{"id":351,"date":"2026-02-03T02:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/?p=351"},"modified":"2026-03-06T22:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:40:47","slug":"our-2026-adjudicators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Our 2026 Adjudicators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Festival Committee is pleased to introduce our 2026 adjudicators:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Glenn Bernard \u2013 Indigenous Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kwe, my name is Glenn Bernard. I am a proud husband, father and wolastoqiyik\/mikmaq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am from Neqotkuk first nation and that is where I learned to drum and sing when my father introduced me to it at around the age of 4. I now make my own songs using our language as it is very important to keep it alive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kim Dang-Robichaud<\/strong> – Junior Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After studying music throughout her childhood at the Notre-Dame-d’Acadie School of Music, Ms. Dang-Robichaud continued her studies in music at the Universit\u00e9 de Moncton where she obtained her Bachelor in Classical Music.

She has since acquired valued experience and an enviable reputation as an accomplished pianist.  She has accompanied many classical concerts, including the opera workshops of the Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, as well as percussion, voice and violin concerts and competitions. She has also accompanied various choirs, such as the Greater Moncton Choral and the Jeunes chanteurs d’Acadie.  Ms. Dang-Robichaud is well-versed in contemporary music and she regularly accompanies many known artists from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec.  In 2014, she received two Eloizes nominations with the group M.I.A.M. for the world premiere and recording of the original work Port\u00e9 Disparu. M.I.A.M. is a Moncton-based musical collective that blends modern and improvised music.  Ms. Dang-Robichaud is also known for being the keyboardist of the popular Moncton band Angry Candy that finished second on the televised competition of Canada’s Got Talent in 2012.

Not only does Ms. Dang-Robichaud devote her musical talents in honour of her numerous performances, she also shares her passion with students by offering private lessons. She resides and works in Dieppe, New Brunswick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Edmund Dawe<\/strong> – Intermediate and Senior Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSensitive, engaging and virtuoso.\u201d (La Scena Musicale<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a career spanning over three decades, Edmund Dawe is highly respected as a teacher, performer, and university administrator, and has adjudicated numerous music festivals from Whitehorse, YK,  to St. John\u2019s, NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Praised for his impressive artistry, he has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist internationally and has been twice nominated for an East Coast Music Award (Best Classical). Recent concert highlights include performances of Beethoven\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 1 in the same concert with the Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra in Lublin, Poland, and Chopin\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 in a Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall. In May, Edmund will be a featured lecturer and performer at the World Piano Conference in Novi Sad, Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmund\u2019s academic career includes 17 years at Mount Allison University. From 2007-2018, he served as Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. Edmund led the Faculty through a period of growth, including construction of the most modern university music facilities in Canada combining a restored historic building with new state-of-the-art rehearsal and recording\/multimedia spaces. In 2018, Edmund retired from the University of Manitoba and was appointed Dean Emeritus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, Edmund launched his podcast, For Piano Teachers<\/em>, which now has listeners in 118 countries and territories. As a performer, he is represented by Vida Art Management<\/a> in Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmund is looking forward to hearing the many talented students in the 2026 Fredericton Music Festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christine Gale Harrison – Strings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine enjoys an eclectic career as a musician. After studies with Leo Wigdorchik in Toronto, she spent two seasons with the Regina Symphony before moving back to Ontario. Her freelance career runs the gamut from symphonic, opera, and chamber music to theatre and popular music performance. String quartet playing is a particular passion, which led her to spend a year with the Saint John String Quartet and later to establish the highly acclaimed “Basically Quartets” courses held annually in Wales.
