StationV Website Design by Vic Hooper

I started my musical career as a self taught piano/organ player performing in community dance bands in the area surrounding Waskada, Manitoba. After just a couple years of studying piano and voice in my late teens, I began my formal music education at Brandon University and obtained a bachelor's degree in Music Education. I also hold a certificate in Commercial Art from Assiniboine Community College and a pre-masters certificate in Education (drama) from the University of Manitoba. My professional career began teaching general and choral music and art in The St. James-Assiniboia School Division in Winnipeg, MB and over the years spanned grades 1 through 12.

June of 2005 marked the end of my 29-year career with The St. James-Assiniboia School Division - 13 years as a teacher, 14 years as Music Coordinator along with teaching choral music and art at Silver Heights Collegiate and directing the award-winning St. James-Assiniboia Divisional Senior Chamber Choir, and 2 years as Coordinator of the Arts.

I have performed as a singer with Up With People, Rainbow Stage, the Bunch of Grapes, Sundog Productions, Brandon University Chorale and the Brandon Philharmonic Choir. In addition to the many school choirs, musicals, and productions, I have directed the following community choirs:  Assiniboine Chapter of Sweet Adelines, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg's Choir, Provincial Honour Choirs' Junior, Women's and High School Choirs, and the Rainbow Harmony Project choir. 

I continue to work as a choral clinician and volunteer on boards and committees of choral, lgbt+, and community organizations. In addition, I created a website design company called StationV.com which is very rewarding and has become my major focus.

I live in downtown Winnipeg in a modernized Victorian home with my partner, Pieter Jongbloed.