Boyanna Toyich
Cameron Walter
Clare Scholtz

Guest Faculty
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Classical pianist, teacher and internationally recognized motivational and inspirational speaker, Boyanna Toyich has been developing the talents of students, teachers and performing artists for over thirty years. She is the founder and President and CEO of Toyich International Projects.

As a graduate and faculty member of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music and the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), Boyanna Toyich has received numerous national and international scholarships and awards. Her post-graduate work includes studies in piano performance, pedagogy, and the psychology of teaching in France, Austria, and Italy. She is also an author and contributing editor for RCM publications, a master class teacher and instructor in both institutions.

Boyanna Toyich has served as an ARCT (diploma) specialist with the RCM’s College of Examiners and is an active international adjudicator, juror, lecturer and workshop clinician. In addition, she is a specialist in professional development courses for teachers and the architect of the “Performing Skills Workshop” (© Boyanna Toyich, 1983). She also conducts the Monster Concert pianists.

Dr. Cameron Walter is the Associate Dean and Coordinator of Performance at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music. He teaches rehearsal and conducting techniques at the graduate and undergraduate levels and wind literature and instrumental pedagogy at the graduate level.

He holds the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Toronto and the Doctor of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He completed post-graduate performance studies at New York University and the Aspen Music School as a scholarship student.

Prior to his appointment at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, Cam Walter taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto Scarborough campus, York University, the Toronto French School and as an itinerant instrumental teacher for the Toronto District School Board.

An accomplished brass player, he has performed in every style of music from opera and ballet to symphony, chamber music, brass band, jazz, swing, funk and Broadway shows. Cam Walter has an extensive background as a professional trombonist and bass trombonist with the Canadian Opera Company, the National Ballet Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Arraymusic, the music theatre productions of R. Murray Schafer, the Howard Cable Brass, as conductor on CD with the Canadian Brass and as an extra musician with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He performs frequently in horn sections and bands backing up artists in the pop music world.

Cam Walter studied conducting with Victor Feldbrill, euphonium with Chuck Daellenbach of the Canadian Brass, trombone with Ralph Sauer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dr. Ron Borror at the Aspen Music School.

Clare Scholtz completed her undergraduate music degree at the University of Minnesota, studied for several summers at the Aspen Music School and completed her masters degree in performance at the University of Toronto Faculty, of Music. She performed as principal oboe with the Saskatoon Symphony for four years, and taught at the University of Saskatchewan. She moved to Toronto in 1984 Ad since that time has performed with the National Ballet Orchestra in Toronto and Europe, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Esprit Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and many other ensembles. In addition to her orchestral experience she has been very active in the area of recording and Broadway show performance, including opening the Toronto productions of Phantom of the Opera, Showboat Ragtime and Beauty and the Beast. She has appeared at the Elora Festival, Festival of the Sound, Northern Encounters and is also in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher.