Tracey Forster

Tracey has been teaching voice at Renaissance Music for four years.

Tracey began her professional vocal studies with Eleanor Calbes, an international Broadway and opera star, in Toronto, Ontario. After eight years of study with Eleanor, taking theatre programs in high school and graduating from Sheridan College, Tracey worked as a professional singer and actress with the Canadian Stage Company, Inner Stage Theatre Company, and Volstead Productions in Toronto. While at Sheridan College, she studied with Christina James, a performer with the Canadian Opera Company.

In addition, Tracey has recorded with The Runes, Heavy Water, Steve Fox, Salome Bey and others, and performed in such plays as Trojan Women, Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, and Curse of the Starving Class, such musicals as Nine, Annie, Babies, Gypsy, South Pacific, Oklahoma, and Best Little Whore House in Texas, and such operas as La Serva Padrona, Amahl & The Night Visitors, Don Giovanni and Carmen.

Tracey has directed shows in Kingston, such as Marriage is Murder, and Lost in Yonkers, and directed and starred in a production of Steel Magnolias.

Susan Shurrock

Sue Shurrock is a new member of our teaching staff here at Renaissance, beginning in the fall of 2007. She has a Bachelor of Music Education from Robert Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York, where she majored in Voice with an additional concentration in piano performance.

Sue also has a Bachelor of Education from Queen's University, and has twenty years experience teaching piano and voice. She also teaches theory and sings classical, gospel, bluegrass, blues, jazz and often performs, playing gigs with her family.

Bob Hall

Bio coming soon!