Brenda Zadorsky (B.Mus. Hons, B.Ed W.C.A.M.) is a highly sought after voice teacher, clinician, adjudicator and soprano soloist. She co-founded the Amabile Youth Singers in 1985 and has won numerous honours for her work with the Amabile Youth Singers and the Amabile Chamber Choir. She has acted as a clinician and adjudicator at several national and international conferences over the years and has been a guest conductor for numerous choral organizations. Her extensive experience as a music consultant and teacher with the Thames Valley District Board of Education spans some 30 years and she currently holds the position of choral director at St. Mary's Choir and Orchestra School. During her tenure as consultant, she founded the London Board of Education's Non-Competitive Music Festival in 1990. In 1991, she co-founded the Victoria Academy of Music. As a specialist in choral music for youth, Brenda taught music education methodology for the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Music where she was awarded several certificates for outstanding teaching. Brenda received the Don Wright Scholarship for Choral Conducting, and in 2002, she was presented with the Canadian Learning Tree Award. She is principal of the Zadorsky School of Music and over the years, her students have consistently won major scholarships at festivals as well as entrance scholarships into universities and have continued with performing careers in Canada and abroad. Others have gone on to teach at the university level. Brenda recently performed the soprano solos for Mozart’s Requiem in Little Rock Arkansas. Brenda conducts three Amabile choirs: the Amabile Youth Singers, the Amabile Young Women’s Ensemble, and Prima, a newly formed adult alumnae choir.

John Barron (B.Mus, M.M.) was the Music Consultant with the Middlesex County Board of Education, Southwestern Ontario for 24 years. In 1976, he spent a year in Kecskemét, Hungary, studying the Kodály concept of music education. When he returned to Canada, he devoted considerable energy to adopting the Kodály principles for use in Canadian schools. He wrote eight music programme planning guides for students from Kindergarten to Grade Eight within the Kodály philosophy. In 1983, he was awarded an Honorary diploma and Centennial Commemorative Medal of Zoltán Kodály for his outstanding contribution to the knowledge of the composer's work. In the choral field, John Barron is a recipient of the Ontario Choral Federation Silver Anniversary Award for distinguished service to choral music in Ontario. His early choral experiences included singing under the direction of Dr. Healey Willan and Dr. Elmer Iseler. In 1975-76, he conducted the Ontario Youth Choir, leading it to win two major choral competitions: the CBC Biennial Choral Competition and the Rose Bowl in the BBC International Choral Competition "Let the Peoples Sing". John is a clinician and adjudicator of wide experience in North America. His publications include the three-part award-winning series of Canadian folk-song arrangements Reflections of Canada and a French version, Reflets du Canada that he edited. He is the author of a delightful music textbook aimed at helping very young children develop choral skills, entitled Ride With Me - A Journey from Unison to Part-Singing.

Jacquelyn Norman (B.Mus., Hons. Ed., B. Ed.) is in her 17th year as an artistic leader with Amabile. Jackie is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Music and Faculty of Education. She received her Kodály Certification from the university and teaches with the Thames Valley District School Board as an elementary teacher and junior-intermediate music specialist. Jackie brings a wealth of choral experience to the Junior Amabile Singers as an alumna of the Ontario Youth Choir and UWO Faculty of Music Singers. In 1991, she joined the Junior Amabile Singers as a vocal coach and assumed the position of conductor the following year; she is the founding conductor of the Amabile Da Capo Choir. Jackie maintains a private studio for young singers (several of whom have now gone on to pursue music degrees at university). She has also performed as a mezzo soprano soloist with local orchestras but now finds her time otherwise occupied with her daughter, a busy preschooler.

Wendy Landon is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Education. Wendy currently teaches at Lester B. Pearson School for the Arts in London where she is a Junior Music specialist. She is also a part-time instructor at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Education and has been a workshop presenter for the Thames Valley District School Board. Wendy enjoys her work as co-conductor of the Pearson Singers, the Junior Amabile Singers, and the Amabile Da Capo Choir. Wendy was the former co-conductor of the London Youth Symphony Young Strings Program, as well as the All City Choir and the Kettle Creek Kids Choir.

Allison Berkshire-Eagles is a vocal coach, accompanist, and chamber musician in high demand in the London musical community. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from Mount Allison University and a Masters degree in Collaborative Piano from the University of Western Ontario. In addition to coaching and performing, Allison also teaches voice and piano to students of all ages.

Jeanine Warkentin began studying piano at the age of three and throughout her elementary years, she won numerous awards, scholarships, and trophies in Kiwanis Festivals and provincial competitions. Highlights include performing as a guest soloist with the Niagara Youth Orchestra and the St. Catharines Symphony. She received her A.R.C.T. and A.T.C.L. Piano Performers’s diplomas at age 13. Over the years, she has given a number of benefit concerts and has been involved accompanying various school and church choirs and bands. Jeanine studied nuclear medicine at the University of Toronto and the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, graduating in 2006 with the gold medal. She currently works full-time as a nuclear medicine technologist at the London Health Sciences Centre.

