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Anne Turner
	
Anne Turner started playing piano when she was six and in Grade 7 she played the viola. She played for the Edmonton Youth Symphony, the University of Alberta Symphony, and the Edmonton Symphony. Turner attended the University of Alberta and received a classical music degree in education. She started teaching in Edmonton in 1972 and by 2007 had taught for twenty-three years. She started playing the bass in the mid-1990s when she was teaching a jazz program at Malaspina College. Anne is part of the Whitehorse jazz community and the music teacher at Vanier Catholic Secondary School where she maintains a jazz band that welcomes former students. She takes her students to jazz festivals and she has invited national and international professional musicians into her classroom. In 2007, Anne Turner won a Juno Award as MusiCan Teacher of the Year. Michael Buble sponsored and presented the award to Turner along with a $10,000 cheque.((“Local music teacher wins a Juno.” //Yukon News// (Whitehorse), 24 February 2007.))