Peter has been a professional horn player for over ten years, freelancing in Edmonton and Montreal. He has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Red Deer Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestre Metropolitain, as well as many other professional groups across Alberta. A founder of the Northern Horn Quartet, board member for the Edmonton Pops Orchestra and an avid music arranger, Peter loves to help enrich our artistic landscape by building opportunities and presenting new art. As a former camper at MusiCamp Alberta, it is his honour to be returning as a instructor.

Kimberley Denis is known for her energy and enthusiasm both on stage and off, and is sought after as a soloist, vocal coach, choral clinician, and adjudicator for voice and choir. Upon completion of both a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Music degree at Mount Allison University, she returned to Alberta to complete Master degrees in both choral conducting and vocal performance. She is a singer with Edmonton’s professional choir, Pro Coro Canada and has a flourishing voice studio at her own music school – the Purple Door Music Academy She is also the voice instructor and choir director at The King’s University in Edmonton and presently directs Shumayela (a choir for treble and changing voices for singers between the ages of 11 and 16) with the Korora Choir Association and the River City Chorus (a non-auditioned adult community ensemble). In addition to her work as a singer, teacher, conductor and adjudicator, she arranges pieces for choirs.

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Jeremy Doody has been a full time musician and music educator for over 25 years. He maintains a busy performing schedule, playing over 100 shows a year, spanning genres from jazz to classical, rock, blues, folk, and country. He was the jazz guitar instructor at Red Deer College from 2010-19, and the classical guitar instructor at the University of Alberta from 2019 to present. He received his MMus from the U of A in 2021

Oboist Aidan Dugan is currently acting Assistant Principal Oboe of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Aidan holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Ottawa, and an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music. Aidan has performed frequently with many orchestras across Canada, including the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Regina Symphony, Ottawa Symphony, Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Ontario Philharmonic, National Youth Orchestra Canada, Red Deer Symphony and the National Academy Orchestra. A finalist in the NACO Bursary Competition in 2012 (honorable mention), he was also awarded Apprentice of the Year with the National Academy Orchestra in 2014. In 2018, Aidan participated in the orchestral program at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado and in 2023 completed the National Arts Centre Orchestra Mentorship Program.Accordion Content

Petar Dundjerski was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and has made Canada his home for the majority of his life. He has a Master’s degree in Performance from the University of Toronto, where he studied flute with Susan Hoeppner. Petar has served as the Assistant Conductor-in-Residence of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and presently conducts the University of Alberta Symphony Orchestra. As a flutist, Petar performs regularly with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as well as in various chamber music ensembles. Petar is a founding member of the Top Notes, Edmonton’s professional flute quartet.

Stephen Fong is the band director at Ottewell School in Edmonton where he is privileged to lead a large and thriving music program with some of the keenest band students in Alberta! Stephen is the recipient of the 2020 Keith Mann Young Band Director Award from the Alberta Band Association and has been an active member of the Alberta music community for the past two decades as a trumpet player, clinician, and conductor. Stephen has played in ensembles under the direction of Glenn Price, Mark Hopkins, Angela Schroeder, and Raymond Baril and has been a member of both Alberta Winds and Edmonton Winds. He holds a Masters of Music in Trumpet Performance from the University of Victoria where he studied trumpet under Lou Ranger and conducting with Ajtony Csaba. He has also studied conducting with Wendy Grasdahl in Edmonton where he spent time as the assistant conductor of Festival City Winds. Stephen has a long and happy history with MusiCamp Alberta as a former student, “Supe”, and camp director. He is thrilled to be returning to work with the Dunnigan band students this summer to help a new generation of young musicians grow and explore their love of music together!

Matt Groenheide is a percussion performer and educator from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Matt loves the variety that comes from being a percussionist and is well-versed in classical percussion, world drumming, and drumset. Together with his wife – Jodi Groenheide (flute & percussion) – Matt performs in the jamani duo, a fun and energetic group that blends classical, world, and popular music together on a vast collection of instruments from around the world.

Matt performs regularly with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra and the University of Lethbridge Global Drums percussion ensemble. He also performs with Pan Rocks, a rock’n’roll steel drum orchestra, combining Caribbean steel pans with renowned rock musicians. Matt’s favorite time of the year is his summers at MusiCamp Alberta – the premier summer music experience in the province. Matt also volunteers with the Alberta Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society.

Matt holds a Master of Music from the University of Southern Mississippi – where he studied with internationally renowned snare drummer/steel pannist Dr. John Wooton (AKA “Dr. Throwdown”) – and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Lethbridge – where he studied with master educator Adam Mason. More information on Matt’s adventures can be found at jamanimusic.com and by following “jamani duo” on Facebook and Instagram.

