Workshop Leaders and Programmes 2025/26

Many thanks to our Program Director, Christine McClymont, who is planning an exciting program for 2025/26.

2025

Sept. 14, Colin Savage: Colin Savage was the principal clarinetist with the Mississauga Orchestra for 30 years and excels on the recorder. He has toured Japan and played with Opera Atelier, Canadian Opera Company, Apollo’s Fire, Les Boréades, Tafelmusik and the Toronto Consort. Besides pursuing his photographic interests, Colin is an enthusiastic member of Ensemble Polaris, a Northern crossover band who play accordion, mandolin, Swedish pipes, recorders, bouzouki, musical saws, and more. They have made five recordings, and enjoy a successful concert life.

Oct. 19, Jonathan Wong: Jonathan Wong is a conductor, performer, and educator based in the Greater Toronto Area. His wide-ranging work in concert, opera, and musical theatre contexts is unified by a love for music’s communicative power and its ability to build communities in an inimitable way. As a conductor, he is Music Director and Conductor of the Strings Attached Orchestra and instructor of conducting at Tyndale University. Jonathan is fiercely committed to education in community, classroom, and private settings. In addition to teaching at Tyndale University, he teaches and coaches clarinet, piano, and voice, and he can be found leading sectionals, clinics, and masterclasses across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. He also enjoys a diverse concert and teaching career as a keyboardist (modern and historical), clarinettist, singer, and occasional percussionist. 

Nov. 9, Francis Colpron: Recorder and traverso (flute) player Francis Colpron is recognized as one of the most talented musicians of his generation. In 1991, he founded the ensemble Les Boréades de Montréal and is still the Artistic Director. Touring extensively in Quebec and abroad, Francis and the ensemble explore the theatrical and musical worlds of the 17th and 18th centuries, bringing ancient practice to light while playing period instruments. A generous and enthusiastic teacher, Francis regularly leads TEMPO workshops and teaches at summer music camps such as Amherst in the U.S., CAMMAC in Québec and Boxwood in Nova Scotia.

Dec. 21, Avery Maclean: Avery completed her BMus in Early Music Performance and Literature at McGill University, a post-graduate certificate in Performance at The Hague Royal Conservatory of Music and an MA in Music Criticism at McMaster University. 

In demand as a soloist and chamber musician, she has made guest appearances with the Les Violons du Roi, Aradia, Mississauga Symphony, Toronto Philharmonic, Toronto Consort, Arbor Oak Trio, Elora Festival and with many choral groups across southern Ontario. She can be heard on Naxos, Classical Kids and several private label recordings. Avery has also been featured on CBC and CJRT radio, CBC and BRAVO! Television and several film soundtracks. 

Recipient of the McMaster Arch Award in 2005, she was recognized for her “significant and notable academic, professional and personal achievements,” including her significant contributions to establishing several new organizations in Toronto. She was a founding member of the Aradia Baroque Orchestra, the Recordare Ensemble and a founding Board Member of Toronto Masque Theatre. Through these and other associations she has contributed to the rich tapestry of musical activity in Toronto, through her fresh, inventive programming, her collaborations with multi-disciplinary artists and her support of emerging talent. 

2026

Jan. 11, Bill McMillan: Bill McMillan completed his undergraduate and postgraduate music studies at the University of Toronto, studying violin and voice. Membership in numerous ensembles included studies in early music with Andrew Hughes. During his professional career in music performance and music education, Bill has held positions of Director of Inter-Provincial Music Camp, Principal of North York Summer School, conductor of the Halton and Sheridan Youth Orchestras, the Pickering Philharmonic, and Havergal College and Crescent School String Orchestras. He has also served as Principal Viola of the Oakville Symphony and Principal Viola of York Symphony. Together with colleague Michele Frensch (also a recorder player), he is Co-Music Director of String OrchestraTO, founded last year for string players who enjoy exploring the wealth of Baroque and Classical string literature.

During his career as a teacher and Curriculum Leader with the TDSB, Bill incorporated recorder instruction and ensembles into his string curriculum, subsequently studying recorder with Susan Prior. He currently explores chamber music for recorder ensembles, and has led workshops on literature and performance practise.

Feb. 8, Jonathan Stuchbery: Jonathan Stuchbery is a specialist in instruments of the lute and guitar family, based in Toronto, ON. A sought-after performer, he is praised for his “energizing precision” (The Whole Note) and “wistful lute performance” (La Scena Musicale), while showcasing creative and engaging programming. 

Jonathan is interested in writing and collaborating with composers to develop new repertoire for historical instruments. His own lute song ‘Initium Noctis’ can be heard on Duo Oriana's album ‘How Like a Golden Dream’, and thanks to a 2024 Toronto Arts Council grant, has written music for four newly commissioned poems from Toronto writers for Duo Oriana, premiered in April 2025 at the Canadian Opera Company.

Jonathan studied early music performance in the master’s program at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya with Xavier Díaz-Latorre. Prior to this he graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Guitar and Lute from McGill’s Schulich School of Music in the studios of Jérôme Ducharme and Sylvain Bergeron. Off stage catch him walking his pug Satie through Christie Pits, or whiling the hours away drinking tea.

For more information about Jonathan and his upcoming performances, see www.jonathanstuchbery.com

March 8, Stephane Potvin

April 12, Felix Deak

May 10, Tatsuki Shimoda

June 14, TEMPO Tea