Meet the 2026 Adjudicators
Amy Hall
Junior Piano
Amy Hall is from Brantford, Ontario, where she has been sharing her love of music through teaching, mentoring, and leading worship for 20+ years.
Amy holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Western University, where she studied with Gwen Beamish. Most recently, she completed her certifications for Advanced Specialist in piano and Intermediate Specialist in theory through the Royal Conservatory of Music. Her passion for music has led her to work in various capacities in her community and church as well.
As a music educator, Amy maintains an active home studio of private piano and theory students. Many of her students have completed RCM examinations and received awards for their performances in local festivals and competitions. She has also been involved in mentoring young musicians through her work with the Ontario Registered Music Teachers’ Association (ORMTA) Brantford Branch, where she is currently serving as Branch President. She also played a role in creating the Brant Music Festival, where she served as secretary/bookkeeper for 4 years.
Amy has travelled with the African Children’s Choir as music director, taught elementary music at Brantford Christian School, served in the capacity of music director at Pleasant Valley Church for 10 years, and is now active in leading & mentoring a youth music team at Mission City Bible Church as well as singing and playing piano on their adult music teams.
In her spare time, Amy can be found enjoying life with her husband and daughters, as well as reading, crocheting, and sipping chai lattes.
Lauren Helmer
Brass, Woodwinds, Brass
Lauren Helmer has been a music educator in Kitchener, ON, since 2009. Presently, she is the Associate Director of Bands of Eastwood Collegiate Institute’s Integrated Arts Magnet Program. Previously, Lauren taught at Preston High School in Cambridge, ON, where she gained recognition by developing its award-winning jazz ensembles and wind ensembles. All of her bands have consistently achieved the highest honours at the provincial and national level, competing at various festivals, and competitions, both locally and abroad.
As a performer, Lauren was the associate principal trombonist, and 2nd trombonist of the Guelph Symphony Orchestra for 8 years before joining the Stratford Symphony Orchestra in 2012. After 14 years of service, Lauren retired from the Canadian Army Reserve Forces in 2021. She was the trombone section commander of the internationally honoured Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Band since 2007. Prior to joining the RHLI, Lauren spent four summers performing on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, with the Band of the Ceremonial Guard, from 2007-2010.
As a conductor, Lauren is the first woman appointed as Artistic Director of the Guelph Concert Band (2022); one of the longest running concert bands in Canada. She has studied wind ensemble conducting with Dr. Denise Grant, the late Michael Purves-Smith, and has attended conducting clinics throughout North America. Lauren holds the position as the Assistant Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Concert Band, she is the Artistic Director for “Summer Music” Camp in Southampton Ontario, and she serves as the brass coach for the Grand River Blues Camp. Lauren is also a sought-after clinician, being called to work with middle and high school groups throughout Ontario.
Lauren is a member of the Canadian Band Association, the Ontario Band Association, the Ontario Music Educators’ Association, the National Band Association, and is the Provincial Chair of Ontario for the Women Band Directors’ International.
When she is not teaching, Lauren enjoys both performing with, and directing local wind ensembles, big bands, and brass groups. Lauren holds an Honours Bachelor of Music Education from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Western Ontario. Lauren spends her down-time enjoying multiple cups of coffee, exercising, snowboarding, golfling, and spending time with her husband Andreas, and their daughter Nora.
Dr. Rebekah Jordon-Miller DMA
Intermediate/Senior Piano
Alexandra Lennox Pomeroy
Classical Voice, Choirs
Soprano Alexandra Lennox has been performing with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto for 29 seasons singing well over 200 productions in small roles, understudying larger roles and as a full time member of the professional Chorus.
Alexandra has a Vocal Performance diploma from the Royal Conservatory of music Glen Gould School, a Vocal Performance BMus from the University of Toronto, and an ARCT in Voice from the Royal Conservatory of Music. A versatile singer, dancer, actor Ms. Lennox has sung in television commercials for Shoppers Drug Mart, Miller Beer, Nescafe Coffee and Kraft Dressing. Operatic roles include; "Adele" in Die Fledermaus, "Serpina" in La Serva Padrona with, "Musetta" in La Boheme with, "Nellie" in Leo the Royal Cadet, "The Voice" in Facing South, "Apparition" in Macbeth with COC, “Strawberry Seller" in Death in Venice with COC, "The Cousin" in Madama Butterfly with COC, and "soprano soloist" in The Nightingale with COC. Ms. Lennox has performed in musical theatre productions; as “Anne” in Anne of Green Gables, “ Hodel” in Fiddler on the Roof, “Liesl” in Sound of Music and many small and ensemble roles as both a singer, actor and a dancer.
Alexandra is a co-founder and co-organizer of the Halton Hills Music Festival in Georgetown, Ontario. As a busy and sought after festival adjudicator, she has judged voice and choral classes at Pickering GTA Music Festival, Kiwanis Festival of Sudbury, Kingston Kiwanis Festival, Peel Music Festival, Arcadia Academy of Music Musicfest and Miriam Academy of music’s Music Festival. Alexandra has been teaching and coaching a select group of singers in her home studio “Lennox Voice Studio" for 20 over years.