Andrew Chung
Music Director
About Andrew Chung
​Appointed Music Director of the Counterpoint Community Orchestra in June 2017, Andrew Chung also serves as the Music Director of the Silverthorn Symphonic Winds and the Mississauga Pops Concert Band. While attending the University of Toronto, he was appointed Music Director of the Pickering Philharmonic Orchestra and Assistant Conductor of the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Music Assistant to the Opera Mississauga. He has guest conducted the Hart House Orchestra, the North York Concert Orchestra, the Toronto Philharmonic, Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra, Northdale Concert Band, the Toronto Chinese Youth Orchestra, the Mississauga Youth Orchestra, the Toronto Youth Orchestra, the Hong Kong Symphonic Band, the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band and the Hong Kong Chamber Wind Philharmonic.​
As an orchestra musician, Mr. Chung served as the principal trumpet with the hong Kong Chamber Orchestra, the hong Kong Youth Symphony, the Asia Youth Orchestra (under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin and Alexander Schneider) and the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. He made his solo debut with the Moordale Festival Orchestra.​
Mr. Chung attended the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Toronto and the University of Freiburg, Germany. His trumpet teachers include Stephen Chenette, Robert Nagel, Henry Nowak, Jeffrey Reynolds and Larry Weeks. He also studied privately with Arnold Jacobs and Murray Crewe. A scholarship from the Centre d’Arts Orford allowed him to study conducting with Raffi Armenian and Agnes Grossman. He has also participated in the Conductors Apprentice Program with the Huntsville Festival of the Arts Orchestra. His other conducting teachers include Dwight Bennett, Tak-Ng Lai and Kerry Stratton.
Erik McIntyre
President | Associate Conductor
About Erik McIntyre
​Originally from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, Erik over the last decade has performed across Ontario and certain states in the U.S. with big bands, chamber ensembles, symphonies, and wind orchestras since 2009. Erik has had the opportunity to perform in some of the biggest halls in North America such as Symphony Hall in Chicago, Illinois, and Carnegie Hall in NYC. Erik completed his trumpet performance studies under the direction of Guy Few, professor of trumpet at Wilfrid Laurier University.
While at Laurier the opportunity to be an assistant conductor position came to fruition under the direction of Dr. Jessica Kun and the Wilfrid Laurier Wind Orchestra for the 2018-2019 season. In November 2021, Erik was a final participant in the first edition of the Frederick Fennell Conducting Competition which focused on the discipline of wind orchestra conducting and wind band repertoire. At present moment Erik is now pursuing further development in conducting through the process of masterclasses and workshops. February 2022 included back-to-back orchestral conducting masterclasses, the first under the direction of conductor Alexander Polyanichko, while the second under conductor René Gulikers.
Erik continually invests interest in developing his musical skills in conducting, teaching, and performing the trumpet while engaging in start-up projects with friends, like the Nickel City Big Band (Sudbury, Ontario) and the Laurier Brass Ensemble (Waterloo, Ontario). Erik currently holds the Assistant Principal Trumpet chair with the Richmond Hill Philharmonic Orchestra, performs in the Kitchener-Waterloo region with Bent Brass, a chamber brass trio while freelancing as a conductor.