Sandra Horst

Sandra Horst

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Opera
Area Head- Opera
Director of Musical Studies

BMus (WLU), MMus (New England Conservatory), Prof Studies (Juilliard)


416-946-3475

Opera

Chorus Master, Canadian Opera Company; Chorus Master/Audition Consultant, Opera Theatre of St Louis; Wilfrid Laurier University 100 Alumni of Achievement; Conductor,""Il Viaggio a Reims"", Canadian Opera Company; The Juilliard School-representative - Kyoto International Music Festival, Japan

Working on What

Conductor, Don Pasquale, Opera Division, University of Toronto; Conductor, Student Composer Collective, Opera Division, University of Toronto

Biographical Note

Sandra Horst is the Director of Musical Studies for the Opera Division, where her conducting credits include Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore, Poulenc's La voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges and L'heure Espagnol, and Taptoo! by John Beckwith. Ms. Horst is also Chorus Master of the Canadian Opera Company and Audition Consultant for Opera Theatre of St Louis. Recognized by Wilfrid Laurier University as "100 Alumni of Achievement", she also serves as a judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Formerly the chorus master of Opera Theatre of St Louis and Edmonton Opera, she has also worked with the Juilliard Opera Center, Chautauqua Institute School of Singing, Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Saskatchewan, Opera Ontario and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She has been heard as the host of CBC Radio's "This is My Music", and in recital on the CBC and WGBH Radio in New England.

