Organization
Musical Directorate
SYO Music Director/Conductor: Richard Carnegie
SSTR Music Director/Conductor: Bernadette Wilson
Bernadette Wilson, cello instructor
Bernadette Wilson has been coaching and conducting young string players in the Saskatoon community for many years. She teaches cello privately, and also teaches and conducts in the Saskatoon Suzuki String Program. She has been a cellist in the Saskatoon Symphony for 27 years, and continues to work as a piano accompanist for many young musicians.
Darrell Bueckert, percussion instructor
Darrell is a graduate of the University of Manitoba (B.A.) and the University of Saskatchewan (B.Mus. Mus.Ed. and M.Ed. in instrumental music). He has performed with many professional organizations including both the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra where he is now Principal Timpanist. Darrell has also been a founding member of several percussion ensembles which have performed throughout Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories for schools and communities. Darrell was an itinerant band teacher in the Saskatchewan Valley School Division and is now on faculty with the Department of Music at the University of Saskatchewan as Applied Percussion Instructor and Sessional Lecturer in Music Education. From 2006-2009 Darrell was also Adjunct Professor to the College of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Regina.
Arlene Shiplett, brass instructor
Arlene Shiplett was born and raised in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She became involved in music at an early age with piano lessons, choir and both school and private band programs. She graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B. Mus. Mus. Ed. in 1986. Arlene became a member of the Saskatoon Symphony in 1992. For several years Arlene taught band in rural Saskatchewan and played in the Symphony. Since 2000, she has narrowed her focus to teaching horn at the University of Saskatchewan as well as private teaching and coaching. Her recent accomplishments include winning the Dwaine Nelson Teaching Award, conducting the mass horn choir at the Call of the Wild horn conference, and performing with the International Brass Quintet at the International Peace Gardens. Arlene may be seen every summer performing on the Western Development Museum’s Steam Calliope – one of a few in playing condition in North America. She is married to Lee Springett. They have no children and seven horns.
Board of Directors (Link is password protected)
The SYO is administered by a board of directors, people who come from parents of SYO and SSTR players and willing to volunteer their time to enable the orchestra to exist. The board makes decisions about the administrative direction of the orchestra and secures the funds to enable the orchestra to function.
