Choir Director

Regan MacNay  

Regan MacNay grew up in Wiarton and attended school in Owen Sound. After attaining a B.A. in Music and English, an M.A. in English Literature, and a B.Ed degree, she taught for three years in the private school system before moving back home to the Grey-Bruce area, where she works as a supply teacher. Deeply involved in music her entire life, Regan is thrilled to have the opportunity to direct the Georgian Bay Concert Choir for the 2011/12 season.

[photo courtesy of Michael McLuhan]

Choir Accompanist

Barbara Dyck  

Barbara Dyck enjoys connecting people to the arts in her rural Ontario setting. She teaches group and private piano lessons from her studio and performance space at The Colour Jar in Durham, a family-run business of art supplies, art classes, framing and bookbinding. Barb studied piano and harpsichord at Goshen College, Indiana. To further pursue the inspiration of piano pedagogy and performance, Barb received a master's degree from The New School for Music Study through Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. Besides keeping her fingers busy at the piano, Barb knits and spends time each summer picking vegetables as part of a working share at the Saugeen River CSA. Barb and her husband Tim homeschool their daughters Annika and Lydia.

Soprano Soloist
(Vivaldi Gloria)

Wendy Bannerman-Clark  

Wendy Bannerman-Clark is native to the Georgian Triangle and grew up singing with the Georgian Bay Youth Chorus (conducted by her mother, Mary Clark), the Toronto Children’s Chorus, and studying voice with Jean MacPhail at the Royal Conservatory. She holds a BA in Music from Smith College where she studied with Jane Bryden and Jamee Ard. Since graduation, Wendy has studied with Frederick Martell in Manhattan and has performed with the New York Grand Opera, the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York, the Greenwich Choral Society, the Gateway Chorale, and various pick-up ensembles (her favourite!), including a pair of performances at Carnegie Hall with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Czech Philharmonic. Most recently, she was soprano choral scholar at St. George’s Anglican Church, where she could be heard in Faure’s Requiem. Wendy currently resides in Thornbury, ON, where her alter ego sells cheese and flowers by day.

Mezzo-Soprano Soloist
(Vivaldi Gloria)

Margaret Bárdos  

Hungarian-born Mezzo-Soprano Margaret Bárdos is in growing demand as a versatile performer, having appeared in Hungary as well as with many of Ontario’s choirs and orchestras, featuring both contemporary and classical repertoire. With a voice described by Opera Canada as "mellow, fruity, that caresses the ears", she made her Canadian mainstage début with Opera Ontario as Flora in Verdi's La Traviata.
Critically praised for her acting and interpretation, recent highlights include the Dora-award winning premier of R. Murray Schafer’s The Children's Crusade, the North American premiere of Karl Jenkins' Stabat Mater, galas for the National Ballet and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, solo appearances in Halifax, Michigan and Montréal and at the Burlington Sound of Music Festival, Igma in Out of the Box Productions' Opera Erotique, Einhorne's Voices of Light for Nippissing University, Third Lady in Mozart's Magic Flute, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Franz Liszt's Via Crucis, Rossini’s Petite Messe, Vivaldi's Gloria, Karl Jenkins' Requiem, and Handel's Messiah. She continues an association with the Institute for the Music and the Mind at McMaster University, Hamilton, maintains soloist position at All Saints' Kingsway Anglican, Toronto, and is a member of the studio of Tom Schilling.