2026 marks the 49th year that Kinza Tyrrell has been immersed in music. She made her
orchestral debut at age 12 on the piano, and after high school pursued her musical studies at
the prestigious Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Musikhochschule für darstellende und Kunst in Graz
and the Tanglewood Music Festival.
Some career highlights include singing with the University of Toronto Gospel Choir for Aaron
Neville and Roberta Flack, touring with the violin/fiddle duo Bending the Bows, performing with
Measha Brueggergosman at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, recording Hollywood movie
soundtracks with the Vancouver Film Orchestra, being the organist on IZombie, conducting Nico
Muhly’s polygamist opera Dark Sisters at Vancouver Opera and translating Maxime Goulet’s
new opera Flight of the Hummingbird into the German language.
Kinza has extensive experience in choral conducting and is really enjoying her time with Island
Song as their new Choral Director. They give her so much energy on a weekly basis!