Stella ter Hart

Stella Claire ter Hart is a Canadian composer, educator, adjudicator, choral director and accompanist. She is the only individual in Canada to have been awarded all four available diplomas from the Toronto Conservatory of Music: piano pedagogy, piano performance, composition, and theory. he has accompanied some of Canada’s best opera voices including Measha Bruegergosman, Stewart Howe, Cicela Mannson, Monette Gould and Cindy Townsend. She has been commissioned by CBC Radio 2, Symphony New Brunswick, the Indian River Festival as well as professional musicians and groups. Stella adores playing for choirs and soloists; she has the soul of a singer and as an accompanist instinctively shadows and enhances the singer’s every breath and phrase. Stella’s choral compositions have been performed throughout North America and as far away as Australia, Italy, Greece, Hong Kong, China, Spain, Brazil, Peru, and the United Kingdom.