Jennie Such - Vocal

As a member of the voice faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University and as the Singing Coach at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Jennie divides her time between classical music and musical theatre. She has witnessed many parallels between the art of the classical actor and the classical singer and is interested in combining ideas about text, sound, physicality and authenticity from these complementary worlds.

Jennie is an alumna of the Royal College of Music (U.K.), The Canadian Opera Company Ensemble and the Vancouver Opera Touring Ensemble. As a soloist she has performed nationally and internationally in opera, oratorio and recital. For further information, please visit her website at www.jenniesuch.com.

Jennie’s first voice coaching contract was with the Canadian Company of Billy Elliot (Mirvish 2011). This proved to be the perfect “next step” as an artist transitioning into the vocation of teaching work.

Other coaching credits include The Hockey Sweater which was presented at the National Arts Centre in 2018. Jennie is currently in her tenth season as a member of the Artistic Company at the Stratford Festival, and joins the Birmingham Conservatory at the Stratford Festival for her seventh season in 2023

Marion Miller - Piano

Marion Miller began piano at 4, was teaching at 12, and entered the University of Western Ontario at 16 with her ARCT certificate, graduating with a Master’s degree in piano performance and the President’s Gold Medal for academic excellence. At 18 she was on faculty at the Banff School of Fine Arts. Canada Council grants later enabled her to study in Paris with the great Marcel Ciampi.

Always principally a classical artist, she has nevertheless covered the full musical gamut, from playing in a professional swing band during university to performing with symphony orchestras in Canada and the U.S., to composing for musical theatre. She has taught in university, conservatory and festival settings, and maintains a consistently full schedule of private piano students, from young beginners to accomplished adults, including other teachers — even during the temporary move to online teaching during Covid.

She has played Chopin on CBC Radio, vaudeville tunes at a summer playhouse, and has been musical director of London’s Grand Theatre and pianist for its symphony orchestra. International artists with whom she has appeared range from Harry Belafonte to Jann Arden to opera’s Michael Schade. Renowned orchestra leader Mitch Miller once teasingly proposed marriage: “We wouldn’t even have to change the initials on the towels.”

Ted Clark - Instrumental

Dr. Ted Clark is a professional trumpet player currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. Born and raised here in Brockville, he graduated from Brockville Collegiate Institute in 1999, the same year he was named the Star of the

Festival. Before moving to Ohio in 2016,Ted had a decade long career in Toronto, where he performed with a wide variety of ensembles, including the Hannaford Street Silver Band, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic, Orchestra London, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the Kitchener-Waterloo, Windsor, Niagara, and Thunder Bay Symphonies. He was a member of the Toronto Brass Quintet from 2008-2015 and played in the pit orchestra for the Charlottetown Festival for a decade, performing in productions of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical, The Full Monty, Canada Rocks!, British Invasion I & II, Disco Cirque, and the premiere of Evangeline.

Since moving to Ohio Ted has recording and performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, the Cleveland Opera, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic, and the Columbus, Akron, Canton, and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras. He is currently a member of the Firelands and Ashland Symphonies and is on faculty at The Ohio State University School of Music, Malone University, and the College of Wooster. Outside of classical playing, Ted has appeared onstage with numerous artists including The Who, Weird Al Yankovic, Hanson, Il Divo, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, and Celtic Woman. He holds trumpet performance degrees from the University of Toronto, Illinois State University, and The Ohio State University and is an alumnus of the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and l’Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne.

Ted lives in Ohio with his wife, Katie, and two children, Jackson and Sarah. When not playing trumpet, Ted is an avid road cyclist and is a former member of the Dark Horse Flyers Cycling Club in Toronto with whom he won eleven races in Canada and the USA as part of their racing team.