Jeffrey Pollock is known for his musical versatility and for his ability to make connections with audiences. Chosen by the League of American Orchestras as a featured conductor for their prestigious 2001 National Conductor Preview, he has performed with orchestras across North America including the Detroit, Houston, Nashville, Cleveland Chamber and Charlotte Symphonies in the US and the Hamilton Philharmonic, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Niagara Symphony in Canada. Currently

in his third season as Music Director for Sinfonia Ancaster, he is expanding the audience base

and the orchestra’s reputation through his innovative and original concert programming. Guest conducting engagements for the 2023-24 season include appearances with the Windsor Symphony and Georgian Bay Symphony orchestras.

A sensitive accompanist, he has performed with virtuoso artists such as Conrad Tao, Zuill Bailey,

Angela Cheng and Jennifer Frautschi. While Associate Conductor with the Fort Worth Symphony and Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony, he worked with a wide variety of international performers, including Roberta Flack, Wynnona Judd, Randy Newman, Pink Martini, Nanci Griffith, Arturo Sandoval and Natalie MacMaster.

For the opera stage, he has conducted productions of The Barber of Seville, Cavalleria Rusticana, and The Turn of the Screw and has worked as chorus master and vocal coach for several regional opera companies. When not on the podium, Jeff can be found mixing vintage cocktails, teaching, or exploring

new hiking trails.

A resident of Burlington Ontario Canada, Maestro Charles Cozens is a true Renaissance man of the Canadian music industry. Highly acclaimed as an arranger, composer and
orchestrator, he is also an accomplished orchestral conductor, pianist, accordionist and recording producer.

As an Arranger, Maestro Cozens has scored over 3000 commissioned orchestrations and compositions for a plethora of orchestras, recordings, multi media and
corporate events worldwide. In particular, he has created compelling orchestrations and symphony shows for such artists as Sir Elton John, Randy Bachman, Janelle Monae, The Nylons, Mark Masri, The Canadian Tenors, Quart et to Gelato and many others. He has also had the pleasure of working with several musical icons including Henry Mancini, Eartha Kitt and Cab Calloway.

With over 1000 recorded tracks for companies such as Universal Music Canada, Somerset Entertainment and Linus Entertainment, he has been recognized by the International
Conductor’s Guild as a leading expert on orchestral conducting in the recording environment (Podium News 2007), and is a Juno Award nominee (Instrumental Album
Of The Year, "Balance").

As a Conductor, he has had numerous appearances with symphony orchestras across Canada, and the United States, as well as several orchestral recordings in Europe. In 2013,
Maestro Cozens was the first Canadian invited to conduct in Cuba. Following his successful debut with the Orquestra de Villa Clara, he continues to guest conduct whenever
possible.

His recent appearances as conductor and music supervisor in January and February 2020 have included The Cleveland Pops Orchestra, The Chicago Philharmonic, The Ontario Philharmonic and The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.

Special projects include the 2nd international branding of the Mozart Effect Recordings (Conductor, Producer, Arranger 2016, 17 Albums) and The Mozart Effect: Live (Conductor, Music Supervisor 2019 - 2023).

Maestro Cozens is also the Founder and Conductor of the Burlington New Millennium Orchestra (BNMO), a contemporary chamber orchestra specializing in a broad based repertoire. Established in 2016, the BNMO utilizes modern digital music technology with traditional instrumentation, the sum of which redefines the orchestral
palette.

Maestro Cozens is an accomplished pianist and accordionist, and is an associated
member of the acclaimed chamber ensemble Quartetto Gelato.

In his spare time Maestro Cozens is Vice President of the Arts and Culture Council of Burlington (ACCOB), and Vice President of the Algoma Music Camp in association with
the Great Lakes Summer Music Institute at Algoma University in Sudbury Ontario.

Maestro Cozens was recently inducted into the Burlington Performing Arts Centre Hall of Fame (May of 2023).
For more info please visit charlescozens.com and bnmo.ca

Sabatino Vacca is the Founder, Artistic Director, and Chorus Master of the newly formed Southern Ontario Lyric Opera (SOLO). He has been the Music Director of the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra (CSO) since 2007, and helped found the Milton Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014. Sabatino led the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra as Music Director from 2010 to 2017. SOLO debuted in concert in 2015, and followed with productions of La Traviata, Tosca, La Bohème, Pagliacci, Gianni Schicchi, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, and in concert with world-renowned Canadian Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka, and Measha Brueggergosman-Lee. The CSO led by Sabatino has accompanied Ben Heppner, Richard Margison, Gary Relyea, and others in concert. He conducted an all-Tchaikovsky programme at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. Sabatino has also conducted orchestras in the Czech Republic, Symphony Hamilton, the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony, the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brampton Symphony Orchestra, the Rose Orchestra, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra. For Opera York he served as Artistic Director from 2004 to 2016. He was on staff with Opera Hamilton and has worked as an opera coach for the University of Toronto, Laurier University, as well as the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Sabatino is the recipient of the Spirit of Ontario Award for the Arts by the National Congress of Italian Canadians. He was recently inducted into the Alumni Gallery at McMaster University.  

Sabatino is a versatile arranger writing in various styles and for ensembles big and small. His arrangements for the multi-media presentation "Children of a Vanished World" produced by Judy Kopelow as a commemoration to the children of the Holocaust were performed in Hamilton, Toronto, and Waterloo.  It was also performed at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and at the University of California at Santa Barbara as part of their Arts and Lectures Series.  

Award winning Canadian composer, Richard Mascall grew up in Toronto, Canada but originally hails from England. Richard studied musical composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. He studied with Pierre Gallant, Chan Ka Nin, Walter Buczynski, Derek Holman, Glenn Buhr and Christos Hatzis. Mr. Mascall moved to a small rural Ontario town in 2005 where he works as a composer/arranger, violinist, conductor and music educator. From 2006-2010 he served as the Composer-in-Residence for the Georgian Bay Symphony. Mr. Mascall’s music first gained public attention in 1992 when his virtuosic work for solo violin, Labyrinth, was performed by violinist, Andrew Dawes at the CBC Young Composers Competition. Labyrinth was chosen by the CBC to represent Canada at the 1993 Inter- national Rostrum of Composers in Paris, France. His Solo Violin Sonata of which

Labyrinth is the opening movement won the 1995 SOCAN award for Chamber Music. Since then his music has been widely performed across Canada by many of the leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists. With recent performances of his work in Estonia, England, Finland and South Korea his music is beginning to be heard around the globe. Additionally, Richard has written for film, scoring Anaïs Granofsky’s 1999 debut film, Have Mercy. For well over a decade, Mr. Mascall has taken a great interest in aboriginal art and culture and has to this point written sixteen native themed works. In January 2012, Mr. Mascall was honoured with the spirit name ‘Singing Beaver on Water’.

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