Tickets: Adults $15 | Children $8
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Glenda Korella | Artistic Director and Conductor, ARCT, BEd, MA

Director of the Peninsula Singers since spring of 2001, Korella received her Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto’s ARCT Piano Performance certificate while she was still in high school. In her role with the Chorus, she chooses the music, guest artists, musical accompanists, costumes and choreography. Korella has taught history and choral music to junior high school students and has directed a 200-voice glee club in Calgary, where the group sang in many festivals and concerts.  She continues to teach piano and voice to children and adults in the Sidney area as well as singing in the Via Choralis chamber choir.

“Watching Glenda Korella conduct is such a joy”

Elizabeth Skinner | Soloist

Elizabeth, just fifteen-years old, has achieved much in a short time. This past summer, she was the youngest member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. In previous summers, Elizabeth participated in the Comox Valley Youth Music Festival as well as the International Summer Academy at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. She is now in her third year with the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra and is concertmaster of “Singing Strings,” a chamber orchestra conducted by Kathryn Ranger, with whom she studies violin. Elizabeth is also part of the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Collegium program. A finalist in the 2005 Louis Sherman Concerto Competition, Elizabeth plays a modern Italian violin made by Allessandra Pedota of Cremona Liuterai, a guild of violin makers dedicated to handcrafting violins based on historical tools. Elizabeth is a Grade 10 French Immersion student at Oak Bay High.

Alyssa Hait | Accompanist

This is Alyssa’s second season as our accompanist. Though only 17, she sailed through her first season with ease and poise far beyond her years. Like Elizabeth, Alyssa has also performed with the Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Collegium program, a program intended to enrich the musical experience of promising young artists by encouraging a cooperative musical community. She is a Grade 12 student at Parkland Secondary, where she plays with the school’s bands. With two friends, Alyssa also plays the euphonium in the “Brass Belles.” She studies piano with Ann Schau in Brentwood Bay. One day, Alyssa hopes to conduct a large orchestra. We think she has a very good chance of doing that.

The Peninsula Singers

We are an eclectic group. Many of us have moved here from all parts of Canada, particularly Ontario; and from the Netherlands, Germany, England, Scotland and the United States. Several of us are: physicians, including one public health physician with the Canadian Forces. We are nurses, LPN’s, teachers, and former school principals. Our ranks include: an oceanographer; research scientist with Fisheries & Oceans; professor in the UVic Faculty of Education; chartered accountant; several authors and editors; bookkeeper; owner of a marina; banker; certified organic farmer; fitness instructor; alarm system technician; a former jazz singer from Montreal, a piano teacher; and one self-styled “domestic goddess.” We are parents and grandparents. We volunteer throughout this region, including at the Marine Museum; the YM and YWCA; and with new immigrants and refugees. We ride dirt bikes; paint; throw pots; garden; try our hand at English rugby; are master knitters; play the piano and washtub bass. And collectively we are the lucky companions to many dogs and cats.