The Informer Page 7

October 11, 1988

Lars Kaario

Rejean Marois

Music welcomes new choir directors

Lars Kaario has been a familiar face around the
Music Transfer Program Department for years. First asa
student, then teacher, now the department’s choir
director; Lars is becoming a musical fixture.

Not that anyone’s complaining. The young tenor is
music director at Chown United Church; he has
conducted several full-scale musical theatre productions
with the Greater Vancouver Operatic Society, and as
tenor soloist, has appeared with most of B.C.’s major
choirs: performing in Mozart’s “Requiem”, Bach’s
“Magnificat”, Handel’s “Messiah”, Mendelssohn’s “Elijah”,
and Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major”.

Lars holds a Bachelor of Music from UBC and a
Master of Music from Western Washington University.

Welcome Rejean Marois, the new swing choir
director with the Commercial Music Department.
Rejean comes to Cap with several years experience as
choirist and numerous awards under his belt.

A trombonist, Rejean taught concert, stage band,
vocal jazz, and trombone at the CEGEP level in Quebec,
has been a frequent clinician and adjudicator-at music
festivals across the country, and received awards at
Music Fest Canada.

Between 1976 and 1984, Rejean was part of several
entertainment tours through the Middle East, Europe
and the Northwest Territories for the United Nations
Forces. His music for the motion picture Doux Aveux
was nominated for a Genie award in 1983, and he was
the arranger for the CBC production “Salut ’88".

Faculty Development cont'd.

share a common aim and attitude. Sometimes in this
college the word academic becomes confused with the
name for that area which teaches University transfer
courses, but, as Dennis Wright pointed out, all of us
here are “academic” in our goals in the classroom. In
no way does such an observation suggest that we all
come from common backgrounds, or that what we do

in our classes should always be the same, but it does
suggest that we are all engaged in similar work and
work of equal value. The Faculty Development
Committee is convinced that all of us share similar
professional needs and we are beginning to define
what these are. We need your help to do so
comprehensively.