The Schulich School of Music hosts many visiting researchers (professors, artists/scholars, fellows) and guest lecturers each year.
- If you are interested in visiting our school for a semester or more, find out about the application process.
Catherine Thornhill-Steele Visiting Artists
Made possible by the vision and generosity of Seymour Schulich, the Catherine Thornhill Steele Chair in Music was established in 2006. Used each year to invite leading artists to perform and teach at the Schulich School of Music, former guests have included Andrew Dawes, Anton Kuerti, Jens Lindemann and many others. In past years, the Catherine Thornhill-Steele Chair has supported guest artists in woodwinds, brass, early music, jazz and contemporary music.
Our visitors during 2024-2025
Visiting Artist:
- Bill Pierce, jazz saxophone
- David Gately, opera
- Ingrid Laubrock, jazz saxophone
- Geoffrey Keezer, jazz piano
- François Papirer, percussion
Masterclass:
- Christopher Graham, trombone
- Lee Rogers, trombone
- Rufus Reid, jazz double bass
- Cibran Sierra Vazquez, chamber music
- Michael Formanek, jazz double bass
- Eitan Globerson, piano
- Frédérique Camreling, harp
- Hugh Cutting, voice
- Lydia Wong, piano
- Leila Schayegh, baroque violin
- Peter Sullivan, trombone
- Leone Buyse, flute
- Denis Bluteau, flute
- Lori Gemmell, harp
- Jarrett McCourt, tuba
- Cora Swenson Lee, baroque cello
- Francois Lazarevich, flute
- Gilles Vonsattel, piano
- Pascal Valois, guitar
- Joel Frahm, jazz saxophone
- Dana Fonteneau, voice
- Bruno Laplante, voice
Our visitors during 2023-2024
Visiting Artist:
- David Lefkowich, opera
- Melissa Aldana, jazz saxophone
- Joseph Pereira, percussion
- Sun-Won Yang, cello
- Enrico Pace, piano
- Edith Copley, choir
- Philippe Spiesser, percussion
- Karen Burke, choir
- Robert Levin, piano
Masterclass:
- Jocelyn Ménart, jazz saxophone
- Evan Shay, jazz saxophone
- Lovro Peretić, guitar
- Francesco Corti, harpsichord
- Sophie Gent, baroque violin
- Frank Braley, piano
- Giuliano Rizotto, trombone
- Anna Webber, jazz saxophone
- Mamadou Koita, african drums
- Talise Trevigne, soprano
- Linda Chesis, flute
- Jessica Ackerley, jazz saxophone
- Miles Okazaki, jazz guitar
- Victoria Sparks, percussion
- Suzie Leblanc, eary music soprano
- Irene Kudela, voice
- Johann Vexo, organ
- Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano
- Isabelle Héroux, guitar
- John Milner, french horn
- Movses Pogossian, piano
- Itamar Borochov, jazz trumpet
- Max Mauricio-Cardilli, double bass
- Andrew Hon, choir
- Ulla Miilmann, flute
- Emily Pailthrope, flute
- Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet
- Minh-Tan Nguyen, percussion
- Raúl Ramirez, organ
- Ken Cowan, organ
- Nicolas Martynciow, percussion
- Brannon Cho, cello
- Thomas Ospital, organ
Our visitors during 2022-2023
Visiting Artist:
- Hilary Aplfestadt, choral conducting
- Lois Hayes, jazz drums
- Septura Septet, brass ensemble
- Lorraine Vaillancourt, contemporary music
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni, contemporary music
- Charles McPherson, jazz saxophone
Masterclass:
- Joshua Hyde, saxophone
- Petra Stump, clarinet
- Heinz-Peter Linshalm, clarinet
- Catherine Turner, french horn
