Brad Barnham

To all of the vocalists and singers coming to Music Camp this summer, we are really looking forward to you working with the very talented and versatile Brad Barnham! Hailing from Burlington, Ontario, Brad is a multi-faceted conductor, composer, vocalist, pianist, producer, and recording artist. He currently serves as Director of Music & Choral Activities at St. George’s Anglican Church in St. Catharines, and in August 2026 he will join Voices Rock Canadaas Choir Director and Arranger for the Voices Rock Ensemble.

Brad is widely sought after as a guest conductor and clinician at festivals across Ontario. Recent engagements include the 2026 MusicFest Nationals, the Lambton-Kent District School Board Regional Music Festival, the Ontario Christian High School Festival, the International Leahy Music Camp, the RSCM Canada Choral Evensong at Christ’s Church Cathedral in Hamilton, and a CAMMAC orchestral session, in addition to numerous workshops for schools and churches throughout the province. In 2025 he conducted the premiere of his award-winning composition Moonset at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. The previous year, he guest conducted more than 1,400 musicians at Roy Thomson Hall for the Conference of Independent Schools Music Festival and adjudicated the Ontario Vocal Jazz Festival. His contributions to the Niagara region have earned him St. Catharines Arts Award nominations for Artistic Impact in both 2024 and 2026.

As a composer, Brad’s works have been commissioned and premiered by leading ensembles throughout Ontario and beyond. He was the winner of the 2024 Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition and received an Honourable Mention in the Diane Loomer Competition for Choral Writing. His piece Moonset was published in 2024 by the National Women’s Choir Association of Finland. That same year, he composed You’ll Always Be My Home for the Ontario Youth Choir, a work that has since been performed internationally in Beijing and Warsaw. His latest composition, At That Hour, will be premiered by the Elmer Iseler Singers in spring 2026.

Beyond the choral sphere, Brad’s musical pursuits extend into the recording industry, where he has written, recorded, and produced music for artists across North America in a wide range of styles. In 2022, his band Family of Things signed with Label Music Group and released the album Flowers on the Wall the following year. Their music has since been featured in major media placements, including the Emmys, Vogue, MTV, and Skype.

Brad holds a Master of Music (Honours) in Choral Conducting from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Theory and Composition from Western University. Previous conducting roles include Assistant Conductor of Avanti Singers (2023–2025), Music Director of Toronto’s Wavestage Theatre Company (2015–2024), and Conductor of the Changed Voice Ensemble with the Chorus Niagara Children’s Choir during the 2023–24 season. He has also served as assistant conductor for several distinguished ensembles, including the Ellison Canadian Honour Choir, Bach Chamber Youth Choir, Christ’s Church Cathedral Choir, and the University of Toronto Tenor–Bass Chorus. In 2016, he served as a judge for the Classical category of the JUNO Awards.