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Music Faculty
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"Let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance ..."
Proverbs 1:5 (NIV)
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The Music Department consists of regular and contract faculty, for a large complement of instrumental, vocal, choral, and academic areas. |
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Debra Bakland, MA / Associate Professor of Music/ e-mail
Wendy Markosky, DMus, Professor of Music (Co-Chair)/ e-mail
Wendolin Pazitka-Munroe, DME, Professor of Music (Co-Chair)/ e-mail
Jennifer Penner, MMus, Assistant Professor of Music / e-mail
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Debra Bakland, MA (Washington State University)
Associate Professor of Music
Piano
Keyboard Pedagogy
Music Appreciation
Music History
Music Theory
Debra Bakland has enjoyed a long, established career and an excellent reputation as a teacher, adjudicator, clinician and performer in the US Pacific Northwest. Her ability to inspire student performers of all ages is a legend in the Northwest. This gift, coupled with her ability to motivate and guide students as they develop their own unique style, has resulted in an incredible list of student achievements.
Ms. Bakland has served most recently on the music faculty at Walla Walla College. While there she built up a nationally recognized and highly successful piano preparatory program, providing instruction for young students and an opportunity for college piano students to learn to teach under the guidance of a master teacher. Through the years her students have consistently won top honours in regional and state piano competitions, have participated in master classes with some of the world's great pianists and pedagogues, and gone on for further piano study at some of the US's most prestigious institutions.
An active performer as well as teacher and adjudicator, Ms. Bakland has given numerous solo, chamber and concerto performances as pianist, and has recorded two chamber trio CDs with the ensemble Donne e Doni.
Wendy Markosky, DMus (Indiana University)
Professor of Music
Department Co-Chair
Organ
Harpsichord
Music History
Music Theory
Musicianship Skills
As well as being on the music faculty Wendy Markosky also serves as organist of the university college church. Dr. Markosky holds the degree Doctor of Music in Organ Performance & Literature, with minors in Music Theory and Baroque Studies, from School of Music at Indiana University - Bloomington, where she also earned her master's degree in performance. Dr. Markosky was an associate instructor of music theory for five years at the IU School of Music and also served as university chapel organist, as well as studying harpsichord and carillon. Her doctoral research focused on the music of 17th-century organist Matthias Weckmann, and the crucial role of musical rhetorical concepts in composition and performance in that era.
In addition to her teaching and church duties, Dr. Markosky maintains an active professional schedule of concerts, lectures, masterclasses and workshops in both Canada and the US. This past season took her to recital venues in Alberta, Manitoba and California. She has lectured on her doctoral research at Northwestern University, Illinois, been a recitalist and lecturer for the “Travelling Clinician” program of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and been a faculty member of the American “Pipe Organ Encounters” program, an educational outreach program of the American Guild of Organists. She has done research, study and performances on a number of important Baroque organs in Germany and France. Dr. Markosky also is an active continuo performer (organ, harpsichord) with several Alberta baroque ensembles.
Wendolin Pazitka Munroe, DME (Indiana University)
Professor of Music
Department Co-Chair
Choir
Voice
Conducting
Vocal Pedagogy
Music Education
Music History
Wendolin Munroe has taught at Canadian University College for over 30 years and during that time has built the choral program from a handful of students to a yearly average of 100+ singers in the Choral Union choir. Dr. Munroe holds the degree Doctor of Music
Education in Choral Methodology (2001) from the Indiana University School of Music at Bloomington and brings to her teaching a wealth of educational and conducting experience. Her doctoral research focused on the development of a statistically-valid analytical method of choral auditioning. Dr. Munroe has studied and participated under some of the great choral conductors including Julius Herford, Robert Shaw, John Rutter and Jonathan Willcocks. In summer of 2005 she was privileged to be selected as one of a group of conductors studying under world-renowned conductor Helmut Rilling.
Dr. Munroe's choirs have performed around the world, from recent performances of the Mozart Requiem with Vancouver's Sinfonia of the North Shore, TV broadcasts for It Is Written (Canada), choral festival performances in Carnegie Hall with conductors John Rutter and Jonathan Willcocks as well as a solo Carnegie appearance, to a Pan American Youth Congress in Mexico City, and more. Dr. Munroe is also active as a choral clinician for music festivals and choral conducting workshops in Canada and the USA.
Jennifer Penner, MMus (University of Southern California)
Assistant Professor
Violin
Chamber Orchestra
Band
String Pedagogy
While still in high school Jennifer Penner became concertmaster of the New England Youth Chamber Ensemble and also enjoyed orchestral tours on five continents performing with the New England Symphonic Ensemble as both concertmaster and concerto soloist with the ensemble. Ms. Penner completed her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from Columbia Union College, while studying violin with Gerald Fischbach and Violin Pedagogy with Ronda Cole at the University of Maryland. In 2008, Ms. Penner received her Master of Music degree from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where she also completed coursework for her Doctorate of Musical Arts in July 2010 as a scholarship student of Suli Xue. Minor fields of study during her doctoral work included Instrumental Conducting, Musicology and Early Music.
Ms. Penner has porformed on baroque violin as leader and soloist with the USC Baroque Sinfonia as well as performing as a guest with Los Angeles’ Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica. Recent festival appearances include École des Musique (Fontainebleau, France), Bowdoin, Wintergreen, Masterworks and International String Workshops. Ms. Penner has also served as a pedagogue in various string programs and festivals as a private instructor and onductor.
Contract Faculty
Contract faculty are drawn from local professional musicians as well as music faculty of Red Deer College and University of Alberta.
Viola
Cello
Classical guitar
Winds
Brass
Percussion
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