Although Christine is an ensemble player at heart, some of her most rewarding performances have been solo violin concerts that she has curated specifically for people living with dementia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early on in her performance career, an overuse injury sidelined Christine for five years but with the help of physiotherapist Barbara Paull, she made a full return to professional playing. She and Barbara went on to help other injured musicians, co-authoring \u201cThe Athletic Musician \u2013 a guide to playing
without pain\u201d and lecturing internationally on the subject of musicians\u2019 injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performing has always gone hand in hand with Christine\u2019s love of teaching. She maintains an active and successful studio and is much in demand as a clinician, coach and adjudicator. An examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music for over 20 years, she was co-author\/co-editor of the 2013 RCM Violin syllabus and Violin Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine has composed 25 pedagogical violin \u00e9tudes, four of which appear in the 2025 RCM Violin Series, with the remainder being prepared for publication. Her latest musical adventure is playing the viola, having finally succumbed to the charms of the \u201cdark side\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Maubert – Junior Voice and Musical Theatre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Maubert (he\/they) is a musical theatre practitioner and social worker. Patrick has a Master\u2019s Degree in Musical Theatre Creative Practice from ArtsEd: City University of London, where Andrew Lloyd Webber is a Patron and Mentor. He studied Musical Theatre Performance at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy of New York City. They graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work Degree and are working on a Masters at Dalhousie University in Kjipuktuk (Halifax).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a performer, Maubert has been a member of the 12 Tenors, touring internationally over the span of seven years. He has worked with such companies as Musicals Tonight Off-Broadway NYC, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Tokyo Disneyland, Canada\u2019s Wonderland, South Holland Centre UK, Halifax Fringe Festival, Eastern Front Theatre, Neptune Theatre Chrysalis Project and Theatre New Brunswick. Most recently, Maubert played the roles of King Agnarr and Oaken in the first Canadian Regional Production of Disney\u2019s Frozen at Neptune Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick is the former staging director of the acclaimed London Gay Men\u2019s Chorus and was the Associate Artistic Director of Toronto\u2019s No Strings Theatre and London\u2019s A Friend of a Friend Productions, where he directed such shows as Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Little Shop of Horrors<\/em> and the world premiere of Liam: the musical. <\/em>Patrick most recently directed Mozart & Sondheim: <\/em>The Dal Fountain School of Performing Arts Opera Program and is currently directing Newsies at Neptune Theatre YPCO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maubert is the former Head of the Voice Faculty at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and has been a private singing, musical theatre & drama teacher at such institutions as the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University, Stagecoach Academy International, Neptune Theatre School, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, No Strings Theatre School, Northwood, YouthNet, and Theatre New Brunswick Theatre School. He has been an adjudicator at music and drama festivals across Canada. Patrick is the Program Director at the Brunswick Street Mission. Patrick Maubert is an educator and creative practitioner passionate about creating community art that is accessible and meaningful for all<\/strong>. They are thrilled to be adjudicating in his home town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paula Rockwell – Senior Voice and Choirs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mezzo-soprano, Paula Rockwell, has been steeped in musical projects, performances and music festivals in her home province Nova Scotia, Canada, and the United States. She teaches Applied Voice, Diction for Singers, Scene Studies and History of Musical Theatre at her alma mater, Acadia University, and created productions for Acadia\u2019s School of Music Singing Theatre Production Ensemble.  She has been featured on several recordings and co-produced her debut CD entitled Fleeting Melodies,<\/em> a collection of 20th<\/sup> century art songs and arias.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula has taken on several operatic roles since graduating from University of Toronto and has performed with symphony orchestras across the country and the United States. As a community contributor, she has performed for many fundraisers, including Music for Haiti, Women Only at Pier 21 and the annual Opera Nova Scotia\u2019s Opera Valentine.