Private Instructors at Carson Graham
Carson Graham staff and students work closely with a team of highly accomplished professional musicians to provide exceptional musical instruction. We are fortunate to have the these instructors teach on the premises at Carson Graham. With a team of highly accomplished professional musicians, our students have incredible opportunities to one-on-one instruction, group clinics, chamber music and combo coaching. Instructors are private business-owners and all instruction and payment is arranged by parents or students directly with the instructor.
Clarinet & Saxophone
Julie Begg
Julie runs "Accent Music Studios", located at 706 Queensbury Ave. in North Vancouver.
Phone: 604-351-7727
Email: [email protected]
https://www.accentmusicstudios.ca
Julie began her musical journey in her home town of Strathaven, Scotland as a member of the local recorder ensemble then took up the clarinet in high school where she played in the school band as well as with the Lanarkshire Youth Concert Band and Lanarkshire Youth Orchestra.
She attended Napier College in Edinburgh for 2 years studying music and training with clarinettist Alison Waller. Here she achieved her teaching qualification and performed with the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra and Radio Forth Youth Orchestra. Julie continued her studies at Trinity College of Music in London, England. There she trained with clarinettist John Stenhouse (London Symphony Orchestra) and Chris Gradwell (London Saxophone Quartet).
After graduating, Julie free-lanced in and around London as an orchestral clarinettist, with scratch and pit orchestras, with The Forest Philharmonic Orchestra (as bass clarinettist), as a chamber musician playing with the Amabile Wind Quintet and Thayer Octet and as the soprano saxophonist with the Jazz-A-Belles saxophone quartet.
Her performance highlights were touring Germany as a soloist with the Thames Wind Ensemble performing the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto and performing for and being formally introduced to HRH Elizabeth II. She performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and the Barbican Centre, to name a few venues.
Julie taught in various schools in the Greater London area maintaining a music studio of 64 students.
She moved to Vancouver in 1993, formed an online music licensing company and continues to teach at high schools and private music studios. She currently works at The Silk Purse Gallery in West Vancouver plus Carson Graham, Handsworth, and Seycove Secondary Schools in North Vancouver. She is an active clinician working both privately and for the Long and McQuade and Tom Lee education departments directing workshops and taking sectionals for numerous schools and band retreats.
She performs as a soloist, in stage productions and in chamber music ensembles, regularly collaborating with pianist Rita Attrot and soprano Catherine Laub, collectively The Wind Song Trio, and with pianist Karen Lee Morlang with whom she performs for Heath Arts. Julie is also a member of the Erato Ensemble and freelances with Lions Gate Sinfonia, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and Plastic Acid Orchestra.
Julie is a member of the BC Registered Music Teacher’s Association and Vancouver Musician’s Association.
Julie runs "Accent Music Studios", located at 706 Queensbury Ave. in North Vancouver.
Phone: 604-351-7727
Email: [email protected]
https://www.accentmusicstudios.ca
Julie began her musical journey in her home town of Strathaven, Scotland as a member of the local recorder ensemble then took up the clarinet in high school where she played in the school band as well as with the Lanarkshire Youth Concert Band and Lanarkshire Youth Orchestra.
She attended Napier College in Edinburgh for 2 years studying music and training with clarinettist Alison Waller. Here she achieved her teaching qualification and performed with the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra and Radio Forth Youth Orchestra. Julie continued her studies at Trinity College of Music in London, England. There she trained with clarinettist John Stenhouse (London Symphony Orchestra) and Chris Gradwell (London Saxophone Quartet).
After graduating, Julie free-lanced in and around London as an orchestral clarinettist, with scratch and pit orchestras, with The Forest Philharmonic Orchestra (as bass clarinettist), as a chamber musician playing with the Amabile Wind Quintet and Thayer Octet and as the soprano saxophonist with the Jazz-A-Belles saxophone quartet.
Her performance highlights were touring Germany as a soloist with the Thames Wind Ensemble performing the Artie Shaw Clarinet Concerto and performing for and being formally introduced to HRH Elizabeth II. She performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and the Barbican Centre, to name a few venues.
