Esfir Dyachkov, camp director
Yegor Dyachkov, cello
Nancy Golberg, administrative director
Caroline MacLeay, art
Kerry Roebuck, conductor, winds
Caroline Malo
Josyanne Sylvestre, violin

Esfir Dyachkov, Camp Director

Born in Yakoutsk, Siberia, Esfir Dyachkov began piano lessons at age five. After studying at the Moscow Academy of Music, she continued at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory with the renowned professors Nathan Fishman and Leonid Roizman. Having graduated with "Great Honours", she was invited to become a professor at the Conservatory's Academy of Music, a position she kept in conjunction with an active concert career. She moved to Canada in 1988.

Performing as a soloist and accompanist has enabled her to tour throughout Europe, the United States and South America. While a member of the Moscow Goskonsert, she had the opportunity to play with famous artists from all over the world.

She guides soloists, while remaining discretely in the background. As well as being an experienced instrumentalist, she coaches and performs with vocalists and choirs.

Esfir Dyachkov has won numerous international prizes and a special first prize for the premiere of Shostakovich's last work: Sonata for viola and piano, op.147. She has recorded for Melodiya and Radio-Canada.

As a teacher, she has authored several publications on piano pedagogy, methods and techniques, and many of her students have been recipients of international prizes. She founded music schools in Russia, Ecuador, and Camp Musical Tutti in Canada.

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Yegor Dyachkov, Cello

Whether offering "a most beautiful romantic interpretation" (Le Soleil, Quebec), captivating audiences with his "silky round tone" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), or bringing "music to the point of incandescence" (Le Devoir, Montreal), Yegor Dyachkov's artistic profile is characterized by a uniquely beautiful sound, an intensity and richness of playing, a remarkable maturity of musicianship, and a diversity of repertoire.

Born in Moscow in 1974, his principal musical mentors have been Aleksandr Fedorchenko in Moscow, Yuli Turovsky in Montreal and Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne. An impressive recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician, Yegor Dyachkov participates in a wide array of festivals such as those in Evian, Kronberg, Tanglewood, Lanaudiere and Vancouver. His concert schedule also includes invitations from such noted ensembles the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra.

Winning the Orford International Competition in 1997 led to an invitation from the Chandos label to record his debut CD featuring Glazunov's Concerto Ballata. The following year, the American label Brioso launched a CD comprising works by Strauss and Pfitzner, recorded with pianist Henri Brassard. Two other discs, recorded with Jean Saulnier at the piano, featuring sonatas by Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke (Pellas label) and Brahms sonatas (Analekta), have recently been released to great critical acclaim.

In year 2000, he received the first "Artist of the Year" award from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Toronto Women's Musical Club as well as the Young Canadian Musician Award from the eponymous Foundation. Yegor Dyachkov tours internationally on a regular basis, and his performances are broadcast and televised in Canada and abroad. The breadth of his musical commitment extends also to teaching where in masterclasses he is a persuasive, articulate and enthusiastic presence. He currently teaches on the Faculty of Music at McGill University, in Montreal.

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Nancy Golberg, our Administrative Director

Nancy teaches piano privately in Montreal. An experienced former camp counselor, she returns to Camp Musical Tutti this summer to share her skills and enjoyment of outdoor activities with interested musician campers.

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The daughter of musician parents, Caroline MacLeay was born in Montreal in 1969. In 1987 she embarked on a course of self-study through which she developed into a multi-disciplinary artist. She works in acrylic, oil and ink, and she is also involved in dance and piano. Sports-minded as well, she has coached basketball and been a canoe-camping guide.

Since 2001, she has concentrated on teaching art (pastels and acrylics) and on producing her own works. She has illustrated music books, CD covers, publicity brochures and posters and pedagogical materials. She has participated in many exhibits, and her works form part of several private collections.

As an art teacher, she has animated many workshops, both for children and for adults, among them Camp musical Tutti. She is also active on many committees in the heart of her community.

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Kerry Roebuck, conductor, winds

“If music be the food of love, play on!” is the philosophy which drives Kerry Roebuck.

