Valerie Whitney (wagner tuba)
Valerie Whitney serves as Assistant Professor of Horn and as Brass Area Coordinator at the University of British Columbia. She appears regularly with many of the region’s orchestras including those in Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle. She presents frequent solo and chamber performances around the BC Lower Mainland area, with these …
Laurel Spencer (wagner tuba)
Laurel Spencer received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria, British Columbia and then obtained her Master’s in Performance at the Mannes School of Music, New York where she was a student of Philip Myers. She is the Principal Horn of the Vancouver Opera and also plays with …
Oliver de Clercq (wagner tuba)
Oliver de Clercq joined the VSO in 2001 as Principal Horn and has served as Associate Principal Horn since 2021. Oliver completed his Bachelor’s Degree at Boston University with Eric Ruske and James Sommerville and was a Master’s Student of Jerome Ashby at the Juilliard School before moving to Vancouver. …
Sarah Jackson (piccolo)
Sarah Jackson has held the position of Piccolo for the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2003. Prior to this, in 1993, she joined the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (British Columbia, Canada) as Second Flute, later moving on to take the position of Assistant Principal Flute and Piccolo with the VSO. Sarah received …
Telegraph Quartet
The Telegraph Quartet was formed in 2013 with equal passion for the standard chamber music repertoire and both contemporary and non-standard repertoire. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2017 as ..an incredibly valuable addition to the cultural landscape and ‘powerfully adept… with a combination of brilliance and subtlety, the …
