KATHERINE DOWLING - PIANO
Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to colour”, and by the Boston Globe for her “effortless incisiveness”, award-winning “tour-de- force” (OpusKlassiek, Berkshire Eagle). Dr. Katherine Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Katherine is familiar to audiences as an artist-in-residence at the Orlando Festival (Netherlands) and a resident fellow of the Avaloch Farm Music Institute (USA); as a multi-year fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, a New Fromm Fellow, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist; through extensive involvement and numerous positions at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; and through multiple national tours under the auspices of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. As a soloist, and as a member of the chamber ensemble Gruppo Montebello, Katherine appears on eight critically-acclaimed recordings on the Etcetera label. Her performances have been broadcast on the CBC (Canada), Radio-Canada, BBC (United Kingdom), and National Radio 4 (Netherlands). Recent highlights include joining Angela Hewitt and Silvie Cheng in Mozart’s Triple Concerto at Ottawa Chamberfest; her recital debuts in Vienna and The Hague; several tours with violinist Kerry DuWors for Prairie Debut; a recording of the piano works of Alice Ping-Yee Ho (Leaf Music label); and appearing as a concerto soloist with orchestra in repertoire including Benjamin Britten, W.A. Mozart, Colin McPhee, and Florence Price. She has premiered over twenty-five new works by composers including Louis Andriessen and John Harbison. As a teaching artist, Katherine formerly served as Assistant Professor of Piano Performance (tenure-track) at the University of Regina. She is currently on faculty at The Phil and Eli Taylor Academy for Young Artists (Royal Conservatory of Music); duo526 Sonata Seminar (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music); and the European Summer Course for Chamber Music (Netherlands). She is in-demand as an adjudicator and judge, ranging from the Laflèche & District Music Festival (population 382) to the National Finals of the Canimex-Canadian Music Competition and the Toronto International Music Competition, and everything in between. She credits her own teacher, celebrated American pianist-pedagogue Gilbert Kalish, and conductors Henk Guittart and Oliver Knussen, as the major influences in her musical life.
Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to colour”, and by the Boston Globe for her “effortless incisiveness”, award-winning “tour-de- force” (OpusKlassiek, Berkshire Eagle). Dr. Katherine Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. Katherine is familiar to audiences as an artist-in-residence at the Orlando Festival (Netherlands) and a resident fellow of the Avaloch Farm Music Institute (USA); as a multi-year fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, a New Fromm Fellow, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist; through extensive involvement and numerous positions at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; and through multiple national tours under the auspices of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. As a soloist, and as a member of the chamber ensemble Gruppo Montebello, Katherine appears on eight critically-acclaimed recordings on the Etcetera label. Her performances have been broadcast on the CBC (Canada), Radio-Canada, BBC (United Kingdom), and National Radio 4 (Netherlands). Recent highlights include joining Angela Hewitt and Silvie Cheng in Mozart’s Triple Concerto at Ottawa Chamberfest; her recital debuts in Vienna and The Hague; several tours with violinist Kerry DuWors for Prairie Debut; a recording of the piano works of Alice Ping-Yee Ho (Leaf Music label); and appearing as a concerto soloist with orchestra in repertoire including Benjamin Britten, W.A. Mozart, Colin McPhee, and Florence Price. She has premiered over twenty-five new works by composers including Louis Andriessen and John Harbison. As a teaching artist, Katherine formerly served as Assistant Professor of Piano Performance (tenure-track) at the University of Regina. She is currently on faculty at The Phil and Eli Taylor Academy for Young Artists (Royal Conservatory of Music); duo526 Sonata Seminar (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music); and the European Summer Course for Chamber Music (Netherlands). She is in-demand as an adjudicator and judge, ranging from the Laflèche & District Music Festival (population 382) to the National Finals of the Canimex-Canadian Music Competition and the Toronto International Music Competition, and everything in between. She credits her own teacher, celebrated American pianist-pedagogue Gilbert Kalish, and conductors Henk Guittart and Oliver Knussen, as the major influences in her musical life.
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JENNIE SUCH - VOICE - CLASSICAL, MUSICAL THEATRE, POP.
An alumna of the Royal College of Music (UK), Jennie holds postgraduate diplomas in Opera and Concert Singing. As an emerging artist she was a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble, the Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble, and has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist in opera, oratorio, recital and musical theatre. Jennie is a member of the voice faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University. At Laurier she has taken on many different roles including director (Into the Woods, Opera Laurier, 2024), voice area co-ordinator (2024/25), ensemble coach (C3 Master’s programme, 2025), classroom teacher (foundational vocal techniques for voice majors and non-voice majors, 2024), and studio voice teacher in classical and contemporary streams, (2017- present). Jennie is currently in her 11th season as the resident singing coach at the Stratford Festival of Canada. In that role she has coached vocal music in 39 productions of plays and musicals. Since 2016 she has coached singing in the Birmingham Conservatory, the elite young artist training programme at the Stratford Festival. Outside of the Stratford Festival Jennie has also worked on various professional musical theatre productions including the Canadian Company of Billy Elliot (Mirvish, 2011), Fun Home (Mirvish, 2018), and The Hockey Sweater (National Arts Centre, 2018). Through this unique work with actors Jennie has observed many parallels between the art of the professional actor and that of the professional singer, and is interested in combining ideas about text, sound, physicality, and authenticity from these complementary worlds. For further information please visit www.jenniesuch.com |
JULIETTE JONES - SINGER/SONGWRITER, ORIGINAL MUSIC, COMPOSITION.
