Brad Barnham currently serves as Director of Music & Choral Activities at St. George’s Anglican Church in St. Catharines, and in August 2026 he will join Voices Rock Canada as Choir Director and Arranger for the Voices Rock Ensemble. In 2025, he conducted the premiere of his award-winning composition Moonset at Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. The previous year, he guest conducted more than 1,400 musicians at Roy Thomson Hall for the Conference of Independent Schools Music Festival and adjudicated the Ontario Vocal Jazz Festival. His contributions to the Niagara region have earned him St. Catharines Arts Award nominations for Artistic Impact in both 2024 and 2026. As a composer, Brad was the winner of the 2024 Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition and received an Honourable Mention in the Diane Loomer Competition for Choral Writing. His piece Moonset was published in 2024 by the National Women’s Choir Association of Finland. That same year, he composed You’ll Always Be My Home for the Ontario Youth Choir, a work that has since been performed internationally in Beijing and Warsaw. His latest composition, At That Hour, will be premiered by the Elmer Iseler Singers in spring 2026.
Brad holds a Master of Music (Honours) in Choral Conducting from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Theory and Composition from Western University. Previous conducting roles include Assistant Conductor of Avanti Singers (2023–2025), Music Director of Toronto’s Wavestage Theatre Company (2015–2024), and Conductor of the Changed Voice Ensemble with the Chorus Niagara Children’s Choir during the 2023–24 season. In 2016, he served as a judge for the Classical category of the JUNO Awards.
