Teri Dunn

A native of Ottawa, Teri Dunn is a celebrated soprano, conductor, and music educator with a distinguished career spanning performance pedagogy and artistic leadership. Since 2025, she has served as the Music Director of the Canadian Children’s Opera Company, where she has led acclaimed productions including the world premieres of Alice Ho’s The Monkiest King (recorded for CMC), Serouj Kradjian’s The Nightingale of aThousand Songs and a European tour of Hans Krása’s Brundibar. She has also prepared the Children’s Chorus and soloists for numerous Canadian Opera Company productions, including La Boheme, Carmen, The Magic Flute and Hansel and Gretel. 

From 2008 2025, Ms. Dunn served as Dean of Choral Studies at St. Michael’s Choir School, overseeing programming, and directing three of their internationally recognized choirs. A committed educator, she now leads the Soprano-Alto Chorus at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music.

Earlier in her career, she was Assistant Artistic Director of the Toronto Children’s Chorus (2002-2012), and held posts at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Hart House Chorus. 

Ms. Dunn’s choirs have been invited guests at Carnegie Hall, the Vatican, the Toronto International Choral Festival, and with leading Canadian ensembles such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Amici. Her choirs have earned top honours including first prize at the National Competition of Canadian Amateur Choirs.

An acclaimed soprano, Ms. Dunn has been praised as “outstanding” by BBC Music Magazine.  She has premiered works by Canadian composers James Rolfe, John Hawkins, Micheline Roi, Abigail Richardson, and Jeff Ryan and has sung operatic roles including Galatea (Acis and Galatea), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Alice in John Beckwith’s Night Blooming Cereus and Eurydice in the world premiere of James Rolfe’s Orpheus and Eurydice. She has appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Ottawa Bach Choir, New Music Concerts, Soundstreams, Toronto Masque Theatre, and others. Her discography features works by George Crumb, Osvaldo Golijov, Gloria Coates, John Beckwith and Harry Somers. 

Ms. Dunn holds a Master of Music from the University of Toronto, where she studied with Mary Morrison. She was a prizewinner in the 1999 Eckhardt-Grammatté Competition and recipient of the 2002 Leslie Bell Prize in Choral Conducting, awarded by Choirs Ontario.