Music Director
Janice Beninger

Janice Beninger is delighted to be working with the sixty robust and spirited voices of the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus,and also with the newly formed Burlington Welsh Ladies Chorus. She was appointed to the position of Music Director in 2008 and continues to find it both challenging and rewarding to pursue excellence in choral sound, while maintaining the ever-essential "hwyl" of traditional Welsh singing.

Janice received her MMus from the University of Western Ontario. A frequent collaborator with singers and instrumentalists, she served as pianist/keyboard player for Symphony Hamilton and worked as Music Co-ordinator (organist and choir director) for Knox Preston, St. Paul’s Anglican and Knox Waterdown Churches. She has directed numerous choirs, including the McMaster University Vocal Ensemble, Kaleidoscope Singers, and Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Children’s Choir.

Currently, Janice maintains an active piano/theory teaching studio in Dundas, Ontario ( www.jbeningerstudio.ca ) and performs as pianist in the concert organ/piano duo, Four Hands Two Feet ( www.fourhandstwofeet.ca ).

Collabrative Pianist
Larisa Gulenco

Collabrative Pianist Larisa Gulenco received her training at the Moldavian Academy of Music, North Netherlands Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (The Netherlands), where she earned the degree of Master of Music.

Throughout her career Larisa has performed extensively in Moldova, Russia, Romania, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, United States and Canada. She is a prize-winner of several national and international piano and chamber music competitions in Italy, Romania and Moldova.

Since summer 2008, Larisa has resided in Hamilton, Ontario. She maintains a busy schedule as a piano teacher and performer.

Recent performances have been in Boston, Montreal and the Maritimes with the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus, at the Brott Music Festival with Jacqueline Woodley (soprano), at the Convocation Hall with the McMaster Chamber Orchestra under Keith Kinder, at Hamilton Place with Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), at the Campbellville Chamber Concerts with Rosanne Warren (flute) and Marion Samuel-Stevens (soprano), at the Burlington Performing Arts Centre with John Fanning (baritone) and with Margaret Bardos (mezzo), the John Laing Singers, the Hamilton Children’s Choir and Schulte Strings.

Conductor Emeritus, Founder
Lyn Harry, A.R.C.M., G.R.S.M., B.Mus.

Born in Llanelli, South Wales, Lyn Harry has been involved in music from childhood, becoming organist and choirmaster of his first choir at age 13. He received his Bachelor of Music and associate degrees at the Royal College of Music, London, England. He has accompanied such noted vocalists as Kathleen Ferrier and Sir Harry Secombe and in 1961 he founded and conducted the London Welsh Male Choir. Then, for 11 years, Lyn was Music Director of the Morriston Orpheus Male Choir in Swansea, South Wales. After moving to Canada, Lyn taught at the Royal Hamilton College of Music. He also founded the Canadian Orpheus Male Choir and the Hamilton Academy of Music. Lyn also guest conducted in the National Bicentennial Singing Festival of Philadelphia and the National Singing Festival in Minneapolis.  On August 10^th, 2001 at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, held in Denbigh, North Wales, Lyn was honoured by being invested as an Honorary Welsh Bard for his lifetime services to music.

Regrettably, Lyn Harry passed away after a long battle with his health on Jan 14, 2006