Julie taught in various schools in the Greater London area maintaining a music studio of 64 students.
She moved to Vancouver in 1993, formed an online music licensing company and continues to teach at high schools and private music studios. She currently works at The Silk Purse Gallery in West Vancouver plus Carson Graham, Handsworth, and Seycove Secondary Schools in North Vancouver. She is an active clinician working both privately and for the Long and McQuade and Tom Lee education departments directing workshops and taking sectionals for numerous schools and band retreats.
She performs as a soloist, in stage productions and in chamber music ensembles, regularly collaborating with pianist Rita Attrot and soprano Catherine Laub, collectively The Wind Song Trio, and with pianist Karen Lee Morlang with whom she performs for Heath Arts. Julie is also a member of the Erato Ensemble and freelances with Lions Gate Sinfonia, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra and Plastic Acid Orchestra.
Julie is a member of the BC Registered Music Teacher’s Association and Vancouver Musician’s Association.
Trumpet
Jeremy Vint
Jeremy teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Fridays after school in room C105.
Phone: 778.835.8468
Email: [email protected]
Jeremy G. Vint is a versatile musician and a passionate music educator. He holds a Master’s Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of British Columbia and has performed professionally for over 17 years. He is as comfortable as he is proficient in a variety of styles, ranging from Baroque to Modern (as a symphonic or chamber musician), Jazz, Latin and Popular Music.
Jeremy has performed across Canada, in the United States, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, The United Kingdom, and France. He Has appeared at the Vancouver International Jazz Fest, Encuentro Internacional Del Mariachi de Guadalajara, The Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, The Banff Center for the Arts, The Calgary Stampede, NXNE, among countless others.
French Horn
Nick Anderson
Nick teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Wednesdays, 4:00PM - 6:30PM in room D103.
Phone: 778-317-4676
Email: [email protected]
Since moving to Vancouver in 2003 from his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, hornist Nick Anderson has been active as both a performer and educator. Nick received a Masters of Music in Horn Performance from The University of British Columbia. He has performed with many ensembles including the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony, and the Vancouver Symphony. He currently plays with the Ventos Wind Quintet and several small brass ensembles in the region. Nick is active as a session musician and has recorded with numerous bands in various genres. As an educator, Nick is dedicated to sharing his love of music through his teaching studio, as a clinician, and as an instructor at the UBC Summer Music Institute.
Nick teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Wednesdays, 4:00PM - 6:30PM in room D103.
Phone: 778-317-4676
Email: [email protected]
Since moving to Vancouver in 2003 from his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, hornist Nick Anderson has been active as both a performer and educator. Nick received a Masters of Music in Horn Performance from The University of British Columbia. He has performed with many ensembles including the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony, and the Vancouver Symphony. He currently plays with the Ventos Wind Quintet and several small brass ensembles in the region. Nick is active as a session musician and has recorded with numerous bands in various genres. As an educator, Nick is dedicated to sharing his love of music through his teaching studio, as a clinician, and as an instructor at the UBC Summer Music Institute.
Trombone / Baritone & Euphonium / Tuba
Jim Hopson
Jim teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Tuesdays after school in room C105.
Email: [email protected]
Jim Hopson is an in-demand freelance low brass player, composer, arranger, and educator based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Effortlessly versatile, his body of work as a performer crosses every genre and includes tours and appearances (live & recorded) all over the world. A dedicated educator, he has taught private lessons and clinics to hundreds of young musicians, and has conducted student ensembles of all ages and abilities. He is a first-call arranger for bands and orchestras throughout BC, and his arrangements have been featured on numerous albums, TV shows, and films. His two studio albums ‘West Coast Nights’ (2015) and ‘Generations’ (2018) are available on iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon, and our Store.
Jim teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Tuesdays after school in room C105.
