Carl Montgomery

Carl Montgomery, A.A., A.M., B.Mus. (University of British Columbia), A.V.C.M. (accompaniment and chamber music), taught piano at Douglas College from 1988 to 2006 and at Langley Community Music School from 1988 to the present. Carl is an enthusiastic music educator, festival adjudicator and workshop clinician. He has performed as an accompanist and chamber musician throughout greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

Carl’s principal teachers and mentors are: Frederick Geoghegan; Rena Sharon; Winifred Scott Wood; Robin Wood; Bela Siki; Joseph Bloch; Robin McCabe; Jacques Rouvier; Dr. Haruko Kataoka. Carl has also studied with Richard Kitson, Henry Waack and Edward Parker.

Since moving back to his hometown of Sechelt in 2006, Carl continues to be an active faculty member at LCMS in Langley and shares his home studio, Montgomery Music, with his wife Katherine. He is vice-president of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers’ Association, Sunshine Coast Branch and a 25-year member of BCRMTA and delegate to Provincial Council. 

Carl is the Music Director of the Creek Big Band. As a jazz saxophonist, he has performed in the Gibsons Jazz Festival, Pender Harbour Jazz Festival, Artesia Coffeehouse, Sechelt Seniors’ Activity Centre and the Cottage Bistro in Vancouver.

To contact Carl, please email him at: carl@montgomerymusic.ca

Katherine Hume

Katherine is a graduate of McGill University, where she earned a BMus in Piano Performance with Louis-Philippe Pelletier. She completed a Perfectionnement en musique de chambre with Catherine Courvoisier (Conservatoire Neuchâtelois, Switzerland), followed by MMus in Performance Studies at Trinity College of Music in London, UK in 2000 with Douglas Finch. Katherine has also participated in numerous masterclasses, notably with Paul Badura-Skoda and Roger Vignoles, and summer sessions at Centre d'Arts Orford, Québec and Adamant Music School, Vermont, USA.

Katherine is the Music Director at St. Hilda's Anglican Church where she plays piano, pipe organ, flute, conducts the choir and began the Music Arising! St. Hilda's Recital series. As a collaborative pianist, she has performed across Canada and Europe. She performed in the International Stepping Stone Competition with flutist Sara Hahn-Scinocco (principal, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra) in Rimouski, Québec and has been featured on CBC Radio 2’s “Westcoast Performance” as well as with many ensembles including the Vancouver Children's Choir, North Shore Light Opera Society, Symphonietta of Chilliwack, UBC Opera Ensemble, Opera Piacere, Opera Breve, Piano Extravaganza and Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir.

Katherine is a RCM Certified Teacher and 2nd Vice-President of the British Columbia Registered Music Teachers’ Association, of which she is a 25-year member. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ Associations (CFMTA/FCAPM). Other areas of professional interest include contemporary music, posture and relaxation techniques and French music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Katherine and her husband, Carl Montgomery teach together at their home studio in Sechelt, Montgomery Music. She offers lessons in-person and online in English and French.

To contact Katherine, please email her at: katherine@montgomerymusic.ca