GUEST FACULTY
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Doctor Choi works at Royal Columbian and Eagle Ridge Hospitals in New Westminster and Port Moody, British Columbia, respectively. She is officially a clinical instructor with the University of British Columbia as well.
photo credit : Rita Taylor
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Adam LaMotte is well known to audiences throughout the country as a leader of both period and modern ensembles. He has appeared as soloist, concertmaster, and conductor of numerous orchestras throughout the country, including the Northwest Sinfonietta, String Orchestra of the Rockies, Astoria Festival Orchestra, Pacific MusicWorks, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Ars Lyrica, and the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra.
Adam was nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award, as part of the El Mundo baroque ensemble, and is now Program Director for the Berwick Academy, which guides young professionals in the art of period instrument playing. As Artistic Director of the Montana Baroque Festival, he brings world-class period instrument performances to the rural Montana community. In 2018, Adam founded the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in his home of Portland, Oregon.
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Christopher Sandvoss is an internationally recognized violin maker, musician, and pedagogue. He has been a full time violin maker for the past 20 years. Prior to this, Mr. Sandvoss had a career playing and teaching the viola at The University of Calgary. He originally studied violin with his mother, an early childhood music specialist, and viola with the eminent teachers Harold Gomez, John Thompson, and John Lowry. Mr. Sandvoss went on to work with some of the world’s legendary pedagogues, including Gerald Stanick, Hatto Beyerle, Karen Tuttle, Martha Strongin-Katz, and Donald McInnes.
He performed and taught at festivals in Europe and North America, and appeared as an orchestra musician, conductor, soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician on stage, radio, TV, and CD. Mr. Sandvoss was the founding violist of the internationally renowned Land’s End Ensemble, the 13th St. Trio, and the UCalgary quartet.
Mr Sandvoss has taught at The University of Calgary, and since 2015 at the Mount Royal University Conservatory where he teaches Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, facilitates the Viola Academy/AP Program and conducts the Conservatory Sinfonia.