Adjudicators 2021

Dawn Bruch-Wiens completed her Bachelor of Music in voice at McGill University. She returned to Winnipeg and graduated with her Post-Baccalaureate and Master of Music degree at The University of Manitoba where she studied with Tracy Dahl. Dawn has appeared with Manitoba Opera, The Little Opera Company, Manitoba Underground Opera, Groundswell, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Studio Weimar and Opera on the Avalon. Dawn has taught private voice lessons for over 13 years and in the fall of 2018, began teaching at the post-secondary level at Canadian Mennonite University. As a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, she believes that studying and instructing voice are lifelong learning opportunities for both student and teacher. Dawn is passionate about the festival movement and the learning opportunities it provides as she has been involved as a performer, teacher or adjudicator for over twenty-five years.

Everett Hopfner
A self-described new music explorer, Canadian pianist Everett Hopfner is celebrated for his passionate and inventive performances. With his dynamic approach to multi-disciplinary pieces incorporating electronic media, improvisation, movement and speech, Everett has been praised as "a surreal performer who gives flesh and life to music." (Il Cittadino di Lodi) Everett has toured across Canada as winner of the 36th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition, where he was commended by the jury as "an actor, a poet, a true artist" and "a figure of the future." Graduate studies in Germany led to tours around Europe with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and broadcasts on Hessischer Rundfunk. Everett has been presented by Cluster New Music + Interactive Arts Festival in Winnipeg, IMATRONIC piano+ in Karlsruhe, and Lachenmann Perspektiven in Stuttgart. An eager collaborator, Everett is involved in a broad spectrum of activity from traditional chamber music settings to interactive Fluxus installations. Residencies at Casalmaggiore International Festival, The Banff Centre, and New Music on the Point have placed Everett in a diverse community of creative artists expanding musical horizons. His mentors include Megumi Masaki, Catherine Vickers, and Nicolas Hodges, and his projects have been supported by grants from the Manitoba Arts Council. Everett currently serves as director of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Conservatory of Music, where he oversees programming for hundreds of keen developing musicians and maintains a teaching studio. He enjoys sharing his enthusiasm, imagination and constructive pedagogical approach with musicians of all levels in workshops, festivals and masterclasses.

Peter Stoll 
Known for his virtuoso energy on stage as well as an easy and entertaining way of speaking with the audience, Peter Stoll teaches clarinet, chamber music, woodwind performance and the Business of Music at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music and is a frequent performer with orchestral and chamber ensembles in southern Ontario. A very popular adjudicator, he has worked across Canada and in the United States. Peter is particularly known for his enthusiastic, positive comments and detailed suggestions to young musicians. Tours as soloist and with various ensembles have taken him across Europe, to Russia and to the United States. Recent performance highlights have included chamber concerts in Japan and a tour of 3 Chinese cities, as well as at the International Clarinet Association’s conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2016 Peter was featured on a recording with members of the Canadian Brass, and in May 2018 he was the soloist in noted American wind ensemble composer Brian Balmages' concerto "Escapades", with the composer conducting. In 2019 Peter shared in the win of a Dora Mavor Moore award for Best Ensemble-Opera in Toronto. Over the past 25 years Peter has been invited to adjudicate at over 130 local festivals across Canada. Fluent in both official languages, he has heard countless bands, orchestras, and woodwind, brass and percussion solos and ensembles coast-to-coast. Peter is also a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music's National College of Examiners, where he is the area Specialist for Winds, and was the Chief Compiler of the 2014 edition of the clarinet examination syllabus. www.peterstoll.ca

Annette-Barbara Vogel’s rich international performing career has featured her as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in over 35 countries across 6 continents. Considered one of the finest German violinists of her generation, she is renowned for her “authoritative and highly sensitive performances,” and “formidable technique, stunning musicality, and stage presence that transmits to orchestra and audience alike.” Vogel's exceptional talent and musicianship is recognized by numerous prestigious solo prizes and scholarships. Vogel’s prolific recording career as soloist and chamber musician has produced more than 15 commercial albums. In addition to her two German degrees (Performance and Chamber Music) and her “Konzertexamen” which she completed with highest possible honours, Vogel holds an Artist Diploma, “summa cum laude,” under Dorothy Delay from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. Vogel’s performance studies also include violin pedagogy courses under Alice Schoenfeld at USC. Vogel was chosen to perform the Brahms Violin Concerto under the baton of Keith Lockhart at a Gala concert honoring Dorothy Delay’s seventy-fifth birthday. A Full Professor, Vogel accepted her appointment at Western University in 2004, where she continues to serve as the head of the string area and is in high demand as a pedagogue and chamber music coach. She was Artist-in-Residence with the “Monticello Trio” at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and was later violin professor at both the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Prior to the foundation of Magisterra Soloists in 2015, Annette-Barbara Vogel was Founder and Artistic Director of the highly successful “MAGISTERRA! International Chamber Music Festival and Academy” at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Willie Wiebe has performed extensively in both solo and chamber settings. His varied performances have been aired nationally on both radio and television.
His solo recording, Time Travel, was received favourably across the country, and was presented in an hour-long feature on CBC’s The Music Room. Additionally, he performed on a live CBC broadcast on the Sunday noon series Arts Encounters and was featured in their annual Governor General’s Christmas concert playing his own arrangements for guitar, voice and choir. In 2006, he was a featured soloist in the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival.
Since 1992, Wiebe has taught classical guitar at Canadian Mennonite University, as well as at Providence University College, where he has taught since 1983. Since 2012, he has been playing for Artists in Healthcare in their Cancer Care program.