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Tara Koett convocated from the University of Lethbridge (B.A./B.Ed) in 2006. She teaches Drama, Musical Theatre, Technical Theatre, and Improvisational Theatre at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, and coaches the school’s Canadian Improv Games and Nosebowl Theatresports Improv teams. Past directing credits for Thurber are Little Shop of Horrors, Urinetown, West Side Story, Anything Goes, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Footloose. Tara is also a senior ensemble member and instructor for Rapid Fire Theatre in Edmonton, and most recently directed The Blank Who Stole Christmas. Tara performs in RFT’s regular Theatresports and Chimprov shows, and has been featured at the Del Close Marathon in NYC, and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. Tara has also trained and performed with the Magnet Theatre and Upright Citizens’ Brigade Theatre in New York, NY. She has worked as director for MusiCamp Alberta’s musical theatre intensive for the past three summers.

Born and raised in the Smoky River Region of Alberta, Ariane Lowrey received her Bachelor of Music Degree in piano performance at the University of Alberta in 2003, studying with Ayako Tsuruta and Janet Scott Hoyt. In the summers of 2001 and 2002, she attended the Summer Festival at the Orford Art Centre in Quebec, studying with piano professors Jean-Paul Sevilla, Jean Saulnier, and Richard Raymond. After completing her undergraduate degree, Ariane studied at the Université de Montréal with Paul Stewart and completed her Master of Music degree in piano performance in 2005. She then travelled and worked in the UK and Europe before returning to Edmonton in 2007. Ariane is actively involved in accompanying and collaborative work as well as teaching and adjudicating. She has performed with various chamber groups, choirs, vocalists, solo instrumentalists, dance and musical theatre productions in Edmonton and throughout Alberta. She is currently the resident accompanist for the i Coristi Chamber Choir under the direction of Dr. Rob Curtis, accompanist for Korora’s upper voices choir ChandraTala under the direction of Laura Hawley and collaborative pianist for the department of music at King’s University. Ariane taught at the Alberta College Conservatory of Music at MacEwan from 2007 to 2017. She was adjudicator for junior piano at the St. Albert Rotary Music Festival in 2012, the Fall Music Festival at MacEwan University in 2016 and beginner piano at the Contemporary Showcase in 2020. When not at work, Ariane can be found with her husband Alden and three young children walking or biking to the playground, growing a garden, baking, crafting, dancing and singing in the living room to anything from Tchaikovsky to Disney or jamming with them on any musical instrument they can get their hands on. She is very excited to be back for her third year at MusiCamp!

Nikki DoBell McCaslin is an active freelance trombone player and teacher in Calgary, Alberta. She is the Principal Trombone in the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and is on faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory. She is the former the Instructor of Trombone at East Carolina University and The University of North Carolina Pembroke. Originally from Minnesota, she holds a bachelors degree in trombone performance from Boston University and a masters degree from Arizona State University.

Olivia Menard is a freelance trombonist, composer and educator based in Treaty 6 territory. In addition to being a member of Coyote Brass Quintet, Uptown Entertainment, and Next Stop, Otago, she has appeared with Secondhand Dreamcar, The Brasstactics, Experience Points, Rumba Caliente, Crescendo, to name a few . She co-created The Music of the Spheres, a 45 minute kids show about a girl that learns to play trombone with a band from another planet. As an educator, she teaches trombone at MacEwan University, is a brass teaching artist at the Youth Orchestra of Northern Alberta and has taught band with Edmonton Catholic Schools.

Elissa Moores is a professional trumpet player, educator, and director based in Edmonton, Alberta. As an established player in the local big band scene, she has shared the stage with several notable musicians, including Jim Walker, Melissa Aldana, Allison Au, Tara Davidson, and Jens Lindemann. With experience teaching private trumpet lessons, group clinics, and directing jazz bands at the junior high level, Elissa has a passion for music education and seeks to inspire a love for jazz at all skill levels.

Tova Olson obtained a BTS (CLBI) and a BA in Music (Augustana) studying classical and jazz piano and hand drumming. She also holds her ARCT in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Tova is an experienced piano teacher and accompanist and is currently the worship and music coordinator and principal organist for Messiah Lutheran Church. She has taught Contemporary Piano and Hand Drumming at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus and worked with the Kokopelli Choir Association as singer, accompanist and percussion coach. Tova was the music director for About Time Productions, a children’s drama troop, and is now working with Phoenix Productions in the same capacity. She plays with the Battle River Big Band and has arranged and composed music for numerous ensembles

Clarinetist Don Ross plays some 150 shows a year, split between classical, jazz, world and experimental music. He plays regularly with such groups as Saint Crispin’s Chamber Ensemble, the Gadjo Collective gypsy band, New Music Edmonton, the Alberta Symphony, Crescendo Orchestra, Opera Nuova, The Billie Zizi Swing Band, Mile Zero Dance and many others. He teaches clarinet at the University of Alberta, MacEwan, Concordia, King’s and MusiCamp Alberta. His work as a composer and project leader have won multiple grants from the Canada Council, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Edmonton Arts Council. He studied at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto and at Northwestern in Chicago.

