David Pay
David Pay is Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Music on Main, a concert series dedicated to building community through a refreshing concept of concert going: shorter concerts, a bar before and after performances, and casual, stimulating environments. Since 2006, the series has produced more than 135 classical, new and genre-bending music events with over 300 musicians and nearly 40 world premieres. The UK’s Gramophone Magazine writes that tMusic on Main “provides western Canada with one of the finest windows onto the post-classical scene.”
As an indepedent arts consultant specializingi n strategic planning. marketing and producing, David has worked with leading arts organizations, musicians and video artists. in the fall of 2010, he was appointed faculty at Capilano University’s Arts and Entertianment Management Daprtment and served as Associate Director, Fall & Winter Music Programs at the Banff Centre. His essays and interviews about music have appeared at CarnegieHall.org and in Vancouver Review.
Laura Barron
Hailed as “one of the finest flutists of her generation” (Flute Network) Laura Barron made her solo debut, at age 17, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has given recitals and taught master classes from New Zealand to the Yukon. In her early career, she was often a featured soloist with the Brandenburg Ensemble in Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center. Additionally, she served as principal flute of the American Sinfonietta Orchestra, and performed with the Minnesota and Vancouver Symphonies. She has held faculty positions at the University of Oregon, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northern Arizona University. In 2007, she and her husband Geoff Cross spent an illuminating year traveling to five continents. This experience included European recitals, French courses in Morocco, Dalai Lama teachings in India, and volunteer work in the Bolivian jungle. This transformative time continues to inform her artistic work. A lifelong activist, Laura’s growing interest in Art for Social Change spawned her recently founded non-profit, Instruments of Change, with which she pursues a variety of community-engaged, interdisciplinary art projects in schools, hospices and with at-risk youth throughout Vancouver, where she is now based. Currently, Laura is a member of Something Collective, an artist team-in-residence at Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre, and she has just completed her first novel, Mosquito Chronicles. laurabarron.net
Emma Lancaster
Emma Lancaster is a senior communications professional and bon vivant with over 15 years’ experience in project management, marketing, event production, writing, editing and media relations. Her responsibilities have included development of community programming; strategic communications planning; fundraising; new media content and architecture development; tactical marketing planning and execution; and public and media liaison. What this really means is that she likes to talk. A lot.
Clients have included DanceHouse, The Arts Club Theatre Company, PuSh Festival, Magnetic North Theatre Festival, NOW Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, UBC Opera Ensemble, The UBC School of Music, Electric Company Theatre, Music in the Morning, BC Dairy Foundation, and Molson Canada, to name a few.
Murray Fennell
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