Ian has been a professional musical theatre performer for over 35 years and is currently the Canadian regional rep for Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance. He is a graduate of Queen's University (Bachelor of Music in voice) and Sheridan College (Diploma in Music-Theatre Performance). He has been on faculty in the Music Theatre - Performance department at St Lawrence College since 2014 and has been a voice teacher at Sheridan College in the Music Theatre Performance program.
Over the years, Ian has performed vocal styles from Operetta to Pop/Rock. His vocal pedagogy studies include NATS Conference (Chicago), Penn State Vocal Pedagogy (Mary Saunders-Barton, Bel Canto, Can Belto), Somatic Voicework TM (Levels I, II, III with Jeanie LoVetri), Soul Ingredients TM (Dr. Triniece Robinson- Martin, Princeton University), Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy (Kevin Wilson, Jared Trudeau), and Rock the Audition Teacher Training (Sheri Sanders). He continues his studies of contemporary commercial voice with such courses on Belting, Training Transgender Voices, What is Mix?, Voice Acoustics, and Vocal Health and Pathologies.
As an actor/singer Ian has worked at such theatres as the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Charlottetown Festival, American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and played Harry Bright in US National Tour of Mamma Mia! where he toured to over 144 cities across Canada, the US, and Mexico. He has worked with Tony nominated directors Frank Galati, Susan H. Schulman, Gary Griffin, Brian Macdonald, and Brian Bedford; Olivier nominated director Phyllida Lloyd; and esteemed Canadian directors Donna Feore, Robert McQueen, Jackie Maxwell, Christopher Newton, and Richard Monette. He has sung internationally with The Orchestra Japan across Japan and Taiwan. You can also see him in guest starring roles on CBC's Diggstown and Murdoch Mysteries.
St. Mathew's Lutheran Church - Sanctuary
54 Benton St.
Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:9:00 AM | Name:Erica Mota | Titles: Vanilla Ice Cream, She Loves Me by Jerry Bock Someone To Watch Over Me, Crazy For You by George Gershwin | Home Festival:London |
Time:9:15 AM | Name:Evan DePass | Titles: What if, The Adams Family by Andrew Lippa Consider Yourself, Oliver! by Lionel Bart | Home Festival:Chatham |
Time:9:30 AM | Name:Ruby Wijnker | Titles: Simple Joys of Maidenhood, Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner I Love Play Rehearsal, Be More Chill by Stephanie Hsu | Home Festival:Woodstock |
Time:9:45 AM | Name:Dylan Stephen | Titles: Middle Of A Moment, James and the Giant Peach by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul Grow For Me, Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken | Home Festival:Barrie |
Time:10:00 AM | Name:Scarlett Hodge | Titles: The Girl I Mean to Be, The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon Getting to Know You, The King and I by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II | Home Festival:Windsor-Essex |
Time:10:15 AM | Name:Alice Byrnes | Titles: Show Me, My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe Home, Phantom by Maury Yeston | Home Festival:South Simcoe |
Time:10:30 AM | Name:Eva-Odile Beausoleil | Titles: Morning Person, Shrek, The Musical by Jeanine Tesori I Love Play Rehearsal, Be More Chill by Joe Iconsis | Home Festival:Niagara |
Time:10:45 AM | Name:Mya Mikelsons-Sangha | Titles: I Dreamed A Dream, Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg Think Of Me, Phantom Of The Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Home Festival:Newmarket |
Time:11:00 AM | Name:Nicholas Szpakowski | Titles: I am Aldolpho, The Drowsy Chaperone by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison What do I Need With Love, Thoroughly Modern Millie by Gavin Creel | Home Festival:Hamilton |
Time:11:15 AM | Name:Noah Calendino | Titles: Proud of Your Boy, Aladdin by Alan Menken I'm Not That Smart, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn | Home Festival:Ottawa Kiwanis |
Time:11:30 AM | Name:Alyssa Smith | Titles: Stupid With Love, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond Home, Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn | Home Festival:Kingston |
Time | Name | Titles | Home Festival |
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Time:1:00 PM | Name:Dryden Trainor | Titles: My Grand Plan, The Lightening Thief by Rob Rokicki Come out of the Dumpster, The Wedding Singer by Matthew Sklar | Home Festival:Oakville |
Time:1:15 PM | Name:Maya Greenough | Titles: The Lamest Place in the World, 13 The Musical by Jason Robert Brown My Grand Plan, The Lightning Thief by Rob Rokicki | Home Festival:Peel |
Time:1:30 PM | Name:Isabella Xiang | Titles: I Know Things Now, Into the woods by Stephen Sondheim When I Group Up, Matilda by Tim Minchin | Home Festival:North York Virtual |
Time:1:45 PM | Name:Caitlyn Edelman | Titles: Promise Me This, The Theory of Relativity by Neil Bartram and Brian Hill Nothing Short of Wonderful, Dogfight by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul | Home Festival:Pickering GTA |
Time:2:00 PM | Name:Emma Papageorge | Titles: In My Dreams, Anastasia by Stephen Flaherty When He Sees Me, Waitress by Sara Bareilles | Home Festival:Peterborough |
Time:2:15 PM | Name:Sofia Szeto | Titles: Show Me, My Fair Lady by Friedrich Löwe How Could I Ever Know, The Secret Garden by Lucy Simon | Home Festival:Toronto |
Time:2:30 PM | Name:Scarlett Sze-Wan Lau | Titles: Pulled, The Addams Family by Andrew Lippa Burn, Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Home Festival:Take the Stage |
Time:2:45 PM | Name:Jocelyn Chau | Titles: Requiem, Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul I'd Rather Be Me, Mean Girls by Jeff Richmond | Home Festival:Unionville |
Workshop will be held from approximately 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm.
Announcement of winners will happen at the end of the workshop.
The top two competitors from this class will proceed to the playoffs.
The playoffs will be held at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church/Centre - Sanctuary
54 Benton St., Kitchener, ON N2G 3H2