Mr. Cooper conducted the highly successful 1978 Ontario Youth Choir and the
Stratford Youth Choir, which appeared throughout the 1980 festival. He is also
director of the acclaimed Opera in Concert Chorus, and ensemble he founded, and
teaches choral conducting at the University of Toronto.

As a conductor and clinician, Mr. Cooper has travelled extensively and has
worked with many choral organizations across the country, including the Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Manitoba Choral Federations and the

Saskatchewan Music Educators Association, as well as the Courtenay Youth Music
Centre here in B.C.

Robert Cooper

Bruce Davis, a native of Toronto, began his musical studies as a trumpet player in
junior high school. He took composition with Bruce Mather at McGill University
and later worked in association with Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University.

Mr. Davis has written music for various theatre companies in Vancouver, and for
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1976 he studied tribal singing in
Australia with a group of elders from the Indulkana reserve, one of the last
remaining areas of traditional Aboriginal culture. :

He recently moved to Vancouver from Nelson, B.C., where he had taught at the
David Thompson University Centre for four years.

His latest composition, ‘‘Breakaway’’, specially commissioned for Kathaumixw
with assistance from the Canada Council, is an unusual project in concept and

scope, and has brought together Mr. Davis’s varied interests in music, drama and
social history for the first time.

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