Susan de Burgh studied in British Columbia with Doris Crofton on Salt Spring Island , with Robin Wood at the Victoria Conservatory, and with Frank Mannheimer, the legendary Tobias Matthay's assistant, in Minnesota. She also attended the Dartington School, Devon . Susan was asked to teach at the Victoria Conservatory of Music after winning the BC Provincial Open Piano Championship, and she also taught in England from 1978 to 1981. Currently,Susan teaches at the Victoria Conservatory in the Camosun College music programme, the VCM Community School, with Pacific Piano Pedagogy ,and privately in her home studio which is equipped with a 7' 10" Petrof and a 5'8 Kawai grand piano. Susan teaches theory in addition to piano and pedagogy. In 2010 her students won both the Helen Gibson Award ( $600) for outstanding senior student, and the prize for the top grade eight Royal Conservatory of Music examination ($250) from the Victoria Branch of Registered Music Teachers. Other pupils have won the Nathan Geminiano Memorial Cup for Intermediate Piano in the Victoria Music Festival and numerous other awards, and represented both the Victoria and Cowichan Festivals at the Provincial level. Susan is a Senior Royal Conservatory of Music examiner . She has given many pedagogy workshops across Canada and the western USA for the Frederick Harris Music Company on examination repertoire and studies . Her own students in examinations have received as high as 94% in the Grade Ten examination of the Royal Conservatory. Many former students are successfully teaching and performing , having been prepared by Susan for university studies, or having attained the Associate of the Royal Conservatory in Performance with Susan. Susan has adjudicated numerous music festivals in western Canada, including the Provincial Finals of Alberta and Manitoba, and at the Calgary festival, the largest music festival in North America. Teachers have called her "Fast, Funny, Fair, and a Fabulous Musician" for her adjudications. The Victoria branch of Registered Music Teachers has invited her to adjudicate the student concert on February 19, 2011, 3 pm in Gordon Head United Church. Susan is the Artistic Director of the summer Piano Academy of the Victoria Conservatory, to be held at the University of Victoria July 4-15th, 2011. To read details of this program, go to www.vcm.bc.ca and click on "Summer programmes" . In response to pedagogy requests, Susan is also conducting masterclasses on Saturday mornings at her home for students who find it helpful to play in a new situation. Some students use these sessions as a mock examination. Phone Susan at 250-383-0712 to book time if you are interested in attending a masterclass. Susan and Michael Redshaw have given many duet and two piano performances, and Susan has also been soloist with the Sidney Classic Orchestra in fourteen concerti. Susan has a wide range of solo repertoire, plus she has worked with many chamber music groups, played many orchestral piano parts, and accompanied voice and choir. She likes to work with all grades, and prefers to start one or two beginners a year in addition to working with her students at the advanced levels. Composers Lorna Paterson, Stephen Brown, Joan Hansen, and Luke Parkin have all dedicated works to Susan, and Larry Skaggs and Susan premiered Joan Hansen's "The Curfew Tolls" for cello and piano. Peter Jancewicz wrote a duet for Susan and Michael called " A Canadian Fantasy", and currently, David Clenman is composing a two piano work for them to perform.

Dr Michael Redshaw
B. Mus., D. Mus., ARCM, LRSM, ATCL, LTCL.

After graduating from Auckland University in 1970, Michael continued his studies at The Royal College of Music, London, with Kendall Taylor during which time he won the Hopkinson Gold Medal. He was a semi-finalist in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna in 1977. Michael held full-time appointments at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Glasgow) and was Assistant Head of Piano at the Birmingham School of Music. For 15 years he was an examiner for The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He came to Canada in 1980, firstly to Calgary where he taught at Mt Royal College, and then to Edmonton where he taught at Alberta College and The King’s University College. He was also a sessional instructor at the Universities in Calgary and Edmonton. He has appeared as a soloist and ensemble player in concert and for radio and TV in Canada, Britain, Europe, and New Zealand. He also has given numerous master classes and lectures in these countries. His latest CD is of music by Beethoven, Field, and Schumann. Michael has a special interest in historic pianos and in searching for and editing unpublished earlier piano works. One of these unknown treasures, a piano concero by the young J. N, Hummel is currently being prepared for publication by Artaria later this year. He is a Festival adjudicator and is also an Examiner Emeritus for RCM (Toronto) Examinations.