Richard Hornsby | Bjorn Runefors | Olivia Brayley-Quackenbush  | Yvonne Kershaw

Richard Hornsby is an active performer on clarinet, bass clarinet, basset horn and saxophones.

He has played with the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra and New Music Concerts of Canada as well as recording for C.B.C. Radio of Canada.

An experienced chamber musician, he has toured with the Contemporary Winds Woodwind Quintet as well as the Canadian Saxophone Quintet.

He has also served on the faculties of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), the University of Toronto, and St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

He is completing his Doctorate in Music Performance and Literature at Indiana University, with minor concentrations in music education and conducting, and while there performed with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus, Owensboro and Evansville Symphonies, and was a featured performer and conductor with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. He also founded and led the Indiana University Wind Chamber Players.

In the summer of 1992 he was Assistant Artistic Director for the Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, Ontario.

Richard was appointed the Director of Music at the University of New Brunswick in the fall of 1992, where he now conducts the U.N.B. Concert Band and Brass Ensemble and oversees the activities of the Centre for Musical Arts including a Young Strings Program and directs the UNB Music Camp.

He continues an active performance schedule as a soloist, chamber musician and a member of Duo New Brunswick, with recent performances in Italy, the Czech Republic as well as Canada.

Mr. Hornsby also directs the highly successful New Brunswick Summer Music Festival each summer, concerts of which are broadcast nationally on CBC radio.

Mr. Hornsby is also active as a representative for the arts. He is a member of many progessional arts organizations including acting as the Chair of the New Brunswick Arts Board.

E-Mail: rHornsby@unb.ca

The Swedish conductor, flutist and singer Bjorn Runefors relocated to New Brunswick in 2003.

Bjorn has in a short time become actively involved in the Fredericton music life as a teacher, singer, flutist and conductor.

Bjorn is currently conducting the UNB Chorale and the UNB Concert Band, as well as the Fredericton Youth Orchestra at the UNB Conservatory of Music. He is teaching Music Theory at UNB and Choral Singing at St. Thomas University.

Bjorn is also conducting the Fredericton Choral Society. Their first performance under his baton was Brahms Requiem in May 2006.

Bjorn is a multi-faceted musician. He has played in symphony orchestras and sung in
professional choirs both in Sweden and in Canada. He has written music for and
performed as an actor at theatres in Sweden.

As a teacher, Bjorn has been on faculty at music colleges in Sweden and in Stockholm he was the founder and director of a youth
orchestra that toured extensively across Europe.

In 2005 Bjorn directed HMS Pinafore at the Playhouse for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and the chorus for Christmas @ the Playhouse.

He is playing the flute with Fredericton Chamber Orchestra, NB Winds, and sings bass with Bel Canto Singers. Bjorn is also involved in developing the newly formed UNB Conservatory of Music.

A Native of New Brunswick, Canada, Olivia Brayley Quackenbush, attended Acadia University in which she graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Music in French Horn performance. During that time she performed with Symphony Nova Scotia and gave many chamber and solo recitals. Upon completion at Acadia, Olivia went on to McGill University to pursue graduate studies. Since then, She has performed with many outstanding orchestras and festivals throughout Canada, and the United States.

In 2007, Ms. Quackenbush joined Kvintten Nord, a fully professional brass quintet in Finland. The ensemble performed throughout western Finland, collaborated with local arts and musicians and performed with the Vaasa City Orchestra.

Ms. Quackenbush has been committed to music education in her home Provence, of New Brunswick and is a faculty member at the UNB Music Camp. She has recently launched a new initiative called VIVA! ARTS! to encourage arts education in the school system. The organization has partnered with the UNB Music Camp to begin VIVA! Beginning Instrumental Music Camp. has recorded for CBC Radio and can be heard on Symphony Nova Scotia’s recording, “Cable for all Seasons” which was recorded in the spring of 2002.

Olivia returns frequently to her home province to play with Symphony New Brunswick, Opera New Brunswick and has also appeared with the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival. In 2010, Ms. Quackenbush was appointed 'Musicians in Residence' at the University of New Brunswick. She was busy giving recitals, collaborating with many New Brunswick musicians, teaching privately and providing workshops and clinics to young musicians.

Olivia currently resides in Toronto as a freelance musician, teacher and is a member of the Toronto Brass Quintet. She has recorded for CBC radio and Naxos records. She can be heard on Symphony Nova Scotia's 2002 recording, “Cable for all Seasons”.

American born bassoonist, Yvonne Kershaw has a wide range of performance experience in both Canada and the U.S.A.

She was the bassoonist with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra (Washington), and has participated in the Sandpoint, Idaho, Bayview and Michigan Music Festivals.

Her extensive teaching experience includes instructing instrumental music in Seattle area music schools and working as a graduate instructor of bassoon at Indiana University.

Yvonne now resides in Fredericton where she teaches bassoon, flute, oboe in her own studio and at the UNB Centre for Musical Arts Young musicians programme.

She performs regularily with the Fredericton Chamber Players and Symphony New Brunswick.