

"a national choir celebrating and promoting Canadian music and musicians"

Deb Buck (SK)
Karla Ferguson (MB)
Sandy Jasper (MB)
Naomi Russell (MB)
Deborah Buck is a theatre music director, actor and pianist based in Saskatoon. Her musical direction earned her a Saskatoon Area Theatre Award for her work in Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Beauty and the Beast, both for Persephone Theatre, where she has been involved in some thirty productions. She has also worked at the Globe Theatre in Regina, Dancing Sky Theatre in Meacham, the Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan Festival, and Rosebud Theatre, where she was 2008 Harvey Artist-in-Residence; next season she will direct in Winnipeg and Vancouver for the first time. Deborah has been Saskatchewan's official accompanist at the National Music Festival and has been recorded in recital for CBC Saskatchewan. She has degrees in English from University of Saskatchewan and Queen's, as well as Licentiate and Associate piano diplomas from Trinity College of Music, London. Deb has sung in the U of S Greystone Singers, Provincial Honour Choirs and Saskatoon Chamber Singers, and finds joy in the CCC experience.
Karla Ferguson learned to sing harmony with her family in Saskatchewan and hasn't stopped since. She studied voice at Brandon University, and received further training and inspiration from various provincial, national, and international youth choirs. Karla is proud to have been a founding member of two choirs, the Canadian Chamber Choir and the unconducted female chamber choir das Femmes in Brandon. After spending three years singing with the Elmer Iseler Singers, Karla is now back in Manitoba where she is the Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Winnipeg Folk Festival and a travelling accordionist in the roots band, the Dust Poets. She counts among her choral mentors CCC Conductor Emeritus Iwan Edwards, Diane Loomer, Helmut Rilling, and her cousin Duff Warkentin.
Sandy Jasper is a graduate of Brandon University having majored in
Music (Voice) and minored in both Theatre and Psychology. Throughout her youth (oh so long ago!) she progressed through the myriad of Manitoba Choral Association choral programs, culminating
with her participation in the National Youth Choir in 1998. Sandy is proud to have been one of the inaugural members of the Canadian Chamber Choir and has been on every tour since the choir's
inception in 2001. Sandy has been the Chair of the CCC Board since 2006 so the administrative end of things keeps her hopping. Sandy works for the City of Brandon in the Parks & Cemetery office and
also has a studio of private voice students. Her pride and joy is her inconceivably handsome German Shepherd named Barnum.
Naomi Russell's love of the choral art is a product of her involvement with the programs of the Manitoba Choral Association. A member of the 1994 and 1996 National Youth Choirs, she keeps busy with two ensembles in Brandon Manitoba, with das Femmes, an unconducted 8-member women's choir, and as director of Women in Harmony, Brandon's ladies' barbershop group. Naomi is a registered nurse by trade and loves being Auntie to Cameron, Kayleigh and Ella.