Key contacts
Adrian VerdejoMusic Coordinator |
Email: averdejo@douglascollege.ca Phone: 604 527 5274
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Ross William BartlemanAdministrative Associate | Email: performingarts@douglascollege.ca
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Douglas College's high ratio of faculty to students allows you plenty of one-on-one instruction. Our faculty members are active as performers and clinicians locally, nationally, and internationally. They are committed to providing you with a learning experience that is both challenging and supportive.
Regular faculty
Mark D'AngeloInstrumental Ensembles 
| Email: dangelom1@douglascollege.ca Mark D'Angelo, a native of North Vancouver, holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of McGill in Montreal. Mark is currently Principal Trumpet with the Kamloops Symphony, and Second Trumpet with the Vancouver Island Symphony. He has also performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, Victoria Symphony, Turning Point Ensemble, CBC Radio Orchestra, Thunder Bay Symphony, and the American Brass Quintet as an Aspen Music Festival Fellowship recipient. Mark has performed with Ben Hepner, Grammy winner Lila Downs, Lara St. John, and Tony Award winner Idena Menzel. In 2017, Mark performed the British Columbia premiere of John Estacio's Concerto for Trumpet with the Kamloops Symphony. Mark currently holds the position of director of instrumental ensembles at Douglas College, trumpet instructor at Capilano University, Trinity Western University, and is a Stomvi Performing Artist. |
Ruth EnnsMusic History 
| Email: ennsm@douglascollege.ca Ruth Enns has taught music history and vocal repertoire classes at the University of British Columbia, the University of Manitoba and the Vancouver Academy of Music. She was the Registrar for VAM’s college programs from 2012 to 2023. Dr. Enns holds a Ph.D. (musicology) from the University of British Columbia., a Master of Music (accompanying and coaching) from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, as a student of Martin Katz, and a Bachelor of Music (piano major) from the University of Manitoba as a student of Marek Jablonski. Other interests have included editing Musick, the journal of the Vancouver Early Music Society, writing program notes for the Vancouver Chopin Society, and acting as Chair of the Abendmusik concert series. |
Hazel FairbairnMusic Technology Coordinator 
| Email: fairbairnh@douglascollege.ca Education: PhD Ethnomusicology University of Cambridge; BSc, Honours Music The City University; PGCE, Music Pedagogy Institute of Education, University of London. Hazel moved to BC in 2012 following a 25-year career as a musician and educator in the UK. Working with producer Mark Russell, their fusion project Horace X appeared live at festivals and venues worldwide, and toured Canada annually between 2002 and 2006. They recorded six CDs and had record deals in North America and mainland Europe. Hazel came into education via Musical Futures, an informal learning initiative which employed musicians to work alongside teachers in the classroom, she approaches teaching as a facilitator, and is committed to experiential, project-based learning. Alongside teaching at Douglas College, Hazel continues to collaborate with Mark Russell on fusion beat-combo music, and works with poet Kim Trainor, creating string based electronic soundscapes and scores for Kim’s poetry films.
