- Takao Tanabe
Takao Tanabe (16 September 1926) is a Canadian painter. Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, the son of a commercial fisherman, he was interned with other Japanese-Canadians in the British Columbia interior during World War II. The subjects of Takao Tanabe's paintings are almost exclusively landscapes of British Columbia.
- John Metcalf
John Metcalf (b. 1946) is a leading Welsh composer. A joint UK-Canadian citizen, his music has been widely performed throughout Europe, North America and elsewhere. His work has embraced a variety of forms, including several large-scale operas, choral and orchestral works, and a great deal of chamber music, both instrumental and vocal. Stylistically it has a strong tonal influence, but is often rhythmically complex, with much use of polyrhythms.
- David Hoyt
David Hoyt is a Canadian horn player and conductor. He studied piano (with Boris Roubakine, Karl Engel, and Alexandra Munn), French horn (with Philip Farkas, Pierre del Vescovo, and Eugene Rittich), and conducting (with Franco Mannino, Kurt Sanderling, and Pierre Boulez). In 1975, while a student at the University of Alberta, he became Principal Horn of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
- Sandy Stone
Allucquere Rosanne Stone (Sandy Stone) is an academic theorist and artist, currently Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab) and the New Media Initiative in the department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Concurrently she is Wolfgang Kohler Professor of Media and Performance at the European Graduate School EGS, senior artist at the Banff Centre, …
- Zsuzsi Gartner
Zsuzsi Gartner is a Canadian author and journalist. Gartner was born in Winnipeg, moving to Calgary in early childhood. She earned a BA in political science at the University of Calgary, later receiving an honours degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she currently resides. Gartner started her career as a newspaper and magazine journalist for a number of publications, …
- Jon Ballantyne
Jon Ballantyne (born 1963 in Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Jazz musician, composer, artist, and piano player who now resides in New York City, USA. Canadian-born Jon Ballantyne started playing piano at a very early age, and began formal study at the age of six. His father is also a pianist and both parents are jazz enthusiasts, therefore Jon was hearing the recordings of greats such as Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans and Duke Ellington from the beginning of his life.
- Susan McMaster
Susan McMaster (born 1950) is a Canadian poet, literary editor, and spoken word performer who lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Susan has published poetry books, wordmusic, performance poetry recordings, and scripts; edited collections and series; founded "Vernissage", the magazine of the National Gallery of Canada, and the national feminist magazine "Branching Out" (1973-); and was an original member of the intermedia group First Draft, (1981-), …
- Phillip Bush
Phillip Bush (born January 4 1961 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American classical pianist, with a career focusing primarily on chamber music and contemporary classical music. Phillip Bush was born to an American father and German mother. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where his father taught French at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Bush studied at the Peabody Conservatory with Leon Fleisher, …
- Alan Lund
Alan Lund (May 23, 1925 - July 1, 1992) was a Canadian dancer and choreographer, who worked in television, movies and theater. Lund trained as a dancer in his native Toronto and first established a performance reputation as a dance team with his wife Blanche, appearing during World War II in the revue "Meet the Navy". The couple became two of the first contract players for CBC television. Turning to choreography in the 1950s, Lund contributed to various productions, …
- Roddy Lumsden
Roddy Lumsden (born 1966) is a Scottish poet. Lumsden was born in St Andrews. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. His first book "Yeah Yeah Yeah" was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in the Best First Collection section. His second collection "The Book of Love" was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
- Bruce Livingstone
Bruce Livingstone (born January 25, 1971) is a Canadian entrepreneur. He was educated at the University of Calgary, Mount Royal College, Alberta College of Art and Design and The Banff Centre for the Arts. He pioneered the micropayment business model in stock photography when he created iStockPhoto. On February 9, 2006 iStockPhoto was acquired by Getty Images for $50 million USD.
- Conrad Bain
Conrad Stafford Bain (born February 4, 1923) is a Canadian-American actor. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Bain studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II. He then studied in New York at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included actor Charles Durning and comedian Don Rickles; he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946 then he graduated in 1948.
- Doug Lauchlan
Doug Lauchlan is a Canadian politician, minister and educator. From 1980 to 1982, he was the leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party. Lauchlan was an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, and was the President of Mount Royal College, Calgary during the 1970s. He also worked as an advisor to Lloyd Axworthy. In 1979, Lauchlan was a federal Liberal candidate in the Alberta riding of Calgary West. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative Jim Hawkes.
- Lawrence Heisey
William Lawrence Heisey, O.C., M.B.A. (born 1930) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was president and chairman of Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he went to Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute class of 1948, before receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Trinity College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
- Chloe Estree
Chloe Estree is a performance artist born in France. She started music as a little child inspired by Charlotte Moorman while growing up in Riyadh with the cello and trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School before studying the lute and music composition at the Royal College of Music and universities in Wales, England and France. Among the awards she has held are the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Scholarship (1996), …
- John Cullen Nugent
John Cullen Nugent, (b. January 5, 1921 -) is a Canadian sculptor and educator originally from Montreal. He studied at St John's University (Collegeville, Minn) where he formed many of his opinions that shaped his art. His early works reflected a liberal Catholic flavor. He moved to Saskatchewan where he produced religious works in silver and bronze. He later turned to welded steel abstracts. John Cullen taught for many years at the University of Regina.
- Paul Steven Lawrence
Paul Lawrence is a producer of instructional and educational media who resides in both New York City and New Haven, Connecticut. Over the past 16 years, Lawrence has produced and directed a wide variety of documentaries, commercial and interactive media projects. Lawrence was the executive producer of television and new media at the University of British Columbia, where he spearheaded the redevelopment of the university's television and multimedia production area, …
- Gretchen Schiller
Gretchen Schiller is a choreographer who works in the field of media dance: videodance, performance and interactive participatory installations. Her artistic research includes interactive screenographies and non-linear dynamic forms of movement mapping. She has produced various projects in residency at the Banff Centre of the Arts (Camara’96, Shifting Ground ’99, trajets ‘00 and the Raumspielpuzzle workshops ’03) and her works have toured in North America and Europe.
