Music Director
Zach Power is a music educator in the Abbotsford school district, currently directing the music program at W. J. Mouat Secondary. He loves working in music with people of all ages and levels of experience, from Kindergarten to adulthood and in professional and casual environments. He especially loves collaborating with and learning from his wife and fellow music educator, Julia Albano-Crockford. He studied trombone at the University of Victoria under Scott MacInnes and performed in the UVic Wind Symphony, the UVic Orchestra, the UVic Chamber Singers, the Don Wright Symphonic Winds, and the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra.
Zach is extremely passionate about music-making in many forms. While a trombonist by trade, he has extensive experience in the choral world, learning from luminaries such as Dr. Geoffrey Boers, Richard Nace, and Dinah Helgeson at summer workshops; Steve Guidone and Jim Johnston with the Northern Lights Chamber Choir; and Madeleine Humer, Michael Gormley, and Donald Hunt at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria where he has been singing since 2015. Zach has directed the Shuswap String Orchestra, the Northern Lights Chamber Choir, Shuswap and Chilliwack Tuba Christmas Ensembles, and the founded the Shuswap Youth Choir prior to beginning work with the Fraser Valley Community Winds. Presently he also presently directs choral evensong services hosted at St John’s Anglican Church in Chilliwack.
It is from these experiences and the community connections that Zach has discovered a world of excitement, friendship, and love of music that is shared by the people he leads. It is this camaraderie and sense of belonging that keeps drawing him to work with people and make music together, a joy he is privileged to share with the Fraser Valley Winds each Thursday evening.
When not making music, Zach can be found nerding out about Canadian geography and history, following his professional hockey and baseball teams, and, whenever possible, walking the streets of Victoria at night with Discover the Past as a historical tour guide sharing ghost stories.
When not making music, Zach can be found nerding out about Canadian geography and history, following his professional hockey and baseball teams, and, whenever possible, walking the streets of Victoria at night with Discover the Past as a historical tour guide sharing ghost stories.
Executive Team
This is your executive team! They are volunteer members of the FVCW who are dedicated to the ensemble, its members, and the behind-the-scenes work it takes to keep it alive.
Feel free to contact members of the executive team with any questions, comments, or feedback you have. For general questions, or if you’re not sure who you wish to speak with, please direct your questions to info@fvcw.ca.
- Brittany Jenewein, President, president@fvcw.ca
- Craig Raven, Treasurer, treasurer@fvcw.ca
- Mary Kreisch, Secretary, secretary@fvcw.ca
- Kirsten Johnstone, Director, info@fvcw.ca
- Emma Kreisch, Director, info@fvcw.ca