- 2022 Bios
- Aaron James
- Adrian Ross
- Alexander Straus-Fausto
- Áron Dóbisz and Bence Janos Samodai
- Cadence Brassard
- Christopher Dawes
- David Alexander Simon
- Gordon D. Mansell and Tamara Hrycak
- Hanné Becker
- Ian Grundy
- Imre Olah
- John Laing
- John Paul Farahat
- Joshua Duncan Lee
- Joshua Ehlebracht
- Mark Himmelman
- Matthew Larkin
- Michael Capon
- Michelle Chung
- Nicholas Capozzoli
- Nicholas Wanstall
- Peter Bayer
- Peter Nikiforuk
- Richard Spotts
- Sebastian Moreno
- Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin
- Stefani Bedin
- Thomas Fitches
- Zoe Lei
2022 Bios
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Adrian Ross is a harpsichordist and organist based in Toronto and is currently an organ scholar at Grace Church on-the-Hill. Prior to this, he completed a masters degree under the tutelage of Dr. Kevin Komisaruk at the University of Toronto. |
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Peter Nikiforuk is a native of Brantford, Ontario. The recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships, in 1993, Peter was awarded the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in organ from Yale University. He also studied at the University of Toronto and the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. |
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Alexander Straus-Fausto is completing his Bachelor degree in organ performance at the McGill University Schulich School of Music, where he studies with Jonathan Oldengarm and Hans-Ola Ericsson. Alex is a recipient of the John Grew award for excellence in organ performance. He is a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. |
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Michael Capon serves as Music Director at St James Anglican Church in Kingston Ontario, and is active as a performer, conductor, composer, and teacher. In addition to his church work, Michael has directed community choirs and orchestras, directed music for theatrical productions, taught music theory and organ students, and adjudicated at music festivals and competitions |
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Gordon D. Mansell and Tamara Hrycak Gordon Mansell is Music Director and Titular Organist at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Toronto, Canada. Tamara Hrycak began her musical studies at an early age in Regina, Saskatchewan. Throughout her musical studies, she has won numerous provincial and national competitions. |
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Cadence is a 14 year old organist living in Blue Mountains, ON. Showing an early and varied interest in all music, she has played piano, classical guitar, drums, and filled all positions in a rock band. |
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Joshua Duncan M. Lee is the Wayne C. Vance Organ Scholar at Metropolitan United Church, where he is studying with Dr. Patricia Wright. He is thrilled to be playing at All Saints Kingsway. This is a special place for him as this was the first venue he played the organ in public before his own baptism in December 2016. |
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Peter Bayer, FAGO, holds a BA in Organ Performance and Classics from The Catholic University of America. He is currently pursuing graduate work in Classics at the University of Toronto. He completed five years of formal organ study: in high school he studied with Mr. David Lang, and at CUA with Prof. Ronald Stolk. |
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John Paul Farahat fosters a diverse career as organist, improviser, and conductor. He holds the post of Director of Music and Principal Organist of Saint Basil’s Church, the collegiate church of the University of Saint Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. |
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Michelle Chung is an accomplished pianist, organist, and piano teacher who is committed to spreading her passion and appreciation for music with all. She received training at the Royal Conservatory of Music and obtained the A.R.C.T in piano performance. |
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Christopher Dawes is a Toronto-based performer, conductor and media professional active in many facets of the musical scene, and working with many of the region’s top musical institutions. |
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Born in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Nicholas began taking piano lessons at a very young age with his grandmother, Arden Broadhurst. He started to sing in the Bach Children’s Chorus during grade school, and this sparked his passion for choral music. |
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Aaron James is the Director of Music at the Toronto Oratory of St Philip Neri, and a sessional lecturer in organ at the University of Toronto. An alumnus of the Eastman School of Music, he graduated in 2016 with both a PhD degree in musicology and a DMA degree in organ, along with the Performer’s Certificate in organ. |
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Mark D. Himmelman (b. 1978), a native of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Mark Himmelman began playing the organ at the young age of seven years and by age eight had played his first church service. At age eleven Mark began studies in piano and organ under David Zwicker. |
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Stefani Bedin is a solo and collaborative performer, liturgical musician, and teacher, based in her hometown of Toronto. Stefani is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Toronto, where she also completed the Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and the Bachelor of Music degree in Music History and Theory (Honours) with a minor in historical keyboard. |
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Nicholas Capozzoli has established himself as a solo organist, collaborative artist, and scholar with great distinction and versatility. His artistic accomplishments have been recognized throughout North America, garnering prizes in the Canadian International Organ Competition, Taylor Organ Competition, AGO/Quimby Competition for Young Organists, and Carol Teti Memorial Organ Competition. |
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John Laing, conductor, composer, organist and pianist, was born in London, U.K. He began to play the piano and compose at a very young age, and he became a treble chorister in the choir of King’s College, Cambridge under Sir David Willcocks. |
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Sebastian Moreno is an organist, choir director, and teacher based out of Toronto, Canada. He holds an MMus in musicology and BFA (honours) in organ performance from York University. His thesis, Music Education for Seminarians in Toronto’s Christian Theological Colleges and Seminaries (2021), under Prof. Stephanie Martin, is the first study of its kind and is a cross-denominational perspective on contemporary music education. |
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Organist Richard Spotts, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and a graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, has set out to perform and educate the public of this seminal work, with the ultimate goal of performing the complete fifteen-hour cycle in a recital series over a period of ten days. Mr. Spotts has given recitals at cathedrals, universities, and parishes throughout the United States and Canada and is writing a book on the subject. |
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Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin was born in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France. She grew up in a musician family where she received piano instruction as a small child. After completing piano, organ and harmony courses at the Ecole Nationale de Musique of Le Mans, she entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris where she studied the organ with Rolande Falcinelli. |