Francois Koh: Music Director/Conductor

Maestro Koh and the Georgian Bay Symphony are please to award three young players this year's Hermon Dilmore Award. The awards got to Alex Adair, percussion: Aiden Nelson, violin; and Rebecca Selman, percussion. Alex Adair Hello, my name is Alex Adair. I’ll be entering Grade 12, in the fall, at OSDSS. I have played music throughout my school years, including being in the East Ridge school band. I play percussion for the GBS. I have been involved in music since kinder music.

​ Maestro Koh and the Georgian Bay Symphony are please to award this year's Burton Morrison Award to Zoe McKittrick. Zoe McKittrick is graduating from Owen Sound District Secondary School as an honours French-immersion student. She has studied the cello for six years and has recently completed her Grade eight RCM exam. She is also an enthusiastic choral singer and a devoted ballet and highland dancer. In the fall, she plans to start her studies in Public Administration at

This summer Orchestra North is thrilled to invite string players to an amazing week of in person music making this July 11-15th in downtown Owen Sound with an incredible faculty of artist instructors that including rock violinist Victoria Yeh, Canadian fiddle sensation Tyler Beckett, Storyteller, filmmaker and regalia designer Sharon Isaac, members of Interro String Quartet, and renowned cellist and pedagogue Sarah Steeves. With a focus on programs for string players (violin,

“…blazing technical capacity and a lush sound supported by a natural phrasing sense” (Timothy Gilligan, New York Concert Review) Dr. Younggun Kim is a pianist known for his blazing technical capacity and a lush sound supported by a natural phrasing sense (Timothy Gilligan, New York Concert Review), who has performed across North America and Europe. He is active as soloist, and chamber musician; recently he joined his alma mater, University of Toronto, as faculty member. He is