2026 LangleyLive! Adjudicators

	Anne Wilson Unger (Senior & Intermediate Piano) Anne Wilson Unger has taught and conducted for 30 years, as well as working as an adjudicator and clinician throughout British Columbia and the Northwest Territories. She holds a Masters of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Western Washington in piano performance, accompanying and choral conducting. In addition, Ms. Wilson Unger also holds a BMus degree in Piano Performance from the University of Victoria with Dr. Robin Wood, an AVCM with the Victoria Conservatory of Music studying with Winnifred Scott Wood and an ARCT with the Royal Conservatory of Music. Anne spent time studying in England with Hamish Milne of the Royal Academy of Music and Isobel Flinn of the National Opera School. In addition to her work as a pianist, Ms. Wilson Unger is the co-founder of the Vivo Children’s Choir in New Westminster where she worked as Artistic Director for over 20 years until passing the torch in 2025.
	Dale Wheeler (Junior and Intermediate Piano) After teaching piano and various courses at the post-secondary level for over thirty-five years Dale Wheeler is now enjoying life as an independent musician. Living in Red Deer, Alberta he teaches part-time at Burman University and maintains a small private studio. He holds the doctorate in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma where his dissertation focused on the Roman-period works of Franz Liszt. He also holds degrees and diplomas from the University of Saskatchewan and Trinity College of Music, London. He is a long-standing member of The Royal Conservatory of Music College of Examiners and has been involved in other projects with the RCM such as the selection and editing of repertoire for the 2022 Celebration Series books. Dr. Wheeler has appeared as a recitalist, accompanist, adjudicator, and lecturer from coast to coast in Canada and throughout the U.S. He has presented at major conferences throughout North America and Europe, the most recent being the International Society for Music Education in Baku, Azerbaijan. His performing interests range from the core classics to out-of-the-way and new repertoire. He presented an all-Liszt recital for the Liszt Bicentenary and more recently performed several of the Bach multiple keyboard concerti along with collaborating in the premiere of a work for three pianos. Another program included works that focused on birds – Liszt, Messiaen, Ravel, Balakirev, Rameau, Beach, and Bernstein. Dr. Wheeler particularly enjoys working with teachers young and old who are developing their own playing and pedagogical skills. For a number of years Dale was a regular columnist for Clavier magazine and has had articles published in the CFMTA Journal, American Music Teacher, and The Journal of the American Liszt Society. He has recently served as president of both the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra and the Alberta Piano Teachers Association. In 2012 Dr. Wheeler received the Mayor’s Recognition Award for his contribution to the fine and performing arts. When not making music his interests include water and snow skiing, classic cars, touring on his Harley motorcycle, and collecting vintage piano recordings.
	Marya Ricker (Junior Piano, Levels Pre-2) Marya began her piano studies in Ontario at the age of five with her mother. Upon moving to British Columbia, she studied with Darlene Brigidear, completing her A.R.C.T. Performers Diploma receiving first class honours at the age of fourteen. Furthermore, she earned a Performer’s Diploma from the Western Conservatory of Music and the Licentiate Diploma from the B.C Conservatory of Music. She has been a consistent scholarship recipient in the Lower Mainland Festivals and has participated in master classes with Robin Wood and John Kimira Parker. After performing Bach’s a minor concerto with the Surrey Youth Orchestra at the age of ten, she went on to perform Grieg’s a minor concerto and Schumann’s a minor concerto by the age of fifteen. She was the top piano performer six years running in the Surrey Music Festival and was awarded top marks in the Vancouver Kiwanis Music Festival in the grade 10 competitive classes. After high school graduation, Marya attended McGill University in Montréal and Kwantlen University College in Langley, majoring in piano performance under the tutelage of Jane Hayes. In the spring of 2000, at the age of nineteen, Marya performed Rachmaninov’s 2nd piano Concerto, as a soloist, with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Throughout her career, she has collaborated in live performances with other musicians. She has performed as a pianist and oboist in Northern Italy, Quebec City, Ontario, the Okanagan and throughout the lower mainland. Marya has been teaching piano for over 31 years. She enjoys teaching early learners to post A.R.C.T levels. In 2013, she opened a music school in Port Coquitlam called the Tri-City School of Music. Marya was one of seventeen music teachers and was a representative on the school board as program director. After selling the music school in 2022, Marya has been building her private studio, while enjoying family life with her husband and 10 year old son.