- Fabio Brum, trumpet Jan DeWinne, baroque flute
- Stephen Lehman, jazz saxophone
- Hopkinson Smith, lute
- Denys Derome, french horn
- Bogdan Gumenyuk, jazz saxophone
- Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
- Jenny Morales Flores, soprano
- Charlotte Sigel, mezzo-soprano
- Philippe Sly, baritone
- Peter Krasinski, organ
- Daniel Shapiro, piano
- Eugene Izotov, oboe
- Claire Guimond, flute
- Christopher Palameta, baroque oboe
- Robert Weymouth, trumpet
- Elène Golgevit, soprano
- Miguel da Silva, violin
- Stephanie Morin, flute
- Emmanuel Pahud, flute
- James Thompson, trumpet
- Andrew Kelser, jazz arranging
- Nadia Coté, french horn
- Louis Trepanier, guitar
- Kalun Leung, jazz trombone
- Mary Chalk, bassoon
- Carin Miller, bassoon
- Marc Coppey, cello
- Claude Delangle, saxophone
- Yves Prefontaine, organ
- Boris Berman, piano
- Claire Devlin, jazz saxophone
- Merrie Klazek, trumpet
- Jason Vieauz, guitar
- Mamadou Koita, African drums
Our visitors during 2021-2022
Visiting Artist:
- Uri Caine, contemporary music
- James Campbell, clarinet
- Darrin Milling, trombone
- Isabelle Demers, organ
- Neal Gripp, viola
- Karen Burke, choir
- Kevin Turcotte, jazz trumpet
Masterclass:
- Robert Bigio, flute
- Daniel Bolshoy, guitar
- Isaac Chalk, viola
- Marie-Bernadette Charrier, saxophone
- Marc Coppey, cello
- Tommy Crane, jazz drums
- Caroline Davis, jazz saxophone
- Hans-Ola Eriksson, organ
- Ioana Gandrabur, guitar
- Andrew Gress, jazz double bass
- Johannes Held, voice
- Robert Holl, voice
- Eugene Izotov, oboe
- Krzysztof Jablonski, piano
- Mamadou Koita, African drums
- Virginia MacDonald, jazz improvisation
- Shai Maestro, jazz drums
- Demarre McGill, flute
- Sylvain Millepied, flute
- Isabelle Moretti, harp
- Ed Neumeiester, jazz trombone
- Ronan O’Hora, piano
- Ayako Okubo, flute
- Joseph Pereia, percussion
- Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, piano
- Laszlo Rozsa, recorder
- Philippe Spiesser, percussion
- Jeffery Stonehouse, flute
Previous Visitors
Our Visitors during 2020-2021
Visiting Artist:
- Laura Andriani, baroque violin
Masterclass:
- Ari Agha, choral conducting
- Laura Andriani, baroque violin
- Malachai Bandy, viola da gamba
- Laura Andriani, violin
- Raffi Armenian, choral conducting
- Pavlo Beznosiuk, baroque violin
- Vidita Kannikeswaran, early music soprano
- David Braid, jazz composition
- Swami Antunes de Campos Jr., jazz guitar
- Karen Burke, choral conducting
- Simon Carrington, choral conducting
- Paula Chateauneuf, historical plucked strings
- Lisa Chisholm, conducting
- Sommer Christie, physiotherapist
- Ira Coleman, jazz bass
- Billy Drummond, jazz drums
- Charles Ellison, jazz trumpet
- Virginia Frigault-MacDonald, jazz piano and drums
- Whitney Crockett, bassoon
- Isabelle Demers, organ
- Lori-Anne Dolloff, choral conducting
- Karen Donnelly, trumpet
- Roma Duncan, flute
- Adam Fischer, conducting
- Annie Fullard, violin
- Anna Elashvili, violin
- Anna Rabbat, violin
- Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
- Zlatomir Fung, cello
- Lori Gemmell, harp
- Dina Gilbert, conducting
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conducting
- Lorraine Vaillancourt, conducting
- Wayne Dumaine, trumpet
- Esteli Gomez, mezzo-soprano