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Adam FultonMusic Technology | Email: fultona1@douglascollege.ca Adam is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience as a music producer, engineer, and college professor for the recording arts. After several years and far too much touring as a performing lead guitarist, he began a new career as a studio engineer after graduating with honours from the Liverpool Institute of Recording Arts. He has engineered for several major label artists including Paul McCartney, Neil Innes (Monty Python), OMD, country chart-toppers Terri Clark and Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and many other artists your parents have probably heard of. He has enjoyed working with label and independent artists of nearly every genre including Rap, Rock, Reggae, EDM, Chinese/Indian/Persian/Western classical music, jazz, comedy, singer-songwriter and many more. In 2014, he co-founded Mix Medics, an interactive mixing and mastering service, to bridge the much needed gap between online and live mixing. In addition, he has worked as a sound editor at BBC and Mainframe Entertainment, Warner Premiere, Disney, Universal, as well as composed music and mixed many independent films, documentaries and ads, including several festival award wins. He has also composed music and created many thousands of custom sound effects for indie and AAA video games including Halo 4/5, League of Legends, Minecraft, and Company of Heroes. He has always maintained a fulfilling career as a college professor while working in the industry, designing curriculum and teaching generations of future audio professionals. His favourite type of recording session has always been one with a keen group of students who are intrigued, interested, and motivated to learn the wonderful art of music production. |
Heather Harty ScottAural Skills, Class Piano, Music Theory 
| BMus, MMus (British Columbia) Email: hartyscotth@douglascollege.ca Heather Harty Scott began teaching at Douglas College in 2011, and currently teaches class piano, theory, and aural skills courses in the Basic Musicianship program. She served as the Music Department Coordinator from 2014-2017. During this time, she worked alongside her colleagues to significantly revise the Music Diploma program and design the Foundation for Music Therapy Studies program. Heather holds a Master's degree in Composition from the University of British Columbia. Her compositions and arrangements have been performed by ensembles including the Phoenix Chamber Choir, Ensemble Resonance, and UBC Contemporary Players at concert events in Western Canada and Japan. |
Jocelyn LaiPiano 
| Passionate about teaching and performing, pianist Jocelyn Lai seeks to inspire and connect people through classical music. Described by the Vancouver Sun as “get[ting] the balance between lush lyricism, sparkling keyboard figurations, and formal rigour just right” in her most recent performance, as a classical concert pianist, she has performed at festivals and academies across Canada, the United States, and Spain. Over the past few years, she also presented a solo concert tour across British Columbia (Kamloops, Cranbrook, Squamish), presenting a program of Canadian works interweaved with the European classics. With patience, encouragement, and the ability to connect individually with her students, Jocelyn empowers her students to discover their distinct musical voices by teaching piano technique and artistry at all levels. As an educator, she served as a lecturer teaching music theory at Hunter College (New York), guided children through private piano instruction at the Nord Anglia International School and taught more than forty classes of secondary piano in the college division at the Juilliard School. Now based in Vancouver, BC, she is a full-time instructor of piano studies in the Language, Literature, and Performing Arts Department at Douglas College and serves on the faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Jocelyn holds a Bachelor of Music from the UBC School of Music, Master of Music from the Juilliard School, an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her musical inspiration and guidance come from her teachers: Jane Coop, HaeSun Paik, and Julian Martin. |
Joy OllenMusic Theory, Aural Skills 
| BMus, MA (British Columbia), PhD (Ohio State) Email: ollenj@douglascollege.ca Dr. Joy Ollen is a music theorist and classically trained pianist. She began teaching at Douglas College after completing a Masters degree with research focused on music theory pedagogy. Her ongoing interest in helping students develop their aural skills led to doctoral work in the field of music perception and cognition, with a minor in research methodology. She created the Ollen Musical Sophistication Index (OMSI), a tool for music researchers to classify their research participants. Joy has also published and presented on topics including musical form and connections between speech and music. |
Jim PalmerMusic Theory, Aural Skills, Listening in Context, Intro to Music 
| BMus, MA (McGill), PhD (British Columbia) Email: palmerj@douglascollege.ca Dr. Jim Palmer is a music theorist whose primary research focuses on music pedagogy, instrumental music in the galant style, performance analysis, and metric disruptions from Haydn to Brahms to Punch Brothers (a progressive bluegrass group). His most recent publications appear in Music Theory Online and the Online Journal of the Haydn Society of North America, where he discusses musical topics, formal functions, and linguistic theories to describe how Classical composers created humor. Jim has presented his research at regional and national meetings of the Society for Music Theory and the Canadian University Music Society. Jim is an award-winning teacher who has also taught music theory and aural skills at the University of British Columbia, McGill University, and St. Olaf College in the U.S.
