Dance:
Kathryn McVittie has been involved in the dance world for over 20 years and instructs primarily in ballet, but also in modern, contemporary, tap, jazz, musical theater, and hip-hop. Kathryn is a registered ballet teacher with the Royal Academy of Dance and has completed the CDTA Jazz and Tap syllabus. She has trained in Vancouver, Nanaimo and London, England. In addition to choreographing dance, skating and productions, she has also had the lead roles in several musicals, has been the assistant coach for the VI Raiders Dance Team and has adjudicated at dance competitions across Canada.

Strings:
Rick Dorfer returned to the Vancouver area during the summer of '06 after obtaining his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in violin from the University of Washington in Seattle. He currently resides in White Rock, where he is quickly establishing himself as a performer, adjudicator, and pedagogue. In addition to maintaining a vibrant teaching studio in White Rock and Langley, Rick regularly performs with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and the Abbotsford Symphony. Rick also conducts the Surrey Junior Strings Orchestra and has been invited to adjudicate the 2007 Powell River Festival of Performing Arts and the Upper Island Music Festival in Nanaimo. Rick's latest endeavour is establishing the Music, Meadows, and Mountains Retreat, a summer strings program located on beautiful Orcas Island, Washington.
Rick began studying the violin at age four in a local Suzuki program. In his early years, Rick also had the opportunity to learn viola, which led to many orchestral and chamber music opportunities and accolades, including the first prize in chamber music at the 1994 National Musical Festival in Montréal. After high school, Rick continued his studies at the University of British Columbia where he studied with Andrew Dawes and Nancy DiNovo. Graduating from UBC proved to be a launching point for Rick, who subsequently continued his studies throughout North America. This included an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music where Rick studied with Mark Fewer, and a Master's degree from Kent State University where he studied with the Miró Quartet. Additionally, Rick completed a career development residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Piano:
Dr. JAMIE SYER is the recipient of an Alberta Government Achievement Award, and winner of the national CBC Talent Competition. He studied at the Yale University School of Music. Jamie is Head of the Keyboard Department at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and a faculty member in the School of Music, University of Victoria. Previously, he has taught at Universities and Colleges in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick.
At the VCM, Jamie Syer is also Artistic Director of the Collegium Program for Young Musicians, which offers an enriched curriculum for talented young singers, pianists and instrumentalists. He has completed several concert tours in Europe, performing in Scotland, Ireland, Hungary, France, and England, and has performed closer to home in many BC and Alberta venues. He is Artistic Director of the Alberta summer music workshop "Strings & Keys", and this season will make his first concerto appearance with the Victoria Symphony.

Speech, Choral, Vocal:
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 thirty years of Vocal Pedagogy have been at universities and colleges where she has taught for both Music and Drama Departments. Her students are frequent festival scholarship winners at both local and provincial levels. She coaches professionals in a wide variety of careers. 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. She created and performs the character of "Daisy Darlington" for the Historical Tours of Broadway. She also performs in Improvisational Theatre and on the Concert Stage, most frequently with the Gala Trio. Gaye-Lynn Kern resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with her husband and daughter.