Biography

Dr. Greg Caisley

Pianist, (Solo and Collaborative) piano teacher, Vocal Coach, Music Director (Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in Downtown Vancouver), Music Festival Adjudicator, and founding Artistic Director of the Post Modern Camerata as well as the United Voices Choir.

Dr Greg Caisley has worked in various capacities in the Musical Arts Community of Vancouver, B.C. for more than 20 years. He has worked in all aspects of music performance and education: coaching singers, adjudicating all levels and throughout most of Canada, recital work, recording projects, and most recently as a conductor of instrumental and choir ensembles.

Dr. Caisley completed his terminal musical degree, the Doctor of Musical Arts in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 2003, where he also worked as a Teaching Assistant for three years. In addition, he worked for two years at Pasadena City College coaching singers and instrumentalists for performance. He moved to Vancouver Canada in 2004.

Caisley has adjudicated hundreds of music festivals across Canada, including those in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, as well as Provincial Music Festivals in Saskatchewan and Alberta. From 2004-2011, he served as the Director of Keyboard Studies for MusiCamp Alberta; a summer music program for gifted music students from across Alberta and British Columbia. He was the President of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators Association for 5 years, only becoming the Past President of that organization in 2024. 

Over his career, Greg Caisley has worked for institutions throughout the lower mainland, including the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Summer Vocal Academy, UBC’s School of Music, the Vancouver Academy of Music, and currently the VSO School of Music. In addition, he maintains a private piano teaching studio in downtown Vancouver. Dr. Caisley has performed in venues across the USA and Canada, as well as in Austria, Germany.  He has released two compact disc recordings and a music video for Bravo! Television. Aside from his work as a pianist and educator, Dr. Caisley has spent years developing music programming within amateur music communities in Vancouver, including the development of three different musical organizations. 

He was the founding artistic director of the Postmodern Camerata, a chamber music ensemble consisting of professional instrumentalists and singers dedicated to the performance of chamber works across genres, from the music of the renaissance to very modern ensemble music. 

For almost 15 years he worked as Director of Music for 3 United Churches in the Vancouver region. During that time, he worked with interested and passionate volunteers developing training programs for both young singers as well as what is now known as United Voices Choir. United Voices choir  is a choir of approximately 65 auditioned singers which is paired with professional singer soloists and instrumentalists to perform large-scale sacred music concerts twice a year. 

He is currently the Music Director of Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in the Westend of downtown Vancouver. 

Other passions include his three children aged from 11 to 26, his wife Yi Zhou (who plays first violin in the Vancouver Symphony), as well as cycling, poetry, travelling to warm places, and a love of the great outdoors of the Pacific Northwest.