Possessing a baritone/bass character voice with a range up to a second tenor he has become a mainstay of the Vancouver, B.C. musical theatre scene. Since moving from Los Angeles over twenty years ago Gordon has become much in demand as a commercial actor and musical director having worked on around sixty musicals to date.  He has even turned his talents toward arranging and composing musicals with writing partner Dean Beattie. Gordon has taught musical theatre voice for twenty years and still coaches singers from his home in Lynn Valley where he lives with his beautiful wife Marni and their two rambunctious kittens: Gimlet and Tallisker.

Madeline made her European debut at just 21 singing the role of Atalanta in Handel's Serse, returning the following year to perform the role of Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni. In May 2010, she performed the role of Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande with Vancouver's Opera Appassionata. Another role performed with this company was the lead in the Canadian premiere of Heuberger's The Opera Ball. In addition, Madeline has appeared as a soloist in A Merry Evening of Opera at Bard on the Beach with the Vancouver Opera Symphony.

She has appeared with the Vancouver Bach Choir and Vancouver Symphony in their sing along Messiah and was the Soprano Soloist in performances of Mozart's Vespere Solennes de Confessore and Poulenc's Gloria with the West Coast Symphony Orchestra (previously the Vancouver Chamber Players). She is very excited to be performing Berlioz' Les Nuits d'Ete with the WSCO in October.

Madeline has a wide range of repertoire and musical interests. She has performed in a concert of excerpts from jazz and cabaret works by Kurt Weill, and fronted a jazz band at Dizzy's Jazz Club in Melbourne, Australia. An avid choral singer, she was a member of Gloriana Chamber Choir in Melbourne and is thrilled to be one of the newest members of the Vancouver Chamber Choir.

Dominic began his musical training with violin at age of six with Prof. J.K. Song in Korea. After his immigration to Canada, he furthered his studies on the violin with Mr. Arthur Ludwig Polson. In Canada, Dominic was a top prize winner in many musical competitions such as the '96 North American Star Quest.

Dominic has earned his bachelor's degree in music from the Musik Hochschule Felix Mendelssohn Bartholy in Leipzig where he studied violin with Prof. Ulrich Klupsch. Throughout his years in Musik Hochschule, he was appointed as a concertmaster under the baton of legendary conductors such as Kurt Masur and Fabio Luisi.

In the season 2001, Dominic gave concerts throughout Europe, including Italy, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Switzerland with the chamber orchestra "l'seidici" as 1st violin tutti/solo player.

With his Mendelssohn haus debut in Leipzig, Germany in 2004, Dominic was appointed as concertmaster of the music school and associate concertmaster of ARS chamber orchestra of Leipzig. During his Leipzig period, he has also been working with worldly renowned orchestras such as "Gewandhaus Orchester zur Leipzig".

In the year 2008, Dominic has received both a performance and teaching degree in Musik Hochschule Leipzig and was assigned as an assistant Professor from his teacher Prof. Ulrich Klupsch.

Upon graduation, he has auditioned and accepted for both Orchestra Academy position in Musikhochschule "Franz Liszt" Weimar and also for Konzertexamen degree in Musikhochschule "Carl-Maria Weber" Dresden. In the last season, he was selected in the Konzertexamen ensemble in Dresden Musikhochschule and appointed for a concertmaster. In Dresden Musikhochschule, Dominic has studied with a Gramophone award winner Professor John Holloway and graduated with top honors.

Dominic frequently gives concerts and Masterclasses in Europe, Asia and North America and also teaches violin in New Westminster, Canada.

During his studies, Carl took part in numerous international masterclasses in Denmark, Sweden and Israel. Four times in a row he won a scholarship to the Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes where he studied with the Israeli legend Prof. Pnina Salzman, Prof. Victor Derevianco, Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky, Prof. Vadim Monastyrsky, Prof. Staffan Scheja and Prof. Nicolai Petrov.

Carl has performed as a soloist as well as with orchestras in Sweden, Denmark, Poland, France, the Czech Republic, Germany and Israel. He is a prize winner of numerous competitions.

Carl, accompanied by the Pilsen Philharmony Orchestra, recorded the world premiere recording of the two piano concertos by the romantic composer, Friedrich von Flotow.

