Brad Barnham is a musician from Burlington, Ontario. As a skilled conductor, adjudicator, composer and producer, Mr. Barnham enjoys a career of musical variety, and balances his time between his many passions. He is the Director of Music & Choral Activities at St. George’s Anglican Church in St. Catharines, and is Music Director of Wavestage Theatre Company in Toronto. In the fall of 2023, Brad was appointed as the assistant conductor of St. Catharines’ own Avanti Chamber Singers, as well as director of the Changed Voice Ensemble of Chorus Niagara Children’s Choir. He has been regularly sought-out as a conductor and clinician for national and regional vocal festivals and competitions including MusicFest, Ontario Vocal Festival and Kiwanis Music Festival. As a choral and symphonic composer, Mr. Barnham has written for choirs and ensembles across Ontario and abroad, and has most recently premiered works with the Exultate Chamber Singers, Christ’s Church Cathedral Choir, the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers, and his own St. George’s Choir. When he is not writing in the choral/symphonic idiom, Mr. Barnham finds himself in world-renowned recording studios across North America where he writes, records and produces music. In the summer of 2022, Mr. Barnham and his band “Family of Things” signed a record deal with Label Music Group and MusicBed Publishing, and released that record the next year. Recent production credits include full-length records for west-coast indie-pop artist Zerbin, Oscar-winning actor/singer-songwriter Amy Forsyth, and folk-pop artist Emily Flack. In 2016, Mr. Barnham graduated with a MMus (Hon. Choral Conducting) degree from the University of Toronto, as the youngest graduate of the program up to that point. Before that he completed a BMus (Hon. Theory & Composition) degree from Western University. During his professional education, Mr. Barnham had the opportunity to conduct in masterclass for the National Estonian Male Choir and the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, and from 2015-2017, he was the assistant conductor of the Ellison Canadian Honour Choir. Past experiences include assistant conductor positions for the Bach Chamber Youth Choir, Christ’s Church Cathedral Choir, University of Toronto Men’s Chorus, Church of Redeemer Choir, Western University Singers, St. James Westminster Choir, and the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers. In 2016, Mr. Barnham sat on the JUNO Awards panel, as a judge for the Classical Award that year.
