2011 Adjudicators
KRISTIAN ALEXANDER
Kristian Alexander is currently Music Director and Principal Conductor of Kindred Spirits Orchestra and Music Director of the International Music Academy in Toronto (Canada). He has conducted several professional instrumental and vocal ensembles, such as the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Metropolitain Orchestra, the Royal Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Oakville Chamber Orchestra, the Vaughan Symphony Orchestra, the Internationale Bach-Collegium and Gächinger Kantorei (Stuttgart, Germany), the “Mozarteum” Symphony Orchestra (Sofia, Bulgaria). In 2007 he was advisor of the Conductors Guild International Workshop for conductors with Faculty members Jorma Panula and Raffi Armenian. In 2006 he was appointed Chair of the Conductors Guild 2007 International Conference in Toronto. In 2006 as well he was invited to moderate in New York City a highly acclaimed panel with conductors from The Juilliard School, The Pierre Monteux School for Conductors, and The Eastman School of Music.
Maestro Alexander has worked with Gustav Meier, Marin Alsop, Helmuth Rilling, John Morris Russell, Nurhan Arman, David Agler, Michael Milkoff, among others. He has recorded several live concerts for the International Bachakademie (Stuttgart), the National Radio Broadcasting Company, and the National Television of Bulgaria. He is affiliated with professional associations in USA, Canada, Germany, and Bulgaria.
Maestro Alexander speaks English, French, Russian, and Bulgarian languages and has extensive working knowledge in Italian, German, Czech, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages. In addition to master degrees in conducting and music history, he holds various degrees in anthropology, psychology, theology, computer science, and arts management from academies and universities in Toronto, Montreal, Stuttgart, Sofia, and Plovdiv. He is also a recipient of several grants and awards from the Canada Arts Council, London City Council, L’Université de Montréal, Internationale Bachakademie in Stuttgart, the Mozarteum Internationale Stiftung in Salzburg, Open Society Foundation in New York, and National Music Academy in Sofia.
ELAINE BROUGHTON
Elaine Broughton holds an ARCT Diploma in Piano Performance and an ARCT Diploma in Voice
Performer from The Royal Conservatory of Music and has studied organ, harmony and drama at the
University of Toronto. Ms. Broughton has adjudicated for numerous festivals across Canada and has led
masterclasses on topics including The Interpretation of Piano Literature of Baroque and Romantic
Periods. For twenty-five years Ms. Broughton was director of the voice program at Trafalgar Castle
School in Whitby where she taught voice, piano and theory, conducted the choral ensemble, and served
as chapel organist.
Ms. Broughton was also a consultant in the establishment of the Newfoundland School of Music and has
held executive positions in a number of music organizations including the Oshawa Concert Association,
the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association, the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and the
Royal School of Church Music. Currently, Ms. Broughton runs a busy music studio in Whitby, Ontario,
is an active chamber musician and serves as Organist and Choir Director at All Saints Anglican Church
in Whitby.
SCOTT HARRISON
Scott Harrison began studying trumpet in Toronto at the age of 14. After graduating from Etobicoke School of the Arts, Scott continued his studies at the University of Toronto, and toured Canada as a member of the National Youth Orchestra.
As a freelance musician, Scott has performed with a number of ensembles and productions, including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Canadian Opera Company, and The Phantom of the Opera.
As a composer and a soloist, Scott has participated in a number of CD projects, primarily working with brass and choir. Scott is in demand as a private trumpet instructor and clinician, is the Associate Conductor of the Kindred Spirits Orchestra, and is on the faculty of the National Music Camp.
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ALEXINA LOUIE
Alexina Louie was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1949. Ms. Louie completed undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia and continued her graduate studies with Pauline Oliveros and Robert Erickson in California where she received a Master’s degree in composition at the University of California at San Diego. Since returning to Canada in 1980 she has been commissioned by all the country’s major new music groups as well as by many well known performers. Major conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, Leonard Slatkin, Kent Nagano, Alexander Lazarev, Charles Dutoit, Gunther Herbig, and Pinchas Zukerman have performed her works. Alexina Louie is also responsible for the creation of many memorable compositions in major musical genres, including theatre, opera and ballet.
Named Composer of the Year in 1986 by the Canadian Music Council, her works have been recognized by a Juno award for best classical composition in 1988 and the selection of Music For a Thousand Autumns for performance in Hong Kong in 1988 by the International Society for Contemporary Music.
