Corey Rempel

Corey Rempel joined the National Arts Centre Orchestra as its assistant librarian in August 2010. Before taking up the position, he was the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) librarian for 18 months and the Stratford Symphony Orchestra librarian for two years. In the spring of 2010, Corey attended his first Major Orchestra Librarians' Association conference in Omaha, Nebraska, where he first met NACO's former principal librarian, Margo Hodgson. Corey was born in southern Manitoba but grew up in Stratford, Ontario. He holds a Bachelor of Music Performance (tuba) from Wilfrid Laurier University, where he studied with Jane Maness, Principal Tuba of the KWS. Corey's predecessor at the KWS, librarian Peter Maness, was the husband of his former teacher. He has performed with the Stratford Symphony Orchestra, the Brassroots Brass Ensemble and Orchestra London, to name a few. In the distant past, you could have found him buzzing into a French horn or trombone in the orchestra pit of community productions of musicals such as Cinderella, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel and Oklahoma! While at Wilfrid Laurier University, he was music director for the musical Fame, the musical theatre club's first production. Corey also played in the KWS Youth Orchestra for several years, where he first experienced the world of orchestral librarianship. He became a library intern through the youth orchestra's internship program, which started his journey as an orchestral librarian. Corey is thrilled to now live and work in his nation's capital.