2026 Adjudicators

Senior & Intermediate Piano - Alan Crane

Junior Piano - Lynne Dalcin

Lynne received her ARCT from the Royal Conservatory in 2002 and now operates a busy studio, teaching piano from beginner to ARCT and all levels of Theory, Harmony, and History. She began to play the piano at 7 years old and did her senior grades and ARCT as an adult – studying in Alberta with Michelle Wheatley-Brown and Linda Kundert.

Lynne was honoured in January 2017 with the award of Art Educator of the Year in Airdrie. This award is given for promoting arts and culture in the community through education. Lynne strongly believes that children should be encouraged in art and music. It's so important for all of us to help raise this generation of children in an environment that nurtures creativity, inspires imagination and celebrates beauty. Art and music is our legacy. It's what tells our story. We must all encourage this generation to have a wonderful story to tell!

Additionally, Lynne is an active member of Music Coterie in Calgary and also a founding Director of the Airdrie Rotary Festival of Performing Arts. She also sings with the Airdrie Community Choir. One of Lynne’s greatest pleasures in recent years is adjudicating local Festivals in Alberta.

Lynne was recognized in 2025 with the Amazing Woman Award in Airdrie. She was nominated in the Amazing Heart category for opening her home and hosting a family of refugees from Ukraine attempting to escape the war. This family lived with Lynne and her husband for one year and have stayed in Airdrie for three years now. They are very good friends to this day!

In her free time, she especially enjoys volunteering with the Airdrie Foodbank and acting as a Penguin Host at the Calgary Zoo. Of course, Lynne also adores spending time with her six beautiful grandchildren who all live in Alberta!

Junior Piano - Teresa Allred

Teresa Allred was born and raised in Cardston, Alberta. In Cardston and Lethbridge, she won various awards and scholarships in music festivals from the time she was 6 years old. She would like to extend a special tribute to Beatrice Foster of Lethbridge who taught her piano

from Grade VII through her Western Board Performer/Teacher Degree.

She is a graduate of Brigham Young University (BA –piano / choral). Teresa studied music in Salzburg, Austria for 7 months and student taught one semester in the music department for BYU-Hawaii.

She lived in Hinton, Alberta for 10 years teaching private piano, serving as Community Theatre Music Director and teaching in the High School. She has been involved in adjudicating piano at music festivals throughout Alberta for 30 years.

Teresa has resided in Red Deer for 34 years where she maintains a 20+ private piano/vocal studio. She co- conducted Red Deer Chamber Singers for 17 years, served as Provincial President for both the Alberta Registered Music Teachers Association and The Alberta Music Education Foundation and served on the Red Deer Performing Arts Festival Board. Teresa taught the Keyboards for Kids Program sponsored by AMEF in Red Deer for 10 years. She has also been music director for several Hunting Hills High School Musical productions and Treehouse Theatre productions.

A milestone for Red Deer music teachers was reached when Teresa initiated the ground work for a new city by-law which allows private teachers to have business licenses for $155 a year without student limitations.

Her husband Drew, also from Cardston, is a retired French immersion teacher. She is mother of 4 married sons and grandmother to 10 grandchildren....6 of them girls! Justice!

Hobbies: Music, tennis, pickle ball and hiking.

Choral and Classical Vocal - Joy Berg

Professor Emeritus (from Concordia University of Edmonton), Dr. Berg is delighted to now be living in the Camrose community, continuing to be a sessional instructor at The Kings University as well as at the Augustana campus of the University of Alberta. Joy received her piano performance degree (U of Sask), education teaching certificate (U. of Alberta), and choral conducting degrees (U. of Alberta, U of Iowa doctorate), as well as a worship doctorate (Robert Webber Institute).

Joy has shared her love of the human voice through the doing (Joy sang for 16 years as an Alto with Procoro Canada, Edmonton’s professional choir), through the teaching (in her private studio), and through choral work (with her role as professor, with many guest conducting opportunities, with many adjudicating contracts, as well as with international choral tours). She has shared her love of the piano with accompanying, and adjudicating.

Joy has a passion for the church musician – she has been a church musician from full-time to part-time in both Lutheran and Anglican denominations, and has taught university courses as well as led many workshops on various aspects of this role in the Church. Joy has done extensive research on Canadian Hymnody (including being the Canadian representative to the LWF convention music for the 2003 convention in Winnipeg), and she is the curator for the Cypress Publishing church choir series, Songs for the Sanctuary.

Dr. Berg holds a Doctorate of Music degree in Choral Conducting as well as a Doctorate of Worship Arts – and is currently finishing off her diaconal minister certification within the ELCiC denomination. Joy enjoys her continuing role in conducting The Kings Community and Alumni Chorus throughout the year, teaching piano and voice, and is active as a church musician at Messiah Lutheran Church in Camrose.

Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal - Jacqueline McCaig

Musical Theatre/Speech - David Mikuliak

Dave has over 160 performing/directing/adjudicating credits spanning over 50 years. An award-winning public educator, Dave is a retired Arts Educator who taught Music, Music Theatre and Drama in Lethbridge and area schools for three decades.

Dave has an eclectic background in performance work - some highlights include, for NEW WEST THEATRE: Shakin’ All Over; Godspell (Jesus); Forever Plaid (Smudge); Beethoven Lives Upstairs; Puttin’ On The Ritz; Elf. Other highlights, for LETHBRIDGE MUSICAL THEATRE: Anything Goes (Billy Crocker) Man of La Mancha (Cervantes/Don Quixote); Oliver (Fagan). For CENTRESTAGE PRODUCTIONS: Jesus Christ, Superstar (Pilate); Sweeney Todd (Anthony). For THEATREWORKS: Joseph, and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Joseph). For LETHBRIDGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Sweeney Todd(2008) (Sweeney Todd); Les Miserables (Javert); Fiddler On The Roof (Tevye) Sweeney Todd (2026) (Judge Turpin).

Directorial Highlights include: 1996 Alberta Winter Games Opening Ceremonies, Les Miserables, Newsies, Little Women, Rock The Halls (Revue). Also, Compact Disc album releases of Sing To The Child (2007); My Favourite Christmas Song (2010) with Classical Guitarist, Sheldon Arvay. Dave adjudicated the Alberta High School Provincial One Act Festival in May 2025.

Dave currently works (super part time) as an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge and picks up many and varied performing/workshopping/adjudicating contracts as they appear! He would truly tell you that he is an incredibly fortunate human being.

Dave encourages the people he gets to work with to work on three fundamentals: 1) Know their “why”; 2) Take responsibility for their creative process and reflect on it constantly; and to 3) Aim For Growth!

This is our work, to discover what we can give. Isn’t this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?

(Robin Wall Kimmerer - from Braiding Sweetgrass)

Guitar & Garage Band - Brett Gunther

Instruments - Bill Dimmer

Strings - Viktoria Grynenko

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