<\/em> Paula is heard every summer giving masterclasses, vocal warm-up sessions and a recital in Lyman, New Hampshire at The Ogontz Choral Symposium. She adjudicates music festivals on the Provincial and National level and gives clinics\/masterclasses on the topic of vocal pedagogy, interpretation, and stage craft. Acadia\u2019s School of Music Lecture & Concert Series premiered Paula\u2019s sabbatical project entitled Letters from Home, <\/em>based on letters from her great grandmother to her maternal grandmother (circa 1941-1961) for which she created the script, photo projections and original music. Other projects include a CD of original works entitled Unwrapped<\/em>\u2026finally surfacing <\/em>and a music video, I\u2019m on My Way Home<\/em>, released on Vimeo in November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She directed a Chamber Music Workshop class of the Canadian\/Acadian musical odyssey P\u00e9lagie<\/em>, written by Canadian composer Allen Cole, which was performed at Acadia\u2019s Denton Auditorium. In 2019, she performed the role of Lucy, the Beggar Woman, in Stephen<\/em> Sondheim\u2019s Sweeney Todd<\/em> and in 2021 as Signora Nacarelli in Adam Guettel\u2019s Light in the<\/em> Piazza<\/em> with the Wolfville Theatre Collective at the Al Whittle Theatre, Wolfville, NS. She made her debut as music director and the role of Yente with Stage Prophets Theatre Company\u2019s production of Fidder on the Roof<\/em> in May 2019 and relived the role in November 2019 at Halifax\u2019s Spatz Theatre. She was the music director for Stage Prophet\u2019s 20th<\/sup> Anniversary Revue in June 2022, Jesus Christ Superstar<\/em> in June 2023, Music Man<\/em> in May 2024 and The Wizard of Oz <\/em>2025 where she also played the role of one of the Cawquettes. Paula performed in Open Waters Music Festival in Halifax in Sandy Moore\u2019s song cycle Vox Humana<\/em> poetry by Nova Scotian writer Alex Pierce and was the vocalist for Operation Goosepool (WW2 songs & stories) <\/em>with the Bridgewater Fire Department Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She performed her Letters from Home<\/em> one-woman show for Opera Nova Scotia\u2019s May 25, 2024, production, as well as at The Whittle Theatre in Wolfville, NS and the Yarmouth Historical Society. This year she will be part of Stage Prophets\u2019 creative team with their production of Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s Cinderella.<\/em> Paula will be one of seven performers in The Wolfville Theatre Collective\u2019s show, Solely Sondheim<\/em> – <\/em>a revue of some of Stephen Sondheim\u2019s best loved songs, duets, trios and ensembles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Strum – Bands, Winds and Brass<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A multifaceted musician and educator, saxophonist Nicole Strum is equally at home interpreting new works and collaborating with composers, teaching courses in music theory and aural skills, directing ensembles and facilitating chamber music workshops, and coaching woodwind players. As a performer, she has been praised for her expressive voice and the intensity of her interpretations; as a studio teacher, her commitment to guiding students to discover their unique musical identity is noted by her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole is a member of two duos whose focus is contemporary music: with flautist Liesel Deppe she formed Feldsperling Duo and premiered commissioned works at Arrayspace in Toronto and on the Canadian East Coast. Following their debut at Halifax’s Open Waters New Music Festival, the Strum-De Borba duo (with saxophonist Tristan De Borba) capped a 2019 mini-series of performances with a faculty residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance for its inaugural Saxophone Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other performance highlights include appearances at the North American Saxophone Alliance’s Regional and Biennial conferences, the World Saxophone Congress, the Society for Composers Inc. Region 10 Conference, the UNCG New Music Festival, Mount Allison University’s Recital Series, the Transitio_MX Festival Internacional de Artes Electr\u00f3nicas in Mexico City, and as concerto soloist with the UPEI Wind Symphony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicole is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island where she teaches music theory and applied saxophone and assists with the UPEI Wind Symphony. In 2022 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Single Reeds and Conducting at Mount Allison University and held the position of Woodwind Specialist for Halifax Regional Arts in Nova Scotia the year prior. She adjudicates at local and national music festivals, leads workshops and clinics, and directs UPEI Summer Studios, a week-long chamber music workshop for advanced young musicians. Nicole holds a performance diploma from the Bordeaux Conservatory, where she studied with renowned French saxophonist Marie-Bernadette Charrier, and a DMA and Certificate in Music Theory Pedagogy from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Festival Committee is pleased to introduce our 2026 adjudicators: Glenn Bernard \u2013 Indigenous Music Kwe, my name is Glenn Bernard. I am a proud husband, father and wolastoqiyik\/mikmaq.  I am from Neqotkuk first nation and that is where I learned to drum and sing when my father introduced me to it at around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festival-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}