Bruce Skelton, Violin Teacher and Program Director Martha Kalyniak, Violin and Viola Teacher
Martha Kalyniak, a native of Kitchener- Waterloo has been teaching both violin and viola to children ages 4 and up for the past 30 years. She is currently on faculty with the Kitchener-Waterloo Community String School. Martha has been a full time member of the Kitchener- Waterloo Symphony since 1984. Martha is also the violist of the Leith String Quartet, which has been together for the past nine years. Martha enjoys gardening, her two cats Max and Jack, and her poodle Oliver, who lays at her feet, listening to her students. Chloe received her
Bachelors of Music degree in Performance at Wilfrid Laurier
University in 2015. Starting at the age of 4, she first learned violin through the Suzuki
Method, studying with Olga Kalyniak at the KWCSS. Since then, she has
studied across Southwestern Ontario with Sharon Jones, Lance
Ouellette, Jerzy Kaplanek and Jeremy Bell. Chloe has studied
chamber music with members of the Penderecki String Quartet
and was a member of the Wilfrid Laurier University Symphony
Orchestra. She has attended chamber music workshops at the University of Victoria, and has attended the Southwestern Ontario Suzuki Institute as a
student and for teacher development courses. Chloe has worked at the National Music
Camp of Canada as a staff member in both the orchestral and Suzuki
Strings programs. Chloe is looking forward to more performance opportunities as well as
ongoing teacher development. Chris Sharpe, Cello Teacher Based at Wilfrid Laurier University as Accompanist-in-Residence, Beth Ann de
Sousa enjoys an active performing and coaching career in Southwestern Ontario. She is in demand as an accompanist
and coach for singers, instrumentalists and chamber musicians. She has performed
frequently with the KW Symphony and Canadian Chamber Ensemble and is a founding
member of the New Art Quartet, a piano and percussion ensemble. Beth Ann holds
the degrees of A Mus (Western Conservatory), B Mus (WLU) and M Mus (University of Western Ontario).
|