Since then, Ms. Louie has won multiple Juno awards and has also been awarded the SOCAN Jan V. Matejcek Concert Music Award for being the most frequently performed Canadian classical composer. In March 2002, she was one of three recipients of the National Arts Centre Composer Awards. She has also won the Leger Prize for her work Nightfall as well as the Chalmer’s National Music Award for Obsessions..Ms. Louie is a recipient of the Order of Ontario and Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary in 2002 and in 2005 was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2005 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
ARTHUR OZOLINS
International attention focused on Canadian pianist Arthur Ozolins more than thirty-five years ago when The New Yorker heralded his emergence as “one of the great virtuosos of our time”. His training on three continents has produced a musician keenly attuned to the cultural and stylistic idioms in repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary. Audiences and critics around the world applaud his unique fusion of romantic ardour and uncommon clarity of thought.
A third generation pianist, Ozolins was born to Latvian parents in Lübeck. His studies began in Buenos Aires with his grandmother and mother, a pupil of Edwin Fischer. At the age of 13, he entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto , studying first with Talivaldis Kenins and later Alberto Guerrero. The following year, Walter Susskind invited Arthur Ozolins to make his debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO).
Since that debut in 1961, Ozolins has appeared more than 50 times with the TSO and collaborated with it in numerous recordings. It was with this orchestra under the direction of Andrew Davis that Arthur Ozolins was first presented in the Kennedy Center and in Carnegie Hall.
Three of the pianist’s teachers figure among the legendary pedagogues of the instrument in the 20th Century: Nadia Boulanger, Vlado Perlemuter and Nadia Reisenberg. It was the advice of the revered Pablo Casals that first guided the young musician to Paris . Returning to North America , Arthur Ozolins entered the Mannes College of Music in New York and graduated in 1967 with the distinction of having achieved the highest scholastic record in the history of the school.
Mr. Ozolins has performed with such orchestras as the Royal Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool and Hallé; the St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm and Oslo Philharmonics; and the orchestras of Montpéllier, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Ulster and Taiwan. His American orchestral debut was with the St. Louis Symphony, replacing an ailing Leon Fleisher. In Canada he appears with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony and l’Orchestre de Montréal, among others.
For more than 40 years Arthur Ozolins has been at the heart of music making in Canada. He has recorded the complete concerti and Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini of Rachmaninoff with Mario Bernardi and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for CBC Records. The Los Angeles Times has called him ” Canada ‘s leading virtuoso pianist.” Arthur Ozolins was recipient of the first Juno Award given in classical music.
CHRISTINA PETROWSKA QUILICO
One of Canada’s foremost pianists, Christina Petrowska Quilico is widely recognized as an innovative and adventurous artist and a leading champion of the music of our time. Much in demand, she has premiered more than 100 new works, many written especially for her, and premiered 16 piano concerti. A prolific recording artist, having recorded 26 CDs of classical, romantic and new music, she was awarded The 2007 Friends of Canadian Music Award by the Canadian Music Centre and the Canadian League of Composers. In 2009 she was named one of the Ambassadors of Canadian music by the Canadian Music Centre for being one the performers “who have played exceptional roles in shaping the Canadian music and raising the profile of Canadian music“ exemplary contribution.”
Over the course of her career, Petrowska Quilico has collaborated with a long list of eminent international and Canadian composers. Her concert tours, both as a soloist and with her late husband, the legendary Metropolitan Opera baritone Louis Quilico, have taken her across four continents. On the recital stage, her appearances include such prestigious New York City venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall. Tours have taken her to Taiwan, the Middle East, France, Greece, Germany and Ukraine, and throughout the United States. She is heard regularly on Canadian, American and European radio stations.
Christina Petrowska Quilico made her debut with orchestra at age10 when she performed the Haydn D major Piano Concerto with the Conservatory Orchestra in Toronto conducted by Ettore Mazzoleni. She followed this by a win shared with Murray Perahia and performed a Mozart piano concerto in Town Hall, New York at age 14.
Christina Petrowska Quilico’s vast and diverse repertoire is reflected in 26 CD recordings of classical, romantic, new and world music, including a Juno-nominated CD of the Glenn Buhr piano concerto with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
In 1992, Petrowska Quilico’s CD Virtuoso Piano Music of Our Time – featuring Alexina Louie’s Star-filled night, which was written for Petrowska Quilico – made its debut on the Space Shuttle Columbia with Canadian astronaut Steve MacLean. In August 2006, her recording of David Mott’s piano concerto Eclipse (which was written for and dedicated to her) accompanied MacLean on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Born in Ottawa, Christina Petrowska Quilico studied with Boris Berlin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Following her ARCT exams, she won a scholarship at age 14 to the Juilliard School. After graduation from Juilliard with both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Science Degree, she extended her studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, and later in Darmstadt and Berlin with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti. She was awarded a total of nine Canada Council Grants, including a Doctoral Fellowship, and was also a winner of a French Government Grant for doctoral studies in Paris.
