Performers

Tara Semple is a flute /piccolo and baroque flutist in Regina. She holds a degree in Music Performance from the University of Toronto. She performs as the assistant principal and piccolo player in the Regina Symphony. She is a founding member of Per Sonatori the period baroque performance ensemble. She performs with The Semple Family Band and as a duo with her husband Jack playing light jazz music. She also performs with the Quarter Tones flute Ensemble as well as the Village Arts Orchestra.

Tara has a full studio of flute students and is the director of two flute choirs at Campbell Collegiate.

She has most recently studied with Sarah Jackson (LA Philharmonic ) on Piccolo and has spent the last two sessions at the Tafelmusik summer institute where she continued her studies Claire Guimond (Arion - Montreal) on the baroque flute.

Linda Lucyk, B. Mus (University of Saskatchewan), Dip FA (University of Calgary)

Linda Lucyk is an active performer, flute teacher, and music educator. Born and raised in Regina, Sask., she has been a member of the Saskatoon Symphony, Regina Symphony and the Calgary Civic Symphony. She is one of the founding members of the Quartertones Flute Quartet (http://quartertones.mine.nu), which has performed around Regina for over a decade. A member of the Lucyk trio, (flute, violin and cello), she frequently performs with two of her daughters (http://trio.lucyks.com) at secular and sacred events around Saskatchewan. She currently plays utility flute with the Regina Symphony.

David Popoff is currently a music teacher and performer in Regina. David currently performs as Utility / 3rd Flute with the Regina Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the National Academy Orchestra and the University of Ottawa Orchestra. His main teachers have been Jane Schudel and Robert Cram. He has been involved with many smaller ensembles in Saskatchewan, including the Quarter Tones Flute Ensemble and was a part of the premiere of 'The Little Match Girl', a ballet composed by Elizabeth Raum for the Saskatchewan Youth Ballet Company. He is currently on faculty at the Conservatory of the Performing Arts at the University of Regina. David is also an active Irish traditional musician. He currently performs with Rógairí, a Regina based Celtic band. He has also performed and recorded with Eileen Laverty and Ruth Sutherland and has performed in sessions throughout Canada.

Marie-Véronique Bourque was born in Quebec City in 1968. In 1990, she was the recipient of two First Prize awards from the Quebec Conservatory of music in Flute and Chamber music. The same year, Marie-Véronique was an award winner of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra Competition. She was invited as a soloist with different orchestras in Quebec.

In 1992, Marie-Véronique joined the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Band as a musician. After the disbanding of this musical group, Marie-Véronique worked as a police officer in the Province of Quebec. In 2006, she was selected to become an instructor at the RCMP Academy in Regina, Saskatchewan.

In September 2007, she auditioned for the Regina Symphony and became a substitute flutist. At the same time, she joined the “Quarter tones” flute quartet and played in several concerts within the last year.