Mervin Fick, Music Director

Mervin Fick MUS. BAC., A.R.C.T. C.R.C.C.O. “I believe the choral experience to be one of the most intensely exciting of all musical experiences for singers and audiences alike; its benefits reach far beyond the concert hall to touch the daily lives of all those involved - the true music experience is a shared one.”

Mervin Fick has been the Artistic Director of the Toronto Beach Chorale since it was founded in 2008. Taking on the challenge of making choral concerts easily accessible in local venues within the Beach community, this concert choir has quickly earned a reputation for its contribution to the community and its professional level concerts.

Mervin has been transforming choirs, inspiring individuals, and raising the performance levels of community, church and professional choirs for over 30 years. Mervin leads a very busy life as the director of a number of choirs in the Greater Toronto Area as well as the Ottawa Valley Music Festival in eastern Ontario.

He is the founding artistic director for the Ottawa Valley Music Festival and the Director of the Festival Chorus. He is a native of Eganville and a graduate of the University of Toronto, and holds a Bachelor of Music as well as diplomas in both performance and vocal performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music. As well, Mervin also holds a college diploma and a certificate in service playing from the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

Mervin also directs the Mississauga Choral Society - proud recipient of the Mississauga Arts Council MARTY award for Established Performing Arts Group 2009.

Under Mervin's direction, the Peel Choral Society of Brampton has grown from a community choir to a large choir of excellent voices that successfully auditioned for the honour of singing at the Olympic Torch Ceremony in Brampton 2010.

In 2008 Mervin formed the Seven Rivers Chorus of Canada to fulfill his dream of showcasing Canadian choral music outside the country - on tour. In its inaugural year the choir went on a successful tour of Germany, with performances in Rengsdorf, Limburg Cathedral, Mainz Dom, Gräfenberg, and the Freiburg Münster Cathedral. In 2010, this choir toured Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, performing in Dresden, Prague, and Vienna, and participating in the Cantus Salzburgensis Music Festival in Salzburg, including a multi-choir performance of Mozart’s Coronation Mass (C Major) in the Salzburg Dom.

He is in demand as a conductor, clinician and voice teacher in both the Greater Toronto and Ottawa areas.