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Ian PutzMusic Technology 
| Email: putzi@douglascollege.ca Ian Putz is an internationally respected composer and arranger whose numerous credits include two Hollywood feature films ( "LAPD-To Serve and Protect" starring Michael Madsen and Dennis Hopper; and "Totally Blonde" featuring Michael Buble in his first starring role), and many television series on CBC, CTV, HBO, A & E, and The History Channel. He composed "Bullets Over Broadway" for Paul Sorvino and Hugh Hefner and is presently composing for several American networks. He has over 30 years of musical experience paying saxophone and recording working with such diverse ensembles as Aerosmith, Motley Crue, Rita McNeil, David Foster, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles, and Jazz Big Bands. |
Kayvon SarfehjooyMusic Technology 
| Email: sarfehjooyk@douglascollege.ca Kayvon Sarfehjooy, previously known as "K-Salaam," is a producer, audio engineer, and DJ/turnbalist from Minneapolis, MN. He made a name for himself in the late 90’s in the Midwest hip-hop scene as turntablist. His mixtapes The Hands of Time and Real DJs Do Real Things gained an underground following. Teaming up with multi-instrumentalist Beatnick (b. Nick Phillips), they formed Beatnick & K-Salaam Productions in NYC. In 2011, Kayvon began working with Brazilian artist Emicida as a producer and composer. Their collaboration led to an MTV Brazil 2011 Artist of the Year Award for Emicida. Their work can also be heard in the concert film Amar Elo (Netflix) and in a virtual concert in the #1 video game Fortnight. Kayvon's other credits include work with many renowed artists including Lauryn Hill, Lil' Wayne, NAS, and Mos Def. |
Doug SmithComposition, Music Theory 
| Jazz Diploma (Capilano College), BMus (British Columbia), MMus (British Columbia) Email: smithdo@douglascollege.ca Douglas Gwynn Smith was born and raised in Vancouver and has been professionally active in the Vancouver music community for more than 40 years as composer, performer, arranger and teacher. While spending years as a performer in the jazz/pop field as a bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, he always returned to his first love of composition. He has received numerous commissions and awards from various societies and groups: National Arts Centre Orchestra; CBC Radio; the Canadian Music Centre; the Douglas College Music Department; among others. Doug began teaching at Douglas College in 1994 in New Westminster where he has taught Theory and Analysis, Composition, Orchestration, and Sight-Singing and Ear-Training, Score Production and History. He is the head of the Composition Division and is very active in the burgeoning field of popular music theory and analysis. |
Brian ToppMusic Technology | Email: toppb1@douglascollege.ca |
Adrian VerdejoMusic Coordinator, Guitar Ensemble, Guitar 
| Email: averdejo@douglascollege.ca Adrian Verdejo is a guitarist, recording artist, music educator, and podcaster based in Vancouver. He has commissioned, premiered, and arranged many works for classical guitar. Adrian Verdejo performs as a soloist, with flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor, and he is a founding member of the Victoria Guitar Trio. He has played throughout Canada and has also performed in the US, Mexico, and Europe. Adrian frequently performs as an orchestral and chamber musician on a variety of plucked string instruments with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra, Turning Point, Aventa Ensemble, and many more. Verdejo holds degrees from the University of Ottawa (MMus), University of Victoria (BMus), and Capilano University, where he studied with guitarists Patrick Roux, Dr. Alexander Dunn, and Stephen Boswell. Adrian is the host and producer of the Redshift Radio Podcast, in which he interviews Canadian composers and performers of contemporary classical music. |
Contract faculty
Antoniou, Marina | Trombone |
Baines, Sue | Popular Guitar and Voice |
Beaty, Mark | Electric and Double Bass |
Chernoff, Marea | Oboe, Recorder |
Dansereau, Sophie | Bassoon |
Downton, Andrew | Advanced Mastering |
Fedoruk, Brenda | Flute |
Fulton, Adam | Music Technology |
Krantz, Lani | Harp |
MacDonald, Colin | Saxophone, Professional Score Production |
Mai, Vince | Music for Film and Video II |
Martone, Dave | Guitar |
Minatti, Sheila | Voice |
Peng, Bo | Cello |
Ramsbottom, Gene | Clarinet |
Samek, Greg | Percussion, Percussion Ensemble |
Stedham-Gosnell, James | Live Sound and Recording I |
Stiles, Allen | Piano, Aural Skills |
Stuart, Conor | Violin |
Wong, Kemuel | Beginning Choral Ensemble, Chorus |
Wu, Ray | French Horn |
Zaradic, Sylvia | Voice |
Faculty Emeritus
Barrington-Foote, Kevin | ARCT (Piano Teacher); BMus; MMus (Musicology) Music History, Music Theory Email: barringtonk@douglascollege.ca
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