Experience

Kindred Spirits Orchestra

• Canada
• Music
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Music Director and Principal Conductor

  • Jan 2009 - Present

  The Kindred Spirits Orchestra has performed since 2009, to a great acclaim, sold-out audiences, and standing ovations at the legendary CBC Glenn Gould Studio in downtown Toronto. As of the 2011, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra has also established a 6-concert subscription series at the Flato Markham Theatre, in addition to 3 community-outreach and 2 educational concerts. Led by the charismatic Maestro Kristian Alexander, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra is enjoying an enormous popularity among York Region's residents and continues to attract avid audiences across the Greater Toronto Area. The Kindred Spirits Orchestra performs a wide range of compositions by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, and many others. Ardent supporter of contemporary music, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra created, also in 2011, Markham Contemporary Music Festival, an annual event that has brought to life great pieces of the 20th century by Lutoslavsky, Stravisnky, Philip Glass, Honegger as well as by illustrious Canadian composers such as Garry Kulesha, Brian Current, Larysa Kuzmenko, Daniel Friedman, Kevin Lau, Constantine Caravassilis and James Campbell. During the past few years alone, the orchestra has regularly worked with internationally renowned soloists such as pianists André Laplante, Christina Quilico and James Parker, harpist Ann Hobson Pilot, violinists Jacques Israelievitch, Joelle Kee and Marc Djokic, cellist Rachel Mercer, soprano Rebecca Whelan, and tenor Keith Klassen, among many others. In 2014, the KSO has also given the Canadian première of John Williams' fame piece "On Willows and Birches" as well as the world première of James Campbell's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra. For more information, visit www.KSOrchestra.ca Show less



International Music Festival and Competition

• Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Artistic Director

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  The International Music Festival and Competition (IMFC) provides musicians of all ages opportunities to perform, to conduct and to write music while receiving professional guidance by leading professionals in the classical music industry. The International Music Festival and Competition (IMFC) provides musicians of all ages opportunities to perform, to conduct and to write music while receiving professional guidance by leading professionals in the classical music industry.



Markham Contemporary Music Festival

• Artistic Director

  • Jan 2011 - Present

  Markham Contemporary Music Festival is an annual event that takes place in various concert venues in Markham, Ontario. The Festival promotes music written worldwide in the 20th and the 21st centuries and has performed works by Lutoslavsky, Stravisnky, Philip Glass, Honegger as well as by illustrious Canadian composers such as Garry Kulesha, Brian Current, Larysa Kuzmenko, Daniel Friedman, Kevin Lau, Constantine Caravassilis and James Campbell. In 2014, the Kindred Spirits Orchestra has given the Canadian première of John Williams' fame piece "On Willows and Birches" as well as the world première of James W. Campbell's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra. The Festival also includes lectures and seminars in both English and French, workshops, master-classes, pre-concert chats, intermission discussions, post-concert receptions, documentary films about the life of contemporary composers, and networking events. Show less



International Music Academy

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Music Director

  • 1996 - Present

  The International Music Academy was founded in 1996 and quickly established itself as the expert in private music education in the Greater Toronto Area. The School has won several awards, such as: the Consumers’ Choice Award for best music school in the GTA, the Royal Conservatory of Music Gold Medal for Teaching Excellence, the York Region Character Community Award, Markham Board of Trade Business Excellence Award finalist. For more information, visit www.InternationalMusicAcademy.ca The International Music Academy was founded in 1996 and quickly established itself as the expert in private music education in the Greater Toronto Area. The School has won several awards, such as: the Consumers’ Choice Award for best music school in the GTA, the Royal Conservatory of Music Gold Medal for Teaching Excellence, the York Region Character Community Award, Markham Board of Trade Business Excellence Award finalist. For more information, visit www.InternationalMusicAcademy.ca