Tim Park – President
Tim has been a musician in the City of Burlington for over 35 years. He is the co-founder of the Live and Local Music Series at BPAC and has been a volunteer of the Sound of Music Festival for over ten years starting in 1988. He was the entertainment chair in 1990-91 and has worked with the City on other Arts and Culture related events including Culture Days in 2016.
Tim was the owner of The Music Gym which was the first hourly Music rehearsal studio in the area and became a multi-track recording studio where he engineered, produced and mastered hundreds of Local Artists’ Records.
Charles Cozens – Vice President
Charles Cozens is highly acclaimed as an arranger, composer and orchestrator for major Canadian artists, ensembles and orchestras and is also an accomplished orchestral and theatrical conductor, pianist, accordionist, and CD producer.
He is best known for his compelling symphony shows, featuring his arrangements for full orchestra, performed by artists that include Sir Elton John, Randy Bachman, The Nylons, Mark Masri and more. With over 200 CDs to his credit as composer, arranger, performer, conductor and producer, he has been recognized by the International Conductors Guild as a leading expert on orchestral conducting in the recording environment.
Charles Cozens is the driving force of the Burlington New Millennium Orchestra (BNMO) a 30-piece contemporary chamber orchestra specializing in a broad-based non-classical repertoire.
Evy Beraldo – Treasurer
Evy Beraldo grew up in Hamilton but has lived most of her life in Burlington. A graduate of McMaster she earned a Hons BSc in psychology and a CMA (now called CPA) while working as an accountant.
Having gained experience at several manufacturing companies in Waterloo, Mississauga and Burlington, Evy joined Nalco, a U.S. owned multi-national corporation, where she worked for 21 years until retiring in 2011. The last 6 years at Nalco were as Country Administrator and Canadian Finance Manager.
Evy is Board Member for the Burlington New Millenium Orchestra and is involved in the leadership of Hamilton Estonian Society, the church council and sings in the Hamilton Estonian choir.
Kim Verrall – Secretary
Kim Verrall came onto Burlington’s arts and culture scene about 4 years ago through the music stream, first supporting and then managing her eldest daughter, a college music student and budding career musician.
Kim has since expanded her interests to the fine arts in order to support and manage her younger daughter’s future career aspirations, and actively volunteers and participates at several city and community arts and culture events on a regular basis.
John Hewson – Board Member
“JR” loves to act and he loves to write! After retiring in 2000 from a distinguished clinical and academic career in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesia, he turned to his other passions!
Over the ensuing decade he produced two mainstream novels, the second of which, Corbett’s Daughter, was published in 2017. He took up acting in community theatre productions, appearing in five plays between 2011 and 2015, for which he won the WODL’s Pre-Festival Award for Best Cameo Performance in 2015. Bitten by the theatre bug, he and Mark Mindorff collaborated in writing Saving Grace, a bittersweet two-act stage play set in a retirement home.
Deeply committed to adult literacy and social justice, “JR” volunteers much of his time as a mentor, a tutor, and a member of several public boards. A gifted musician, he plays piano for the lounge of a major hotel in Toronto.
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