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 TIM ELIA began his musical education with eleven years at St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto, where he studied under many fine teachers, among them John Arpin, Victor Togni, Charles Peaker, Talivaldis Kenins, Mgr. J. E. Ronan, and Rev. T. Barrett Armstrong. As a performer he made his first TV appearances in 1971, his recordings have been broadcast and sold in both Canada and the States, and he has composed and arranged both pop and sacred music from the sixties to the present. He lectures in Gregorian Chant & Gospel Music for St. Michael's College Continuing Ed. Dept. at the University of Toronto. He has arranged OXFORD CHURCHMUSIC programs in Oxford, Dublin, Florence and Venice every year since 1994.
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 BOB RICHARDSON
Founder and Music Director of the Cantabile Chorale of York Region, Robert Richardson is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University and Trinity College of Music, London, England. He taught and consulted for the York Region District School Board for 35 years, founding the Music Alive programme. He is the former organist and choir director of Oriole-York Mills United Church, North York, and past board member of Choirs Ontario and the Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts. Bob is also musical director of the Swan Lake Singers in Markham, and during the past few summers has served as a clinician at the Oxford ChurchMusic summer singing courses in Oxford, England.
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ROGER SIMMONDS is a composer, teacher and choir director. As a composer, Roger has written for television, the stage and for choirs. He has written two full length operas and is working on a third. His short length Opera "Chanticleer" has received several performances including one at Oxford Playhouse. As a teacher he works with A level students and advanced Piano Students. In his years as a music teacher at Wheatley Park School he directed several choirs including a successful School Madrigal Choir which toured all over the world. He is at present directing a small choir of 16 voices called "Musica Viva". He lives in Wheatley, just outside of Oxford.
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