Artistic Director,
Patricia Plumley
Patricia has been enjoying great music-making and hours of fun-filled laughter with the Village Voices of Qualicum Beach since taking the helm in the fall of 2017. Never a dull moment and always a wonderful sense of community and commitment to singing!
She has been a member of the Vancouver Community College School of Music since 1988 teaching piano, voice, class piano, piano pedagogy, keyboard literature and coaching chamber music. As well she conducts the Willan Choir and co-conducts the VCC Concert Choir.
Patricia divides her time between the mainland and working here on the island with the Village Voices of Qualicum Beach, A Cappella Plus, the Vancouver Island Symphony Noteworthy Kids Choir, the Berwick Bluebirds and the Vancouver Island Choir. VIC has toured China, Scotland/Croatia and Spain and is preparing for Malta/ Italy in May 2024.
She has worked with the British Columbia Boys Choir and the KidsSing Inner City Chorus and enjoys teaching all ages and stages of music students in her private studio at her home in Nanoose Bay.
Patricia is currently the Music Director at Knox United Church in Parksville and enjoys the many ways in which the music of Oceanside enriches her life!
(updated October 2023)
She has been a member of the Vancouver Community College School of Music since 1988 teaching piano, voice, class piano, piano pedagogy, keyboard literature and coaching chamber music. As well she conducts the Willan Choir and co-conducts the VCC Concert Choir.
Patricia divides her time between the mainland and working here on the island with the Village Voices of Qualicum Beach, A Cappella Plus, the Vancouver Island Symphony Noteworthy Kids Choir, the Berwick Bluebirds and the Vancouver Island Choir. VIC has toured China, Scotland/Croatia and Spain and is preparing for Malta/ Italy in May 2024.
She has worked with the British Columbia Boys Choir and the KidsSing Inner City Chorus and enjoys teaching all ages and stages of music students in her private studio at her home in Nanoose Bay.
Patricia is currently the Music Director at Knox United Church in Parksville and enjoys the many ways in which the music of Oceanside enriches her life!
(updated October 2023)
Pianist,
Andrea Lahmer
Andrea completed her Bachelor of Music and Postgraduate Diploma in Collaborative Piano at the University of British Columbia. For 8 years she was on music staff at Vancouver Opera preparing the main stage shows, performing in the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and touring the province with Vancouver Opera in Schools.
Active in the community as well, Andrea co-founded the Stewart Arts Council in 2012 bringing professional opera and dance performances to rural northern BC, and in Melbourne, Australia, Andrea was a collaborative pianist at Melbourne University and the Victorian College of the Arts.
Andrea has performed at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and has been heard numerous times on CBC Radio. Here on the island Andrea performs regularly with the Vancouver Island Symphony and maintains a piano teaching studio Sound Arts Piano Studio in Parksville.