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As a soloist, Don has presented concerts throughout Southwestern British Columbia in classical and acoustic fingerstyle styles. His passion for chamber music has also led him to perform with members of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the CBC Radio Orchestra, and the Borealis String Quartet.
As an educator, Don was a member of the music faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) from 1993 to 2019 and served as Department Chair from 2012-2018. He was the Director of Guitar from 2003-2019 as well as the Founder & Artistic Director of the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival (1998-2019). In addition to working with students in studio lessons, coaching chamber ensembles, and teaching fretboard harmony, Don also taught an introductory course on the Music Industry and an upper-level course on the Business of Music (Career Development & Entrepreneurship). Don is also a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association and is honoured to work with talented young musicians in advancing their craft. Additionally, he is the owner and operator of the Fort Langley Guitar Studio.
As an educator, Don was a member of the music faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) from 1993 to 2019 and served as Department Chair from 2012-2018. He was the Director of Guitar from 2003-2019 as well as the Founder & Artistic Director of the Fraser Valley Acoustic Guitar Festival (1998-2019). In addition to working with students in studio lessons, coaching chamber ensembles, and teaching fretboard harmony, Don also taught an introductory course on the Music Industry and an upper-level course on the Business of Music (Career Development & Entrepreneurship). Don is also a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association and is honoured to work with talented young musicians in advancing their craft. Additionally, he is the owner and operator of the Fort Langley Guitar Studio.
Music Physiology
Sinéad Rushe
Sinéad is a theatre director and acting coach.
She is artistic director of Creative Actor Training and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique.
She is artistic director of Creative Actor Training and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique.
Enrique Castillo
Enrique Castillo loves to help musicians discover their own potential for comfort, awareness and beautiful sound, combining his expertise as a musician and Feldenkrais practitioner.
Exploring the body-mind unity has been central to his own personal and professional development, starting with different kinds of yoga since 2005, the practice of Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, and finally becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2019, after a four year, life changing professional training course in Lyon (IFELD) under the guidance of Yvan Joly and Richard Corbeil.
Exploring the body-mind unity has been central to his own personal and professional development, starting with different kinds of yoga since 2005, the practice of Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, and finally becoming a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2019, after a four year, life changing professional training course in Lyon (IFELD) under the guidance of Yvan Joly and Richard Corbeil.
Guitar masterclasses:
Antigoni Goni
The Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni, Classical Guitar Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel), enjoys a truly international career, both as a performing artist and as a pedagogue, performing extensively in Europe, Russia, North and South America and the far East, both as recitalist and soloist. She was the founder and chair of the Guitar Department at the Juilliard Pre-College Division (where she also taught for 10 years), an adjunct professor at the Columbia University as well as Artist –in-Residence with San Francisco Performances where for 5 years she gave semi-annual performances, master classes and workshops for a diverse group of students and audiences. For her International achievements, the Royal Academy of Music in London awarded her with the honorary position of Associate Professor (ARAM). As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has a long and in-depth experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs. |
"SoloDuo", Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli
With the name "SoloDuo", Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli form one of the most active and well-known guitar duos in the world. Together they have played throughout Europe, in the United States and Canada, in Asia, and Latin America, from Carnegie Hall of New York to the Konzerthaus in Vienna, from the Sejong Hall in Seoul to the Sala delle Colonne in Kiev, from the Auditorium in Milan to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The “Washington Post” described them as “extraordinarily sensitive, with effortless command and an almost unbearable delicacy of touch”. Matteo is a teacher at the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique in Geneva, Lorenzo teaches at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. Matteo and Lorenzo are also “Artists in Residence” at the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbus State University. |
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Michèle Swennen
Michèle Swennen received her education in Brussels in Jaques-Dalcroze rythmics, theater, and classical dance with Marina van Hoeck, and contemporary dance with Renate Peter. She also studied contemporary dance in Paris with Peter Goss, Betty Jones and Fritz Luddin, Michel Nourkil, Karin Waehner, and in New York with Jennifer Muller and Luis Falco. In 1985, after returning to Belgium from the United States, she created the first center for contemporary dance in Brussels: “Flagrant Délit”. In this framework she further developed her work, becoming an affirmed choreographer and pedagogue. |
Sinéad Rush
She is artistic director of Creative Actor Training and Senior Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide (Bloomsbury 2019) and co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker (Editions Théâtrales). She is co-director of Michael Chekhov UK, Faculty Council member of Michael Chekhov Association USA (MICHA) and patron of Living Pictures theatre company in Wales. She gives masterclasses and talks worldwide on acting and the Michael Chekhov technique. |
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