Programs offered this summer:
For more information please contact Susan at :
613-584-1110
or
susan.oboe@magma.ca
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Summermusic Faculty
Jackie Hawley 
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Jackie Hawley graduated from University of Toronto with an honors degree in Music Education and from University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Education. She has conducted and toured internationally with adult, youth and children's choirs and has been a clinician for choirs and schools throughout Ontario for more than twenty five years. In November of 2009, Ms. Hawley was the guest conductor for the CBC/McGill Youth Gala Concert in Montreal. She is currently the director of the Cantiamo Girls Choir of Ottawa, which she founded in 2003 and which grew to include a Training Choir in 2006. Cantiamo is known for its commitment to nurturing local composers and commissioning new Canadian repertoire. In January 2008, Ms. Hawley was appointed Artistic Director of the Ottawa Children’s Choir and Music Director of its Chamber Choir. Under her artistic leadership, the choir co-produced Kaleid-on-the-Road in 2010, bringing acclaimed international artists Rajaton to Ottawa for educational and performance events that involved more than 500 people of all ages. Ms. Hawley was also a teacher with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, where she opened and designed the music curriculum for a new school and continues to give music leadership workshops to Board staff. |
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Laura Hawley holds an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Ottawa where she studied piano performance with Sandra Webster. Laura also completed Master's in music theory with Prof. Lori Burns at the University of Ottawa and has presented her research both in Canada and internationally. During this time she also studied conducting both through independent studies with Prof. David Currie and as his teaching assistant for undergraduate-level conducting courses. She continued these studies at the International Saito Conducting Workshop in 2007 with instructors Morihiro Okabe from the Toho Gakuen School of Music and Wayne Toews.
Ms. Hawley is Music Director at St. John's South March Anglican Church in Kanata. She teaches private lessons in piano, theory, harmony, and history, and is a member of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association. Laura accompanies the Cantiamo Girls Choir, Cantiamo Training Choir, and Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir.
Laura has composed for both of these choirs and her compositions have also been performed by choirs at the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. Her setting of “Au champ d’honneur,” commissioned in 2010, was premiered by the Ottawa Children’s Choir and The Central Band of the Canadian Forces at the 13th Annual Senate Ceremony of Remembrance in November for the opening of Veterans’ Week 2010, and was performed again on national broadcast at the Remembrance Day Ceremony 2010 at the National War Memorial. “Au champ d’honneur” will be available soon for purchase from Rhythmic Trident Music. Laura also collaborated with the students of the Deep River Summer Music camp in 2010 to create “Inspiration,” a piece for orchestra and choir that was premiered at the camp’s final concert.
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Liz Hart received her Bachelor of Music degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, where she studied flute with Donelda Hunter. Since graduating, Liz has continued to teach flute privately and perform in various community events and ensembles. Currently, Liz is a member of the Deep River Symphony Orchestra. She is also very involved in the administrative side of the Arts which began when she completed the Arts Administration course at the Banff Centre. This year is the third year Liz is the Administrator for Summermusic and she is thrilled to be part of such a wonderful group of teachers and campers.
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Marion Arthur graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in cello performance in 2006. After graduation, she pursued further studies in Suzuki method and worked as a Kindermusik and cello instructor in Richmond Hill. In September 2009, she opened MEA’s Music, a teaching studio in downtown Ottawa. She is an enthusiastic educator, performer and composer. She is also a singer-songwriter and released her debut album in 2007. She is currently working on her second album with hopes to release it in the summer of 2011. Marion is the proud mother of a 7 year old boy who likes to write his own songs.
