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Artistic Director, Robert Hennig BMus. P.G. (Honours) graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music degree and a post-graduate Diploma in Music with Honours. Studies have taken him to scholarship appointments for UCLA at Berkeley, California, and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. He has won the Toronto Kopaz Foundation award and the Canadian Opera Women's Society award for excellence in music. He has attended the Banff School of Fine Arts, and completed advanced choral studies with Canadian choral icon Elmer Iseler.
As a keyboard specialist, he studied with Catherine Palmer (Healey Willan's protege) at Yorkminster Park Baptist in Toronto, and Terrance Fullerton of the Calgary Philharmonic. Mr Hennig has also been a policy member for the worship and the arts subcommittee for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada.
Mr. Hennig’s father, Daniel Hennig, has been a renowned violin and cello maker in the greater Toronto area for 25 years. And as a result of this musical environment Robert plays violin, viola, and cello. Orchestral conducting is a passion that he has shared by leading the Mooredale Symphony in Toronto, the Kooteney Chamber Orchestra in British Columbia, the University of Calgary Chamber Ensemble, and the newly formed Great Lakes Symphony in the GTA. Mr. Hennig has made a speciality of producing award-winning productions of Handel’s “Messiah“. As Artistic Director for the Brampton Festival Singers, the choir was awarded the “Best Large Ensemble For the Year” in the form of a Brampton Arts Council bloom award in 2007. His composition, “Alleluia’s for Peace” that was commissioned and performed by the Brampton Festival Youth Choir was nominated for best new composition by the BAC. Conducting highlights include conducting Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the Saint-Saens “Christmas Oratorio”, and Requiems by Faure, Rutter, and Puccini. Robert is the founder and conductor for the Headwaters' Concert Choir, the Headwaters' Youth Orchestra, and has led a pilot program for orchestra studies for the Upper Grand and District School Board in Orangeville. Mr. Hennig teaches private music lessons in strings, piano, organ, voice and theory. Robert has performed across Canada, Britain and the US as a concert organist and vocalist. As an affiliate teacher for the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), his students have gone on to post secondary success at the top music schools in Canada as well as the prep schools for Julliard in the United States.
As a keyboard specialist, he studied with Catherine Palmer (Healey Willan's protege) at Yorkminster Park Baptist in Toronto, and Terrance Fullerton of the Calgary Philharmonic. Mr Hennig has also been a policy member for the worship and the arts subcommittee for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada.
Mr. Hennig’s father, Daniel Hennig, has been a renowned violin and cello maker in the greater Toronto area for 25 years. And as a result of this musical environment Robert plays violin, viola, and cello. Orchestral conducting is a passion that he has shared by leading the Mooredale Symphony in Toronto, the Kooteney Chamber Orchestra in British Columbia, the University of Calgary Chamber Ensemble, and the newly formed Great Lakes Symphony in the GTA. Mr. Hennig has made a speciality of producing award-