She has premièred a number of works written especially for her, including the Barnes Violin Concerto with Neville Marriner on the podium, and the Buczynski Sonata. She has been a guest concertmaster with the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Kitchener-Waterloo, Edmonton and Victoria Symphonies, CBC Radio Orchestra, “Music of the Night” cross-Canada tour, and Pacific Opera Victoria where she has led operas in styles ranging from period instrument Handel to Berg’s “Wozzeck”.

Awarded Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Performance from the University of Toronto where she studied with the renowned pedagogue Lorand Fenyves, other distinguished teachers have included Joseph Silverstein, Steven Staryk, Raphael Spiro and Eudice Shapiro. An Aspen Festival Fellowship recipient for four summers, she studied chamber music with the Juilliard String Quartet and violist Lillian Fuchs.

An enthusiastic teacher, Nancy has taught at Tanglewood, the Marrowstone Festival, Western Washington University, UBC, U Vic, and Capilano College. Nancy has recorded for CBC Radio, Earsay Records, and performs regularly with the Vancouver Symphony.

“…stunning violin playing – a superlative mix of virtuosity and earthy vigour” (Victoria Times Colonist)

In addition to singing numerous solo recitals, Lucy was a soloist in Oratorio performances of Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Coronation Mass and has performed the roles of Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Una Conversa and Suor Dolcina in Suor Angelica, Vespetta in Pimpinone, Suzel in L’Amico Fritz, Melissa of Amadigi, Santuzza of Cavalleria rusticana and Mother of Amahl and the Night Visitors as well as has performed as a soloist in several mainstage productions of Opera Appassionata and 3 of Vancouver Opera productions.

Most recently Mia appeared as the Composer in the Toronto Summer Music Festival production of Ariadne auf Naxos after having returned from Saskatoon Opera where she sang Tisbe in a school tour of La Cenerentola. Last year Mia performed Polinesso in the opera school’s production of Ariodante. Other credits include the title role in Cendrillon, Prince Orlofsky and Idamante all with the Vancouver Academy of Music where Mia received an Artist Diploma following her Bachelor of Music at UBC. With the Burnaby Lyric Opera, Mia played Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro. She appeared as Frau Viehmann in the Opera Nuova touring production of The Brothers Grimm by Canadian composer Dean Burry. Also with Opera Nuova she performed the roles of Nicklaus, Jo in Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice.

Mia has had the opportunity to work with Sherrill Milnes, Edith Wiens, Roger Vignols, Ben Heppner, Rosemarie Landry, Jane Eaglen, Judith Forst, Nico Castel, Stuart Hamilton, Alan Monk, Wendy Nielsen and Perry Price. Mia has been the recipient of a number of scholarships and bursaries, most recently the COVC Anne & John Craine Memorial Scholarship and the COVC Marjorie Blaser Memorial Scholarship among others.

Also a talented classical guitarist, Mr. Tekant appeared in concert and recital both in Canada and his native Turkey.

He has recently appeared as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, and has also reprised the role of Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos.

Mr. Tekant also has branched into directing opera, and has pushed the limits of interpretation with a version of Hansel and Gretel which took place in downtown east-side Vancouver.

Mr. de Clercq was born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Naples, Florida. He received his first musical training from his mother, Suzanne, on both the piano and recorder. At age ten, he began playing the french horn as a private student of Naples Philharmonic members Linda Patterson, Tracy Leonard, and Ellen Tomasiewicz. At Naples High School, Mr. de Clercq was Vice-President of the Math Club, a member of the Scholar Bowl team, and a performer with Maestro Melvin Maxwell's Marching and Symphonic Bands.

In the Fall of 2000, Mr. de Clercq earned a BM, Magna Cum Laude, from Boston University, where he was a recipient of the Brass Department Award. Additionally, as winner of the BU Concerto/Aria competition, he performed Mozart's Second Horn Concerto with both the Boston University Symphony Orchestra (David Hoose, conductor) and the Boston Pops (Keith Lockhart, conductor). While in Boston, Mr. de Clercq was a pupil of Eric Ruske and James Sommerville

Immediately before assuming his duties with the Vancouver Symphony, Mr. de Clercq studied with Jerome Ashby: both as a student in the Aspen Music Festival, and as a Master's Candidate at the Juilliard school. Other summer festivals Mr. de Clercq has participated in include Chautauqua, Eastern, Tanglewood, and those of Appalachian and Florida State Universities.