ABOUT THE SINGERS...
ABOUT THE SINGERS...
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The Reverend Canon Bill Cliff
Canon Bill has been singing most of his life. He received his first musical training
at Lambton Central High School in Petrolia, Ontario, and later studied
with Alvin Reimer at the Faculty of Music at The University of Western
Ontario, during which time he sang with the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir.
Bill has sung with a number of community choirs as a soloist,
but his first love is the music of the church and failing that...
touring with the Three Cantors... he especially enjoys singing
Gregorian chant, broadway and light jazz. A graduate of Huron University College, Canon Bill was ordained
as a priest in The Anglican Diocese of Huron in 1992, and has served:
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The Reverend Canon David Pickett
Like so many singers, Canon David's earliest experience of singing was in the church.
As a treble, he sang in the choir at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, St. George, and also
competed extensively in music festivals throughout Ontario, was a guest
artist with the Brantford Symphony Orchestra and recorded an album of
sacred and secular music with CBC Radio as a featured guest of the
documentary series "Signature". As a bass/baritone, he has sung
with The Cambridge Kiwanis Boy's Choir, The Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir,
The Ontario Youth Choir, as a guest chorister with "Opera In Concert",
then The Faculty of Music Singers of The University of Western Ontario, London Pro Musica,
"Arcady" (which grew out of the former Brant-Norfolk Orchestra and Chorus)
and with The Gerald Fagan Singers of London, Ontario,
including their 1998 and 2000 tours of Britain and Europe.
Twice a graduate of Huron University College, Canon David was ordained
as a priest in The Anglican Diocese of Huron in 1989, and has served:
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The Very Reverend Peter Wall
Dean Peter began his musical studies in London and continued in Calgary and Toronto, earning a degree in
Voice Performance from the University of Toronto. As a soloist and recitalist, he has been heard with
The Canadian Opera Company, Orchestra London, The Windsor Symphony, The Thunder Bay Symphony,
The Amphion Ensemble, The London Fanshawe Symphonic Chorus and
Orchestra, The Gerald Fagan Singers of London, The International
Symphony, Symphony Hamilton, and The
Peterborough Symphony. He continues an active singing career with recent
performances of "Messiah", "St. Matthew's Passion", and the Vaughan-Williams "Songs of Travel" in
addition to his extensive work with The Three Cantors. A graduate of Huron University College, Dean Wall was ordained
as a priest in The Anglican Diocese of Huron in 1989 and has served:
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