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Dr. Edward Turgeon has performed with noted musicians of our time including Sidney Harth, James Campbell, CheeYun, David Jolley, Ivan Chan, Keith Robinson, Michael Rusinek, Michael Webster, John Dee, Ransom Wilson and Laura Gilbert.

As a member of the piano duo “Duo Turgeon”, with his wife Anne, Edward has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, a 16-concert Russian tour and music festivals in Chicago, San Francisco, St. Petersburg, San Diego, Detroit, Santa Rosa, Toronto, Montreal, Norfolk, Minsk, Krasnoyarsk, Chisinau, Miami and Kitchener.   The duo is the only Canadian piano duo to have taken first prizes and numerous additional special prizes at the world’s major international duo piano competitions including the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition (Miami) and Schubert International Competition for Piano Duos (Czech Republic). Their performances and six CD recordings on the Vanguard Classics, Marquis Classics, Marquis/EMI, Dranoff Foundation and ClassXdiscs labels are hailed by critics, including several “top ten” lists (CBC), “Artist of the Month” (CBC Galaxy) and high ratings from classical periodicals and CD guides such as La Scena Musicale (5 out of 5 stars), “Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano”, Wholenote Magazine, Musicweb, Soundstage, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Sound Advice” (5 out of 5 stars).  Upcoming recording projects include works for duet and two pianos by Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, and various Spanish composers. The Turgeons have given world premiere performances of works by Alex Pauk, Libby Larsen, Aaron Copland and John Corigliano. Noted French music critic Stephan Villemin recently named Duo Turgeon as “among the top four or five world class piano duos of our time”, and they have been included in the French book “Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano”. Their performances have been heard in radio broadcasts worldwide, including several on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today”.

Turgeon is a featured pianist in the NPR television documentary “Two Pianos – One Passion”, and major North American radio stations including MPR, WPR, WQXR, WGBH, CBC Radio I and II.  International broadcasts include Dutch Public Radio, radio documentaries on BBC Radio I and II and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Turgeon was recently invited to join the international roster of Steinway artists.

Turgeon appears frequently as a competition judge, most recently at the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition, the Chicago Liszt 200 International Competition, Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition (Serbia) Markham Music Festival, National Society of Arts and Letters Competition, Hamilton Kiwanis, Premio Brazil International and the national finals of the Canadian Music Competition. Upcoming adjudicating includes the Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival.

Dr. Turgeon’s college, conservatory and university work has included Associate Professor of Music and Artist Faculty in Collaborative Arts at the HARID Conservatory, Associate Professor of Music, Director of Keyboard Studies, Director of Collaborative arts and ensemble-in-residence at Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of the Arts, Boca Raton, Florida. He is a Founding Teacher for Royal American Conservatory Examinations, the National Music Certificate Program, and the Carnegie Hall Achievement Program. Turgeon has served as senior examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music’s College of Examiners since 1990.

Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Toronto along with the Forsyth Memorial Scholarship for top graduating pianist, where he studies with Mr. James Anagnoson.  After serving as Co-Ordinator of the Music Department at Algoma University College in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, from 1988 until 1991, he left to pursued graduate studies at Yale University School of Music, earning a Master of Music (1993), Master of Musical Arts (1994) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance, along with the Philip Nelson and Catherine Winchell Memorial Scholarships to “an outstanding solo piano performance major”, as well as Yale’s special prize for best chamber music ensemble. Turgeon’s piano teachers at Yale included Claude Frank, Peter Frankl and Boris Berman.  Turgeon’s summer studies included a chamber music fellowship at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, masterclasses at Holland Music Sessions, chamber music studies with members of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra at the Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Festival in Weikersheim, Germany, and annual piano masterclass studies at Banff Centre for Music and Sound, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Additional teachers included Marek Jablonski (Banff) , Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Peter Serkin (New York).

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Credentials: BMus (Carleton University)

Frank Deresti is a musician, composer, performer, recording artist, and teacher. His adventurous approach to life and music has taken him across the country several times as a singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist with various acts covering an impressive range of styles and genres.

Frank began studying the guitar at the age of 8, and received an Honours Bachelor of Music Degree from Carleton University in classical guitar performance in 2000. Since then he has maintained an active performing, teaching, and recording career. 

As a sideman, band leader, co-writer, or session player, Frank brings an undeniable enthusiasm, skill, and love of music to every project. His recording credits include contributions to dozens of releases, as well as offerings to the world of film and podcast soundtracks. Always an enthusiastic collaborator, Frank continues to pursue new opportunities for cooperative music-making, and new experiences to stoke the creative fires. 

