Board of Directors
2010-2011
- Nigel Howard, President
- Jean Hewitt, Vice-president
- Ed Lee, Treasurer
- Bonnie Richardson, Secretary
- Andrew MacDonald, Counsel
- David Murray, Past President
- Randi Patterson
- Denis Beatty
Composer in Residence
Chris Meyer
Chris Meyer began his musical career rather late, only taking up the piano
as a teenager after his parents brought home a very enticing synthesizer. Despite a subsequent immersion in music,
higher learning led Chris to a degree in physics from the University of Toronto. Between labs and lectures he taught
himself the foundations of music by studying harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and classical music's greatest hits.
His real training as a composer began after university and in an unusual way – as an apprentice in the "musical workshop"
of Toronto composer Ronald Royer. Assisting with all tasks from copying parts and score preparation, all the way through
fleshing out orchestrations and solving compositional problems, Chris learned his craft.
Interesting, approachable and playable are the three goals Chris aspires towards in all his musical work for both the
audience and performers. This was put to the test during his first orchestral performances with the Mississauga Symphony
under conductor John Barnum.
Following those successes, Chris has had his music performed by the orchestras of Stratford, Sarnia and Port Huron,
Huronia (Barrie), Georgian Bay and Scarborough. In an interesting adventure, Chris worked as an orchestrator on the
soundtrack of the feature film Gooby which was released in 2009 in theatres across Canada and the United States. To top
it all off, Chris has been composer-in-residence with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra since the 2009-2010 season.
Check out: www.meyercreations.com
Visual Artist in Residence
Marc Bauer-Maison
Marc Bauer-Maison was born in Paris, France. He obtained his Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Natural Sciences in
1979. He went on to study Architecture at l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of J-M Musso. After graduating from
Architecture, Marc continued his studies in Media and Communication with P.Babin at the Université of Lyon in France
before coming to Canada to teach at St. Paul University in Ottawa. He now lives in Stratford, Ontario and has exhibited
in Canada, the U.S., and France since 1986. In 2003, Marc was selected to exhibit at the prestigious Salon D'Automne in
Paris. The following year, Marc’s work was featured in Paris’s equally famous Salon des Indépendants and he has been a
regular exhibitor at the Stratford Garden Festival. In 2009 during a trip to France, Marc encountered for the first time
the renowned Sumi-e master painter Alain Bonnefoit—an encounter that can only be described as fateful in light of the
profound influence that Bonnefoit would have on Marc’s work. In 2010, in addition to being the Visual Artist in
Residence for the SSO, Marc’s work was selected for the Carrousel du Louvre, in France, and for the "O" Museum, In
Tokyo, Japan.