Mark de Silva

    Mark DeSilva started singing and playing the violin at school in England. His other passion was science, which eventually led him into a biomedical research career in the UK, and subsequently, research at the National Institutes of Health in Washington DC. Since living in Canada, he has further pursued his music. Mark has been a member of the Vancouver Cantata Singers since 2005 and has also performed with many of Vancouver's choral ensembles including the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Laudate Singers and Vancouver Voices. He has appeared as a guest soloist in concert with the Handel Society Choir, the Richmond Chorus, BC Choral Federation Chorfest, and as recitalist performing the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes and Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder. Recent solo appearances include Monteverdi Vespers, Bach's St John Passion and B minor Mass with VancouverVoices, and Sing Along Messiah with Vancouver Bach Choir and VSO.

Kristopher Fulton

Kristopher Fulton has been a member of the Vancouver Cantata Singers for three seasons and is quickly becoming one of the more prolific young composers in Vancouver, British Columbia. Over the last few years his works have received critical and audience acclaim in Vancouver, Victoria, Montreal as well as internationally in Ireland, Austria and England.

Recently Kristopher's career has been advancing in large strides with regular concerts, commissions, broadcasts and publications of his works. He has hopes of completing a CD of his a cappella  works in the near future.

Visit Kristopher at www.kristopherfulton.com

Cameron Killick

     Cameron Killick is a new face in the Vancouver music scene. He is going into his second year of music at Douglas College. He spent his entire thirteen year school education at Pacific Academy in Surrey and sang in their senior choir, senior vocal jazz and chamber choir ensembles. They performed, among other things, selections of Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the Rutter Requiem. He also has performed in several Musical Theater productions, including such titles as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fiddler on the Roof and Les Miserables. He is a long time student and friend of Craig Tompkins, and has studied for the past year with Eric Hannan. Aside from his normal teachers, he has worked with several prominent Vancouver musicians such as Perry Price, Dale Throness, Nancy Hermiston and Judith Forst. In those rare moments when he’s not singing, Cameron enjoys studying military history, and of course, taking long walks on the beach.

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Shane Raman

    Shane Raman is a baritenor who has been part of the local choral music scene since he started studying voice at Douglas College.  In 2004 Shane graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance.  Under highly regarded teachers such as Eric Hannan and Bruce Pullan, Shane has performed with Phoenix Chamber Choir, Vancouver Opera, UBC Opera, Vancouver Peace Choir, Vancouver Chamber Choir and musica intima.
    Shane is also a songwriter/composer/arranger of pop and choral music, having his pieces performed by Vancouver Cantata Singers and musica intima.

Eric Schwarzhoff

     Eric Schwarzhoff is a new member to Vancouver Cantata Singers and is entering his second year of Voice Performance at UBC.  Eric has performed with several choirs including Vancouver Voices, Vancouver Youth Bach Choir, and University Singers.  Eric enjoys playing the trombone, and singing at any chance he can get.  Eric is looking forward to singing with the Vancouver Cantata Singers this year.

Dylan van Dijk

Dylan completed his Bachelors of Music in Jazz Studies at Capilano College and later a Bachelors of Music Education at UBC. He is presently a music teacher at Burnaby Mountain Secondary.  Dylan loves good wine, is super into surfing and hiking, and obviously loves to sing.