Shawn Grenke

Shawn is Artistic Director of the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers. He has served as Music Director and Organist at the Anglican Church of All Saints Kingsway and is presently the Director of Music at Eglinton St.George’s United Church in Toronto. He is Accompanist for the Amadeus Choir of Toronto under the direction of Lydia Adams, Accompanist to the Elmer Iseler Singers of Toronto and Artistic Director of the 90 member Burlington Seniors’ Centre Choir. Mr.Grenke is also the past Assistant Conductor/Accompanist of the internationally famed Hamilton Children’s Choir where he served for 9 exciting years. 

Shawn began his musical training as a chorister and pianist with the Hastings County Board of Education Concert Choir under the Direction of Rudolf Heijdens in his hometown of Belleville, Ontario. Holding a Bachelor of Music degree (2000) from Mount Allison University (New Brunswick), and a Master of Music degree (2002) from the University of Toronto, Mr. Grenke has served as organist and Music Director at various churches throughout Ontario and the Maritimes for almost twenty years, and is a member of the Royal College of Church Organists, the Royal School of Church Music, and a fellow of the Honorary Company of Organists.

In concert, Mr. Grenke has made appearances in Poland, at the ‘Let the Future Sing’ Choral Festival in Sweden, the ‘Le Mondial Choral Loto-Québec World Choral Competition’ in Laval, Québec, ‘Xinghai Choral Competition’ in China, Roy Thomson Hall, and at various festivals, concert series and recitals throughout Canada the United States and Europe. In February of 2014, Shawn accompanied the Elmer Iseler Singers on a North Canadian tour of Yellowknife, Banff and Edmonton. This August Shawn will also travel to Seoul, Korea with the Hamilton Children’s Choir where they will participate in the 10th Annual World symposium of Choral music.