Chris Bowman - Halifax, NS
Tristan Cleveland-Thompson - Halifax, NS
Bill Hamm - Rosebud, AB
C.D. Saint - Vancouver, BC

 

Christopher Bowman (M. Mus 2005 Memorial University, B. Mus 2001 Mount Allison University) enjoys making music in many forms – as a conductor, solo and choral singer, and educator. He is full time Minister of Music at First United Church in Truro, Nova Scotia, as well as co-conductor of the Cantabile Boys' Choir. Chris is also an instructor in vocal and choral studies within the music department at St. Francis Xavier University. He sings with the acclaimed Canadian Chamber Choir, and is a former coordinator of and singer with the National Youth Choir of Canada. In 2010 and 2011 he was a resident conductor of the Nova Scotia Youth Choir. A baritone soloist, his debut CD "Over Hill and Valley" with pianist David Chafe won Music NS and Music NL awards, and was nominated for an ECMA. He recently released a CD of Christmas music with his church musicians, "Sing God is Love" which has received very positive reviews. Chris also maintains a voice and piano studio, is sought after as a choral and church music clinician, and has been a sessional instructor at both Memorial and Mount Allison Universities. Chris, his wife Laura, and their daughter Erica enjoy Maritime life in Truro, Nova Scotia.

 

Tristan Cleveland-Thompson is a young aspiring choral conductor and singer. He returned to his home city of Halifax in 2009 from Edmonton to take the position of Music Director at the Presbyterian Church of Saint David in downtown Halifax. Tristan has had many musical opportunities offered to him privately and through the Halifax School System, to which he accredits a lot of his training. In addition to singing, Tristan plays the violin, viola, piano, piano, and pipe organ. Tristan has studied pipe organ at First Baptist Church Halifax under the late Allen Wayte as well as at the University of Alberta in Edmonton under Neil Cockburn and Dr Belinda Chiang. After high school is when moved to Edmonton where he began singing the critically acclaimed Kokopelli Youth Choir of Edmonton. While there he also became the collaborative pianist for the Festival Singers of Sherwood Park.
It is in Edmonton that he began working with H&M Canada to which he has continued on the East Coast. While not in the fashion industry, Tristan is the assistant conductor of the Halifax Camerata Singers under direction of Jeff Joudrey as well as having done several tours as a member of the Canadian Chamber Choir. While back in Nova Scotia Tristan has also sung for the Nova Scotia Youth Choir, Paul Halley's Kings College Chapel Choir, and the National Youth Choir of Canada.

Bill Hamm grew up in Southern Ontario, and was known (musically) as a trumpeter. He studied music at University of Winnipeg (B.A.) and at a Mennonite College (B.R.S.), followed by University of Illinois (M.Mus.) where he majored in Choral Conducting. Bill currently lives in the small hamlet of Rosebud, Alberta where he has been Rosebud School of the Arts’ and Rosebud Theatre’s Music Director since 1989. He conducts choirs, teaches voice and speech classes, and has directed the music for many shows including Cotton Patch Gospel, Quilters, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Godspell and Fiddler on the Roof. Bill is the composer and music director of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play and sings with the Canadian Chamber Choir. Bill and his wife Renita have four children and two grandchildren. Bill enjoys running, mountain biking, hockey and home renovations.

 

C.D. Saint is a native of Edmonton currently living in Vancouver. He studied music at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. He then went on to post graduate studies in Peace and Conflict at the European University Centre for Peace Studies in Stadtschlaining, Austria. He has had the fortune to sing with the UofA Madrigal Singers, the National Youth Choir, and Da Camera singers. He also was fortunate to be a guest soloist with Ars Nova and the Kecskeméti Feszt Kor for a televised concert of Monteverdi Vespers excerpts.
Since moving to Vancouver in 2009, he has sung with the acclaimed Vancouver Cantata Singers and Laudate Singers. He was fortunate to create the role of Ronnie in Edward Top's new chamber opera Love Thy Neighbour this past spring. He currently works as a program coordinator with Mediate BC. When not working or singing, C.D. tries to get out kayaking as much as possible.