Meet the Team

Here are the dedicated teachers, educators, and instructors that volunteer their time outside of the classroom to create an exciting festival for hundreds of students each year. Read what “The Spirit of Voice” means to each of them by clicking a name below!

  • Executive Director

    To me, “The Spirit of Voice” means the unique connection of a community coming together and finding fulfillment, empowerment, and joy when sharing music with one another.

  • Assistant Executive Director

    There is nothing like singing together in an ensemble. The unity, the community, and the joy it brings makes one feel that there is renewed hope in humanity. There is no opposition or conflict; differences feel collective and celebrated, and the truth is, everyone matters. “The spirit of Voice” is powerfully healing and personally freeing, every time.


  • Treasurer and Past Executive Director

    For me, “The Spirit of Voice” refers to the power of music to create diverse, inclusive, and robust communities. Students and teachers from across Ontario have the opportunity to meet, share, learn and grow together at the Ontario Vocal Festival.


  • Secretary

    “The Spirit of Voice” reflects how choral music has the power to bring diverse people together, to lift emotions, and to create a safe place for us to share our art freely with one another. Let’s learn and grow together with the Ontario Vocal Festival!

  • Concert Chamber Festival Coordinator, East

    The “Spirit of Voice” to me is providing singers with the opportunity to express themselves through song in an environment of kindness, support, and encouragement for growth. Singing with others is an incredibly powerful and unique experience: the source coming from within the human body - so individualized and layered with emotion, then resonating in combination with other voices creates a transcendental experience.


  • Jazz Festival Coordinator

    “The Spirit of Voice” to me is the pure joy that can only be felt when making music with others


  • Registrar

    To me, “The Spirit of Voice” embodies the sharing of voices in community with music

Members-at-large

Mabin Maroney

Michael Moon

Karen Parnell

Bob Stalder

Brenda Uchimaru