Brenda Fedoruk, Flute
Brenda Fedoruk is currently Principal Flute with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and a core member of Vancouver’s esteemed Turning Point Ensemble. Ms. Fedoruk was a long time member of the CBC Radio Orchestra, until the orchestra’s disbanding in 2008. She performs often with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, has appeared as Guest Principal Flute with the Victoria Symphony and performed as a member of the orchestra for the Vancouver musical theatre productions of Les Miserables, Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime and Phantom of the Opera, as well as with the touring orchestras for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the National Ballet. Ms. Fedoruk has recorded for commercial film and television projects (Chestnut: Hero of Central Park, Spymate, AirBud, MVP, Once Upon a Mattress, Lonesome Dove series), and has been heard in recital on CBC Radio’s Westcoast Performance and Arts Tonight programmes. In addition, she is active as a chamber musician, performing, recording and touring with Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble, West Coast Chamber Music, The Old Schoolhouse Sunday Concerts (Qualicum Beach), Silk Purse (West Vancouver), UBC Wednesday Noon Hour Recital Series and for the Hornby Island Music Festival’s “Decade of Decades” series.
Brenda Fedoruk is an active and dedicated teacher. She is a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, Capilano University, Vancouver Community College, Douglas College and the Vancouver Academy of Music. She conducts and directs the Capilano Flute Choir and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician. Ms. Fedoruk’s first CD, I Remember, showcasing repertoire for flute and mezzo soprano and featuring two world premiere recordings, has received unanimous critical acclaim.
Anne-Elise Keefer, Flute
Anne-Elise Keefer has taught at the Vancouver Academy of Music since 1995, and has been Head of the Suzuki Flute Programme since 1999.
She has enjoyed a busy international career as a recitalist, concerto soloist, recording artist, orchestral musician, chamber musician and educator. She performed as a soloist to critical acclaim in England, France, Italy, Norway and former Yugoslavia; broadcast frequently on radio and TV in Europe, and played a private concert for King Olav V of Norway. Anne-Elise was a prizewinner in eight international competitions in Canada and abroad, including the Ancona International Flute Competition (Italy ), the Concert Artists’ Guild Competition in New York City and the Canadian Music Competition.
Ms. Keefer has released three internationally distributed solo CD’s entitled: “Far Other Worlds” and “The River of Golden Dreams” Volumes I and II; as well as recording discs with Maureen Forrester, The Toronto Children’s Chorus, Vancouver New Music Society, the Canadian Music Centre and “Ancient Cultures”. She has played over 130 solo recitals and CBC radio broadcasts across Canada, has appeared at the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, and has performed concertos with a variety of international orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic,Trondheim Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Abbotsford Symphony.
Anne-Elise has played Co-Principal Flute and Second Flute and Piccolo with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra since 1986, and has played Principal Flute with the Abbotsford Symphony since 1995. As a freelance artist, she has performed with the VSO, the Victoria Symphony, the Vancouver Island Symphony, CBC Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia, Orchestra London and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (playing the baroque wooden flute). She has played eight major Broadway musicals, including”Miss Saigon” and “The Phantom of the Opera”, has played with ten ballet companies including the National Ballet of Canada, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and the Kiev Ballet, and has appeared in concert with such luminaries as Luciano Pavarotti, Ben Heppner and Ray Charles. In January 2004, Ms. Keefer was invited to audition for the position of Principal Flute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Anne-Elise studied with Robert Aitken, Nicholas Fiore, and Louis Moyse at the University of Toronto. After graduating with a Master’s Degree in Music Performance and Literature, she received three Canada Council Arts Grants to pursue doctoral studies in Europe with Norwegian flutist Ornulf Gulbransen. A six-year veteran of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, she continued her studies by attending masterclasses with Marcel Moyse, James Galway, William Bennett, Geoffrey Gilbert and baroque flute specialist Hans-Martin Linde.
As an enthusiastic educator, Anne-Elise was a faculty member in Applied Music, Music Education and Music History for five years at the University of Western Ontario. She has also taught flute at Boltelokka College in Oslo, University of Victoria, UBC and Douglas College. Her summers have been spent teaching at Toronto Music Camp, National Music Camp, London Music Camp, National Music Camp, Laurentian University, Pacific Rim Festival, Suzuki Flute camps in BC, and at CYMC.
Anne-Elise continues to enjoy sharing her love of music with flute students of all ages, and with the young children and parents that she works with in her capacity as the Head of Suzuki Flute Programme at the Academy of Music.
Heather Beaty, Flute
Heather’s early music education began at the age of five at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Under the school’s tutelage with Jane Martin, Anne-Elise Keefer and Brenda Fedoruk, Heather was guided into the musical world with a strong footing and quickly developed a blooming love for the performing musical arts. At 17, Heather’s professional flute aspirations were solidified when she performed as solo flutist with the VSO’s Elementary School and Tea and Trumpets programmes.
Heather’s passion for musical performance has recently been channeled into the University of British Columbia’s Symphony and Opera Orchestras, solo recitals and Health Arts Society Artsway concerts in care centres throughout Vancouver’s lower mainland. From 2008-2010 Heather was an enthusiastic member of the Fountainview Academy faculty in Lillooet, B.C., where she instructed flute students ages 6-17.
In the summer months, Heather enjoys traveling abroad and has recently performed with the North Czech Philharmonic in Prague and studied with esteemed flutists such as Peter-Lukas Graf, Kersten McCall, William Bennett and Robert Stallman, in England and Austria, giving her fresh global perspectives on pedagogical and musical flute techniques.
Heather is proud to hold a Bachelor’s of Music degree from the University of British Columbia and is currently pursuing her Master’s of Music studies with the university’s world-renowned professor, Lorna McGhee.
Nadia Kyne, Flute
Canadian flutist Nadia Kyne first attracted national attention in 2001 when, at the age of sixteen, she was awarded the Grand Award at the National Music Festival Finals becoming one of the youngest competitors in any discipline to receive this honor. Since then, she has performed throughout Canada, the United States and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member. In April of 2011 she was appointed to the position of Assistant Principal Flute and Piccolo with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
A recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Galaxie Rising Stars Award”, Kyne has appeared as soloist with the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphonies, and has performed at the Stratford Music Festival, the Vancouver Recital Society’s “Summer Combustion” Chamber Music Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Pacific Music Festival.
Recent performance highlights include the world premiere of Evan Fein’s Sonata for Flute and Piano in New York City, performances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, as well as MoMA’s “Summergarden Series”, the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works and Process” series, and Axiom @ Le Poisson Rouge. Passionate about new and cross-genre music, Ms. Kyne has recently performed with the Axiom Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble and the New York-based indie rock band Vampire Weekend in a performance for MTV Unplugged.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Nadia Kyne began her flute studies with Jane Martin, Camille Churchfield and Brenda Fedoruk at the Vancouver Academy of Music. In 2003, she was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she held the Alma and Edwin Lakin Fellowship for flute study under Jeffrey Khaner, principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 2007 she was awarded the Irene Diamond Fellowship from the Juilliard School, where she received a Masters Degree in May, 2009.
