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Patrick Feely is a first year PhD Music Education student at the University of Western Ontario. His Master of Music thesis investigated the effects of video recording on the self-regulated learning behaviors and achievement levels of adults in a beginner classical guitar class.

Patrick is a sessional faculty member at McMaster University, teaches guitar courses at the University of Western Ontario, and has been teaching privately for 30 years. His students have been accepted into Graduate and Undergraduate programs across Canada and Europe.

Patrick holds a Masters of Music Degree in Performance from the University of Toronto, a Masters of Music Education Degree from the University of Western Ontario,

Patrick has performed with the McMaster University Orchestra, Grand River Players, and the Brantford Symphony 

Orchestra. He has performed across Canada with his duo partner Brad Mahon, as “The East West Guitar Duo”.

Patrick has adjudicated national and international competitions for over 15 years; including the Montreal 

International, 

Hynatyshyn Foundation, and Vancouver North Shore festivals.

He is a guitar specialist at the Royal Conservatory, assessing candidates across Canada and the US., and 

mentoring new examiners. He holds both the Guitar Performance and Guitar Pedagogy Degrees (ARCT) from the 

Royal Conservatory of Music.

His students have earned top prizes in local, provincial, and international competitions, and have been accepted into 

Undergraduate and Graduate performance programs across Canada and Europe.  

Founder of the not-for profit Guitar Society of Brantford, Patrick is currently Artistic Director and Community Orchestra conductor. His research interests include self regulation, expertise, and assessment.

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Born in Toulouse in France, Thibaut Garcia begins to play the guitar at the age of seven. His Spanish origins give him a real influence in his way of thinking. He studied in Toulouse where he got his chamber music diploma in the class of Renaud Gruss, and his guitar diploma with the honour mention in the class of Paul Ferret. At sixteen he enters the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) ans studies with Olivier Chassain with whom he got his bachelor with the honours. He studies in private lessons with Judicael Perroy.

At twenty one, Thibaut won several international competititons prize:
— 1st prize of the international competition of GFA, Oklahoma City (U.S.A) 2015.
— 1st prize of the international competition “Jose Tomas” (Spain) 2014.
— 1st prize of the international competition of Sevilla (Spain) 2013.
— 1st prize of the international competition “Terra Siculorum” (Romania) 2013.
— 1st prize of the international competition “Ana Amalia”, Weimar (Germany) 2011.
— 1st prize of the international competition “Valle de Egues” (Spain) 2008.

Thanks to the first prize of the international competition of Sevilla in 2013 and the first prize of the “Jose Tomas” intenational competition in Spain in 2014, Thibaut is invited to play all around the world (France, Spain, England, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Canada, United States, Brazil, Greece, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, China…).

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