A passionate and inspired teacher, Frank is a guitar, theory, bass and songwriting instructor at the Algoma Conservatory of Music, where he is the founding director of the Guitar Ensemble program. He has mentored several classical, jazz and popular guitar students, many of whom have gone on to receive awards at the provincial level, established themselves in successful music careers, and/or continued on a lifelong path of music-making and enjoyment. He has also been an adjunct professor and director of jazz studies at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie since 2001, where he has developed and teaches courses in guitar, bass, jazz theory and improvisation, songwriting, the music business, and various ensembles.

Frank continues to actively seek out new avenues to expand his musical pallet and to help elevate his own and others’ projects to new levels.

Canadian pianist, Anne Louise-Turgeon earned a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Toronto (1989) and an Eaton Award for top graduate. That same year she joined the keyboard faculty at Algoma University College in Ontario, Canada.  She completed graduate studies at Yale University School of Music, earning her Master of Music (1993), Master of Musical Arts (1994), and Doctor of Musical Arts (2000) degrees in piano performance, as well as the school’s highest graduating honor, the Dean’s Award. Dr. Turgeon also holds a Master of Arts Degree (2009) in composition from Florida Atlantic University.

As soloist, Dr. Louise-Turgeon has taken prizes in the Cleveland and Sydney International Piano Competitions, a Government of Canada Award for Achievement in the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Award for advanced solo studies. She appears on Albany Records performing solo piano music by Ezra Laderman. With her husband, Edward, Dr. Louise-Turgeon has appeared at the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam,  Carnegie Hall’s “Weill Recital Hall”, Music Toronto, Hamilton Philharmonic, Massey Hall (Toronto), New World Symphony Orchestra, Minsk Philharmonic, Festival Miami, FIU Stravinsky Symposium, Esprit Orchestra, Sanibel Chamber Festival, Norfolk Chamber Festival, Austin Chamber Festival, Novosibirsk Philharmonic, San Francisco International Chamber Festival, Montreal International Two Piano Festival, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), Chicago International Two Piano Festival, Salkind Two Piano Festival, Festival Duettissimo, Dranoff Foundation and the World Piano Conference.  She has given world premiere performances of works by Copland, Corigliano and Pauk. Radio and television appearances include ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.), Netherlands Public Radio, CBC I & II, “Arts National”, NPR “Performance Today”, BBC I & II, WGBH Boston, WPR, WFMT Chicago, MPR, and the PBS documentary “Two Pianos – One Passion”. As a member of Duo Turgeon, Dr. Louise-Turgeon took first prize in the International Schubert Competition (Czech Republic) and the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. Her recordings on Vanguard Classics, Marquis Classics, Marquis/EMI,  Dranoff Foundation, ClassXdiscs, and Albany labels have received acclaim, including 5 out of 5 from la Scena Musicale, CBC “Sound Advice”, Les Grandes Pianistes et le Piano, Wholenote Magazine, Musicweb, and Soundstage. Dr. Turgeon’s performances and recordings have appeared on classical top ten lists.

Dr. Louise-Turgeon has been a member of the Royal Conservatory (Toronto) College of Examiners, and faculty member at Mount Holyoke College, Yale University, Algoma University College, Algoma Conservatory, and the Harid Conservatory. Dr. Turgeon serves as Co-President of the World Piano Teachers Association, Florida chapter, keyboard faculty and ensemble-in-residence member at Florida Atlantic University. She has served as adjudicator for regional, national, and international competitions, including the Dranoff International Two Piano Competition and the Canadian Music Competition.

Dr. Louise-Turgeon’s upcoming judging includes the Chicago Liszt 200 International Competition, and the Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition (Serbia).

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Agnes McCarthy is a Senate Adjunct Professor of Voice at Algoma University where she teaches private voice, Musical Theatre Ensemble and Elementary Music Methods courses. In addition to her work at AlgomaU she is Director of Sault Ste. Marie’s newest performing arts studio The Northern Arts Academy, providing comprehensive interdisciplinary training for singers with diverse musical interests. Agnes also serves as a music specialist with the Algoma District School Board.

After completing her B. Mus. / B. Mus. Ed. degrees at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Agnes moved to Montréal where she completed a Master’s Performance degree in Early Music Performance at McGill University in the studio of Canadian countertenor Allan Fast. She then relocated to Sault Ste. Marie as part of the Artist in Residence Program at Algoma University and has since served in the capacities of performer, voice instructor, choral conductor and coordinator of the vocal division of the Sault Ste Marie Music Festival. Agnes’ choirs and private students have distinguished themselves by winning numerous national awards, and many have gone on to professional careers.

