Soprano Irene Ilic has a Master's Degree in Music from the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio. She has performed a variety of operatic and musical theatre roles in the U.S. and Canada and has sung as a guest soloist with many Canadian choirs and orchestras.

Ms. Ilic currently has a thriving private teaching practice in Newmarket. In addition to being an O.R.M.T.A. member, she is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (N.A.T.S.) and the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicator's Association (C.M.F.A.A.). She is also currently a board member of the OMFA (Ontario Music Festivals Association).
She was honoured to be selected to join the repertoire selection committee for both the 2012 edition and 2019 edition of the Royal Conservatory of Music Songbook Series.

Ms. Ilic has adjudicated many festivals throughout Canada. She has extensive experience as a teacher and clinician, and she is also the founder and director of the Newmarket Voice Festival, an annual event since 1996.

Her love of both classical and musical theatre repertoire has strongly been reflected in her teaching. Several of her students have appeared in the Toronto casts of The Sound of Music, Billy Eliot, Mary Poppins, The Lord of the Rings, The Lion King, Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You and in many productions of Opera Atelier. Her student, John-Michael Scapin, won CBC's show Triple Sensation and was awarded a $150,000 scholarship. Twelve of her students have won Silver and Gold Medals for the highest voice RCM exam mark in Ontario over the years.

Irene is very active in the arts community and regularly produces concerts and shows. She was the founder and director of Vivace!, an award-winning triple trio who performed at many community events for ten years. She scripted and directed two sold-out musical revues ("Musical Mayhem" and "More Musical Mayhem") at Theatre Aurora with talented casts of her students. Her annual "Tea & Tunes" concerts have raised thousands of dollars for Sick Kids Hospital for over twenty-five years.

She is very proud that so many of her students have chosen to pursue music at the university level and as a career path.

Sally Lesk graduated from the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Education, as well as Associate of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music in Piano Performance. While at UWO, she was piano accompanist for several instrumental soloists, sang in two university choirs, played bassoon in the Western Symphonic Band, and started a percussion ensemble for non-percussion majors. Sally taught instrumental, strings, and vocal music at the secondary level with the Rainbow District School Board for 30 years, leading numerous award-winning concert bands, jazz ensembles, and vocal ensembles. She is a winner of the General Motors Award for Teaching Excellence. Sally has also worked in the music program at the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre. She has adjudicated at the Northern Ontario Music Festival as well as the Temiskaming Music Festival. Currently retired from the school board, Sally is the charter conductor of the Laurentian University Concert Band in Sudbury, and directed that ensemble from 2008 to 2020. She has been a member of the percussion section of the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and has also performed with the North Bay Symphony and the Timmins Symphony Orchestras.

Susan obtained her ARCT in 1986 and studied at the University of Toronto where she graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education in 1990. She was one of the first graduates of the Licentiate Diploma in Performance and Pedagogy in what is now the Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (1992), and also received her Fellowship Diploma in Piano Performance from Trinity College of Music, London.

Susan was on the piano faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music from 1991 to 1999, and has been a member of the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners since 1993. Susan is an active member of the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teachers Association and has served twice on ORMTA Provincial Council. She is a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicator's Association and has traveled across Canada for her adjudicating and examining. Susan enjoys her private piano studio in Kitchener, and teaches students of all ages.