Dr. Fisher has been recognized internationally as a clarinet soloist and chamber music player. The American Record Guide calls his CD “images” a superb recording and placed it on its’ “Critic’s Choice List”. The “International Clarinet” magazine states “solid and gorgeous, remarkable playing….I wholeheartedly recommend this recording”. Audiences in Canada have heard him frequently on both English and French radio networks of the CBC and on television. Recently, Dr. Fisher was invited to play at the International Clarinet Congress in Vancouver and the Victoria Summer Chamber Music Series with the Emily Carr String Quartet, performed with the Blue Engine string quartet at The Festival Theatre, Wolfville in November, adjudicate at the 2007 Hong Kong Music Festival, and give master-classes at McGill, UBC, and The Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.

Peter Groom

   Australian-born pianist Simon Docking has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Europe.  He studied piano in Australia with Ransford Elsley, and holds a doctorate in piano performance from SUNY Stony Brook, where he worked with Gilbert Kalish, and upon graduation was awarded New York State’s Thayer Fellowship for the Arts. 

For the past six years he has lived in Halifax, where he is the curator of Kumquat, a new music series co-presented by the Scotia Festival’s Music Room Chamber Music Society, St Cecilia Concert Society, and Dalhousie University’s music department.

Praised by the Globe and Mail for his “effortless virtuosity” in contemporary music, Simon has premiered dozens of new pieces, and worked with many composers from around the world. He has been a founding member of several chamber groups, including the Toronto-based ensemble Toca Loca, with pianist Gregory Oh and percussionist Aiyun Huang. In the 2006-07 season, Toca Loca completed a successful year-long residency at Toronto’s Music Gallery, appeared at the St John’s Sound Symposium and at Montreal’s Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur, and made their New York City debut in Lincoln Center’s Wordless Music Series.

Simon has also recently appeared for Australia’s Aurora Festival, the new music group Stroma in New Zealand, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the MATA Festival in New York. Simon has often been heard on CBC Radio Two’s Two New Hours and The Signal, as well as on ABC Classic FM (Australia), Swedish Radio, and Radio NZ.

PEI's Pamela Campbell is a singer, actor, recording artist, voice therapist, teacher, music and theatre director, theatre and record producer, composer, choral conductor, administrator and adjudicator. She holds a Master of Fine Arts (Musical Theatre) degree from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Music (Honours – Voice Performance) degree from the University of Western Ontario. Pamela's special interest in voice led her to complete a Graduate Diploma in Voice Therapy from the Boston Conservatory, as well as courses at Boston University, Emerson College, and Acadia University.  She has studied bodymapping techniques with Barbara Conable of Andover Educators.

Pamela performed and taught in various centres across Canada and the USA before returning to Prince Edward Island in 1989. She has appeared with the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Canadian Opera Company, Syracuse Stage, the PEI Symphony, the Charlottetown Festival, and the Banff School of Fine Arts, to name a few. On two occasions, Ms. Campbell competed as the PEI Vocal Representative at the Canadian National Music Festival.

To date Pamela has released four solo recordings: For The Love O’ Burns, based on the works of the Scottish poet Robbie Burns; A Nightingale Sang, featuring songs from the World War II era; An Evening Prayer, a collection of her parents' favourite hymns; and Wingin’ It!, the one-woman musical in which she starred and for which she composed and arranged the music. She has toured extensively with Wingin’ It!, including an Off-Broadway run in New York City in 1998.

Pamela has been a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing for over twenty-five years and has served on the Board of Directors for the McClosky Institute of Voice. She has taught at such institutions as the Banff School of Fine Arts, Syracuse University, and the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music.

Pamela currently teaches private students at Studio TaDa, her Charlottetown voice studio, and is the Music Director of Summerside Presbyterian Church.  Her website is www.pamelacampbell.com.

Tara Scott

Claire Mallin received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from McGill University and her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from University of Montreal.

Since her début in the late 80s, performing live on CBC Radio Canada as soloist in Duruflé’s Requiem, Montreal-born Claire Mallin has been an active soloist, voice teacher and choir conductor.

As a soloist, Claire has performed with many ensembles, orchestras and choirs, notably, l’Opéra comique du Québec, the McGill Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Singers, the Donovan Chorale, Les chanteurs d’Orphée, the Nepean Orchestra, l’orchestre d’Arts Québec, McGill’s Collegium Musicum, the Jamesien’s Choir, the Katimavik Vocal Ensemble, l’Orchestre régional de la Montérégie, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, le Choeur du Musée d’Art de Joliette and la Sinfonia de Lanaudière.

Recordings include mezzo solo in Bengt Hambraeus’ Symponia Sacra in Tempore Passionis. As a professional member of the Montreal Symphony Chorus, Claire has also recorded works by Berlioz and Tremblay’s Les Vêspres de la Vierge in collaboration with the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec.

From 1999-2005, Claire taught classical voice, founded and directed the Atelier d’opéra at the École de musique de Lanaudière.
Mrs. Mallin teaches Applied Voice, Musicianship, Music Education and French lyric Diction at Acadia University. She is also Director of the Acadia Vocal Ensemble.