- Laura Hynes, voice
- Claire Guimond, baroque flute
- Barbara Hannigan, voice
- Clemens Hellseberg, choral conducting
- Richard Hoenich, bassoon
- Susan Hoeppner, flute
- John Clouser, bassoon
- Suzanne Nelson, bassoon
- Caleb Hudson, trumpet
- David Jackson, trombone
- James Jordan, choral conducting
- Michael Kannen, cello
- Tammy Kernodle, jazz research
- Ricky Riccardi, jazz trumpet
- Esteban La Rotta, lute
- Jeffrey Lang, horn
- John Romero, trombone
- David Lang, choral conducting
- Hilary Apfelstadt, choral conducting
- Chris Lee, tuba
- François LeRoux, baritone
- Alexander Lloyd Blake, choral conducting
- William Lowe, jazz tuba
- Andy Milne, jazz piano
- Eva Lymenstull, baroque cello
- Marc Mauillon, early music tenor
- Nadina Mackie Jackson, bassoon
- Joanna Majoko, jazz voice
- Vince Mendoza, jazz ensemble direction
- Nelson Veras, jazz guitar
- Tanya Rivard, jazz percussion
- James McNeely, jazz piano
Our visitors during 2019-2020
- Jerry Blackstone, choral conducting
- James Campbell, clarinet
- Michael Charry, conducting
- Greg Cohen, jazz bass
- Gabriel Crouch, choral conducting
- Brian DeMaris, opera
- Neal Gripp, viola
- Kim Kashkashian, viola
- Robert Langevin, flute
- Terri Lyne Carrington, jazz drums
- Michael Mori, opera
- Renaud Muzzolini, percussion
- John Sampen, saxophone
- Peter Wiley, cello
- Samuel Banks, bassoon
- Olivier Beaumont, harpsichord
- Florence Blain-Mbaye, narrator
- Christine Carter, clarinet
- Percussions Claviers de Lyon, percussion ensemble
- Rosella Croce, baroque violin
- Profeti della Quinta, early music ensemble
- Gabrièle Dostie-Poirier, bassoon
- Étienne Dupuis, tenor
- Enrico Elisi, piano
- Judith Forst, mezzo-soprano
- Amanda Forsythe, soprano
- Eitan Globerson, piano
- David Griffin, horn
- Claire Guimond, oboe
- Doug Hammond, jazz drums
- Jared Hauser, oboe
- Lena Hellström-Färnlöf, soprano
- Jonathan Helton, saxophone
- Gwen Hoebig, violin
- Eugene Izotov, oboe
- Masao Kawasaki, violin
- Jon Kimura Parker, piano
- Gwen Klassen, flute
- Elisabeth Kontomanou, jazz voice
- Alexis Kossenko, baroque flute and recorder
- Kathleen McClean, bassoon
- Paul Nedzela, jazz saxophone
- Ronan O'Hora, piano
- Maggi Olin, jazz piano
- James Pandolfi, trumpet
- Aaron Parks, jazz piano
- James Ross, trumpet
- François-Xavier Roth, conducting
- Mari Sato, violin
- Michael Schade, tenor
- Steve Shires, instrument maker
- Nora Shulman, flute
- Ingrid Laubrock, jazz saxophone
- Tom Rainey, jazz drums
- Hank Roberts, jazz cello
- Boris Borgolotto, violin
- Marc Girard Garcia, cello
- Ian Barber, piano
Our guests during 2018-2019
Visiting Artist:
- Raffi Armenian, conducting
- Andrew Bisantz, opera
- Maurice Bourgue, oboe
- Colin Carr, cello
- Simon Carrington, choir conducting
- Jeremy Denk, piano
- Jessica Derventzis, opera
- Richie Hawley, clarinet
- Eugene Izotov, oboe
- Jean-Baptiste Leclere, percussion
- Meredith Monk, jazz voice
- Simos Papanas, violin
- Broken Shadows, jazz ensemble
- Jen Shyu, experimental, jazz voice and composition
Masterclass:
- Ambrose Akinmusire, jazz trumpet
- Fabian Almazan, jazz piano
- Martin Beaver, violin
- Victoria Bednarczyk, physiotherapist
- Nathan Berg, bass-bartione
- Alfredo Bernardini, baroque oboe
- Vincent Boilard, oboe
