Trevor Wagler has dedicated his life to the art of music. He is owner and Director of Premier School of the Arts, as well as a freelance French horn player (on both modern and historical instruments), conductor, organist, composer, arranger/orchestrator, music editor/copyist and clinician. He holds a Bachelor Degree in Music Composition, a Diploma in Performance, and a Diploma in Chamber Music from Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as a Masters of Music Degree in horn performance from Western University. He has performed with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Canadian Chamber Ensemble, Tafelmusik, Orchestra London / London Sinfonia, the Hamilton Philharmonic, the Nota Bene Period Orchestra, the Windsor Symphony, the Stratford Festival, Drayton Entertainment and more, sharing the stage with the likes of Dianna Krall, Anne Murray, Michael Burgess and Howard Cable. Trevor has conducted the historic Waterloo Concert Band since 2006, and spent nearly two decades conducting various ensembles for the KWS Youth Orchestra Programme. He was the guest conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony for their acclaimed joint performances with KW Glee. He founded the Kitchener-Waterloo Youth Concert Band (KW YCB) in 2017. Passionate about music education, Trevor maintains an active teaching schedule at Premier School of the Arts, and holds contract faculty positions at both Laurier University and the University of Waterloo (Conrad Grebel University College). In addition to his active performance and teaching schedule, Trevor is also a busy arranger/orchestrator and composer, having written more than 1000 scores for orchestras, bands, chamber ensembles and soloists around the world. Recent commissions have included arranging new orchestral charts for NYC saxophone soloist (and YouTube sensation) Leo P with the Kingston Symphony, new music for the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), editing/typesetting music for Ottawa’s Platypus Theatre and Canadian Composer Alexina Louie, several new arrangements for concert band, as well as pop vocal arrangements for Pop Nation Canada and the Laurier Vox Ensemble. Trevor is a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, the International Horn Society, the Historic Brass Society and the National Geographic Society. Trevor resides in Waterloo, Ontario with his soulmate, flutist Wendy Wagler, and three fabulous children.
