DAVID CAMERON was born and educated in Toronto, where his teachers included Catherine Palmer, Douglas Bodle, Paul Murray and the late Eric Rollinson. Graduate study in Potsdam, N.Y., and St. Louis concentrated upon applied musicology and composition. In 1966 he moved to Kingston, Ontario, to become Director of Music at Chalmers United Church. There he directs a choir of semi-professional quality in live-to-air broadcasts each Sunday; in repertoire drawn mainly from the English Cathedral literature, but with substantial twentieth-century and Canadian components. Regular performances of oratorios with orchestra are also part of the church’s programme, in the Good Friday series but also at other times of the year. He has taught organ and other subjects for Queen’s School of Music since the inception of the B.Mus. program at the university, as well as a limited number of private students in organ and theory from centres in eastern Ontario; his former pupils hold church positions and academic posts across the country. Until recently he was also resident musician at Queen’s Theological College.

As Music Director of the concert choir Melos, David Cameron’s recent concert credits include a staged version of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, the Mozart, Brahms, Duruflé and Fauré Requiems, Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, more than thirty-five performances of Handel’s Messiah, and a number of large works commissioned from Canadian composers. For details of the forthcoming concert season visit the Melos website at www.melos.ca

A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and a long-time member of its Board of Directors and Council, David Cameron is the College’s first Vice-President for 2004-2006, and chair of the committee administering its Endowment Fund.

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FRANCES HARKNESS began her career as a high school teacher of French and German, but later turned to music. With a degree in Modern Languages, and an M.Ed., she added professional musical credentials with the ARCT and ARCCO. Her large private piano teaching practice in Kingston, Ontario, involves work with advanced pupils, but also utilizes her skills as an educator with younger pianists.

Ms. Harkness is a well- known choral and vocal accompanist, using her language background to coach vocal students, and working with David Cameron as accompanist to the Melos Choir. For twelve years she worked at the Suzuki More Than Music Institutute in Kingston, both as accompanist, and as organ and harpsichord instructor. She is organist and choir director at St. Andrew's by-the-Lake United Church, and artistic director of the highly successful Music West Series of concerts in west-end Kingston.

She is also a founding member, pianist-harpsichordist, and an arranger for the Telemann Trio. This ensemble of flute, oboe, and continuo has a wide repertory of music from the baroque period to the present, including several works composed or arranged for them.

Frances (better known to her friends as Fran) is a past-president of the Kingston Centre of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. She now serves nationally as a member of the college’s Board of Directors.

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The two musicians spend their summers on their 26 foot cruising sailboat G'day (named presumably by an Australian former owner). Here's G'day fitting out for the 2005 season: