Mozart Requiem

Dr. Joshua Wood has performed, conducted, and taught music throughout Canada and the United States. Since 2016, he has served as Music Director of the Timmins Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (TSO), and beginning in the 2022-23 season he will also serve as Music Director of the North Bay Symphony Orchestra. A native of London, Ontario, Josh completed his Bachelor of Music (Hons. Performance) degree at Western University before pursuing graduate studies in Horn and Conducting at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Cincinnati. He is an alumni of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, National Academy Orchestra, Banff Summer Masterclass Program, and the Académie Domaine Forget. An active soloist and chamber musician, he regularly performs as a member of the TSO Chamber Ensemble, and has also performed with numerous orchestras including the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra, North Bay Symphony Orchestra, Richmond (IN) Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra London Canada/London Symphonia, Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and Stratford Symphony Orchestra. Currently the brass and advanced piano instructor at the TSO's Geoffrey James Lee School of Music, Josh has taught extensively, including numerous collegiate lecture and masterclass presentations in Canada and the U.S., and he is a former faculty member of the Kincardine Summer Music Festival. As a conductor, he has worked with the University of Cincinnati Wind Ensemble and Concert Orchestra, the London Community Orchestra, members of the Western Symphony, CCM Chamber Winds, and the London Youth Orchestra, as well as several secondary school ensembles in the U.S. In his free time, Josh enjoys cross-country skiing, mountain biking, hockey, tennis, baseball, and fishing.