Agnes has spent her professional career in Sault Ste. Marie deeply involved in the musical life of the community as a teacher and performer. She has collaborated with The Algoma Conservatory of Music, The Sault Symphony, The Algoma Chamber Players, The Chamber Singers of Algoma, The Algoma Festival Choir and with The Musical Comedy Guild of Sault Ste. Marie as Vocal Director for their productions of Les Misérables and Jesus Christ Superstar. She is also active as a choral and voice clinician and festival adjudicator.

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Paul Dingle began his musical journey studying harpsichord and early music in England with Valda Aveling and Edgar Hunt at Trinity College London. A Bachelor of Music degree in musicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland followed, then a Master’s Performance degree in piano at Brandon University. Upon returning to his native Newfoundland, he founded and was Artistic Director and Conductor of the Terra Nova Chamber Players, a professional orchestra specializing in Baroque music. Paul was also a composer and performer in the experimental multimedia group Fusion, an ensemble dedicated to high-technology arts productions involving analog, digital and hybrid synthesis, as well as a contributor to Sound Symposium, a biannual festival of new music, art, and dance. Paul’s first recording for CBC
FM radio broadcast in 1976 as a young pianist was his introduction to the world of audio and recording technology, an experience that has become a lifelong passion. Later studies in recording technology, acoustics and psychoacoustics led to a research interest in the historical interface between music and technology, and how the two have always been inextricably entwined in the formation of new styles, form, content, perception, medium and sense of narrative.

Paul is currently active as a performer, conductor, clinician, adjudicator and teacher. As Senate Adjunct Professor at Algoma University, Paul teaches music history, popular culture, orchestral and choral conducting, piano, audio arts and gaming audio technology. He is also Co-Director of The Northern Arts Academy and Organist & Choirmaster at Central United Church in Sault Ste. Marie.

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Bobbi Gasparelli received an Honours Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Western Ontario in 1994, where she studied Clarinet under Robert Sheffield. She would go on to receive her Bachelor of Education from the University of Windsor in 1996. Currently residing in Sault Ste. Marie, she is a member of the Sault Symphony Orchestra, and has been a member since 1997. Bobbi has been teaching Instrumental Music for the Algoma District School Board since 1996 , and has been teaching at Korah Collegiate since 1998.

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Through her four albums and extensive performance schedule across North America, Canadian pianist Andree-Ann Deschenes is recognized as one of the world’s foremost advocates of the Latin American piano repertoire. For her efforts, The Whole Note celebrates her as a “very gifted pianist” with “a tremendous amount of energy, humour and astonishing talent”, while her career has gained the attention of outlets such as The Villa-Lobos Magazine, Classical Post, MainlyPiano, and Voyage LA.

Deschenes’ recording career is formidable, with an output as decorated as it is prolific. Praise in the media comes from the blog Music for Several Instruments, who remarked that Deschenes “puts across the regional Brazilian folkloric flavour with cool clarity,” as well as The Whole Note, who celebrated her third album, Villa Lobos / Castro, as “a rich program revealing… skill and artistic mastery.”

Further recognition has come for her most recent album, The Ovalle Project (2018), a comprehensive two-disc record that revives the work of late Brazilian composer Jayme Ovalle—as of now the only commercially available recording of his piano works. In reviewing the album, Classical Post called Deschenes “the perfect person to take on [Ovalle’s music] and bring life back into his works,” while Mainly Piano remarked that “the variety in the moods, intensity and tonal colors is vast [in The Ovalle Project], and Ms. Deschenes has taken the time and attention as well as research to get inside of the music.”

Her education includes a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University, a Master of Music degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles, and an Advanced Diploma in Jazz from Toronto’s Humber College.

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Joshua Norling received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Music specializing in jazz saxophone from Laurentian University in 2011. Since beginning his musical studies in high school at Korah Collegiate, he has maintained an active performance schedule as a freelance multi-instrumentalist, composer, recording artist and teacher. Always willing to take the next gig, his musical adventures keep him busy performing in a wide variety of genres. A traveling clinician, he has given workshops all over Ontario in woodwind and brass technique, music theory, jazz performance, and improvisation.

As a recording artist Joshua has performed on over 24 records as a vocalist, saxophonist, bassist, percussionist, orchestrator and arranger.

Joshua is also a private instructor at the Algoma Conservatory of Music, where he teaches lessons in saxophone, bass, guitar, piano, ukulele, music theory, ear training, composition and musicianship.

