Gaye-Lynn Kern Gaye-Lynn Kern is a teacher, performer and clinician. She has enjoyed adjudicating at over 100 festivals in Western Canada since 1990. Her areas of specialization are: Voice, Music Theatre and Speech Arts. Twelve of her twenty-seven years of Vocal Pedagogy have been at universities and colleges where she has taught for both Music and Drama Departments and her students are frequent festival scholarship winners at both local and provincial levels. Ms. Kern is also a Church Musician.
Ms. Kern has a Master of Music (Voice) and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England, with post-graduate studies at the Mozart Opera Studies Institute.
She has performed professionally in England, the United States, as well as in Canada in twenty-seven leading roles in opera (The Medium, Hansel and Gretel, The Magic Flute), operetta (The Mikado, H.M.S. Pinafore), music theatre (The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Angel of Alagoas-Premier Performance) and theatre (Dancing at Lughnasa, Murder at the Howard Johnsons). At the International Saxophone Conference 2000 in Montreal, Ms. Kern premiered “Songs of Childhood”.
Her thirty-four directorial credits include; Anne of Green Gables, The Boyfriend, Grease, Li’l Abner, Oliver! and most recently, The Real Inspector Hound, Blythe Spirit and Nunsense in 2008. She also performs on the Concert Stage and in Improvisational Theatre. She created and performs the character of “Daisy Darlington” for the Historical Tours of Broadway. Gaye-Lynn Kern resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her husband and daughter, and, at last count, three cats.
Audrey Bayduza Born in Edmonton, Audrey began her piano studies there as a child. Other academic interests took her away from the study of Music for some time and she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Toronto. In 1981, she returned to the study of Music at the University of Saskatchewan, focusing on theory and completing her Bachelor of Music degree with a year spent as a Visiting Student at McGill’s School of Music. That same year, she earned an ARCT diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
For over 20 years, Audrey has taught music theory privately, preparing students for examination by a variety of conservatories and other academic institutions. In 2001 she returned to university as a student and began work on her Master of Music degree. In June of 2004, her thesis on the structure of development sections in early and middle Haydn Piano Sonatas was awarded the prize for the best graduate level research in the Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the only member of the Trio to own a T shirt that reads "I love hexachordal combinatoriality."
Audrey taught Music 101-Fundamentals of Music online at the University of Saskatchewan from 2004 to 2010 and oversaw the completion of several upgrades to the course. She continues to teach theory privately, and is active as an accompanist and substitute organist in Saskatoon. She has also taught Music History 105 at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, Saskatchewan, affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan. She has served on the executive of the Saskatoon Registered Music Teacher’s Association for over 10 years, in several positions, including Secretary and President, and as a member of the Provincial Board of the Saskatchewan Registered Music Teacher’s Association. She has been an active member of the Contemporary Showcase committee in Saskatoon and, in her spare time, has sung with the Cecilian Singers. Audrey is married with two children, no cats, but one dog.
Arlene Shiplett Arlene Shiplett was born and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She became involved in music at an early age with piano lessons, choir and both school and private band programs. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.Mus.Mus.Ed in 1986. Arlene became a member of the Saskatoon Symphony in 1992. For several years Arlene taught Band in rural Saskatchewan and she continues to play in the Symphony. Since 2000, she has narrowed her focus to teaching horn at the University of Saskatchewan as well as private teaching and coaching. In 2008, she became the Northern Saskatchewan presenter of the National Arts Center’s Music Alive Program.
Arlene has performed with Prairie Virtuosi, Regina Symphony Orchestra, Brandon Chamber Orchestra, Saskatoon Philharmonic, Saskatoon Opera, North Saskatchewan Wind Symphony and Saskatoon Concert Band and recently took centre stage in a concert of chamber music for horn in North Battleford.
Her recent accomplishments include winning the Dwaine Nelson Teaching Award, conducting the mass horn choir at the Call of the Wild horn conference in Cold Lake Alberta, and performing with the International Brass Quintet at the International Peace Gardens. Arlene may be seen every summer performing on the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum’s Steam Calliope - one of a few in playing condition in North America. She is married to Lee Springett. They have no children, but one cat and 7 horns.