Email: [email protected]
Jim Hopson is an in-demand freelance low brass player, composer, arranger, and educator based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Effortlessly versatile, his body of work as a performer crosses every genre and includes tours and appearances (live & recorded) all over the world. A dedicated educator, he has taught private lessons and clinics to hundreds of young musicians, and has conducted student ensembles of all ages and abilities. He is a first-call arranger for bands and orchestras throughout BC, and his arrangements have been featured on numerous albums, TV shows, and films. His two studio albums ‘West Coast Nights’ (2015) and ‘Generations’ (2018) are available on iTunes, CDBaby, Amazon, and our Store.
Double Bass / Electric Bass
Dr. Paul Rushka
Paul teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Wednesdays after school in Practice Room 1
Phone: 778-871-2336
Email: [email protected]
http://www.paulrushka.com/
Award-winning bassist Paul Rushka has engaged audiences throughout North America, Europe and Asia with his sonorous tone, assured confident pulse, and eloquent soloing since 1997. Active as a performer, jazz composer, arranger, and educator, Paul is the leader of three distinct groups: his interactive, intuitive quintet (sometimes expanded to sextet) features his lyrical original compositions and dynamic group interplay; Paul Rushka's Present Past, a trio with Jon Bentley (saxophones) and Tristan Paxton (guitar) draws its inspiration from the music of Kenny Wheeler; finally, Paul is presently completing the music for his 11-piece chamber jazz ensemble, which will balance freewheeling interplay and top-flight soloing with dynamic and exciting ensemble sections. Paul's debut recording as a leader As It Happens (2011, Pagetown Records) highlights his strong basslines and deep grooves and demonstrates his ensemble's formidable improvisations and conceptual cohesion.
As a sideman, Paul is a first-call bassist in Vancouver, and also made a deep impact on the jazz scene in Montréal, where he resided for six years. He is featured on over a dozen recordings, including those of James Danderfer, Chad Makela, Jillian Lebeck, Laura Crema and Sharon Minemoto. He has performed extensively throughout Canada, leading his quintet on a national tour in 2013, and has toured with the groups of Mike Allen, Denzal Sinclaire, Laura Crema, Karin Plato, and Jason Stillman. In 2006, he travelled to China for multiple performances with James Danderfer's Accelerated Development project. Paul has appeared on stage with numerous jazz luminaries, including John Taylor, Joe LaBarbera, Julian Priester, Jimmy Greene, Danny Grissett, Jeremy Pelt, Brad Turner, Ross Taggart, Lorne Lofsky, Kirk MacDonald, Kevin Dean, André White, Joe Sullivan, Josh Rager, and many more. In 2003, Paul won a Western Canadian Music Award for Best Jazz Album for his work on the Mike Allen Trio's Dialectic. He has also been featured several times on CBC radio with live and studio recordings on Jazzbeat and Hot Air.
Paul holds a Doctor of Music degree from McGill University, where he was the recipient of a prestigious 3-year Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), which funded his research on the music of Kenny Wheeler. As part of his doctoral research, he travelled to London, England, on several occasions, where he met Wheeler personally, and made a substantial contribution to the organization of the Kenny Wheeler Archives at the Royal Academy of Music. Along with fellow scholar Brian Shaw, Paul presented his research at the Royal Academy in February 2014 as part of their year-long museum exhibition "Kenny Wheeler: Master of Melancholy Chaos," which celebrated Wheeler's generous donation of his music to the Academy. Paul also received his Master of Music degree from McGill, where he was awarded a distinguished Schulich Scholarship to pursue his education. While attending McGill, Paul studied jazz performance practice and composition with André White, performance concepts with saxophonist Rémi Bolduc and trumpeter Kevin Dean, and composition and arranging with Joe Sullivan. In November 2009, the McGill Chamber Jazz Ensemble premiered Paul's Captive Spring Suite, a three movement work for 11 musicians, which featured drummer Joe LaBarbera as guest artist. Paul earned his undergraduate degree from North Vancouver's Capilano University Jazz Studies program, where he studied jazz bass with André Lachance and Chris Nelson and classical bass with David G. Brown. In 1998, Paul attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he had the opportunity to learn and interact with an international faculty that included bassists Don Thompson and Ray Drummond, as well as trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, clarinetist Phil Nimmons, and trombonist Hugh Fraser, among others. In addition to his formal education, Paul has also studied privately with famed bassist Larry Grenadier and world-renowned pianist John Taylor.