William Aide
Professor Emeritus
Michael Patrick Albano (RETIRED)
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Opera
Hilary Apfelstadt
Professor Emerita
Christopher Bagan
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Collegium Musicum, Historical Keyboards (harpsichord, fortepiano, organ)
Lee R. Bartel
Professor Emeritus
David Beach
Professor Emeritus
John Beckwith (1927-2022)
Professor Emeritus
SarahRose Black
Adjunct Professor, Music and Health
Russell Braun
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Opera
Eliot Britton
Associate Professor: Composition, Music Technology & Digital Media
John Brownell
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Music Education, Percussion
Walter Buczynski
Professor Emeritus
Mark Campbell
Assistant Professor: Musicology, Music Technology & Digital Media
Ka Nin Chan
Professor Emeritus: Composition
Stephen Chenette
Professor Emeritus
Caryl Clark (RETIRED)
Professor: Musicology
Jon Clemens
Project Manager, Climate and Culture Review
Amy Clements-Cortés
Associate Professor: Music and Health Sciences
Jonathan Crow
Associate Professor: Orchestral Instruments,Violin
Lori-Anne Dolloff
Associate Professor: Music Education
Darryl Edwards
Professor: Voice Studies
Robin Elliott
Acting Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs
Robert Falck
Professor Emeritus
David Fallis
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Mark Fewer
Associate Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Violin
Antía González Ben
Assistant Professor, Music Education
Elizabeth Gould
Associate Professor Emerita
Sarah Gutsche-Miller
Assistant Professor: Musicology
John Haines
Professor: Musicology
Doreen Hall
Professor Emeritus
Eric Hall
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Orchestral Instruments, Bassoon
Wallace Halladay
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Orchestral Instruments, Saxophone
Darren Hamilton
Assistant Professor: Music Education
Russell Hartenberger
Professor Emeritus: Percussion, Ethnomusicology, Musicology
Christos Hatzis
Professor: Composition
Farzaneh Hemmasi
Associate Professor: Ethnomusicology
Jamie Hillman
Associate Professor, Director of Choral Studies, Elmer Iseler Chair in Conducting
Ellie M. Hisama (ON LEAVE)
Dean of the Faculty of Music; Professor of Music
Sandra Horst
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Opera
Aiyun Huang
Professor, Percussion
Corene Hurt-Thaut
Associate Professor: Music and Health Sciences
Jehanbakhsh (John) Jasavala
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Bina John
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Music Education, Early Childhood, Psychology
Joseph Johnson
Associate Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Cello
Gregory Johnston
Professor Emeritus
James Kippen
Professor Emeritus
Midori Koga
Professor: Keyboard, Piano, Piano Pedagogy
Kevin Komisaruk
Professor, Teaching Stream: Keyboard, Harpsichord, Organ
John Kruspe
Associate Professor Emeritus, Teaching Stream: Music Theory, Keyboard, Piano
Gary Kulesha
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Composition
Larysa Kuzmenko
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Music Theory, Keyboard, Composition, Piano
Sherry Lee
Associate Professor: Musicology
Jim Lewis
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Jazz, Trumpet, Materials, Ear Training, Seminar in Jazz Studies
Ellen Lockhart
Assistant Professor: Musicology
Lorna MacDonald
Professor: Voice Studies, Vocal Pedagogy, Lois Marshall Chair in Voice
Gillian MacKay
Professor: Conducting, Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Denis Martin
Assistant Professor: Music Technology & Digital Media
Uri Mayer
Professor: Conducting
Ryan McClelland
Acting Dean, Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs; Professor: Music Theory
Brian McDonagh
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Keyboard, Piano
Jeffrey McFadden
Associate Dean, Performance and Public Events, Professor, Teaching Stream: Orchestral Instruments, Guitar, Area Head: Guitar
Timothy J. McGee
Professor Emeritus
Don McLean
Professor: Musicology; Music Theory
Mike Murley
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Jazz, Saxophone
Gregory Lee Newsome
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Digital Composition
Wendy Nielsen
Associate Professor: Voice Studies, Opera
Nasim Niknafs
Associate Dean, Research, Associate Professor: Music Education, Coordinator, Music Education
Jeff Packman
Associate Dean, Graduate Education, Associate Professor: Ethnomusicology
Norbert Palej
Associate Professor: Composition
James Parker
Professor: Keyboard, Piano, Piano Pedagogy
Mary Ann Parker
Professor Emerita
Annalee Patipatanakoon
Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Violin
Dennis Patrick
Associate Professor Emeritus, Teaching Stream: Music Theory, Composition, Electroacoustic Music
Nathalie Paulin
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream: Voice Studies
Paul Pedersen
Professor Emeritus
Steven Philcox
Associate Professor: Keyboard, Voice Studies
Joshua Pilzer
Associate Professor: Ethnomusicology
Terry Promane
Associate Professor: Jazz, Trombone, Composition
Doreen Rao
Professor Emeritus
Alexander (Sasha) Rapoport
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream Emeritus
Paul Read
Professor Emeritus
Jeffrey Reynolds (RETIRED)
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Music Education, Conducting, Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Laura Risk
Assistant Professor: Musicology, Ethnomusicology
Shauna Rolston Shaw
Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Cello
Mark Sallmen
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Music Theory
Chase Sanborn
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Jazz, Trumpet
Patricia Shand
Professor Emeritus
Carolyne Sumner
Assistant Professor
Kotoka Suzuki
Associate Professor: Composition, Music Technology
Daphne Tan
Associate Professor: Music Theory
Daniel Taylor
Associate Professor, Early Music, Opera, Voice Studies
Michael Thaut
Professor, Music and Health
Julia Tom
Instructor
Steven Vande Moortele
Professor: Music Theory
Anton Vishio
Associate Professor
Cameron Walter
Associate Professor Emeritus: Music Education, Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Sean Wang
Assistant Professor, Violin
Monica Whicher
Assistant Professor of Voice, Teaching Stream
Lydia Wong
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream: Keyboard, Piano, Collaborative Piano
Timothy Ying
Associate Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Violin
Shireen Abu Khader
Sessional Teaching Staff: Choral Conducting
Annette Sanger-Kippen
Lecturer: Ethnomusicology
John Abberger
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Baroque oboe
Waleed Abdulhamid
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz
Patricia Ahern
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Baroque violin
Kathleen Allan
Sessional Teaching Staff: Choral Conducting
Ethan Ardelli
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Drums
Andrew Ascenzo
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Keith Atkinson
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Mia Bach
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano, Voice Studies
Peter Barnes
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Helen Becqué
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Marie Bérard
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments
Roger Bergs
Sessional Teaching Staff: Composition
Roman Borys
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Cello
Michael Bridge
Sessional Lecturer
Rich Brown
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Thomas Burton
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Harley Card
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Guitar
Rob Carli
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Saxophone
William Carn
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Trombone
Kate Carver
Sessional Teaching Staff: Opera
Ernesto Cervini
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Drums
Megan Chang
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Tanya Charles
Sessional Teacher Staff: Music Education, Violin
Emily Chiang
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Max Christie
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Terry Clarke
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Drums
Shannon Coates
Sessional Instructor, Voice Pedagogy
Greg Colley
Sessional Lecturer: Music Education
Michelle Colton
Sessional Teaching Staff: Percussion
Candace Cox
Sessional Teaching Staff: Opera
Joe Cullen
Sessional Teaching Staff: Steel Pan Ensemble
Mark Daboll
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Gregory Dahl
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Tara Davidson
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Saxophone
Tim Dawson
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Orchestral Instruments, Double Bass
Neil Deland
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Horn
