My Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor of Music (Music Education, flute major), University of Toronto

Bachelor of Education (Intermediate/Senior Vocal & Instrumental Music, English as a Second Language), University of Toronto

ARCT in Vocal Performance, Royal Conservatory of Music

Languages studied: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. I also have extensive experience singing in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Old Church Slavonic, and medieval languages.

Royal Conservatory of Music Certified Teacher (all levels)

• Flute Specialist

• Voice Specialist

• Theory Specialist (including Advanced Harmony and History)

Over 40 years’ private teaching experience.

Performance Experience:

Alto section lead and soloist for 30 years, St Thomas’s Anglican Church, Toronto (including three successful choral tours in England)

Member of professional choirs for 25 years at Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto (including tours in Germany and Bulgaria with Lachan Jewish Chamber Choir)

Member for 20 years of Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music (ensemble in residence at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto)

• singing

• Renaissance flute & recorder

Member for 38 years of the award-winning Exultate Chamber Singers

Founding member of 1990s’ a cappella octet eight of us.

Freelance choral singer and flautist

Member of several other Toronto choirs over the years: Hart House Chorus (University of Toronto); the choirs of St. Paul’s Anglican Church; Deer Park United Church Choir; Oriana Singers