Brian Tate

Brian Tate is a Victoria, B.C. composer/arranger, choral director, vocalist, and educator.

An award-winning composer and arranger, dozens of his choral works are published and his music is performed worldwide.

Brian is music director of the Vancouver Island Chamber Choir and the Broad View Community Choir.

He is on the voice faculty of the Canadian College of the Performing Arts where he teaches private voice, masterclasses, and vocal ensemble.

Brian is known for his teaching skills, humour, and ability to have people from all levels and backgrounds singing together.

Jennifer Scott is a singer and pianist born in 

Vancouver, BC

 She specializes in jazz, blues, and world music.

She is considered one of the more important jazz artists working in Canada and the United States today.

As well as being a performer, she arranges and writes jazz and pop tunes, with several CDs containing a combination of original tunes, tunes she has arranged, and more traditional tunes.

She has also appeared on many CBC recordings

 and has worked with many other musicians both

 live and in studio.

Michael Creber is one of the West Coast's most sought-after musicians, both onstage and in the recording studio. A Grammy-nominated producer, and a Juno award winner, his career as a keyboardist, composer, teacher and producer embraces many areas of music including jazz, rock, gospel, and R&B. He has performed with kd lang, Raffi, the Rankin Sisters, Petula Clark, David Foster, Shirley Bassey, Powder Blues, John Sebastian, Cyndi Lauper, Dee Daniels, Phil Nimmons and many others. During the last few years, Michael has kept busy writing scores for film and television, producing CDs, teaching, and keeping up a full performance schedule. Michael has three albums of original music which have been featured on CBC Radio's nationally broadcast JazzBeat, and Vancouver's Hot Air.

Karla is a vibrant, soulful and diverse vocalist and choir director. Karla is well known in the BC music community as the director of 3 adult choirs - Rhythm 'n' Roots, City Soul Choir and Island Soul Choir, and formerly with Harmony Mountain Singers, Home Cookin’, and EarthSounds on Bowen Island.

 Karla is the founder of SongRoots which is a music education organization that runs adult singing camps every summer on Gambier Island and hosts harmony workshops throughout the year in the city. Through Songroots, Karla has led singing study programs in Cuba, North Carolina, New Orleans, and France, and has co-led (in partnership with Village Harmony) trips to Georgia, South Africa and Corsica. Karla frequently teaches at music camps throughout the Pacific Northwest (Smithers, Haida Gwaii, Vancouver Island & Washington State). 

Karla is a founding member of the No Sh!t Shirleys, TriVo, Cleia, Plough and Tanglewood Trio. She released her first solo CD called “Way Back” in 2012. She has performed with Jennifer Scott, Rene Worst, Dawn Pemberton, Brian Tate, Cindy Scott, Brian Seeger, Michael Creber, and has toured with Moira Smiley + VOCO.

 Karla deeply loves harmony singing and all that it creates - beauty, a common goal, and a connection to the present moment and each other!