2025 Trail Adjudicators


Katherine Robidoux 
     Ballet/Modern Dance

Katherine is a French Canadian dance artist based in Vancouver, BC. Katherine started dancing at the age of three and has continuously trained in ballet, contemporary and jazz styles across Canada, Japan, Turkey, the UK and Norway, most recently training with Pacific Dance Arts in Vancouver.
She has since had the opportunity to work with Canada’s Ballet Jorgen, Coastal City Ballet, CATS, Sona Vartanian, Isak Enquist, and more, and has performed as a guest at various public events. Katherine is an established ballet, contemporary and jazz teacher, choreographer and adjudicator in the community, and her teaching career has taken her across Canada to Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa, Montreal and abroad to Vietnam and Taiwan.  Katherine holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia as well as her 200-hr Yoga Teacher Training and Yin Teacher Certificate.
Outside of dance, Katherine loves to travel, cook and spend time with loved ones.

Breanna English
       Stage Dance

Breanna English is a Vancouver native with over 25 years of experience shaping the lives of
children and adults through dance. Her passion for dance, which began in childhood, has blossomed into a distinguished career as a teacher, performer, choreographer, event coordinator, producer, and entrepreneur.
She has worked both in front of the camera as a principal performer and behind the scenes as a choreographer, collaborating with major companies such as Disney, Warner Bros., Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, BMG Records, and Mattel. With her current focus on Hollywood North,
Breanna now guides Canadian dancers into the Film & TV industry through her company, PLATFORM On Camera.
Her career has taken her around the globe, performing in Canada, the USA, and Tokyo, yet she remains committed to sharing her knowledge and expertise in Vancouver’s lower mainland.
As a choreographer and movement director, Breanna’s work has been featured in a wide range of high-profile projects. Notably, she choreographed the finale scene for the feature film A Nice Indian Boy, starring Jonathan Groff, Karan Soni, Sunita Mani, and comedian Zarna Garg. Her
choreography has also been showcased at prestigious festivals like SXSW, the Berlin Commercial Film Festival, and the British Film Institute.
In addition to her choreography work, Breanna has contributed to many other projects, working with organizations such as the Vancouver Ravens, Crawford Filmworks, 604 Records, Vancouver Fashion Week, Studio Cloud 30, Live Nation, ESPN, and Mattel.
As a performer, Breanna has appeared in numerous TV shows and films, including Warner Bros.’The Fantastic Four alongside Jessica Alba, The Sixth Man starring Marlon Wayans, Disney’s So Weird, and TV series like The Sentinel. She also appeared in the live TV special with recording artist Love Inc. and performed at the General Motors Grand Opening with the NBA Vancouver Grizzlies’ Extreme Dance Team, sharing the stage with artists like Shania Twain and Blue Rodeo.
A unique highlight of Breanna’s career was her role as the dancing Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, where she worked alongside Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr., Seth Green, and her favourite, the late Peter Boyle. She has also appeared in commercials for brands such as Coors Light and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.
Breanna’s journey came full circle when she returned to the BC Lions as Head Choreographer for their historic 2022 season, having once been a former member of their dance team. She continues to draw on her extensive experience and industry knowledge to create positive, exciting environments for dancers and audiences alike. Breanna is passionate about celebrating the return to the stage and wishes for all participants, a beautiful experience.

 
Rita Attrot
      Piano

Rita Attrot has been teaching piano students of all ages and levels for over forty years.  She received her early training at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, where she took her diploma in Teacher Training with Winifred Scott Wood.  Ms. Attrot went on to complete her Bachelor of Music degree in performance from the University of Western Ontario where she studied with Dr. Damjana Bratuz and Ronald Turini.  As a graduate student and post-graduation, Rita specialized in Accompanying and Chamber Music.
Ms. Attrot held the position of Staff Accompanist at Acadia University in Nova Scotia for 9 years, worked as a free-lance accompanist for instrumentalists and singers in Toronto and served as a coach and repetiteur at the University of Toronto Opera School. She has collaborated with violinist Mishan Han- releasing a CD from a live performance at the Glenn Gould Studio; pianist Lynn Johnson— performing piano duo and two-piano recitals in the Maritime provinces, the Appassionata Trio and the Erato Ensemble- serving as principal pianist in concerts throughout Vancouver, Victoria and the Lower Mainland.  Above all, Rita is passionate about working with vocalists and can be heard in recitals performing innovative programs of great song literature with frequent collaborator soprano Catherine Laub.
Much in demand as an adjudicator throughout the province, Ms. Attrot served as Head of the Piano Department at the B.C. Conservatory of Music in Burnaby for many years, where she also taught the Piano Pedagogy course numerous times, influencing and encouraging the next generation of private piano teachers.  She is a member of the piano faculty at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School where she gives masterclasses and coaching, and also maintains a private studio at Place des Arts in Coquitlam.  As a church musician, Ms. Attrot has held many posts as organist and choir director:  she is presently the Music Director at St. Thomas’ Anglican Church in Vancouver.
 

Leah Giselle Field
        Choral and Vocal Arts &
            Speech and Dramatic Arts

Hailed as “the consummate singing actor,” Contralto Leah Giselle Field is noted for her versatility as a vocalist and the strength of her dramatic presence. She is praised for “soaring tone and spectacular low notes” in her “sumptuous” instrument. An award-winning performer and teacher, she is a graduate of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program and holds a DMA in Voice and Opera from UBC.

Recent performance highlights include appearances with the Vancouver Opera, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, VAMSO, the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Titus Chamber Orchestra, and the Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival. 
Upcoming engagements include recitals with pianist Richard Epp and performances of Srul Irving Glick’s … I Never Saw Another Butterfly.

Leah has sung in North America, Europe, and China in opera, recital, and with orchestras and chamber ensembles, and as a recitalist throughout British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario.

Andrea Case
Strings & Guitar

Andrea Case is co-founder and cellist of the Lily String Quartet, a group that has completed multiple tours across Canada, has performed for CBC Radio 2 and released a jazz CD with the award-winning Hutchinson Andrew Trio.

Andrea records regularly in multiple genres including pop, folk, jazz and classical, has more than 20 years of teaching experience and adjudicates regularly. Andrea has played at festivals and with orchestras in Canada, Asia and Europe.

She is Co-Artistic Director of Calgary’s Kensington Sinfonia and performs regularly with this group along with Astralis String Quartet and baroque ensembles String Theory Music Collective and Chamber Muse. Kensington Sinfonia released its 35th Anniversary recording, Forces of Nature, in 2023, celebrating the veracity of the music scene in Southern Alberta.

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     Woodwinds