Dr KEVIN KOMISARUK is Assistant Professor of organ and harpsichord at the
University of Toronto Faculty of Music. He concertizes frequently
throughout Europe and North America, and can be heard on network broadcasts
of Radio France, SRC/CBC (Canada), and NPR (USA). Kevin Komisaruk records
with Canada's leading ATMA record label. His 2001 disc of works by John
Bull received several awards and citations including those from the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Canada, Belgium's Magazine d'orgue, and the
Journal of Seventeenth-century Music. His 2005 recording of works by Samuel
Scheidt on the meantone organ at Knox College Toronto has been critically
acclaimed by SRC (Radio Canada) and European journals including Goldberg and
Scherzo.
Dr. Komisaruk holds three degrees in performance from McGill University in
Montreal, where he studied organ with John Grew, harpsichord with Hank Knox,
and choral literature with Iwan Edwards. He received additional instruction
from Kenneth Gilbert and Tom Plaunt, as well as Marie-Claire Alain,
Montserrat Torrent, and Jean Ferrard.
Kevin Komisaruk taught at the McGill Conservatory of Music from 1994 to
1998, and directed choral curriculum at the National Theatre School of
Canada (English Acting) in 2001. An accomplished liturgical musician, he
has served as Music Director for major Canadian Anglican parishes including
the Church of St Mary Magdalene (Toronto), and the Church of St. John the
Evangelist (Montreal). He is Founding Director of the Studio of Early Music
Toronto, and served as Artistic and Managing Director from 2004 to 2007.
His Toronto-based solo recital series, Art of Touch, is in its inaugural
season.
