Faculty Bio

Jo Ann C. Dalisay is a Canadian pianist, composer and music educator. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Mount Allison University and her Master’s Degree in Music Performance from the University of Victoria. Her principal teachers were Vladimir Levtov, Patricia Grant Lewis Elliott, Sofia Moshevich and Arthur Rowe. In addition, she has performed in masterclasses taught by renowned artists including James Anagnoson, Leslie Kinton, Donald Currier, Kathleen Supove, Robert Levin and Karl Ulrich Schnabel.
Jo Ann has performed across the country. She has championed and premiered the works of several new Canadian composers. Jo Ann has also collaborated with the Alma de Espana Flamenco Company in concerts combining Classical Spanish repertoire and traditional Flamenco music and dance.
Jo Ann’s compositions have been performed in venues as varied as the Royal Theatre and Hermann’s Jazz Club in Victoria, BC. Her compositions, “Fantasia En Cinco” and “Prelude to a Rodena” were used in Alma de Espana Flamenco Company’s production, PASAJES. This project brought her to Jerez de la Frontera, Spain; considered the birthplace of Flamenco.
Jo Ann has taught since 1983 in Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ontario and British Columbia. She received her preschool music training from Kindermusik International. She was on faculty at University Settlement Music and Arts School in Toronto. She was also a teaching assistant at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the University of Victoria.
Jo Ann is a member of the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival and the BC Registered Music Teachers’ Association. She has been a national adjudicator for the Canadian Federation Music Teachers’ Association. She currently resides in Victoria, BC with her husband and two daughters.