After 34 years of management, Jurgen Petrenko, founding conductor and Inventive Director of the Toronto Classical Singers, has introduced his retirement. He launched the choir in 1991, and his closing live performance will happen on April 6.
Petrenko has labored as a instructor, musician, CBC radio host and producer, and extra alongside his journey with the Toronto Classical Singers.
Jurgen Petrenko
Musician, broadcaster, and administrator, Jurgen Petrenko’s affect has been felt all through the classical music group.
Jurgen Petrenko is a local of Toronto. He earned each a Bachelor’s and Grasp’s diploma in Organ Efficiency from the College of Toronto, and pursued a profession as an organist and freelance musician for about 15 years.
His subsequent alternative got here when he joined the CBC, the place he would work as a producer for one more 18 years. Whereas on the CBC, he produced a lot of their iconic classical music applications, together with Choral Live performance, Saturday Afternoon on the Opera, the Opera Quiz, Critic’s Selection, and Take 5. Jurgen additionally served as govt producer of Music and Firm, and introduced greater than 400 weekly Organ Thursday options.
Petrenko has been concerned with many establishments and ensembles all through Southern Ontario over the many years. He has served as the final supervisor of the Elora Competition, and is the inventive director of the Centre Wellington Singers. He had performed productions for Toronto Operetta Theatre. He was a daily harpsichordist with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and is at present is the organist of St. John’s Anglican Church in Elora.
As an avid educator, he teaches oratorio to the graduate voice majors on the Glenn Gould
College on the Royal Conservatory of Music. He’s additionally a frequent adjudicator and organ accompanist.
His work could be heard on a number of recordings as an accompanist to the St. John’s Parish Choir and the Elora Competition Singers.
As founding conductor and Inventive Director of the Toronto Classical Singers, he has constructed their popularity as a choir with skilled requirements and various programming.
The Last Live performance
Jurgen’s closing live performance shall be happen on April 6, when The Toronto Classical Singers, orchestra, and soloists will current two main works: Beethoven’s Mass in C Main and Mozart’s Requiem.
- Discover extra particulars concerning the live performance, and tickets, [HERE].
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.