Juliette Jones is an Ontario based Composer & Vocal Coach with a strong background in musical theatre and classical training. Graduating from Sheridan College in 2019 with an Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Juliette Jones went on to music direct, compose, and coach for multiple theatre companies across the GTA including Nightwood Theatre, The Musical Stage Co., YES Theatre, and more. Juliette was a vocal coach at Sheridan College and George Brown in 2020, and in 2021 wrote scores for several short films and podcasts including a documentary entitled Guardians by BFI Award Winning director Minerva Navasca. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Juliette found work as music assistant and lipsync supervisor on the Netflix Adaptation of 13: The Musical where she worked alongside 3-time Tony Award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown and Broadway music directors Georgia Stitt and Lily Ling. Since then, Juliette has provided additional orchestration and music editing on Playstation Exclusive Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores and was vocal coach on Disney's Descendants: The Rise of Red. Juliette continues her work as a AAA video game composer and Disney vocal coach on multiple unnamed projects at Interleave Creative.
Juliette Jones is an Ontario based Composer & Vocal Coach with a strong background in musical theatre and classical training. Graduating from Sheridan College in 2019 with an Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Juliette Jones went on to music direct, compose, and coach for multiple theatre companies across the GTA including Nightwood Theatre, The Musical Stage Co., YES Theatre, and more. Juliette was a vocal coach at Sheridan College and George Brown in 2020, and in 2021 wrote scores for several short films and podcasts including a documentary entitled Guardians by BFI Award Winning director Minerva Navasca. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Juliette found work as music assistant and lipsync supervisor on the Netflix Adaptation of 13: The Musical where she worked alongside 3-time Tony Award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown and Broadway music directors Georgia Stitt and Lily Ling. Since then, Juliette has provided additional orchestration and music editing on Playstation Exclusive Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores and was vocal coach on Disney's Descendants: The Rise of Red. Juliette continues her work as a AAA video game composer and Disney vocal coach on multiple unnamed projects at Interleave Creative.
ALEXANDRA LENNOX - CHOIRS
Soprano Alexandra Lennox has been performing with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto for 28 seasons singing well over 175 productions in small roles, understudying larger roles and as a full time member of the professional Chorus. Alexandra has a Vocal Performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of music Glen Gould School, a Vocal Performance BMus from the University of Toronto, and an ARCT in Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Ms. Lennox has performed many lead roles in Opera, Musical Theatre and Operetta. Alexandra is a busy and sought after festival adjudicator. She has judged voice and choral classes at Pickering GTA Music Festival, Kiwanis Festival of Sudbury, Kingston Kiwanis Festival, Peel Music Festival, Arcadia Academy of Music Musicfest and Miriam Academy of music’s Music Festival. Alexandra had been teaching a select group of students in her home studio Lennox Voice Studio in Georgetown, Ontario. Alexandra has had a rich history of choral singing in Honour Choir, School Choirs, The Macmillan Singers and the Edward Eisler Singers. As a member of one of the best vocal ensembles in the world, The Canadian Opera Company Chorus, Alexandra has spent the last 28 years working with internationally renowned conductors, directors, singers and composers like Atom Egoyan, Rufus Wainwright, Harry Bicket, Stuart Bedford, Sondra Radvanovsky, Sir David McVicar, Sir Thomas Allen and many more. Alexandra Lennox is a co-founder of The Halton Hills Music Festival.
Soprano Alexandra Lennox has been performing with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto for 28 seasons singing well over 175 productions in small roles, understudying larger roles and as a full time member of the professional Chorus. Alexandra has a Vocal Performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of music Glen Gould School, a Vocal Performance BMus from the University of Toronto, and an ARCT in Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Ms. Lennox has performed many lead roles in Opera, Musical Theatre and Operetta. Alexandra is a busy and sought after festival adjudicator. She has judged voice and choral classes at Pickering GTA Music Festival, Kiwanis Festival of Sudbury, Kingston Kiwanis Festival, Peel Music Festival, Arcadia Academy of Music Musicfest and Miriam Academy of music’s Music Festival. Alexandra had been teaching a select group of students in her home studio Lennox Voice Studio in Georgetown, Ontario. Alexandra has had a rich history of choral singing in Honour Choir, School Choirs, The Macmillan Singers and the Edward Eisler Singers. As a member of one of the best vocal ensembles in the world, The Canadian Opera Company Chorus, Alexandra has spent the last 28 years working with internationally renowned conductors, directors, singers and composers like Atom Egoyan, Rufus Wainwright, Harry Bicket, Stuart Bedford, Sondra Radvanovsky, Sir David McVicar, Sir Thomas Allen and many more. Alexandra Lennox is a co-founder of The Halton Hills Music Festival.