Wendy Pauls accompanies the Da Capo Choir and she balances this work with teaching music to elementary students at Nicholas Wilson Public School in London, and caring for her three daughters. In addition to piano, her training includes an ARCT in flute, undergraduate vocal study, and pedagogical certification in Kodàly method. She is a past conductor of the Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir in Kitchener-Waterloo.

Cathy Lourenco is an hounours graduate of the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. She holds her A.R.C.T. teacher’s diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Cathy is also a highly regarded soprano soloist and organist at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. She is in her sixth year teaching and is currently at Catholic Central High School in London. In addition to teaching, Cathy also teaches voice and piano to young students and adults. She has been a proud member of the Amabile family for more than 12 years.

Rebecca Lubos is a graduate in Nursing from the University of Western Ontario and prior to that graduated from Catholic Central High School.

Laura Thompson received her Bachelors degree in music and education form the University of Western Ontario. She teaches at the Thames Valley District School Board and has taught private lessons in London for the past eight years.

Dr. Carol Beynon is the founding, co-artistic director of the Amabile Boys and Men's Choirs, Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in Music Education at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Beynon is a specialist in vocal and choral development specializing in unchanged and changed male voices. She serves as a clinician and adjudicator for music festivals in Canada and around the world. Dr. Beynon is the author of the book Learning to Teach published by Pearson Canada, 2001 and she has a second edited publication under review entitled, Critical Perspectives in Canadian Music Education. She has received several awards for outstanding teaching from the University Students’ Council and in 2007 was named the Woman of Excellence in Arts, Culture and Heritage in London, Ontario and community.

For 30 years, Ken Fleet taught choral and instrumental music at Medway High School and developed one of the largest and most successful choral programs in Ontario. For 12 of those years, Ken also taught choral conducting and music education at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. Currently he is teaching intermediate/senior music at Western’s Faculty of Education and choral conducting at the Don Wright Faculty of Music. Ken is in his 21st year as conductor of London Pro Musica and his 10th year with Amabile. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2008, Ken was chosen as one of the ten inaugural inductees into the Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music “Wall of Fame” and in 2009, he was honoured as recipient of The Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Arts Council. Ken is also the past president of Choirs Ontario.

Don Sills is a graduate of the Don Wright Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Education at the University of Western Ontario. Don taught Elementary school music for five years and is currently a teacher and conductor within the award-winning vocal and choral music program at Catholic Central High School in London, Ontario. Don has been a proud member of the Amabile family for 12 years and thoroughly enjoys his time working with the TTC and TCC and singing with Primus.

Jeff Beynon is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and is in his fourth year as a vocal and instrumental music teacher at Medway High School, where he is continuing the traditions of choral excellence established at that school over the past 50 years. He taught previously at Sir Wilfrid Laurier and HB Beal Secondary Schools in London. Jeff is one of the founding members of the Amabile Boys and Men's Choirs, and is a current member of Primus.

For the past 15 years, Bonnie Shewan Burroughs has performed, toured and recorded with the Amabile Boys and Men’s Choirs, and currently plays for AYME and Primus. After graduating in Piano Performance from U.W.O. with Dr. Damjana Bratuz, she studied and attended master classes in Salzburg, Vienna, Siena and London, England. She has performed chamber music with leading instrumentalists, premiered many newly commissioned works, and recorded with the Ardeleana Trio, a CD of contemporary Canadian trios.

Rosemary Bannerman holds a Music Performance degree in pipe organ from the Faculty of Music at The University of Western Ontario and currently teaches vocal and instrumental music at the elementary school level for the Thames Valley District School Board. In 2005 she received the Thames Valley Award of Distinction for her work as music director for numerous bands, choirs and ensembles at Wilfrid Jury Public School. Her choirs, bands and ensembles regularly compete at the Kiwanis Music Festival of London and frequently receive awards and scholarships. In 2008, the Wilfrid Jury Waterfalls Vocal Ensemble was honoured with a Gold Award at the National Musicfest in Ottawa. Her past accompanying experiences include The Woodstock Fanshawe Concert Singers and past conducting experiences include the Kettle Creek Kids Choir in St. Thomas, Ontario and KidSing in Strathroy, Ontario.

Bruce Hewitt is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where he earned a diploma in piano performance and degrees in instrumental music, education and economics. Bruce is a choir director and organist at St. Michael’s Parish in London and has performed professionally as a baritone. He has taught at eight elementary schools and three secondary schools where he has directed choirs and bands. He has been a music director for many school and community musicals. Bruce currently teaches music, mathematics and drama at Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School in London.