Elsa started the flute as a child in England, under her father’s direction. She later performed and taught there. Upon moving to Canada she continued her studies with Tony Antonacci of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and played regularly in numerous organizations including the Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. Since moving to Ottawa in 1977 Elsa has studied with Robert Cram, Jean-Guy Brault and Camille Churchfield and has continued to teach and perform. She is currently the Principal Flute of Divertimento Orchestra of Ottawa as well as its Personnel Manager.
Victor has performed on oboe in orchestras and in Baroque and chamber music concerts throughout Canada and the U. S. A., including with the Kingston Baroque Consort, DeSota Baroque, Kingston Symphony, Ottawa Chamber Orchestra and Symphony of the Kootenays.
He has played on a mountain side in the Rockies for a cowboy wedding and also for a command performance for Diana, Princess of Wales.
Victor was awarded his Master’s degree in oboe at McGill University in Montreal and his Bachelor of Music degree "With Distinction" at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Victor continues his studies today and embraces performing on the Baroque oboe.
Julie studied clarinet with James Morton, founding Principal Clarinettist of Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. Second Clarinettist of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra for 17 years and Orchestre de chambre de Hull, she has played in many orchestras, bands and chamber music ensembles. The Regimental Band of the Governor General’s Foot Guards and Ceremonial Guard Band are also part of her varied background. In 2005 Julie and her husband Mark Rocheleau founded the Ottawa Wind Ensemble of which she is the Principal Clarinet.
Bob is the Principal Horn and President of Ottawa’s Divertimento Orchestra. His more than forty years of playing have included studies with Josef Veleba at the Vienna Academy of Music and with Robert Creech and Ron George at the University of Western Ontario. He has played with Orchestra London Canada, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the International Symphony Orchestra and the Regimental Band of the Governor General’s Foot Guards.
Gordon studied the bassoon with Nicholas Kilburn of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra before playing in many orchestras, pit orchestras, bands and chamber groups in that city and in Ottawa. Gordon has played the bassoon and the contrabassoon with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra since 1979 and conducted the 65–piece Divertimento Orchestra of Ottawa since 1987. He held the position of Dominion Carillonneur of Canada from 1977 to 2008. Gordon continues to perform on the carillon in Canada and abroad and to publish his carillon music here.
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