WSO BRASS
FRENCH HORN
Tamara Kosinski
Kelly Daniels
Nicole Alexander
TRUMPET
Ross Turner, Principal
Philip Seguin
TROMBONE
Rupert Price, Principal
Corey Fitzpatrick
Michael Stone
Ross Turner
began his serious
musical studies
thorugh private
lessons, studying
classical trumpet
and music history
and theory. After
high school, he
then continued his
classical stdies at
the University of
Victoria, earning
a degree in Music
History. From there, he went to the Utrechts
Conservatorium in the Netherlands for
Orchestral Studies, and then on to the
Orchestral Training Program in Toronto.
Mr. Turner's most influential teacher was
Louis Ranger, former co-principal of the
New York Philharmonic. It was Ranger's
musical insight that instilled in him a love
of classical and modern classical music.
Mr. Turner has performed with several
orchestras and chamber groups in Canada
and has also performed in over sixty music
theatre productions, touring North America
and most of Asia.
Mr. Turner continues to enjoy playing
in a variety of ensembles in addition
to orchestras, and currently plays often in
Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake and in one
of Windsor's favourite rock bands, Nemesis.
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Philip Seguin has been a member of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra since 1983. Mr. Seguin is also a member of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Orchestra, and has previously performed with the Windsor Light Opera Orchestra and the orchestra at Huron Country Playhouse. He has held posts with symphony orchestras at both Winnipeg and Thunder Bay and frequently performs with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and National Ballet of Canada Orchestra.
Aside from his duties as an orchestral musician, Mr. Seguin has toured, performed, and recorded with numerous ensembles, most notably Calgary’s Foothills Brass, Toronto’s Trillium Brass Quintet, and Ensemble Vivant.
Mr. Seguin received a bachelor of music degree from the University of Windsor where he was a student of James Tamburini and Kevin Good. While there, he served as Principal Trumpet with the International Youth Symphony under Wm. Bruce Curry. He was also a longtime student of the
late Canadian trumpet virtuoso Erik Schultz, he attended the Keystone Brass Institute, and he participated in the Banff Centre’s ‘Academy of Brass’ program.
Mr. Seguin has served on faculty for the Academie Ste. Cecile, the Inter-Provincial Music Camp, and the University of Western Ontario. He currently teaches trumpet at Toronto’s York University.
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Rupert Price was born in London, England and grew up in a family of artists and musicians. Consequently Rupert learned to play the trombone, following in his brother’s footsteps. In 1981 at the age of 16 Rupert became a member of Her Majesty’s Grenadier Guards band as first trombone, performing in many countries across the world including state occaisons in the UK.
In 1990 Mr. Price graduated from the Royal College of Music in London. While there, he studyed sackbut and trombone under Peter Bassano and trombone under John Iveson, David Purser and Christopher Mowat.
As a professional musician Mr. Price has performed with many notable orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the English National Ballet and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and in Canada with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, amongst others. Frequent performing opportunities satisfy his deep interest in period performance on the historical trombone known as the sackbut, a subject to which Mr. Price has dedicated many years of study.
This year Mr. Price will be joining Opera Atelier, Tafelmusik and the Toronto Consort for the operatic productions of Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses and Mozart’s Idomeneo.
Mr. Price is the principal trombonist with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra
and trombonist with a number of orchestras in the Toronto area. He is also active as a clinician and teacher in Toronto and Windsor.