The Swing Cats, and the Kingston Symphony. She currently plays in the dance band Filet of Soul and Brasswerks, a 17 piece Brass ensemble.

Cory van Allen was born into a Canadian musical family in London, England, Cory started piano lessons at the age of five. Being enamoured of the sound of a French Horn, he switched, at the age of eleven, from studying piano to studying horn, where he made notable lack of progress for four years.

Inspired by a Dennis Brain recording that his parents, in desperation, gave him at the age of fifteen, he progressed sufficiently rapidly to become principal horn of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra two years later and, following that, of the London Youth Orchestra. At the age of nineteen, Cory furthered his musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

When his family returned to Canada in the mid-1970's, Cory attended Queen's University in Kingston (B.A. Hons. - Philosophy, '78, and M.B.A. '80), where he also played with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra. Cory has maintained his musical activities as a regular player in the Kingston Symphony, as well as through playing with other groups including the Nepean Symphony Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, and the Woods Manufacturing Company Brass Band - where he held the position of solo horn. Cory is also active as a French-horn teacher and chamber musician.

Emily Cavers, originally from London Ontario, graduated from Queen's School of Music where she studied French Horn with Neil Spaulding. She is now a high school music and English teacher at Napanee District Secondary School.  She is active in performing with local ensembles including the Kingston Horn Quartet and plays Third Horn in the Kingston Symphony Orchestra.

Cathy Redsell is a freelance professional musician on French Horn. Her repertoire includes pieces in the classical, folk and popular genres, but, being a musician, she is open to all good music. The city of Kingston, Ontario has been Cathy's home for over 20 years and she has performed locally with many groups initiated or driven by her love of music. Presently she is with Brasswerks, The Kingston Horn Quartet, Classic Delight and Kingston Brass Quintet. She is also a teacher of the French Horn, having taught all levels from beginner to professional. Cathy plays for weddings and receptions, concerts, dinner parties and other special events. She can be contacted by email at: credsell2@gmail.com or through the Brasswerks website at: http://www.brasswerks.ca.

 

Karyn Desforges began playing French Horn when she was 12 years old. She joined the l'OSJM …Orchestre Symphonique des Jeunes de la Monteregie (a Symphonic Orchestra with students in music from 14 to 25 years old), in 2002 and performed with them for 5 years. In 2004 she joined the reserve air force, as a musician and played a variety of gigs, mess diners, concerts and parades. She applied to the Conservatoire of Music in Montreal, and Private College Vincent-D'Indy, in music of course, but chose instead to stay in the Canadian Military. She loves music, and it is really her life. She tries to keep herself playing with various ensembles she can find wherever she is. Karyn is also an accomplished pianist.
Karyn recently moved to the Kingston area and has a become a regular member of BrassWerks and Orchestra Kingston.

Rick graduated from U. of T. in 1970 with a Mus. Bac. in Music Education. His teaching career took him to Jamaica, Waterdown, North Frontenac and Kingston, and involved teaching music from Kindergarten to Grade 13. Rick was a founding teacher in the Limestone Education through the Arts Programme (LEAP), where he spent the last four years of his career. He retired from education in 2004. Rick had a long (24 years) and happy association with National Music Camp of Canada, starting as a Band conductor and serving as Music Director throughout the 90s. His music camp experience also includes 6 years on staff at the Ontario Music Leadership Camp. Rick has performed with a number of groups in Kingston, including the Kingston Symphony and the Bob Ayre Big Swing Band. Rick's other performance love is on the stage. In the 80s, he was an active member of North Frontenac Little Theatre, and has been seen on various stages in Kingston, including the Grand Theatre, the Baby Grand and Domino Theatre. Rick performs with both the Limestone Teachers Theatre Company and the Limestone Chorale. He was Music Director for the Kingston Meistersingers' production of The Mikado in July 2005 and continues to be active in musical stage productions in Kingston.

Bob Campbell started playing in the Kingston Symphony Orchestra in 1957 while still in high school. After high school he joined the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals Band for three years, after which he attended Queen's University, graduating in 1966. Meanwhile, he played with many local dance bands and in various pit orchestras. He eventually earned an A. R. C. T. (Associate Royal Conservatory of Toronto) on trombone. He taught high school music in Kingston for thirty years and, since retiring from teaching, has continued playing with any interesting group that needs a tenor trombone player. In 2007 Bob retired from the Kingston Symphony (that was 50 years of performances with the orchestra!) He still loves to play…that’s why he’s still with us.