- Carolyn Christie, performance psychology
- Mino Cinelu, jazz drums
- Lorenzo Coppola, early clarinet
- Tracy Dahl, soprano
- Jorrit Dijkstra, jazz saxophone
- Alexandra Eastley, bassoon
- Chris Elton, piano
- Adrian Fung, strings
- Luca Guglielmi, harpsichord
- Claire Guimond, baroque style
- Edward Higginbottom, conducting
- Steve Kaldestad, jazz saxophone
- Gwen Klassen, flute
- Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
- Pierre Lapointe, viola
- Hugues Leclere, composition and piano
- Hubert Lemire, choir
- Linda Mayhan Oh, jazz bass
- Bill McBirnie, flute
- Ben Monder, jazz drums
- Pedja Muzijevic, piano
- James O'Donnell, conducting
- Nathalie Paulin, early music voice
- Giovanni Perin, jazz vibraphone
- Philippe Schartz, trumpet
- Ted Soluri, bassoon
- Dong Suk Kang, strings
- Guillaume Sutre, violin
- Baptiste Trotignon, piano
- Lorraine Vaillancourt, conducting
- Anna Webber, jazz saxophone
- Pieter Wispelwey, cello
- Duain Wolfe, conducting
- Eric Wong, strings
Our visitors during 2017-2018
Visiting Artist:
- Jean-Marie Zeitouni, conducting
- Trio SR9, percussion ensemble
- Canadian Brass, brass ensemble
- Daniel Cabena, countertenor
- David Dolan, piano improvisation
- Nicolas Ellis, conducting
- Adam Johnson, conducting
- Jeffrey Khaner, flute
- Steven Dann, viola
- David Krakauer, clarinet
- Suzie LeBlanc, soprano
- Payton MacDonald, percussion
- Johannes Moser, cello
- Kent Nagano, conducting
- Rafael Rosenfeld, cello
- Emmanuel Séjourné, percussion
- Ryan Truesdell, composer
- Paul Vaillancourt, percussion
Masterclass:
- Hinrich Alper, piano
- Stéphane Beaulac, trumpet
- Amandine Beyer, baroque violin
- Michel Bouvard, organ
- Patricia Cioffi, soprano
- Jane Coop, piano
- Eriks Esenvalds, choral conducting
- Nir Felder, jazz guitar
- Claire Guimond, flute
- Susan Hoeppner, flute
- Bendik Hofseth, jazz saxophone and voice
- Eberly Hunter, trumpet
- Eugene Izotov, oboe
- Isaih Jackson, conducting
- David Kirk, tuba
- Jasmin Kolberg, percussion
- John Korsud, jazz trumpet and composition
- Jeffery Lyman, bassoon
- Kirk MacDonald, saxophone
- Harold Mabern, jazz piano
- Tony Malaby, jazz saxophone
- Florence Malgloire, baroque violin
- Andrew Megill, choral conducting
- Ken Radnofsky, saxophone
- Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano
- Claudia Stenkert, french horn
- Jörgen van Rijen, trombone
- Dan Weiss, jazz drums
- Christian Zacharias, piano
Our visitors during 2016-2017
Visiting Artist:
- Steven Dann, viola
Masterclass:
- David Dolan, improvisation
- Hae-Sun Kang, violin
- Theo Bleckmann, jazz voice
- Barthold Kuijken, baroque style
- Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, baroque dance
- Daniel Matsukawa, bassoon
- Robert McDonald, piano
- Sam Newsome, jazz saxophone
- Peter Sullivan, trombone
Our visitors during 2015-2016
Visiting Artist:
- Steven Dann, viola
Masterclass:
- Roland Auzet, percussion
- Gordon Bitner, bass-baritone
- Donna Brown, soprano
- Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
- Rihab Chaieb, mezzo-soprano
- Gerald Finely, baritone
- Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, jazz ensemble
- Christopher Larkin, opera
- Jens Lindemann, trumpet
- New Orford String Quartet, string ensemble
