Piano and Voice Adjudicator – Donna Falconer

Donna Falconer has had the pleasure of performing as a pianist, vocalist, and collaborative artist  across Canada and the United Kingdom. She is a member of the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners, examining piano and voice candidates across North America. She loves to adjudicate and is thrilled to be here on the island, not too far from home! 

Donna has a busy piano, voice, and theory studio in Nanaimo.  Her students have gone on to post-secondary musical studies, provincial and national competitions, and have been the recipients of both Regional and National Gold Medal winners with the RCM.  Recently, Donna was a head compiler for the RCM New Voice Series launched in 2025. She was a faculty pianist and vocal coach at UBC and the Vancouver Academy of Music, and has been a repetiteur for Vancouver Opera, Burnaby Lyric Opera, and Opera Nuova Edmonton.  Donna holds a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from UBC, a Licentiate from Trinity College of Music, London, and an ARCT in Voice Performance.  In her life away from music she enjoys spending time with her family, her two Sphynx cats, and has recently taken up artistic swimming.  

Modern Specialist – Alexei Geronimo

Alexei is a professional dancer, actor, teaching artist, educator, and certified adjudicator and was raised in Vancouver, Canada where he began his dance training. Coming from a strong ballet background, he is also trained in different styles from jazz, contemporary, musical theatre, hip hop, and tap. He then continued diversifying his training in Los Angeles at the Edge Performing Arts Center Scholarship Program. Alexei has also toured extensively with Bad Boys of Ballet as a featured performer, now known as “Sweetbird Productions” throughout America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has also travelled and worked in nearly 40 countries and has lived in 4, including the United States, China, and Japan.

Alexei can be seen in several commercials and shows. His film and TV credits include Center Stage, Riverdale, Paris By Night, Nickelodeon, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Hellcats, and choreographer for “This Is Our Death” movie. Live stage credits include Cadillac Beijing, “IF I” musical Japan, MGM opening with Kylie Minogue, Chicago (Stage West Calgary), Debbie Allen’s Freeze Frame and “Pearl” at the Lincoln Center. Alexei has appeared in music videos such as Snakehips “Cruel” and worked on the creation of the Olympic opening ceremonies in Sochi, Russia.

Some choreographers and directors Alexei has had the privilege to work with include Marguerite Derricks, Travis Payne, Paul Becker, Mandy Moore, Heather Laura Gray, Daniel Ezralow, Giancarlo Esposito, Rasta Thomas, Adrienne Canterna, and Debbie Allen. Alexei has been a part of many new creations and has completed contracts in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel’s “Showstoppers”, MGM Macau’s “Destiny” and a cruise contract on Royal Caribbean’s “Spectrum of the Seas.”

He has also been a rehearsal director/assistant for several of their shows and ships and currently choreographs for their audition tours. In his spare time, Alexei continues his training in acting, voice-over, stunt
work, pole dance, aerial, and martial arts and is a certified yoga and pilates teacher. Alexei also adjudicates and can be found teaching and filming dance, yoga, and pilates classes throughout Vancouver, BC.

Stage Specialist – Sherrie Scherger

Sherrie’s dance journey began in Alberta, training in her family owned studio. Now based in Vancouver, BC, with 40 years as a dance educator and 30 years as an adjudicator, Sherrie continues to make an impact on studios and companies throughout Canada, the U.S, and Europe. She holds certifications with “Master the Art of Adjudicating” from the Canadian Dance Leadership Institute, and is a certified member of the Professional AdJudicators Alliance. Sherrie holds qualifications with the RAD Ballet, ADAPT Jazz & Tap, and CDTA AcroDance. She furthered her education at Grant MacEwan College Dance Arts Program, where she studied modern, contemporary dance, kinesiology, anatomy, and music history.

Professional dance credits: principal dancer with Decidedly Jazz Dance Company, D’ Hershey Modern Company, and Stone Soup Collective Contemporary Company, World of Dance Congress in Chicago, Farrington Productions Las Vegas & Japan, dance documentary “No Small Feats” and featured singer/dancer in“The Mix” revue show Macau, China. Choreography credits: CTV’s “So You Think You Can Dance” assistant choreographer to Sean Cheesman (Canadian season). Michael Jackson VH1 film “Man in the Mirror”, KimberlyWyatt (Pussycat dolls) VH1 Magic special. “The Man”starring LL Cool J (television pilot), The Black Eyed Peas,(CFL) halftime show, Radio Disney and The Gemini Awards. Professional theatrical credits: “The Boyfriend,” “The Music Man,” and “42nd Street.”Choreography for Theatre: “Joseph and the Technicolor DreamCoat”, “Aladdin”,“Evangeline”, “Shakespeare in the Park” for Mount Royal Theatre Arts. “The Cherry Orchard” with United theatre Players, “How To Succeed in Business” and “Damn Yankees” with Front Row Centre Players. Directed productions for BC Children’s Theatre “Cinderella” and “Jungle Book”, and worked as the Founder/Director/Choreographer for Calgary Dance Theatre, a traveling youth-based performance company.

Sherrie’s contributions to the dance industry have earned numerous accolades, including the International Choreography Award, representing Canada. Recently, she was featured on the podcast “Voice of the Artist” Navigating the complex world of Choreography.

Sherrie is committed to nurturing talent and sparkingcreativity with her motto: “Aspire to Inspire.” She challenges dancers to share their art with enthusiasm

Tap Specialist – Jennifer Bishop

Jennifer has been teaching, performing, adjudicating, choreographing and producing for over 30 years. She is highly sought after as a dance coach, performer & consultant. (Gandalf/Sir Ian McKellan tops her list of celebrity students.) She is the “go to” for many of the local theatre companies when seeking pre-show prep for their cast members. Her diverse background and training in dance and theatre has provided her with a massive variety of experiences in the entertainment world. She was resident instructor at HARBOUR DANCE CENTRE for over 25 years and co-founder of THE WEST COAST TAP DANCE COLLECTIVE.

As a choreographer her credits include numerous commercials, TV shows, feature films, theatre productions and in the past few years even a show choir of 175 people – Burstin’ with Broadway. Jennifer has had the privilege of performing on the Vancouver stage at The Arts Club Stanley Theatre (West Side Story, Singin’ in The Rain & Cabaret), The Vancouver Playhouse (Guys & Dolls and The Music Man), The Vogue Theatre (Godspell), The Centennial Theatre (Godspell and Wizard of Oz), Harmony Arts Festival, Chutzpah Festival, Vancouver
International Dance Festival, The Vancouver Tap Festival and Theatre Under the Stars (West Side Story x 2!). Her
performing career has allowed her to travel across North America with percussion/dance ensemble “Rhythmatix” and as far as Taiwan for an adventure as a singer with a top 40/funk band.

In 2007, Jennifer found a fabulous dance space and The Rhythm Room was created. A place for all things percussive! : )