Lorinda Van Wyk is a South African Canadian choral conductor and educator based in Waterloo, Ontario. She is the Director of the Woodstock Choralaires and the Theatre Ancaster Chorus. She has completed her requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, studying choral conducting with Dr. Mark Ramsay.
She received a Performance Diploma in Musical Theatre, a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate, an Advanced Diploma in Choral Conducting, and a Bachelor of Music Honours in Choral Conducting while living in South Africa. She also completed a Master of Arts in Community Music at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. She presented South African music at the Ontario Music Educators Conference: Roots in 2024, and at a Personal Development day for the Toronto District School Board. Her article on reconciliation through music, “Rocking Reconciliation: Karen Zoid’s Model of Reconciliation for a Post-Apartheid Generation”, is published in the ICCM Journal, Transform.
Lorinda has worked as a classroom teacher, choral conductor for primary and high schools, and as the piano convenor and vice chairperson for a local Eisteddfod in South Africa. She frequently provides language and movement coaching to choirs performing South African repertoire. She is passionate about choral education for all ages and levels and has a fondness for programming recent and socially relevant repertoire.
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