- Brenda Gorlick
Brenda Gorlick Musical Theatre Teacher An accomplished choreographer and performer, Ms Gorlick has been teaching musical theatre with the RWB School, creating award-winning pieces with her students, since 1990. She also visits and teaches at other schools in Winnipeg as part of the Manitoba Arts Council’s Artists in the Schools program. Before coming to the RWB School, Ms. Gorlick was a movement coach for the theatre program at the Banff Centre for the Arts.
- Jason Corey
- Che Anne Loewen
- Desmond Hoebig
Desmond Hoebig Cello, was appointed principal cello of The Cleveland Orchestra in 2003. Prior to that he was both principal cellist of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and associate professor at the Shepherd School of Music.
- Gwen Dobie
Gwen Dobie was the movement teacher and choreographer at the Banff Centre for the Opera as Theatre program during the 2003 & 2004 seasons. From 1998-2003 Gwen acted as St age Director and Manager of Opera Studio at the Victoria Conservatory of Music.
- Mary E. Hofstetter
Mary E. Hofstetter President and CEO, The Banff Centre
- Allene Hackleman
Allene Hackleman has been principal horn of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra since 2004. A native of Vancouver, Allene began studying the horn under the tutelage of her father, Martin Hackleman. She later attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, earning her bachelor of music degree in performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with Randy Gardner.
- Terrance Houle
- Tanya Ell
Tanya Ell 28-year-old cellist Tanya Ell has proven her impressive musical range and abilities, as soloist and chamber musician, on stages around the globe. Currently the youngest cellist in the Cleveland Orchestra, Ms. Ell has already performed with such notable musicians as Edgar Meyer (in Schubert's "Trout" Quintet at the Banff Centre), the Juilliard and Miró String Quartets, and Anthony Marwood of the Florestan Trio.
- Douglas Yeo
Douglas Yeo ’s website, www.yeodoug.com, continues to be recognized for its innovative content and design. A member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Concord, Massachusetts, he works closely with his pastor, Jerry Maguire, in the selection, writing and coordination of music and confessions for Sunday morning corporate worship. He is a member of the North American Brass Band Association board of directors and editor of NABBA’s official publication, “The Brass Band Bridge.”
- Robert McCosh
Robert joined the Calgary Philharmonic as Associate Principal Horn in 2000 and was acting Principal in 2002-2003. He was a guest artist at the IHS Banff Horn Summit, Call of the Wild Horn Festival, Banff Summer Arts Festival and has been active as a private teacher, coach of the Calgary Youth Orchestra and chamber musician. In 2003 he was appointed to Principal Horn of the CPO. Discussion Panels with Robert McCosh:
- Marilyn Hamilton
Marilyn Hamilton , Ph.D. Founder & President, Integral City
- Gordon Hasick
Dr. Gordon Hasick - Chiropractor/Producer Dr. Hasick graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in March 1980 and has been in private practice in Calgary since June 1980. Dr. Hasick became a board-certified instructor for the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association in 1989 and continues to teach on a regular basis.
- Holly
Having spent the better part of the last three years at sea where does one start. I have been working the cruise ships in the entertainment department. I am a trained theatrical technician but black is not my colour of choice. When one spends so much time in the dark you just need to break free and wear red. I am a very open and outgoing spirit.
- Rhonda Martin
About Me. Well, let's see now. So many years laying in shreds behind me and many more years waiting in eager anticipation to be used and abused. But about me. Hmmm...I think all I can honestly say is that I was born approx. 29 years ago, that I grew up on the reserve living a presumably "normal" life, but what's normal right? Throughout highschool I moved back and forth from CLFN to Timmins to CLFN and so on.
- Alex Neumann
starting grad school at BU. getting used to life in boston.
- Andre N. Mamprin
Andre N. Mamprin Andre Mamprin is richly experienced in leadership development. Before co-creating The Next Institute, Andre served as Director of Leadership Development at The Banff Centre - one of Canada's premier centres for leadership - where he led a renewal of the entire suite of highly experiential leadership development programs. He was instrumental in the design and delivery of leadership and organizational development programs for a wide range of industry clients.
- Doug MacNamara
Doug Macnamara President, Banff Executive Leadership Inc. Doug Macnamara 's Bio
- Kelly Bale
Ms Bale received her classical ballet training in her hometown of Regina, Saskatchewan. She has studied at various esteemed programs/schools such as the Quinte Ballet School, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School Professional Division. Ms Bale is a graduate of the RWB School Professional Division Teacher Training Program and currently holds her Associate with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (Cecchetti faculty).
- Brian Calliou
Brian Calliou became the Program Director for The Banff Centre's Aboriginal Leadership and Management in August 2003. He brings a wealth of experience to this role. Aside from being the former Associate Director of the Aboriginal Leadership and Management programs from 2000 to 2002, Brian has served on a number of Boards.
- Paul Bro
Paul Bro Paul Bro has performed throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and Taiwan. As a soloist, Bro has recently performed concertos with the U.S. Navy Band, the Royal Air Force Band of Belgium, the Tambov Symphony Orchestra (Russia), and the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra.
- Christopher Millard
Christopher Millard has received wide praise for his solo recordings, which include several discs for Summit Records, a CBC records disc of Italian concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Radio Orchestra. His most recent recordings include a new Schubert Octet with the Canadian Chamber Players, and the Hetu Bassoon Concerto, which was awarded a 2004 Juno.