Holly Sangster is a saxophonist, vocalist, composer and educator based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an experienced clinician with festivals such as Edmonton’s Jazz Works and Calgary’s Girls in Jazz workshop and has shared the stage with Juno winning and nominated artists such as Audrey Ochoa, Tara Davidson, and Allison Au. Holly was also a part of the drummer Joel Jeschke’s album “Time & Place”, recently nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award. She has a BMus in Saxophone Performance from MacEwan University and is beginning her BEd at the University of Alberta this fall.

Once described by Classical Music magazine as a musician of “dazzling commitment and versatility,” Charles Stolte maintains a rich career as a saxophonist and composer. He enjoys frequent support from the Canadian provincial and national governments and from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for his composition projects and performance tours. Dr. Stolte is Chair of Music and Professor of Saxophone, Music History and Composition at The King’s University and Instructor of Saxophone at MacEwan University Conservatory of Music, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was the first Canadian citizen accepted for doctoral studies with the late renowned saxophonist, Frederick L. Hemke.

Kirk has just retired after a 35 year career teaching band across western Canada. For the past 23 years he was at Didsbury High School in Didsbury, Alberta, a rural community north of Calgary where more than half of the school’s population was involved in the Music Program. In addition to numerous local and regional performances, groups from Didsbury High School travelled across Canada and internationally to Scotland, England and Spain. Ensembles from DHS consistently received high accolades for their concert and festival performances. Prior to Didsbury Kirk taught at G.P. Vanier Secondary School in Courtenay, BC and at Revelstoke Secondary School. Students from all of Kirk’s programs can be found across Western Canada performing and teaching music.

Nate Waters has been studying and performing saxophone in a myriad of styles for almost twenty years. He has a MMus in Saxophone Performance and a BMus in Secondary Music Education from the University of Calgary, as well as a BEd in Secondary Music Education from the University of British Columbia. Since returning to Calgary in 2014, Nate has shared the stage with such acts as Juno-winning vocalist Caity Gyorgy, drummer Jon McCaslin’s Jazz Composers Collective, and Albertan chanteuse Ellen Doty. His hard work culminated in the recording and subsequent release of the Nate Waters Quartet’s Fact Contrafact EP, an exploration of supplanting new melodies onto the extant chord progressions of classic jazz and songbook standards. By manipulating the function of something familiar, Nate strives to educate listeners on the inner machinations of bebop while introducing them to his playful and off-kilter compositional and improvisational style.

Originally from Edmonton, Lindsay Woolgar is a bassist and vocalist who now lives in Winnipeg. Her extensive musical training and experience allows her to play both double bass and electric bass in a variety of genres – although jazz remains her first love and main musical influence in all of its many forms. Lindsay is a member of Winnipeg-based bands Juvel, French Class, and the Grey Jays and has recorded and toured with other artists as Ben Sures, Selci, Matt Foster, Billie Zizi, and Jess Rae of Sweet Alibi. During the school year, Lindsay teaches strings at Sistema Winnipeg, an intensive daily after-school music program that focuses on children with the fewest resources and greatest need. In the summer, she serves at MusiCamp Alberta as the Assistant Camp Director / Bass Faculty.

Emily has performed for over 15 years and appeared in more than 12 productions. She holds a Theatre Arts diploma from Grant MacEwan University and completed her Bachelor’s in Human Services from Athabasca University in 2025. Her true passion lies in teaching the performing arts. Emily has choreographed four musicals and has taught many students the art of dance, both in studios and at summer camps. She also offers vocal lessons and enjoys helping young performers grow in skill and confidence. Emily’s approach blends creativity and a deep understanding of storytelling through movement and music. Her experience on stage and in the classroom gives her a unique ability to guide and inspire her students. She is excited to choreograph and teach at MusiCamp Alberta for the first time and looks forward to sharing her love of musical theatre with this year’s campers.

Kevin Yue (he/him) is a versatile musician based in Edmonton. Trained in the traditions of Western classical music, Kevin can regularly be seen in the trumpet section of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. He is also active as a guest musician with other ensembles in Edmonton, such as Edmonton Opera, Alberta Ballet, and the Royal Canadian Artillery Band. As a chamber musician, Kevin serves as a member of the Coyote Brass Quintet. Kevin has enjoyed attending summer festivals such as Domaine Forget and has appeared in masterclasses for Philip Smith, Sergei Nakariakov, Chris Gekker, and Jeroen Baerwarts. Kevin’s studies in performance include an Advanced Certificate in Performance from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Alberta. Kevin is grateful to have had Robin Doyon and Anita McAlister as his mentors during these studies. An experienced educator in his own right, he currently serves as a Teaching Artist with YONA-Sistema and with Edmonton Public Schools.