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Faculty

Dr. Stephen P. Bolstad

Dr. Stephen P. Bolstad has served as Director of Bands and Professor of Wind Conducting at James Madison University since 2007. In addition to overseeing the university’s comprehensive band program, his specific duties include conducting the JMU Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band, teaching courses in wind literature, and running the Master's and Doctoral programs in Wind Conducting. Under Dr. Bolstad’s direction, the JMU Wind Symphony recently received accolades from composer David Maslanka for the ensemble’s consortium premiere of his Symphony No. 8.

From 1994-2007 Dr. Bolstad was the Director of Bands at The University of Montana. Under his direction the Symphonic Wind Ensemble was selected to perform at the College Band Directors National Association’s Northwest/Western Divisional Conference in 1996 and 2006, and the MENC Northwest Conference in 2001 (Spokane, WA) and 2005 (Bellevue, WA). In 2004 Dr. Bolstad was named the University of Montana School of Fine Arts Distinguished Faculty Awardee. Prior to Montana, Dr. Bolstad held similar positions in Alabama at both the University of Montevallo and Livingston University, and he was the Director of Bands at St. Mary's Area High School in St. Marys, Pennsylvania.

Steve Bolstad holds a Doctor of Music Arts degree in Conducting from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Music degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. He has studied conducting with Jerry Junkin (Texas), Rodney Winther (Ithaca) and Stanley Michalski (Clarion).

Dr. Bolstad is very active as a guest conductor, having conducted district, regional and all-state festivals throughout the United States and Canada. In addition, he has conducted bands at summer events such as MusiCamp Alberta and Red Lodge Music Festival. He also maintains a very active schedule as an adjudicator and clinician. Dr. Bolstad is a Past-President of the Montana Bandmasters Association and is currently the state president of the Virginia Chapter of the College Band Directors National Association. He is a member of VMEA, MENC, CBDNA and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.

Dr. Greg Caisley

Pianist and collaborator Dr. Greg Caisley has worked throughout Western Canada playing and accompanying musicians and students for twenty years. He has worked in many aspects of music performance and education: coaching singers, working as a solo piano adjudicator, and recital and recording work with many professional musicians. 

In December 2003 Dr. Caisley completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he was also a Teaching Assistant for three years. In addition, he worked for two years at Pasadena City College where he coached singers and instrumentalists for performance.

As an educator, in addition to his private teaching, Caisley has adjudicated over 100 music festivals across Canada, including those in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Provincial Music Festivals in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Since 2004, he has served as the Director of Keyboard Studies for MusiCamp Alberta; a summer music program for gifted music students from across Alberta and British Columbia.

Now living in Vancouver, Dr. Caisley is happy to be the new Director of Music for Dunbar Heights United Church, and is enjoying making music in this vibrant and creative community. Greg has coached and performed with many of the young and upcoming singers in the lower mainland, including Heidi Peters, Debra DaVaughn, Christopher Simmons, Calla Krause and Katy Garden. He has worked for institutions throughout the lower mainland, including the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Summer Vocal Academy, UBC’s School of Music, the Vancouver Academy of Music, and as the former Director of Music for Langley United Church. He teaches piano in private studios in both Edmonton and Vancouver. Dr. Caisley regularly concertizes, and has released two compact discs and a music video.

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary and is the director of the University’s Symphonic Band and Brass Choir. He is also Artistic Director of the Alberta Winds and Assistant Director of the Calgary Concert Band. He was Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra from 1992 to 2007.  Before that, he held the same position with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. He has studied conducting with the renowned pedagogues Jorma Panula, Gustav Meier, Michael Haithcock, and Michael Jinbo. He has conducted ensembles from across Western Canada as well as Mexico and Maine, USA. 

Mr. Jones’s musical activities are greatly varied. He has appeared as guest conductor with orchestras and wind ensembles from across Western Canada, been featured on Juno-nominated blues CDs, appeared on CBC radio as a soloist and chamber musician, been a guest lecturer with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and written compositions and arrangements in a wide range of musical styles. He can be heard playing chamber music, jazz, blues, and rhythm and blues with various groups around Calgary as well as returning to perform with the Calgary Philharmonic on occasion. 

As a conductor he founded the Calgary Honour Band and the University of Calgary Brass Choir. He was also a founding member of the chamber ensemble Rosa Selvatica and has been a featured soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra on several occasions. He studied conducting at the Pierre Monteux Institute and Canada’s National Arts Centre and received his Master of Music in Conducting from the University of Calgary. He studied trumpet at Northwestern University, where he won the prestigious concerto competition and a scholarship for performing excellence.

Anne McIntyre

Anne McIntyre is a music education graduate from Mt. Allison and Dalhousie Universities. She completed summer courses at the Kodály Institute in California and studied pedagogy for children's choirs with Dr. Doreen Rao in Chicago.

Anne taught choral music with Edmonton Public Schools from 1972 until her retirement in 1998, during which time she produced award-winning choirs at the elementary and junior high levels. She received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 1989.

Anne founded Edmonton Children's Choir in 1993 which has expanded to include 140 singers in four choirs. The original choir performed locally with Edmonton Symphony, Alberta Baroque, Edmonton Opera, Kokopelli, Richard Eaton Singers and Alberta Ballet. ECC was honoured as a featured choir for Podium 2000 [Association of Canadian Choral Conductors] and for ISME [International Symposium of Music Educators].

Anne taught choral music at summer programs in Alberta: MusiCamrose 1991-94 and this past summer at MusiCamp Alberta in Red Deer. For her outstanding work in the provincial choral community, Anne received the Con Spirito Award.

Anne now spends her time adjudicating, presenting workshops and clinics, serving on the board of the Alberta Choral Federation and travelling to Ireland with her husband each spring and summer. She will conduct MusiCamp Alberta again this August.

Kim Mattice Wanat

Kim Mattice Wanat holds a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Alberta with a major in drama and an ARCT from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She is a performer, teacher and director. In addition to her formal degrees she has studied at Banff, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Chiari, Italy.

Her professional credits include lead roles in The Fantastics, Oliver, South Pacific, and Passion. For 10 years she performed as a freelance artist in touring productions across Canada; Backstage Broadway, a touring production of Broadway Musicals Through the Decades and Wind, Women & Song, a female classical quartet consisting of two sopranos, a piano and French horn. In 2000 this quartet released a CD entitled La Dolce Vita.

Ms. Mattice Wanat is well known as a voice teacher, adjudicator and pedagogue clinician, conducting workshops for teachers and choral directors across Western Canada. In 2005 she published a book for teachers entitled Unleashing the Expressive Resonant Voice.

For the past 21 years she has taught voice to the professional acting students in the Drama Dept. at U of Alberta and has acted as voice coach and musical director for several of the Bachelor of Fine Arts productions.

In 1998 Ms. Mattice Wanat founded Discovery Playhouse, a youth music theater company in Edmonton. The company produced two productions in the city; You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown and Once Upon A Mattress for the Fringe festival and toured the shows throughout Alberta. In 1999 she founded Opera Nuova. She has directed several of the NUOVA mainstage productions including Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Aaron Copland’s The Tenderland, Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Offenbach’s La Perichole, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte; Smetana’s The Bartered Bride and Rossini’s Cenerentola.

Her commitment to sharing her expertise with young singers, actors, teachers and choral directors has earned her extensive recognition including Global Television’s Woman of Vision Award, The City of Edmonton’s Salute to Excellence in the Arts Award and the YWCA’s Woman of Distinction in Arts and Culture Award. She was one of 100 Albertans chosen by the Alberta Centennial Celebrations committee who recognized her significant achievement and contribution as a voice teacher and artistic director.