Harry MacLean – Bass

Season Joined: First season: 1993-1994

Hometown: Born in the Netherlands, immigrated at age 4 to London, Ontario, and now London is home

Education/Training:
Elementary school teacher, now retired.

Do you also have a non-singing “day job”? If so, what do you do?
Keep busy with home and garden, volunteer work for KSS and Wesley-Knox United Church, Amateur Radio projects, desktop publishing projects and more

Where else do you teach/gig/conduct/sing/perform?
Sing in Wesley-Knox Senior Choir

Favorite choral work(s):
Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Requiems by Brahms, Rutter and Fauré, Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass and Missa Gaia/Earth Mass

A defining moment of favorite KSS onstage experience:
Missa Gaia/Earth Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, London. It was picketed!

What are you listening to these days?
Not much. Too busy watching CNN and the all the Trump stuff. Hopefully, this will pass…

Anything you’d like to add about yourself?
I’ll come clean. Singing in Karen Schuessler’s choirs wasn’t enough. Karen and I were married in June, 2001.

What London experience do you consider essential for visitors/newcomers?
Any Karen Schuessler Singers’ concert. Be there!