Maxime is a passionate community leader supported by a diverse background in music education and community engagement. He fosters an environment that empowers music learners to wholeheartedly embrace their musical journey. He has worked in a wide variety of youth and music education programs. His academic background is in Music Education where he completed a BMus and a MMus in Music Education. He is a white settler originally from Toronto but feels more at home here in the Yukon, and loves being outdoors in every season. He continues to grow and learn from the land and people around him.

Nick is a Yukon-based, Canadian composer, teacher, producer and conductor with a deep passion and love for the arts, with an extra soft spot for choral music. Having studied music composition and choral conducting at the University of Calgary, and Berklee College of Music, Nick has been fortunate and grateful to have worked with, and actively learn from inspiring composers, performers, and ensembles around the world. Nick happily devotes his professional music career to curiously explore how music and creative self-expression connects us all, heals us, and is a catalyst to empower us to overcome limitations and adversity. Nick's quest for a better world through music, has taken him to teach, adjudicate, learn, and have his works performed across the Americas and beyond. As a choral composer, Nick has been honoured to lead choirs at international festivals and competitions around the world, where lifelong memories and bonds have been created thanks to the power of collective singing. Nick is a doggy-dad of two little dogs, that accompany him across his many adventures in nature, seeking that next inspiration... or, while he writes music under the Northern Lights in his remote home in Canada's Yukon.

C.D. Saint grew up in Edmonton and completed his BA in Music and Canadian Studies at the University of Alberta and then followed that up with a post-graduate diploma in music pedagogy at the Kodàly Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary and a Certificate in Advanced Mediation in Austria. He spent a summer studying in the Opera as Theatre program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. After a decade on the West Coast, C.D. moved to the Yukon.

C.D. has performed as a chorister and soloist with a number of choirs, including musica intima, the Canadian Chamber Choir, Stellaria Voices, Vancouver Cantata Singers. He originated the role of Ronnie in Edward Top/Tom Cone's chamber opera Love Thy Neighbour and has performed other roles in Handel's Acis and Galatea, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Flyod's Susannah, and Mozart's Magic Flute. He was also featured in a Hungarian televised performance of Monteverdi works. C.D. has been a section lead and chorus member for several other operas and oratorios.

C.D. is excited to take on the role of Artistic Director and to work with Nick and Maxime and to continue working with the singers of the Chamber Choir!

As pianist and organist, Barry has led choirs and congregations in London, Ontario and in Whitehorse at Trinity Lutheran and Whitehorse United churches. He has taught music and band classes in Alberta schools, at all levels, and in Whitehorse at Grey Mountain Primary School.

He has been accompanist for the Whitehorse Community Choir since 1996.

Barry has been a piano technician since 2001, tuning and repairing pianos throughout the Yukon. Barry teaches piano privately and lives with his wife Wendy.

Cheryl Wishart was born in Nanaimo, BC. She first started learning the piano when she was 6 years old with her piano teacher mother. For five years, she played the clarinet with her high school band. In 1990, she moved to Whitehorse; it was while studying with Joyce and Henry Klassen that she received her ARCT with the Toronto Royal Conservatory.

Besides working as an accompanist with the Persephones since 2006, Cheryl teaches private piano lessons and is actively involved with the Yukon Registered Music Teachers Association. You can also catch Cheryl's sought after talent as she performs here and there in various piano ensembles.

Cheryl lives on a large property down the South Klondike Highway with her dog, two horses and a donkey.