Donald Cameron (1901-03-06 - 1989-02-13) was a Canadian academic and politician. Born in Devonport, England, he emigrated to Canada when he was 5. He received a Master of Science degree in agriculture from the University of Alberta in 1934. From 1936 to 1956, he was a professor at the University of Alberta and was head of the Banff School of Fine Arts. He help found the Banff School of Advanced Management in 1952.

John Vernon (February 24, 1932 - February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.

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.

Molly Johnson is a Canadian pop and jazz vocalist and songwriter. Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts. The child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson's story starts in the mid-1960s when as a young grade schooler, she and her brother, Clark Johnson, were tapped by Toronto producer Ed Mirvish to appear in "Porgy and Bess" at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

George Ryga (July 27, 1932 - November 18, 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist. Ryga was born in Deep Creek, Alberta to poor Ukrainian immigrant parents. Unable to continue his schooling past grade six, he worked at a variety of jobs, including radio copywriter. Ryga continued to study, taking correspondence courses, and winning a scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Douglas Rain is a Canadian actor and narrator who was born in 1928 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is primarily a stage actor but, in film, his most famous role was as the voice for HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the sequel "2010: The Year We Make Contact". Douglas Rain studied acting at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta as well as in London at the Old Vic School.

Susanna Blunt is a Canadian portrait artist who designed the most recent portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the current Canadian coinage, which began in 2003. She was born in Harbin, China, the daughter of an English banker. Blunt started her studies at the Banff School of Fine Arts as a young teenager. After finishing high school she had a year of private lessons in Victoria, British Columbia. She moved to London, England and did four years of art school, …

William G. Hobbs (May 16, 1927) was born in Alderney in the Channel Islands and settled in Canada in 1959. Notwithstanding the considerable demands in time alone imposed upon him by his role of physician and surgeon in a rural community, he managed to develop a technical skill in painting which won him first prize in a major Canadian art show in 1978. Hobbs was a long time practicing physician in the Southeast Saskatchewan and Southwestern Manitoba area.

Sheldon Oberman (May 20, 1949 - March 26, 2004) was an award-winning Canadian children's writer who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg, Oberman (known to friends as Obie) grew up in the city's North End. After graduating from St. Johns High School, he studied literature first at the University of Winnipeg and then at the University of Jerusalem. Oberman lived and travelled through Canada, Europe and the Middle East before he returned to Winnipeg in 1973, …

Karen X. Tulchinsky is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, anthologist and screenwriter from Vancouver, British Columbia. Tulchinsky attended the Banff School of Fine Arts (1981) and graduated from York University with a BFA in 1982. =Literary career= Tulchinsky has edited several literary anthologies. Her collection of short stories "In Her Nature" (1996), was awarded the 1996 VanCity Book Prize.

Phil Nimmons is widely acknowledged as a unique performer, composer, educator, clinician and artistic director of music programs. He is a multimedia composer of over 400 original contemporary classical and jazz compositions written for stage, television, radio, and film, in addition to hundreds of jazz orchestrations. He graduated in pre-Med from the University of British Columbia in 1944, but soon turned his focus to Music.

Wes Olson , Author Wes Olson was born in 1954, in the rugged foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. There on family camping, hunting, and fishing trips began a life-long association with wild places, and the people and wildlife that live in or near them.

Dr. Gillian Mackay Music Director and Conductor, 2001 Dr. Gillian MacKay is a native of Prince Edward Island, and was raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. Gillian enjoys a busy career as both a trumpeter and a conductor. Gillian’s musical training took her throughout Canada and into the United States. She holds music degrees from the University of Lethbridge, McGill University, and a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University.

Elizabeth has worked as an adjudicator for BC Drama Festivals, juror for the Canada Council and Arts Council of BC. She received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal for contribution to Canadian Theatre for Young Audiences, as well as the CFAX Radio Awards "Arts Person of the Year" for Victoria.

Laurie Alston , ARAD Jazz Teacher Ms Alston received extensive training in ballet, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop and musical theatre growing up in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also trained at various studios around the world, including Randolph Academy for Performing Arts, Metro Movement, the Banff School of Fine Arts, the Broadway Dance Center and EDGE.

Loren Chabot has been painting all of his life. His family supported and fostered his early artistic inclinations by enrolling him in the Shepy International School of Art, at the age of 6. He studied there for 12 years, mastering the techniques of drawing, pastels, watercolors, sculpture and oils, eventually becoming the youngest instructor in the history of the school. In 1974 he attended the Banff School of Fine Arts.

Sam Cancellara Sam holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance from the University of Toronto where he studied with Professor Stephen Chennette. He has studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts with the Canadian Brass, Armando Ghitalla, Robert Nagel and David Hickman as well as in Toronto with Larry Weeks. Further studies have taken him to The Aspen Music Festival in Colorado with members of The American Brass Quintet.

Frances Moore , violin/viola instructor and Director of the LMU Chamber Orchestra, has displayed her talent as a soloist for the Claremont Chamber Orchestra, as a featured soloist on CBS Sunday Morning, and as Concertmaster for the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra.

Laurie Matthew Duncan was born in Winnipeg in 1956. In the mid-late 1960s, he studied cello and theory with Dr. Peggie Sampson. He obtained his ARCM, studying piano with Phyllis Sellick at the Royal College of Music in London, England, in 1973/74. 1975 marked Duncan's first public recital as a pianist. In 1977, Duncan was the winner of the Young Artists' Competition of the Canadian Music Teachers' Association, and as a result, toured Western Canada.

Dr. Thomson's choreographic credits span dance, theatre and opera. She was Artistic Director/Choreographer for Northern Lights Dance Theatre from 1984 - 1990, creating over 22 premieres, including Callings, Tables, Life Out of Balance and Only the Drowning and she has created dance premieres for Ballet Jorgen, Canadian Children's Dance Theatre and Dance Works Co-Works.

Ms. Wiersma Uchimura received bachelor of music degrees in theory and piano from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the master of music degree in pedagogy from the University of South Carolina. She has also studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts and in New York with Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky.

Cynthia Drexler Cynthia has been with SDCC for 2 years. She is a very dedicated string instructor. Her motto is to teach students to respect their craft and their own abilities; to play their instruments correctly and with artistry; and to motivate them to be their own teacher by instilling self-discipline and proper practicing techniques.

Ryan Selberg is in his 32th season as principal cellist of the Utah Symphony. Originally from Los Angeles, Ryan began playing the cello in a 5th grade elementary string class. In the 6th grade he began taking private lessons, although his first teacher said he had no talent and suggested that he might consider doing something else.

Tony Wypkema Tony has been in the publishing field for twelve years. He received a bachelor of applied arts degree in journalism from the nationally acclaimed journalism department of Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto. Among other jobs, he has worked as a reporter, photographer and managing editor for the Mosaic chain of community newspapers in Toronto, and has had news stories published in the Globe and Mail and Toronto Star newspapers.

Shae Hadden –Marketing Consultant Go consultant Shae Hadden specializes in creating and finessing online marketing communications. During the past five years, she has written and edited diverse Web-based and print materials--from online newsletters, Web sites, landing pages and articlesto press releases, brochures and corporate video scripts.

Don Coles (1928- ), poet, was born in Woodstock, Ontario, and educated at the University of Toronto (B.A., 1949, M.A., 1952) and Cambridge University (M.A., 1953). He spent a decade traveling around Europe and lived in London, Stockholm, Florence, Munich, Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Zurich, an experience that profoundly influenced the content and tone of his subsequent poetry.