Dr. Rachel Rensink-Hoff is Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Brock University and Artistic Director of the Avanti Chamber Singers.
Rachel works frequently as adjudicator, conference presenter and workshop clinician locally and across Canada. She has given international presentations at the National Conference of the American Choral Directors’ Association in Minneapolis and the World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona. As guest conductor, she led the 2017 Nova Scotia Youth Choir and returned to Nova Scotia in 2018 for their Sing Summer choral program. 2019 brings appearances with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Singsation series and the Chorus America Summer Conducting Academy.
Biography
Former conductor of the McMaster University Choir and founder of the McMaster Women’s Choir, Dr. Rensink-Hoff completed her Doctorate and Master of Music degree at Western University, pursuing additional studies at the Eastman School of Music Conducting Institute, the Voice Care Network of St. John’s University, Minnesota, and the University of Toronto. She has engaged in masterclasses under conductors Helmuth Rilling, Joseph Flummerfelt, Anton Armstrong, Dale Warland and the late Sir David Willcocks.
Vice-President of Programming for Choral Canada and Past-President of Choirs Ontario, Rachel Rensink-Hoff is the 2014 winner of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting awarded by the Ontario Arts Council.
In 2015, her McMaster Women’s Choir was awarded first prize in the National Choral Competition for Amateur Choirs of the CBC and Choral Canada and was nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award at McMaster University.
