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String
Instructors
Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Fiddle
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Rachael
Cardiello - Violin, Viola, Fiddle
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| Rachael Cardiello is a classically trained violist, going
into her fourth year of study with Joanna Hood at the University of Victoria's
School of Music. She has experience teaching art as well as beginning
violin, fiddle and piano. Originally from Montana, Rachael has been performing
with a local band, Blue Richard and the Apricots, with which she presents
her original compositions on viola, piano, guitar, and ukulele. She is
greatly looking forward to expanding her music to connect with other art
forms such as dance and spoken word.
View her work at www.myspace.com/bluerichardandtheapricots
and www.myspace.com/rachaelcardiello.
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Tyler
Hall - Violin, Viola, Fiddle
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Tyler began
his viola studies in elementary school at the age of 11. He took advantage
of many of the musical opportunities available in Victoria, including
several years in the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra, the Victoria
Performing Arts Festival, and a variety of chamber music programs. He studied pedagogy under the renowned violinist and teacher Sidney
Humphries. Tyler has been teaching violin, viola, and fiddle, to students
of all ages since 2002. While Tyler's background is mostly classical,
his taste in music is extremely eclectic. He plays amplified viola with
a local band, "The Insignificant Figures." |
Nathan Jacklin - Cello |
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 Nathan Jacklin is from Regina, Saskatchewan, and is currently a Music Education major at the University of Victoria. He has studied cello with Cameron Lowe and Pamela Highbaugh-Aloni. Nathan also sings in various choirs, as well as playing both the piano and bassoon.
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Julie Kennedy - "Fiddling Fun" Group Classes |
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 Julie Kennedy is a graduate of the University of Victoria’s Bachelor of Music Performance program and has been playing violin for 15 years. Julie was the concertmaster of the 2007 National Youth Orchestra of Canada and was awarded the Stephen Sitarski Leadership Scholarship for demonstration of outstanding leadership in the orchestra. In 2008, she was concertmaster of the Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra. Currently, Julie plays as an extra musician with the Victoria Symphony and the highly acclaimed Galiano Ensemble of Victoria. She also performs regularly around Victoria with her sister, Carli, as a member of their duo, “The Kennedys”.
Julie enjoys writing her own music, as well as singing and playing piano. Julie has over seven years of teaching experience in a variety of styles, including classical, jazz, and fiddle. Visit her website at http://www.cjkennedy.com
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Fallon
Lindsay - Fiddle
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 Fallon
started playing the violin at 7. She started off studying classical violin,
picking up fiddle early on in her playing. Fallon has performed and played
with fiddlers such as Daniel Lapp and Ivonne Hernandez. Fallon has performed
with various groups in a wide variety of fiddle styles. She has had the
pleasure of playing with the Victoria Symphony for the Celtic Celebration,
in various pubs, and local venues. She has been teaching since 2005 in
Sidney and over on Salt spring Island. She teaches all different styles
of fiddle and up to intermediate levels of classical violin. She has hosted
many group classes including preschool programs for young violinists,
music theory workshops, and small ensemble groups.
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Chloe McConchie - Violin |
 Born and raised in Victoria, Chloe McConchie (nee Kohut) began violin lessons at the age of 3. In 1999 she obtained her Bachelors of Music Degree in performance at the University of Victoria and later completed an Artist Diploma in Toronto at the Glenn Gould School of Music at the R.C.M. Chloe’s principal teachers were: Frona Colquhoun, Yasuko Eastman, Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Lorand Fenyves. She also studied in Europe with Denes Zsigmondy.
As a soloist Chloe has played with several orchestras. She performed Mendelssohn’s violin concerto with the Cowichan Consort, and Prokofiev’s violin concerto with the University of Victoria orchestra. On two occasions she joined her sister Mieka to perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola with the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra and later with the Victoria Symphony.
In addition to solo appearances Chloe plays on occasion with the Victoria Symphony and has played with the Palm Court Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony and Okanagan Symphony.
In 2006 Chloe pursued her dream of becoming an elementary school teacher and completed her Bachelor’s of Education Degree in Calgary. Since then she has been teaching in the Calgary, Abbotsford, Langley and now Victoria school districts. Chloe enjoys inspiring her students to achieve excellence in lessons that are engaging, focused and fun. Chloe divides her time teaching in Victoria schools, teaching violin at Larsen Music and freelancing as a violinist in Victoria.
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Trav
Short - Electric and Upright Bass |
 Trav
fell in love with the electric bass guitar in 1991 and the seed of
a instrumental experimentor was planted. In
1994 he attended the music program at Grant MacEwan College. He hated
it so he quit before the end of the first year and began composing
and performing. But while there, a much larger world of music was
presented to him and the best lessons he took to heart. How to practice,
how to work hard and how to listen and play what Trav would play.
Since
his old college days Trav has performed and/or recorded with many
songwriters from all different styles. He has provided the "low
end" for local theatre and dance and has performed many times
with various avant-guard/musique actuelle collectives. The drive to
create & perform original music led to the birth of his group
'AUDio SQUADron' in 2002 where, on top of his bass duties, he could
experiment with synthesis, samples and other electronic sound manipulations.
The same year saw him join the world-beat fusion group 'Moksha' which
released their first CD 'Lady Sun' in 2004. Self produced AUDio SQUADron
albums followed in 2006 and 2008.
Playing
fretless electric bass in Moksha sparked his current love affair, the
upright bass, which he has studied with Ioan Tetel, Mike Lent and
currently with Han Han Cho. Trav is presently making many jazz and
classical type sounds and exploring his new found voice on the double bass.
Over the last 5 years he has had the privilege to play and perform
live on this giant fiddle with many other freelance musicians and
instrumentalists.
Trav
has been teaching private bass lessons for the last 15 years. He feels
very passionate about this part of his musical journey. His past and
present army of bass students is 500 strong and growing every day.
Trav can easily grow
an army of bass players but cannot, to save his life, grow a beard.
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Sophie Wooding - Violin |
 Sophie has played violin for fifteen years, most of which were spent under the instructorship of Lucia Schipperus at the Langley Community Music School on the mainland. Many of these were also spent in the school’s string orchestra, fiddling groups and various smaller ensembles. She has also played in UVic’s full orchestra and enjoys freelance work as a group performer for community events. Her teaching experience started in 2002, with a private business called The Music Staff. |
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