WILFRID LAURIER/OBA HONOUR BANDs
ABOUT
Honour Bands are a great chance for students to meet other like-minded individuals and work towards a common goal. The Laurier/OBA Honour Band is an educational concert band that will develop not only the participants' musical capabilities, but also their self confidence, team work and spirit, which they will bring home and to school to positively affect everyone who is around them.
We are grateful to Wilfrid Laurier University for hosting the annual LOEHB. In 2020, we had 122 student participate, each receiving a bursary to Interprovincial Music Camp.
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FEES
The participation fee for the weekend will be $75.​ An optional leatherette folder can be purchased for an additional $50.
conductors
We're fortunate to have to have Kirk Kiernander (elementary) and Dave Lum (intermediate) as our conductors for the 2025 LOEHB.
Kirk Kiernander
Dave Lum
Kirk Kiernander is an educator, band director, saxophonist, and singer. He obtained his Honours Bachelor of Music degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, specializing in education, in 2007. He started teaching music in 2009 and has been focussed on beginning band programs in middle school for a decade, starting in the Peel District School Board and now with the Waterloo Region District School Board.
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Kirk conducts school concert bands, a school community concert band, and most recently the NextGen Junior Hawks Beginning Band through the Laurier Academy of Music and Arts. In 2023, he conducted the middle school portion of the Waterloo Region Honour Band alongside Lauren Helmer, Martin Lacoste, Dr. Kira Omelchenko, and Dr. LaToya Webb at Laurier. Kirk works with the Summer Music Society in Southampton at their music camp, teaching and conducting their beginning band.
Photo credits: Jessica Khan
David Lum is a graduate of the University of Toronto (MusicBac. Ed. 1988, B. Ed. 1990). He served on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Music Educators' Association (2000-2015) and is a charter member and Past President of the Ontario Band Association. He currently serves as President of the Lambda Iota chapter of the Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters' Fraternity. An active adjudicator and clinician, his honors include Honorary Life MEmberships (Ontario Band Association, 2009 and Ontario Music Educators' Association, 2020), the Keith Mann Outstanding Band Director Award (MusicFest Canada, 2009), and Laureate of the Legion of Honor (John Philip Sousa Society, 2012).
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In February 2021, David retired from the Toronto District School Board, Agincourt Collegiate Institute, where he served as Curriculum Leader of Music, and conductor of the Senior Wind Symphony and Senior Jazz Ensemble.
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He is currently instructor of the Tuba and Euphonium studio at York University.
