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2006, Forman adjudicates at music and speech arts festivals across Canada including
the 2014 Ontario Provincial Music Finals (Voice). She holds a BMus from the University of
Manitoba and an MMus from Boston University, with additional training at Opera NUOVA
and the Banff Centre. www.naomiforman.com
University.
David Gerry (Flute and Woodwinds)
David Gerry maintains a busy schedule as a teacher, researcher,
performer and clinician. David is completing his PhD in music
cognition at the School of Psychology, Neuroscience and
Behaviour, McMaster University where he works with Dr. Laurel
Trainor. His doctoral research was funded, in part, from the
Grammy Foundation in Los Angeles. He holds an MMus and
BMus.Perf. from the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and an
ARCT diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, which also
awarded him the gold medal in flute. David is also a graduate of
the Talent Education Institute in Japan, where he studied with
Shinichi Suzuki and Toshio Takahashi. He is currently assistant
professor of music education at the School of the Arts, McMaster
David’s research has been published in numerous prestigious publications, including
Developmental Science and the New York Annals of Science. He has been a keynote
speaker at numerous education conferences and recent appearances have included
lecturing, playing and teaching in New Zealand, Japan, and Alaska. David is also on the
faculty of the Great Lakes Flute Centre. For many years he was the music specialist at
Trail Ridge Montessori School in Grimsby, Ontario. He is a Registered Teacher Trainer
for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the European Suzuki Association. His
students at McMaster have continued their education at many of North America’s leading
graduate programmes, including those at Eastman, McGill, the University of British
Columbia, the University of Buffalo and New York University.
Thomas Green (Senior Graded Piano)
Thomas Green's studio currently comprises approximately twenty
piano students, ranging in level from Preparatory A to ARCT. In
addition, he teaches harmony, history, and analysis. Approximately
half of his teaching takes place at the Académie Ste Cécile and half
takes place in his home studio.
Dr. Green's most influential piano teachers were Clifford Poole in
Toronto and Yvonne Hubert in Montréal. In addition, he studied
piano accompaniment with John Newmark, leading to a Diplôme
d'accompagnement from the Ecole Vincent d'Indy in Montréal.
He completed his Ph.D. thesis, a study of the compositional process of Jean-Philippe
Rameau, under the direction of Robert Marshall.
Dr. Green has served as Chief Examiner for The Royal Conservatory since 2007. On
behalf of RCM Examinations he has presented workshops for teachers and professional
development sessions for examiners across Canada. In addition, he has given
presentations on various aspects of music history and piano pedagogy at national and
international conferences.
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