Amanda Morgan Pulling graduated with a Bachelor of Music from Queen's School of Music in 2010 with her areas of focus being in tuba performance and music education. She also has an ARCT diploma in tuba performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. She is now working towards a Bachelor of Education degree at Queen's as the final part of the Queen's Concurrent Education program. Being from Kingston, Amanda has studied tuba with Sylvain Gagnon since high school and throughout her undergrad.

Amanda has played some concerts with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra as well as the Kingston Symphony Brass Quintet. Amanda has often played with BrassWerks as well and is very excited to be the main tuba player this year.

John is currently the Bass Trombonist in the Kingston Symphony, trombonist in the Kingston Symphony Brass Quintet, conductor of Orchestra Kingston - www.orchestrakingston.ca, conductor of BrassWerks www.brasswerks.ca, and conductor of 13! a string ensemble.

He teaches theory, harmony, trombone, tuba and euphonium at his home in Kingston, is a conductor, composer, arranger, adjudicator and clinician.

For each of the past six years he has won the Humboldt State University (California) Brass Chamber Music Workshop Composition Competition.

Many of his original compositions have been performed by Orchestra Kingston, BrassWerks, The Kingston Symphony, and The Mississauga Symphony. In July of 2010, the National Arts Centre Orchestra highlighted one of his recent compositions at their 2nd annual new Canadian composition summer reading sessions.

He is an Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre www.musiccentre.ca/home.cfm and his compositions have been published by Nourse Wind of Toronto and Solid Brass Inc. of San Raphael, California. Some of his compositions have been recorded by The Columbia Flute Choir and The a href="http://mpbb.org/">Mission Peak Brass Band.

In August of 2011, the National Flute Association will feature his composition 'Flautista' in their highlight concert on the final day of the NFA annual convention being held in Charlotte, N.C.

contact John at john.wn.palmer@gmail.com

Kim Ison, a Kingston native, graduated from the Queen's School of Music performance program in 2006 where she studied trombone with Chantal Brunette. She was principal trombone in the Queen's Symphony Orchestra and Queen's Wind Ensemble as well as playing trombone in the Brass Quintet, Trombone Quartet, and Brass Ensemble while completing her studies. She is an active member in Brasswerks and Orchestra Kingston as well as playing in the Quinte Symphony in Belleville, Ontario. Most recently, she has become a member of the Kingston Grenadiers Drum and Bugle Corps which competes internationally.

Kent Smith received his B.Mus. from Queen's Univ. in 1979 and spent the next 17 years teaching band in the Prairies. He is a low brass player and also dabbles in arranging. Kent performs in a variety of bands, jazz and small ensembles in Kingston and during the summer conducts the LaSalle Adult Band.

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Dave Barton plays percussion and drum set for BrassWerks but....he is usually a busy jazz guitarist and music teacher in Kingston, Ont.

Dave is involved in live performance and studio work, arranging and composing for pop recordings and film projects.

Dave has been fortunate to perform with many of Canada’s great jazz players: Sonny Greenwich, Ed Bickert, Phil Nimmons, Sam Noto, Brian Dickenson, John MacLeod, Phil Dwyer, Jon Ballantine, Denny Christianson, Mike Murley, Rob Campbell, Chris McCann, Dave Young, Barry Romberg, Aaron Davis, Bernie Senensky, Roddy Elias, Rob Frayne, Kenny Wheeler, Greg Runions, Jim Galloway, Oliver Jones, Ranee Lee, Richard Ring, and many others....

Recent CD Performances Dave Barton Solo The Solo Standard
-featuring standards and “not-so” standards played solo on classical guitar
The Dave Barton Trio, Snapshot
a trio release featuring 7 original compositions and 3 standards

The Greg Runions Big Band, Sweet Home Suite
Featured soloist on the track Living Lonely

The Queen’s University Alumni Big Band Oil Thigh
Featured soloist on many tracks, and contributed a composition, (used to be a) Simple Tune

Greg Runions Quintet But Not Forgotten
-with guest artist Kenny Wheeler
Featured soloist and contributing composer with 2 compositions, Mysterious Visitor, and Yearning Other highlights!
Composition, Yearning, featured on the soundtrack of the U.S. network television show, Party of Five.
-very busy studio player, arranging and producing recording projects in all styles of music.