Howard Dyck is the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir. He is also the founding Artistic Director and Conductor of Consort Caritatis. Mr. Dyck is known across Canada as the programme host of Choral Concert and Saturday Afternoon at the Opera on CBC Radio.

Howard Dyck’s international conducting career has taken him to twelve countries on three continents where he has conducted, among others, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir of Vienna, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra (Salzburg), the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Obretenov Choir (Bulgaria), the Bach Collegium Stuttgart and Gaechinger Kantorei, the Kunming Symphony Orchestra (China), the State Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, and the Orquestra Do Norte (Portugal).

His discography includes: Bach – Missa Brevis in g; Handel – Messiah (SONY Classical); Verdi – Requiem; Beethoven – Missa Solemnis (EMI); Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem.

Under Howard Dyck’s direction, Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic Choir and Consort Caritatis have been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio and Television as well as on Vision TV and throughout the People’s Republic of China.

Singers of international distinction who have performed under Howard Dyck’s baton include: Measha Brueggergosman, Heidi Klassen, Edith Wiens, Suzie Leblanc, Laura Whalen, Karina Gauvin, Maureen Forrester, Catherine Robbin, Susan Platts, Linda Maguire, Ben Heppner, Richard Margison, Paul Frey, Michael Schade, Gary Relyea, Russell Braun, Phillip Ens, James Westman, and Robert Pomakov.

Educated in Canada, the United States and Germany, Howard Dyck has received numerous honours for his contributions to musical culture, both nationally and internationally. He is listed in Canadian Who’s Who. In 1996 he was awarded honorary Doctor of Laws degrees by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University as well as the Ontario Choral Federation’s Distinguished Service Award.

In 1999 the Yunnan Arts Institute (Kunming, China) named him Honorary Professor of Music. Howard Dyck was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2000, and in 2002 he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. He is the 2004 recipient of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors Distinguished Service Award.