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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.
Senior & Intermediate Piano - Alan Crane
Alan Crane holds a Bachelor of Music (University of Western Ontario) and a Master of Music in Piano Performance (University of British Columbia). For 40 years he has been teaching a full class of students ranging from young beginners to pre-professional young musicians to adults. Many of Mr. Crane’s students have gone on to pursue careers in music. In addition to being on the faculty of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music, where he served a term as Chair of the Piano Department, Mr. Crane teaches part-time at the Langley Community Music School, where he was for several years Coordinator of the Piano Program.
As well as teaching, Alan Crane is an active performer. He is a founding director and pianist with the popular Vancouver concert series West Coast Chamber Music, is a sought after accompanist and has presented solo recitals in Canada and the UK. He is active as a festival adjudicator across western Canada and is a member of the College of Examiners of the Royal Conservatory of Music.
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
Jacqueline McCaig, B.A.Mu is a soprano soloist, voice instructor, conductor and music educator from Central Alberta. For almost two decades Jacqueline has taught and directed music in Latin America, including Mexico and Cuba, but has spent the majority of that time living and working in Bolivia. She has been living and working in Central Alberta again for the last two years.
Her work has included the founding and directing of non-profit children’s choirs and music programming for at-risk kids, ongoing teaching from her private studio, as well as executive direction, musical theatre direction, orchestral and choral conducting for the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santa Cruz through which she received the Tiqui National Theatre Award.
Jacqueline has been privileged to participate in masterclasses with Constanza Cuccaro, Lawrence Brownlee, Kelli O’Hara, Natalie Weiss, Bobby McFerrin and is a long standing NATS member. When not involved in larger scale musical projects, she loves singing everything from Jason Robert Brown to Lake Street Dive. She finds herself most at home at the crossroads of culture, pedagogy and applied music.
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
Canadian classical guitarist Brett Gunther has been active for over 25 years, with a varied and dynamic musical career. Known for “exciting performances, thoughtful interpretations, and sensitive musicality” (thisisclassicalguitar.com) Gunther has appeared on stages throughout Western Canada as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed with notable Canadian acts including virtuosa guitarist Iliana Matos, renowned flutist Jiajia Li, and the Calgary Festival Chorus. To date Gunther has released three albums: Distant Shores (2024), An Idea (2017), and Guitar Music (2012). The recordings explore a wide range of music including favourites from the repertoire, hidden gems, and contemporary compositions.
Brett Gunther is in demand as an educator and is on faculty at Mount Royal University Conservatory teaching private lessons and ensemble classes for their prestigious Academy program. He is a regular adjudicator at festivals across Canada including Hamilton Guitar Festival, Ontario and British Columbia Provincial Music Competitions, and the CMC Canadian Music Competition. He has been an examiner with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto since 2019. A passionate advocate for classical guitar in the community, Gunther is Artistic Director of the Classical Guitar Society of Calgary and Director of the annual GuitarFest West classical guitar festival. He holds Masters and Bachelors Degrees in guitar performance from the University of Calgary.
Beyond the classical guitar world, Gunther has been featured on five commercial releases with The Buzzing Bees, Beija Flor, and SAVK. His work with these bands includes radio performances on CBC, CKUA, and CJSW and playing to an audience of thousands at the Calgary Folk Festival.
Strings - Viktoria Grynenko
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Bill Dimmer has been described as a “cornerstone” of Edmonton’s music scene. The structural metaphor explains his selection as an Artist/Builder in Edmonton’s Arts and Culture Hall of Fame 2014. Between his arrival in 1971 and his retirement from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 2014, Bill served as a teacher, mentor, administrator, conductor, and performer, including a potential Canadian record 43 seasons as ESO assistant principal trumpet. Bill played a seminal role in creating the ESO’s educational concert series, which he was involved in for over 20 years and introduced a generation of Edmontonians to the orchestra. The ESO has been at the forefront of educational programming in North America and much of the credit is due to Bill’s talent for engaging young people – he‘s been known to don eye-popping theme costumes, from green cats to aliens, to win their attention. Bill has shared his musical knowledge with countless private students, teaching at post-secondary institutions such as the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University, acting as clinician and adjudicator at workshops and festivals in Western Canada, and, with students at the MusiCamrose summer music camp, where he served as managing director for several years. He has performed with several groups including the Tommy Banks Band and the Plumbers Union, and is currently music director of the Nova Musica Concert Orchestra and is active as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. A skilled pilot, he is an active air crew member and instructor with the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association and ground school instructor at the Edmonton Flying Club. He has been known to fly colleagues to remote northern communities as part of the National Arts Centre’s music outreach clinics.
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