	Leah Field (Classical Voice) Canadian Contralto Dr. Leah Giselle Field is noted for her versatility as a vocalist and the strength of her dramatic presence. Praised for “soaring tone and spectacular low notes” in her “sumptuous” instrument, she is a graduate of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program, a Vancouver Opera Foundation Amatori bursary recipient and regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of British Columbia. Performance highlights include Cavalleria Rusticana, Eugene Onegin, Le Nozze di Figaro and Hansel and Gretel with Vancouver Opera, recitals with pianists Leslie Dala and Richard Epp, Handel’s Messiah, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Vancouver Bach Choir, appearances in the Vancouver Opera Chamber Music Festival, and productions of Luisa Miller, Suor Angelica, Cendrillon, and Aida in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia. Upcoming engagements include oratorio and recording projects with BC composers. Leah has sung in North America, Europe, and China in opera, recital, and with orchestras and chamber ensembles. She has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Sea to Sky Symphony, the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, the West Coast Symphony Orchestra, and the UBC Symphony Orchestra, and as a recitalist throughout British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario. When not performing, Leah teaches voice for the VSO School of Music and is in demand as an adjudicator and educator.
	Raphael Wagner (Musical Theatre & Contemporary Voice) Raphael Wagner is a Vancouver-based artist and vocal instructor whose diverse career spans opera, rock, film, and recording work. As a performer, Raphael has appeared with Vancouver Opera, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Radio and Television, the Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, Music in the Morning, the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Abbotsford Symphony, the Vancouver Festival. Her recording credits include numerous projects for animated film, most notably with Sony Pictures (Fairytopia: Mermaidia) and the CBC (Cantata for the King). She currently performs as a lead vocalist and tribute artist, appearing as Stevie Nicks in Gold Dust Gypsy and Forever Fleetwood. In her work as a rock musician, she has performed at renowned music festivals as well as numerous large theatre shows throughout Canada. Raphael brings more than two decades of teaching experience to her work as an educator. She currently holds two Post Secondary positions as Professor of Singing for Capilano University Theatre Program and also in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia where she has taught for over 20 years. Raphael has also held teaching and leadership roles at the BC Conservatory of Music and Douglas College, where she directed youth music theatre programs. Currently, she maintains a private teaching studio in Vancouver. Her students have established successful professional careers in stage and film, earned recognition at major international competitions such as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York, and pursued advanced studies at prestigious institutions including the Manhattan School of Music and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Raphael has attended The LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ and completed all three levels of certification. She has also completed training specific to Musical Theatre/CCM with renowned instructors such as Lisa Popeil (Voiceworks® Method), Matt Edwards (Shenandoah Conservatory/CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute), Kim Chandler (Chandler Curriculum for Training Pop Singers) and Meredith Colby (Neurovocal Method). She is member of NATS (The National Association for Teachers of Singing) and of The British Columbia Registered Music Teacher's Association Vancouver branch. In addition to her work in vocal performance and pedagogy, Wagner has worked as a Voice Actor and served as a voice and speech coach for media professionals, working with organizations such as BCCTV and Global News.
	Jenny Andersen (Musical Theatre) Jenny is a Vancouver-based musical theatre artist who enjoys exploring a variety of facets in her craft. She has taught voice (specializing in musical theatre) for over 25 years, serving on faculty since 2021 as the Singing Instructor for Studio 58, one of Canada’s premiere theatre conservatories, and running her own private music studio (JAMS) since 2010. JAMS students have performed with such professional theatre companies as the Arts Club, Western Canada Theatre, the Citadel Theatre, Rainbow Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Shaw Festival, in addition to countless other theatre companies within BC. Jenny believes strongly in an integrated approach to musical theatre, fusing musical, technical and interpretative elements together seamlessly. Jenny enjoys musical theatre & theatrical performance with a variety of Western Canadian companies; music direction (A Broadway Holiday, Gutenberg, Titus); professional choral singing (Vancouver Chamber Choir, musica intima); composition/playwriting (three solo shows and a musical which won Pick of the Vancouver Fringe in 2015); sight-singing anything she can get her hands on; and keeping up her accordion-playing chops from her childhood. Her favorite singer is Audra McDonald, and her next favorite singer is her 2-year-old daughter, Amalia.
	Heilwig Von Koenigsloew (Strings & Chamber Music) Born in Hamburg, Germany, Heilwig began her studies at the Musikhochschule in Hamburg. As a young musician, she moved to Canada and was a student of Thomas Rolston at the University of Alberta where she received her Masters of Music degree in violin performance at the age of 22. She has also studied with Lorand Fenyves, Steven Staryk, and the Hungarian String Quartet. Heilwig served as Department Head of the music program at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo, BC from 1976 to 1984. During this time she maintained an active career as a private teacher at the Nanaimo Conservatory and the Vancouver Academy of Music. While making her home in Langley, BC, Heilwig taught at both Trinity Western University and The Langley Community Music School. Currently, Heilwig maintains her private violin studio and is a regularly sought after adjudicator and chamber music instructor across BC. A former member of the CBC Radio Orchestra until its demise, Heilwig plays regularly with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and works as a free-lance violinist and violist across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island Communities. Heilwig regularly volunteers her time and expertise in service of the arts; she was the former Board President of Performing Arts BC, and is the current Board President of VAYA Youth Arts Society. When not practicing or performing, Heilwig works on her 15 acre hay farm with her children, grand children, horses, dogs, cats, and other diverse animals.