Dr. Wayne Jeffrey is presently Director of Ensembles of the Kwantlen University College Department of Music. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Western Ontario, Toronto and Cincinnati and was the Music Director of the Wind Symphony and Conducting Instructor in each school.  He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting and music education from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and has appeared as an Associate Conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble on many concerts.

In Europe, he studied and performed in London, Munich, Budapest, Salzburg and Vienna.  As a hornist and conductor, he has broadcast and performed in Canada and abroad and has recorded with the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Toronto Chamber Winds, the Hannaford Street Silver Band, CJRT Orchestra and the Erik Schultz Brass Quintet.  Orchestral and chamber performances occur across Canada including Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Windsor, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Kingston, Montreal and Fredericton,  He appears frequently as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator at festivals throughout North America and Europe.

Presently located in the Vancouver area, he performs as a freelance hornist regularly with orchestras on Vancouver Island and throughout the lower Mainland including the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia: Orchestra of the North Shore. Recent guest conducting appearances include the Toronto Wind Orchestra, the Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, the Surrey Youth Orchestra, Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, and the Upper Rhine Youth Symphony in Germany. During the 2007/08 season Dr. Jeffrey serves as an Artistic Director and Hornist with the Canada West Chamber Orchestra.

 Rod Wiedman was born and raised in Minnesota. He began his music career playing Trumpet and French Horn at LaCrescent High School. He continued his music education at Moorhead State University in Moorhead, Minnesota and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Instrumental Music.

Mr. Wiedman has taught band for 33 years at Acadia Junior High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which boasts one of the largest programs in the province. His students made up three concert bands and one jazz band. Together, they have won many prestigious provincial, national and international awards.

Over the past several years, Mr. Wiedman has served as clinician, educator, conductor and adjudicator for many festivals and honour bands from Manitoba to British Columbia.