Henry Janzen

In addition to being Conductor and Music Director of the Hart House Orchestra at the University of Toronto, Henry Janzen has conducted ensembles throughout southwestern Ontario and southern Michigan including the Windsor Symphony, the Dearborn Symphony Festival Orchestra, the Michigan Youth Symphony Concert Orchestra and the Verdi Opera of Michigan.

Along with his performing career, Henry has dedicated a great deal of his time to teaching, coaching and adjudicating and has built up a wealth of experience over the last 30 years.  Some of the chamber and orchestral ensembles he has worked with include the Livonia Chamber Ensembles, MI; the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI; the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, MI; Windsor Strings, ON; and the London Youth Orchestra, London, ON.  In 2000, he toured the Czech Republic and Austria with the Guelph Youth Orchestra.

Henry’s students have spent summers performing with the National Youth Orchestra, while others have successfully gone on to pursue studies on scholarship at the Juilliard School of Music; the University of Montreal; the San Francisco Conservatory; Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Royal Conservatory of Music.