STELLA TER HART

Stella ter Hart is a well-known Canadian composer, educator, adjudicator and director. She was born and raised in the small rural prairie town of Estevan, Saskatchewan and studied with Mary Murakami (Estevan), William Moore (Regina), Lyell Gustin (Saskatoon), Robin Harrison (Saskatoon), and Marilyn Engle (Calgary). She is the only individual in Canada, to date, to have been awarded all four available diplomas from the Toronto Conservatory of Music: piano pedagogy, piano performance, composition, and theory. Stella is a widely sought after adjudicator and has brought her fun and unique interactive adjudicating skills to numerous music festivals in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland.

While living and working in New Brunswick, Stella was the Head of Music at Rothesay Netherwood Private School in St. John, where she developed their entire music program, directed the Junior, Senior and Jazz Bands as well as the Girls Choir, Swing Choir, Young Men’s Choir and began the tradition of the school’s Annual Musical. For over 10 years Stella was a member of the Toronto Conservatory College of Examiners in the Theory and History Department. Her compositions have won awards in Canada, the United States and New Zealand and been performed worldwide.