About the Children's & Youth Choir Conductors
About Howard DyckHoward Dyck is Conductor and Artistic Director of the Grand Philharmonic Choir, the Bach Elgar Choir and Consort Caritatis. He is well known to music lovers across Canada as the former host of Choral Concert and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera on CBC Radio.
Howard Dyck’s conducting career has taken him to seventeen countries on three continents where he has conducted, among others, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir of Vienna, the Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Obretenov Choir (Bulgaria), the Kunming Symphony Orchestra (China), and the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg.
Educated in Canada, the United States and Germany, Howard Dyck has received numerous honours for his contributions to musical culture, both nationally and internationally. Listed in Canadian Who’s Who, he holds honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, and has been awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Ontario Choral Federation as well as the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors. An Honorary Professor of Music at Yunnan Arts Institute (Kunming, China), Howard Dyck is a Member of the Order of Canada and a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.
