Paul Fehderau has been a trumpet performer for many years in Southern Ontario. Paul completed
a music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and subsequently studied jazz with
Chase Sanborn. His experience in the classical and commercial music field is
extensive. He has been a soloist and member of The K-W Community Orchestra,
Waterloo Chamber Players, the K-W Chamber Orchestra, and many musical production
pit bands. He played with The Crowning Brass, a classical/gospel quartet, for over 35
years. In the ‘pops’ and jazz realm, Paul has performed with the likes of Peter
Appleyard, John McDermott, Carol Welsman and Phil Nimmons while with the
Windjammers ensemble. Paul enjoyed a career in music, first as a college music prof
and then as a middle school music educator, for 35 years. In his free time, he currently
enjoys playing with Big Band Theory and freelancing gigs in the area.
Personnel:
Paul Fehderau-trumpet
John Goddard-drums / Phoenix Jazz Group
Greg Prior-bass / Phoenix Jazz Group
Ralf Buschmeyer- guitar / BBT
Paul Stouffer-keys / Top Pocket
Guitar Player Magazine calls guitarist Ralf Buschmeyer ‘as smooth and sophisticated as
James Bond taking a holiday in Monte Carlo’ and Blues Review Magazine hails him as
an ‘inventive musician’. Ralf has been playing professionally since the 1980’s where he
grew up playing clubs in Southern Ontario. Jazz studies with Lorne Lofsky at Hamilton’s
Mohawk College led to touring Canada for three years and settling in Canada’s Western
Provinces where Ralf directed Jazz Guitar studies for Mount Royal University, Ambrose
University(Calgary), Selkirk College(BC) as well as being a faculty member for Grant
MacEwan University(Edmonton), Nazarene University and University of Calgary.
Ralf is currently active as a free-lance performer and private teacher in Southern
Ontario as well as faculty for Heritage College Music Department in Cambridge,
Ontario.
A band-leader with 7 CDs to his credit, Ralf is also an in-demand side-man for several
artists including: Eric Marienthal, Bobby Shew, Ralph Bowen, Amy Sky, Calgary
Philharmonic Orchestra, Jack Semple, Ingrid Jensen, The Platters, Lisa Brokopp among
many others.
As a performing musician and educator in Southern Ontario, John Goddard has been
very active in both the jazz and classical idioms. During his career, as a jazz drummer
he has performed with a variety of Canadian recording artists including Carol Welsman,
Peter Appleyard, Phil Nimmons and Shirley Eikhard .His experience in the classical field
has included gigs with the region’s orchestras, musical societies and theatre production
companies. In addition to performance he has held the position as Director of the
Concert Winds Ensemble and instructor of Applied Percussion at the University of
Guelph Ontario as well as music educator with the Upper Grand and Waterloo Regional
District School Boards
Once new to the Waterloo Region, moving from Calgary, Greg Prior has been
established in the Waterloo scene for over 16 years. Greg has been a regular performer
with local groups such as The Pheonix Jazz Group, Big Band Theory, Ernie Kalwa, and
played with many other local performers.
Before he moved to Waterloo, he performed with the Lethbridge Symphony, the Red
Deer Symphony, and the Symphony of the Kootenays. Greg has toured with many
artists at Jazz Festivals throughout Canada, and at the Montreux Jazz Festival
(Switzerland). He was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve, the King’s
Own Calgary Regiment, for 16 years. In 1999, Greg studied and performed in Havana,
Cuba with the Latin jazz ensemble Masacote. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the
University of Calgary, and studied at the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts.
Paul Stouffer is a lifelong, professional musician who continues to be actively engaged
in a variety of corporate gigs in the jazz, rock, pop genres.
At his project studio, he provides private lessons in jazz piano, music theory,
composition and improvisation.
Paul also uses his broad musical talent and experience to guide musicians in song
writing, as well as arranging, producing, and recording their work .
