Musician Biography – see also Academic Biography

Professional Choral Singer, Songwriter, etc.

(see also Recordings)

Along with his work involving computers and his background in professional academic work, Durrell has frequently been quite active as a part-time professional choral singer (usually singing tenor), such as with the Oakville Ensemble (2009-12), as a section lead in various Toronto and Los Angeles church choirs (1990-2009, including Vespers and other services for the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Toronto’s Holy Family church), and in Christmas carolling quartets— strolling around malls, etc., wearing a “Victorian” coat, scarf, and top-hat.

Durrell has also sung with the Menno Singers, the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir (as a support singer), in the Elora Festival Singers, in the (EFS) professional core of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, in the choir of St. John’s Elora, in the Exultate Chamber Singers, and in a number of additional community and university choirs and chamber ensembles. He also worked for several years as the part-time choral librarian, writer/editor, and computer facilitator of the Elora Festival & Singers.

Durrell occasionally writes songs, meta-remixes, etc.; sang lead vocals and played keyboards in several bands in the 1980s and ’90s; and has appeared in several musical theatre productions.