DONNA FRANK – Alto

Season Joined: 2000-2001

Hometown: London Township

Education/Training/Experience:
Grade 8 Piano, Grade 2 Theory, Grade 8 French Horn
Medway High School Choir and Concert Band
London Youth Symphony Orchestra
Martin Boundy’s Concert Band (now known as London Concert Band)
Middlesex Jr. Farmer Choir
Strathroy Chorale
Middlesex Singers
numerous Kiwanis Music Festival competitions from age 7 on

Do you also have a non-singing “day job”? If so, what do you do?
Retired small business owner

Highlights of your musical career:
KSS trip to Festival 500 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in 2011

Favorite choral work(s):
Usually whatever we’re currently working on

A defining moment of favorite KSS onstage experience:
During the performance of “This is My Home” the final number in our Canada 150 concert,  the audience spontaneously began rising to their feet and by the end, the entire audience was up.  We clearly touched them & we in turn were moved.

Anything you’d like to add about yourself?
My first full-time permanent job was in the Music History Department, Faculty of Music, UWO