Performers

Tara Semple has her Bachelor of Music in performance from the University of Toronto. She holds many certifications in early childhood education, early music, and sound as a healing modality. She holds the Assistant Principal Flute and Piccolo position with the Regina Symphony Orchestra.

She has recently retired from being the Artistic director of Per Sonatori a historical performance practice ensemble where she also was a performer on traverso, recorder and renaissance flute.

She has a large flute studio of mainly RCM students. She is the Director of the Rusty Flute club. She is a founding member of The Quarter Tones flute ensemble. As well she performs with her family band the gene pool. Tara's musical practice is informed by a wide swath of musical styles and practices, a melting pot of musical genres creating a unique musical blend.

Linda Lucyk has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Saskatchewan and a conducting diploma from the University of Calgary. She is an active performer, flute teacher, and music educator.

Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, she has been a member of the Saskatoon Symphony, Regina Symphony, and the Calgary Civic Symphony. She is one of the founding members of the Quarter Tones Flute Ensemble, which has performed around Regina for over two decades.

Linda currently teaches music at Chadwick International School and resides in Seoul, Korea. A member of the Lucyk Trio (flute, violin, and cello), she has performed with her family at secular and sacred events around Saskatchewan.

David Popoff is currently a music teacher and performer in Regina. David also performs as Utility/3rd Flute with the Regina Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the NationalAcademy Orchestra and the University of Ottawa Orchestra.

His main teachers have been Jane Schudel and Robert Cram. He has been involved with many smaller ensembles in Saskatchewan, including the Quarter Tones Flute Ensemble and was a part of the premiere of ''The Little Match Girl'', a ballet composed by Elizabeth Raum for the Saskatchewan Youth Ballet Company.

He is currently on faculty at the Conservatory of the Performing Arts at the University of Regina. David has also recently been playing musicals around Regina and has enjoyed the new challenge of doubling on other woodwind instruments.

Marie-Véronique Bourque studied with Barbara Todd Simard and Jean Morin at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec, where she earned a Premier Prix in Flute and Chamber Music. She also attended the Académie musicale du Domaine Forget, studying with world-renowned flutists such as Alain Marion, Raymond Guiot, and Marc Grauwels.

She performed with the Orchestre des Jeunes du Québec and the Orchestre de chambre Gilles Auger, and appeared as a soloist with various orchestras. Marie-Véronique moved to Regina in 2006 as an RCMP officer. In 2007, she joined the Quarter Tones Flute Ensemble and became flute utility with the Regina Symphony Orchestra.

For over ten years, she has been very active on the jazz scene, releasing three jazz albums: Une porte s'ouvre (2018), Entre Québec & Saskatchewan (2021), and Bruissement boréal (2025), the latter with guitarist Christine Tassan. She also released two singles (The Shovel Shuffle (2023) and Fantasy for Solo Flute on Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (2025)