Adjudicators

DAN WARDROPE

Piano Adjudicator

DAN WARDROPE has been playing the piano for 30 years and professionally for 20 years. He holds his A.R.C.T. from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada and a Licentiate degree from Trinity College in London, England.

Mr. Wardrope is an active composer, producer, clinician and instructor. His CD of original compositions has sold internationally and receives radio airplay across North America including regular play on CBC radio.

Dan's students have won many prestigious awards and scholarships and many have continued on to professional teaching careers. Other students have developed successful professional performing careers in music including a major record label signing with Virgin Records, another with EMI Records, a Juno Award nomination, a B.C. Country Music Award as well as many television and radio performances. Seveal students have also won auditions to play for members of the Canadian Piano Six including Janina Fialkowska, Angela Cheng and Stephen Lemelin. Another student was recently awarded with a prestigious opportunity to play for internationally renowned pianist Lang Lang at a masterclass in Vancouver, BC. For thirteen consecutive years, Dan's advanced students have hosted, performed and sold out a benefit concert which has raised support for organizations such as the B.C. Cancer Foundation and World Vision.

Mr. Wardrope has also directed and produced the recording of many commercial CD projects spanning a wide range of genres including classical, pop, jazz, and choral music.

Dan also spends time teaching workshops and adjudicating festivals across Western Canada as a member of the Canadian Music Federation Adjudicators Association. He is also a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners. Mr. Wardrope teaches a private music studio with an extensive waiting list in Maple Ridge, British Columbia where he resides with his wife and three young daughters.