Paul teaches private lessons at Carson Graham on
Wednesdays after school in Practice Room 1
Phone: 778-871-2336
Email: [email protected]
http://www.paulrushka.com/
Award-winning bassist Paul Rushka has engaged audiences throughout North America, Europe and Asia with his sonorous tone, assured confident pulse, and eloquent soloing since 1997. Active as a performer, jazz composer, arranger, and educator, Paul is the leader of three distinct groups: his interactive, intuitive quintet (sometimes expanded to sextet) features his lyrical original compositions and dynamic group interplay; Paul Rushka's Present Past, a trio with Jon Bentley (saxophones) and Tristan Paxton (guitar) draws its inspiration from the music of Kenny Wheeler; finally, Paul is presently completing the music for his 11-piece chamber jazz ensemble, which will balance freewheeling interplay and top-flight soloing with dynamic and exciting ensemble sections. Paul's debut recording as a leader As It Happens (2011, Pagetown Records) highlights his strong basslines and deep grooves and demonstrates his ensemble's formidable improvisations and conceptual cohesion.
As a sideman, Paul is a first-call bassist in Vancouver, and also made a deep impact on the jazz scene in Montréal, where he resided for six years. He is featured on over a dozen recordings, including those of James Danderfer, Chad Makela, Jillian Lebeck, Laura Crema and Sharon Minemoto. He has performed extensively throughout Canada, leading his quintet on a national tour in 2013, and has toured with the groups of Mike Allen, Denzal Sinclaire, Laura Crema, Karin Plato, and Jason Stillman. In 2006, he travelled to China for multiple performances with James Danderfer's Accelerated Development project. Paul has appeared on stage with numerous jazz luminaries, including John Taylor, Joe LaBarbera, Julian Priester, Jimmy Greene, Danny Grissett, Jeremy Pelt, Brad Turner, Ross Taggart, Lorne Lofsky, Kirk MacDonald, Kevin Dean, André White, Joe Sullivan, Josh Rager, and many more. In 2003, Paul won a Western Canadian Music Award for Best Jazz Album for his work on the Mike Allen Trio's Dialectic. He has also been featured several times on CBC radio with live and studio recordings on Jazzbeat and Hot Air.
Paul holds a Doctor of Music degree from McGill University, where he was the recipient of a prestigious 3-year Joseph-Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship from SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), which funded his research on the music of Kenny Wheeler. As part of his doctoral research, he travelled to London, England, on several occasions, where he met Wheeler personally, and made a substantial contribution to the organization of the Kenny Wheeler Archives at the Royal Academy of Music. Along with fellow scholar Brian Shaw, Paul presented his research at the Royal Academy in February 2014 as part of their year-long museum exhibition "Kenny Wheeler: Master of Melancholy Chaos," which celebrated Wheeler's generous donation of his music to the Academy. Paul also received his Master of Music degree from McGill, where he was awarded a distinguished Schulich Scholarship to pursue his education. While attending McGill, Paul studied jazz performance practice and composition with André White, performance concepts with saxophonist Rémi Bolduc and trumpeter Kevin Dean, and composition and arranging with Joe Sullivan. In November 2009, the McGill Chamber Jazz Ensemble premiered Paul's Captive Spring Suite, a three movement work for 11 musicians, which featured drummer Joe LaBarbera as guest artist. Paul earned his undergraduate degree from North Vancouver's Capilano University Jazz Studies program, where he studied jazz bass with André Lachance and Chris Nelson and classical bass with David G. Brown. In 1998, Paul attended the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre for the Arts, where he had the opportunity to learn and interact with an international faculty that included bassists Don Thompson and Ray Drummond, as well as trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, clarinetist Phil Nimmons, and trombonist Hugh Fraser, among others. In addition to his formal education, Paul has also studied privately with famed bassist Larry Grenadier and world-renowned pianist John Taylor.