Christina Petrowska Quilico has taught at the Paris American Academy in France, The Conservatory of Music in Toronto, and at both Carleton and Ottawa Universities. In 1987, she joined the faculty in the Music Department at York University in Toronto and is a tenured Full Professor of Piano and Musicology. She is also the Director of Classical Piano and a member of the Graduate Faculty, in which she continues to teach and supervise Masters and PhD students.
KATHARINE RAPOPORT
As an active advocate of contemporary music, Katharine has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in performances, broadcasts and recordings of premieres of new works throughout Canada and in Europe. She recently performed a recital of Canadian works for solo viola in the Contemporary Viola series at the University of Illinois, where she also gave a viola masterclass. Other recent performances have included violin recitals in Italy, two recitals of Jewish music for viola at the Limmud Festival in Colorado, Mozart Quintet in C, K.515 with the Alcan Quartet at Chamber Music at Port Milford Festival, and Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale in the trio version at the University of Prince Edward Island Chamber Series. She is a member of Esprit Orchestra, Canada’s premier orchestra devoted to the performance of new works.
Katharine has adjudicated and given masterclasses and workshops across Canada and in the United States. After earning her M.A. from Cambridge University and her postgraduate Certificate of Advanced Studies in violin from the Guildhall School of Music, London, she continued her postgraduate studies at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie Detmold and the Hochschule fur Musik, Vienna. Her principal teachers were Yfrah Neaman, Bruno Giuranna and Hatto Beyerle, the founding violist of the Alban Berg Quartet.
JEAN STILWELL
Jean Stilwell, hailed on three continents for her complex portrayal of Carmen, is at the forefront of this generation’s mezzo-sopranos. In Keith Warner’s daring production of CARMEN for Minnesota Opera and Opera Ontario, Ms. Stilwell’s “riveting” performance of the title role was praised for “mesmerizing stage presence and her dangerous sounding, husky mezzo … vocally rich and powerful.”
Since first assuming the role in Vancouver, Bizet’s fascinating gypsy has opened many doors for Ms. Stilwell and she has appeared with the Buxton Festival, New York City Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera Zuid of Holland, Connecticut Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and all the opera companies of Canada. Now, together with pianist and writer Patti Loach, Ms. Stilwell steps out of the opera hall and onto the cabaret stage with all of her usual elegance, wit and aplomb. The result is Carmen Unzipped, a CD and live show that unzips our perceptions of how a diva should sound…or look…or behave.
Ms. Stilwell is thrilled to bring her unique talents, experience and perspective to THE NEW CLASSICAL 96.3 FM as co-host of Good Day GTA: Classical Breakfast with Mike Duncan and Jean Stilwell, weekdays from 5am until 10am.
PETERIS ZARINS
Peteris Zarins is a graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music (A.R.C.T. Performer; A.R.C.T. Teacher), the University of Toronto (Bachelor of Music in Performance) and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Michigan in Performance and Pedagogy. He has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist in Canadian and American venues including the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Massey Hall (including the Royal Conservatory’s Penderecki Gala), St. Lawrence Centre, the A.G.O. and R.O.M. in Toronto, the Orford Centre in Quebec, Weill Auditorium in New York City and Symphony Hall in Chicago.
Active as a clinician, he has presented lecture-demonstrations for various O.R.M.T.A. chapters, The Senior Alumni Associations of The University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto, the Alberta Music Conference, the British Columbia Music Teachers Association, several Art Of Teaching Conferences at the R.C.M., the 2007 MTNA/CFMTA Collaborative Conference in Toronto and the 2008 MTNA Conference in Denver. He has given workshops across Canada and the United States on behalf of R.C.M. Examinations, the National Music Certificate Program (U.S.A.) and the Frederick Harris Music Company. Adjudications include the Barrie, Davenport, Markham, Mississauga, Oshawa, Port Colborne, South Simcoe, Windsor and Winnipeg Festivals.
With Dr. Janet Lopinski and Joe J.Ringhofer, he is co-author of the Explorations in Music History History three-volume series, and has assisted with the Celebration Series study guides. Along with saxophonist Bruce Redstone and flautist Jamie Thompson, is a member of the Kalais Trio.
Mr. Zarins served as Chief Examiner for Training and Development for R.C.M. Examinations from 2002-2010. He is a member of the Faculty of the Royal Comservatory’s Glenn Gould Professional School and Community School, and has served as Chairman of the Theory Department.
