Angus at "The Minster", above, Canon Wm. Cliff,
all others, Canon David Pickett
ANGUS SINCLAIR
Regardless of the musical genre, Angus Sinclair
is right at home, whether on grand piano, digital keyboard, or four-manual
pipe organ. They aren't "The Three Cantors" without Angus as arranger
and accompanist. He has been the "Fourth Cantor" since the
first concert in 1997. Together The Three Cantors have presented over
150 concerts coast to coast, from St. John's Newfoundland to Victoria,
B.C.
He holds the B.Mus. in Organ Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University
(1981), where he studied with Barrie Cabena and Jan Overduin (improvisation).
Since graduation his organ studies have been with John Tuttle, David
Palmer, and Karen Anne Schuessler; his piano teachers since 1977 were
Marjorie Beckett, Lorraine Flatt, and James Prosser. He also earned
the ARCT and LRSM diplomas in Organ Performance, as well as the Associateship
of the Royal Canadian College of Organists. He is a Member of the Founding
Council, and a Fellow, of the Honourable Company of Organists.
He has been the accompanist (or, Fourth Cantor) of the Three Cantors since their first concert in 1997. Together the Cantors have presented over 160 concerts, which we can say have been coast-to-coast: in September 2009 we will be featured in Victoria for the second time; several years ago we were in St John's Newfoundland!
He has served as Director of Music in Southwestern Ontario Churches since 1978 (including a term at St Paul's Cathedral here in London).
The fall of 2009 will see Angus in recital at: Yorkminster Park Baptist Church Toronto, St. Paul's Cathedral London, Christ Church Cathedral Victoria, and St James Anglican Church Dundas.He is the Concert Accompanist for the Parry Sound Choral Collective. Angus served as one of the onsite musicians at the General Synod of the Anglican Church in 2001 and 2004. He was organ accompanist for the Yorkminster Park Baptist choir tour of the USA (The Cathedral of St John the Divine New York City, St Mark's Church Philadelphia, and Washington National Cathedral), and the St Paul's Cathedral Choir tour of the UK in the summers of 2006 and 2009 (Ely Cathedral and several churches in London, including St Paul's Cathedral).
Angus has been the Saturday night piano entertainer at the Villa Cornelia Restaurant, Kent Street here in London since January 1999. A commemorative CD, An Evening at the Villa, was produced after five years' service there.
Currently, Angus is Chair of the Diocese of Huron Organ Committee, and, with Andrew Keegan Mackriell and Canon William Cliff, will be conducting Church Music workshops in several deaneries in the Diocese of Huron over this next year.
In May of 1999 Angus was granted the Order of Huron by Archbishop Percy O'Driscoll.Together with the Three Cantors he was made an Honourary Member of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund, an Honourary Senior Fellow of Renison College at the University of Waterloo (2007), and the Alumni Award of Distinction from Huron University College (2008). Angus won the "Most Popular Organist" in the Scene London Music Awards in June 2008 and "Most Popular Classical Instrumental Artist" in June 2009.
Angus has been featured on several CD recordings; his latest, a disc of jazz standards with vocalist Marque Smith, was recently released . All proceeds of this disc are in aid of the Huron Hunger Fund. For more information on Angus' benefit CD's, click here.
Angus' "outside" interests include geneology, draught horses, local history, and languages/linguistics. Angus lives in an 1881 Ontario cottage in London with his wife, Sulea, and their West Highland Terrier, Jessie.