By the age of 18, Kerry was awarded a full-year scholarship to study clarinet and conducting in Venezuela. He also received trophies for a number of competitions, including the Edward Johnson Music Competition and the Trinidad & Tobago Music Festival.

Kerry loves jazz, popular, and art music alike, and helping young and not-so-young musicians find understanding and joy in performing music truly satisfies his thirst as a conductor and teacher.  He has taught and performed in Caracas, Trinidad & Tobago, Ontario and Montreal. As an instrumentalist, he has performed with such groups as the Simon Bolivar Clarinet Choir, The Lydian Players, the Brass Institute Soca Band, the Magnum Dance Band, the North York Symphony Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra. As a conductor, Kerry has directed the National Youth Orchestra of Trinidad & Tobago, and the Queen’s Royal College Concert Band and Marching Bands, the Rudolf Steiner School of Montreal Choral and Orchestral ensembles, the Montreal West Operatic Society, and the Chroma Musika Symphonic Ensemble.

His musical arrangements for diverse combinations of small to large ensembles have been performed since his high school days. He likes spending his free time thinking of innovative ways of enticing and motivating musicians in their quest for musical fulfillment.

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Caroline Malo

Caroline has a passion for all genres of performing arts. Her journey is quite the unusual one: since her youth, she has studied music (by tackling a doctorate in piano performance at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal), theater (mostly at the École le petit monde des artistes, but also during numerous stages in Québec as well as overseas), singing (with Gaétane Létourneau and Pierrette Lachance) and dance (classical and modern).

Not content to remain with a single means of expression, she has attempted for many years to fuse her different artistic languages into a whole that would transcend the obstacles often associated with conventional schools. Caroline Malo designs scenic shows for Le Théatre des Marie-Sirènes that she founded in 2002. In June of the same year, 'Viviane', the first creation of the TMS, won two prizes given by the Association of Certified Gerontologists of Laval University: best troop project and public prize.

Caroline Malo teaches privately piano and vocal posing to teenagers and adults. She is a specialist in vocal coaching. For more than 15 years, she has been a rehearsal pianist, a playwright, choreographer, musical arranger, author of musicals for Le petit monde des artistes. Furthermore, she has been part of the group Triange (voice, piano, cello) and gives solo performances (piano and voice) for special occasions.

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Josyanne Sylvestre, violin

Luo Di, cello

Cellist Luo Di was born in China, where he studied with renowned teachers at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing including Wang Pei Fan, Zhong Po and Yu Ming Qing. He participated in several master classes with artists such as Yo Yo Ma and Janos Starker. In 1994 he joined the Beijing Symphony Orchestra as associate cellist.

In 1998 Luo Di moved to Canada studying music interpretation with cellist Yuli Turovsky at the University of Montreal where he obtained his Doctorate in Music in 2005. Luo Di performs regularly in concert with several orchestras including the chamber orchestra I Musici directed by Yuli Turovsky as well as being a regular performer on radio and television. Luo Di has won several prestigious competitions, in particular the 4th International Competition of the Orford Arts Centre.

Luo Di is a founding member of the Muczynsky Duo and the Muczynsky Trio. In 2002 the trio won the Grand Prize at the Canadian National Music Competition and First Prize in the International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in Cracow, Poland. The trio performed in the Topaz Series of Pro Musica in 2006 and played 20 concerts on a cross-Canada tour with Les Jeunesses Musicales. Also in 2006, Luo Di undertook a summer concert tour in China. In 2007, Luo Di and the Chinese violinist Erhu Shen Qi formed the Folkloric String Ensemble which explores Chinese and classical music styles and participates in many festivals and cultural events.

Luo Di teaches at the Mount-Royal Academy of Music, at Camp Musical Tutti, and he is a guest teacher at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. He has recorded several CD’s, including those with the Muczynsky Trio and I Musici of Montreal.

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Kazo, Percussion

His name is Alex Soudin, but it is under the stage name of Kazo that he conveys us to the unique charm of drums. A percussionist from Martinique with thirty years of experience, Kazo knows how to communicate his passion for Latin, Cuban and African rhythms as well as those from the Antilles.