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Peter Morris studied music education and viola performance at the University of Ottawa. Currently, Peter teaches violin, viola and cello privately in Deep River and Pembroke, and is music director of the Deep River Symphony and the Choral Group. He has also conducted the Valley Festival Orchestra and the Kincardine Music Festival Chamber Orchestera as well as working as the music director of many musical theatre productions in Pembroke and Deep River. Peter is committed to music education and volunteers his time as choir director and music educator at Morrison Public School and Keys Public School. |
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Susan Morris is principal oboist of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra and is the Senior Chamber Winds coach for the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy. She is an active freelance musician for operas, chamber music and orchestral performances, and is frequently invited to perform as soloist. Susan is a dedicated teacher, working with music students of all levels and ages in her private studio in Deep River. She is in demand as a coach for workshops and clinics, and is a music festival adjudicator of woodwinds, recorders and bands. Susan is director of the Summermusic camp and for several years was an instructor for the OYOA’s summer camp. From 1992 to 2002 she was a member of the chamber music faculty at the Kincardine Summer Music Festival. |
Karen Christian
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Karen Christian is a graduate from the secondary music education program at the University of Alberta with over 10 years of music instruction experience both privately and publicly. She has directed wind ensembles, concert bands, jazz ensembles, and choirs that have travelled across Western Canada performing at festivals and on tour at schools and community events. She has been awarded the Alberta Band Association 2001 Young Band Director of the Year as well as the 2006 Alberta Excellence in Teaching. Karen’s enthusiasm for music continued with her move to Deep River in 2007 where she became involved with the Deep River Choral Group and the Deep River Community Band. Currently Karen is a member of the Ontario Music Educators Association, teaches music and math at Bishop Smith Catholic High School in Pembroke, and is the director of the Petawawa Legion Community Band. |
Katie Stevens
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Katie Stevens holds a Performance Diploma from The Mount Royal Conservatory as well as a Bachelor of Music from The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music. She recently graduated with her MMUS from The University of Ottawa. Katie’s teachers have included: William Van der Sloot, Lorand Fenyves, Erica Raum and David Stewart.
She is currently working as a freelance musician and teacher in Ottawa, Ontario where she plays regularly with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. She is also the string coach for the Ottawa Junior Youth Orchestra and has worked as a teacher with Summer Music on the Shannon in Limerick, Ireland in 2009.
She has received awards and bursaries from organizations such as the Kiwanis Music Festival, the Lloyd Carr-Harris Scholarship Foundation (2006), the Aruna and Rupa Anantaraman Scholarship Foundation (2007) and the John Gazsi Memorial Fund (2009). Katie also received the top scholarship from the Noreen Young Bursary for the Arts in 2004.
Katie has attended summer programs such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Orford Arts Centre as well as Domaine Forget. She has worked with violinists such as Camilla Wicks, Paul Cantor and William Preucil.
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April Morris
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April Morris began playing the violin at age seven, studying initially with her father Peter Morris and later switching to Elaine Klimasko of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. April was first exposed to orchestral playing through the Deep River Symphony Orchestra; a member for seven years, she served three seasons as concertmaster and was featured as a soloist twice in the 2008-2009 season. As well, she has been involved in various youth orchestras and summer music programs, including the Ottawa Youth Orchestra and the Interprovincial Music Camp of Canada, and in doing so has worked with conductors Alain Trudel, John Gomez, and David Currie. April is currently working towards her Bachelor of Music with a concentration in violin at the University of Ottawa while teaching private violin lessons at MEA’s Music. She is delighted to be joining Deep River Summermusic for her third summer as an instructor. |
Megan Morris
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Megan Morris has been involved in many after-school choirs, bands and small ensembles. She began studying the bassoon and the age of 12 and three years later was playing in the Deep River Symphony, the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy and studying privately with Ben Glossop, also in Ottawa. Since then, Megan has worked in a variety of musical situations from chamber music to orchestral groups to wind ensembles, appearing as both an ensemble player as a soloist in the Deep River area and in Kitchener-Waterloo where she recently completed a Bachelor of Music in Orchestral Performance at Wilfrid Laurier University. |
Jenna Moore
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Jenna Moore, who is currently completing her 5th year of high school, started playing violin when she was eight years old. She has been a member of the Deep River Symphony Orchestra for 7 years, and served as concertmaster for the 2010/2011 season. Jenna has been involved with various other musical programs such as the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy and the Interprovincial Music Camp. Jenna has many great memories of attending Summermusic as a camper and is very happy to be returning, this time on staff. |
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