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Robert Ollikkala has completed an Associate of Music in Piano Pedagogy (Western Conservatory of Music), a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science (University of Western Ontario), a Bachelor and a Master of Music Degree in Piano Literature and Performance (University of Western Ontario), and a PhD in Musicology, with a specialization in Ethnomusicology (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

His research interests include South Asian music, North American indigenous music, the interaction between Asian spirituality (particularly Buddhism) and music, and jazz. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in both India and northern Ontario. At Algoma University he teaches Music Theory, World Music, Native Music, The Sociology of Music, Romantic Music, Twentieth-Century Music, and Studio Piano. He spends much of his spare time camping, fishing, hiking and cross-country skiing.

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Born in Toronto, Stephen Mallinger lives in Sault Ste. Marie where he is Music
Director of the Algoma Festival Choir, Organist and Choirmaster of St. Luke’s
Cathedral, Instructor of piano, organ and theory at Algoma Conservatory of Music
and Algoma University.

He attended St. Michael’s Choir School for eleven years and has a Bachelor of
Music degree from the University of Western Ontario, London in piano
performance. He studied with Patricia Giron and Ronald Turini. Prior to moving to
Sault Ste. Marie he sang in the Choir of Lincoln Cathedral as a Tenor Lay Vicar and
taught piano at Lincoln Cathedral School.

Stephen performs regularly as a soloist and with his wife violinist Anya Mallinger.
He performed with Karen Kain for an Algoma Fall Festival masterclass. Choir
tours have taken him to Prague, and Chicago and the English Cathedrals of
Lincoln, Salisbury, Winchester, Worcester, Rochester, St. Paul’s London,
Canterbury, St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. In 2011, the Choir of St. Luke’s
Cathedral travelled to St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, and St. Patrick’s
Cathedral, Dublin. In 2017, they sang at Great St. Mary’s Church, Cambridge and
St. Edmundsbury Cathedral in Bury St. Edmunds. In 2019, they will sing again in
the UK at St. Alban’s Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, The Temple Church and
Westminster Abbey. The Algoma Festival Choir sang at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
Church, Canada’s oldest Scottish church, in Quebec City in May 2013.

In June 2008, he conducted the Musical Comedy Guild’s production of Gilbert and
Sullivan’s “Pirates of Penzance”. He was the Music Director for the Guild’s
production of “The Wizard of Oz” in May 2010. He was Music Director for “The
Producers” in May 2011. On November 5th, 2005 he performed the piano concerto
“The Edmund Fitzgerald” by American composer Geoffrey Peterson to
commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the most notorious shipwreck in Lake
Superior. He performed Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto with the Sault
Symphony Orchestra in November 2010 for their performance of Fantasia 2000.
He conducted the Sault Theatre Arts Resource Studio’s production of “The Wizard
of Oz” in July 2017 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. In September 2018, he will
perform Mozart’s piano concerto No. 17 in G major as guest soloist with the Sault
Symphony.

Recent piano recitals include five performances in the UK, Sault Michigan, St.
Luke’s Cathedral and Algoma University Auditorium.

In July 2010 he composed the orchestral film soundtrack for the Ermatinger-
Clergue National Historic Site’s new Discovery Centre proposal to the Federal

Government which was awarded a grant to build the Centre.
Stephen Mallinger

In May 2012, the German organ builder Rudolf von Beckerath installed a new pipe
organ in St. Luke’s Cathedral. Stephen performed at the Dedication Service with
Governor General David Johnston and his wife Sharon in attendance. In May 2013
he composed a choral anthem Almighty and Everlasting God to celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the 49th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery.

With regard to volunteering, Stephen coached baseball for the Soo Minor Baseball
Association for several summers. He was Manager of the Soo Finnish Nordic Ski
Club Race Team, travelling extensively across eastern Canada as a waxing
technician too. He has mentored for the Algoma District School Board for their
entries in Soo Sings for Kids.

Stephen and Anya have five daughters – Erin, Hilary, Catherine, Frances, and
Adriane and one granddaughter, Madison. He enjoys reading, cross-country skiing,
tennis, and biking.

Low Brass Instructor – UWO London 1974-75
Principal Tuba – London Symphony (ON) ’74-75
Secondary School Instrumental Music Teacher 1976 – 2019
Brass Instructor – Algoma U – 1998 – present
Brass Instructor – Algoma Conservatory – 1999 – present

Interests: grandchildren, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, canoeing, fishing, hunting, bicycling, RVing, photography, history, music composition