Chris Donnelly
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Composition, Improvisation
Richard Dorsey
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Oboe
Thomas Dowling
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Clarinet
Andrew Downing
Sessional Instructor: Jazz Bass, Jazz Materials and Ear Training, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Composition
Mark Duggan
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Orchestral Instruments
Christine Duncan
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Voice, Voice Improvisation
Kwasi Dunyo
Sessional Teaching Staff: African Drumming and Dance Ensemble
Mark Eisenman
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Piano, Composition
Donald Englert
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Jazz, Orchestral Instruments, Saxophone
Michael Esch
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Lauren Falls
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Small Ensembles
Adrean Farrugia
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Piano
Mary-Katherine Finch
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Cello
Tony Flynt
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Double Bass
Daniel Fortin
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Double Bass
Vanessa Fralick
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Nick Fraser
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Drums
Sal Fratia
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Tuba & Euphonium
Pratik Gandhi
Sessional Lecturer: Wind Symphony
Tania Gill
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Piano
Christopher Gongos
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Horn
Allison Grant
Sessional Teaching Staff: Opera
Nicholas Hartman
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Horn
Miles Haskins (Jaques)
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Michael Herring
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Double Bass, Small Ensemble
Megan Hodge
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Susan Hoeppner
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Gillian Howard
Instructor: Music Education, Oboe
Kelly Jefferson
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Saxophone
Sarah Jeffrey
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Oboe
John Johnson
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Saxophone, Flute
Beverley Johnston
Adjunct Professor: Orchestral Instruments, Percussion
Peter Johnston
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, History
Patrick Jordan
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Baroque viola
Brian Katz
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Guitar, Klezmer Ensemble , Eurythmics
Younggun Kim
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Etsuko Kimura
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Violin
Andrew Kwan
Sessional Teaching Staff
Jason Logue
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Trumpet
Judy Loman
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Harp
Rob MacDonald
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Guitar
Joseph Macerollo, O. C.
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John MacLeod
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Trumpet
Jean MacPhail
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Jon Maharaj
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Double Bass, Small Ensemble
Christina Mahler
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Baroque cello
Sara Maida-Nicol
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Anita McAlister
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Elizabeth McDonald
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Alison Melville
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Recorder and Traverso (Baroque flute)
Lynda Metelsky
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Robert Miller
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Tuba & Euphonium
Mary Morrison
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Joelle Morton
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, viola da gamba and historical double basses
Gary Kiyoshi Nagata
Sessional Teaching Staff: Taiko Drumming
Jason Nedecky
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies, Opera
Charlotte Nediger
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Harpsichord
Leslie Newman
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Phil Nimmons
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education, Jazz
David Occhipinti
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Guitar
Gregory Oh
Sessional Teaching Staff: Chainsaw Ensemble (Experimental Contemporary Techno-rhythms)
Daniel Oore
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz
Joseph Orlowski
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Christine Passmore
Sessional Instructor: Horn
David Pell
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Alma Petchersky
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Stephen Pierre
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Zimfira Poloz
Sessional Teaching Staff: Music Education
Abigail Richardson-Schulte
Sessional Teaching Staff: Composition
James Rolfe
Sessional Teaching Staff: Composition
Mike Romaniak
Sessional Lecturer: Music Technology & Digital Media
John Rudolph
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Percussion
Theresa Rudolph
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Viola
Alex Samaras
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Voice
Manuela Scarci
Sessional Teaching Staff: Opera
Angela Schwarzkopf
Sessional Teaching Staff: Chamber Musician and Orchestral Harpist
Dayoung Seo
Instructor: Music Education
Charles Settle
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Percussion
Nora Shulman
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Nancy Sicsic
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Piano
Karl Silveira
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Trombone
Bekah Simms
Sessional Teaching Staff: Composition
Mark Skazinetsky
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Violin
Jill Solomon
Instructor: Music Education, Bassoon
Neil Spaulding
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Horn
James Spragg
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Douglas Stewart
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Peter Stoll
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Laura Swankey
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Voice
Gordon Sweeney
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Lisa Tahara
Sessional Lecturer: Piano
Edward Tait
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Double Bass
Stephen Tam
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Ivars Taurins
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Dominic Teresi
Sessional Teaching Staff: Early Music, Baroque Bassoon
Mark Tetreault
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Tuba & Euphonium
Richard Thomson
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Kathryn Tremills
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Laura Tucker
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
John Tuttle
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Organ
Joaquin Valdepeñas
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Clarinet
Frédérique Vézina
Sessional Teaching Staff: Voice Studies
Jim Vivian
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Bass
Camille Watts
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Flute
Julia Wedman
Instructor: Baroque Violin
Paul Widner
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Cello
Gordon Wolfe
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trombone
Barton Woomert
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Steven Woomert
Sessional Teaching Staff: Orchestral Instruments, Trumpet
Michelyn Wright
Sessional Lecturer: Music Education
Patricia Wright
Sessional Teaching Staff: Keyboard, Organ
David Young
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Orchestral Instruments, Double Bass
Geoff Young
Sessional Teaching Staff: Jazz, Guitar
Rea Beaumont
Adjunct Professor: Piano (Solo & Chamber), Music Industry, Canadian Music
Paul Hoffert
Adjunct Professor (Music, iSchool, Law), digital media IP
Kelly Zimba Lukic
Adjunct Professor: Flute
Catherine Moore
Adjunct Professor: Music Technology & Digital Media
Jeff Wolpert
Adjunct Professor: Music Technology & Digital Media
Samuel Yeung
Adjunct Professor
Jan Guise
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Jay Lambie
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Bryan Martin
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James Mason
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Kathleen McMorrow
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Timothy Neufeldt
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Dylan Rykse
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Rebecca Shaw
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