After having experienced great success in his country, Kazo immigrated to Quebec twelve years ago. He has participated in cultural events such as the FrancoFolies of Montreal, the Montreal Jazz Festival, Nuits d'Afrique, the Ottawa Jazz Festival, and Vues d'Afriques, to name only a few. With a variety of bands, Kazo has more than twenty recordings. He has toured in Canada, in the Antilles, in South America, in Europe and Africa. In addition, he gives private lessons and percussion workshops for individuals of all ages.

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Samuel Laroche-Pagé, Guitar

Très tôt, Samuel participe à de nombreux concerts et évènements musicaux. En 2007, il obtient avec grande distinction un diplôme d’études collégiales au Cégep Marie-Victorin dans la classe de M. Jacques Joubert. Depuis, il n’a de cesse d’approfondir sa connaissance de la guitare et de son répertoire.

Boursier de l'Academie du Domaine Forget, Samuel s'est perfectionné auprès de grands maîtres de la guitare tel que Rémi Boucher, Ioana Grandrabur, Jean Vallières, Roland Dyens et Manuel Barrueco. Il étudie présentement l'interprétation à la faculté de musique de l'Université de Montréal avec M. Peter McCutcheon.

Les champs d’intérêt de Samuel sont très diversifiés. Il compte à son actif quelques années d’expérience en jazz et en rock-blues. De plus, il s’emploie constamment à élargir ses horizons par l’apprentissage d’instruments intimement liés à la guitare tel que le luth renaissance et la guitare romantique. Sur la scène, il se produit en duo avec flute, violon, voix et duo de guitares, mettant ainsi à profit son ouverture aux musiques de tous genres. Récemment, il forme un duo avec le guitariste et compositeur Martin Dorval-Hardy.

Samuel enseigne maintenant à l'Académie de guitare de Montréal. Remarqué par Mme Esfir Dyachkov, il devient en 2008 professeur de guitare classique au Camp musical Tutti à l'université Bishop's.

Samuel's website is: www.samuellarochepage.com

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Sonia Hernandez, violin

Born in 1987, Sonia Hernandez has played the violin since the age of 5.  She started her studies in Spain and from the age of 8 continued at the primary music school Lubomir Pipkov in Sofia.  In 1997 she arrived in Canada, where she pursued private studies with Larissa Macmac.  A little while later, she entered the Conservatoire de Musique et d’Art Dramatique du Québec and became a student of Johanne Arel.  She won 2nd prize at the Montreal Classical Music Festival in 2002 and 3rd prize in that competition in 2004. She made the momentous decision to join the class of Eleanora Turovsky in 2003.  Sonia has been studying with Mme Turovsky ever sine, and is at present enrolled in the Baccalauréat program at the University of Montreal.

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Liliya Bayarashova, piano

Born in Russia, Liliya Bayarashova started learning the piano at the tender age of six. She studied in numerous music establishments in her native Kazan, obtaining a Masters Degree at the State Conservatory in 1997. She participated in master classes in Zurich as well as piano and chamber competitions in Russia and abroad. She works mainly as a soloist and chamber  musician.  She is also a piano teacher and accompanist in several music colleges.

Liliya Bayarashova emigrated to Canada in 2005, where she completed her Masters Diploma at the Université de Montréal, under Maneli Pirzadeh.  At present she is continuing her studies at the Université de Montréal under professor Jean-Eudes  Vaillancourt.

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Maria Demacheva, violin

Maria Demacheva (1985) has recieved her MA diploma in University of Montreal, having studied with Claude Richard. She also had a chance to study with such teachers as Pavel Feldman, Jean-Pierre Walez, Masuko Ushioda, Jonathan Crow, and Mikhail Kopelman among others. Having played in many orchestras in Canada and US. Creation also takes a important place in Maria's life: she is a member of Surkalén ethno-fusion music group and of Die Heyse Yiddenes klezmer trio and has been participating at International Festivals such as Montreal Jazz Festival, Festival du Bout du Monde and Festival des Nuits d'Afrique. Maria is presently teaching at Pierre-Laporte Music Academy, École des Jeunes of Montreal University and of Jean de la Mennais College.

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