Our Team

Heather Fraser

Heather Fraser

Artistic Director

Heather Fraser maintains an active career as a choral conductor, music educator and collaborative pianist in Nova Scotia. She is currently the Artistic Director of both the Annapolis Valley Honour Choir and The Aeolian Singers, and a music specialist in the Halifax Regional Arts Program—a department of the Halifax Regional Centre for Education—and is also an active clinician, presenter and adjudicator.

Joanne Slack

Joanne Slack

Assistant Conductor

Joanne Slack has been making music with piano, organ and voice from the age of six. She completed her Royal Conservatory Grade 10 in Piano while away in Ottawa, and continued singing, directing and playing the organ for churches in her neighbourhood after moving to her neighbourhood of Minto, New Brunswick.

Lynette Wahlstrom

Lynette Wahlstrom

Pianist

Lynette Wahlstrom is accompanist for The Aeolian Singers, Halifax Camerata Singers/SNS Chorus, director of music at First Baptist Church Halifax, and moonlights as collaborative pianist at Dalhousie University’s Fountain School of Performing Arts. She appears regularly in performances by Opera Nova Scotia, Halifax Summer Opera Festival, and the Nova Scotia Choral Federation.

Ria Kim

Ria Kim

Pianist

Ria Kim (she, her) is a pianist originally from Korea and currently teaching at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and collaborating at Dalhousie University. She received her education at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts with Oxana Zotova at the Fountain School of Performing Arts (Dalhousie University) with Lynn Stodola, Peter Allen and at the Manhattan School of Music with Daniel Epstein where she earned her MMus.

Jenny Hasselman

Jenny Hasselman

Business & Communications Manager

Jenny is so proud to be a part of the Aeolian Singers team. First and foremost, she is a fan of the choir and is very excited to be representing such an incredible group of singers.

Board of Directors

Co-President
Candice Campbell
Co-President
Krystal Yorke
Vice-President
Candace Vieira
Past President
Lara Dempster
Secretary
Stephanie Wood
Treasurer
Krystal Yorke
Membership Coordinator
Molly Merriman
Library Chair
Bep Demings Mattern
Wardrobe Chair
Sherryl Patton
Fundraising Chair
Helen Cooper
Artistic Director
Heather Fraser (ex-officio)
Assistant Director
Joanne Slack (ex-officio)
Business Manager
Jenny Hasselman (ex-officio)

Our Singers

Soprano 1

Lisanne Cote

Bep Demings-Mattern

Hunter Dolomont

Robin Lauriston

Morgandy Levy

Caroline Malczuk

Sherryl Patton

Karen Williams

Jaime Woolstencroft

Soprano 2

Pamela Callow

Helen Cooper

Jana Dempsey

Sarah Dunphy

Sherri Mellish

Nadine Nejati

Shawna Peters

Joanne Slack

Kate Thompson

Candace Vieira

Alto 1

Emma Boardman

Anne Marie Coolen

Corinne Cox

Sue Crooks

Natasha Drennan

Raquel Griffin

Melissa Hartery

Anne Jackman

Kendall Jones

Jenna Marks

Stephanie Wood

Alto 2

Candice Campbell

Lara Dempster

Cindy Fahie

Robyn Gale

Maria Halavrezos

Anna MacLean

Patricia Manuel

Molly Merriman

Holly Morrison

Krystal Yorke

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