Brampton Festival Singers
Musical Director
Robert Hennig
Robert Hennig, B. Mus., P.G. (Honours), graduated from the University of Toronto with a Music degree and a post graduate diploma in Music with Honours. His work and dedication have taken him to scholarship appointments for UCLA at Berkley and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio.
Mr. Hennig has won the Toronto Kopaz Foundation award and the Canadian Opera Women’s Society award for excellence in music. He also won the Brampton Arts Council Bloom award, for best new composition, Alleluia for Peace.
He attended the Banff School of Fine Arts and completed advanced choral studies with Canadian choral icon, Elmer Iseler. Mr. Hennig is a keyboard as well as a strings specialist. Orchestral conducting is his passion and he has conducted such works as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, as well as Requiems by Puccini, Faure and Rutter. He is the director of the award winning choir, Brampton Festival Singers and the Headwaters Concert Choir.
He has performed in Haydn Hall in the Esterhazy palace in Vienna, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and conducted a Mass choir in Rome at St. Peter’s Basilica. In February 2014, Mr. Hennig had his Carnegie Hall debut in New York City and in the summer of 2018 he toured Wales with the Great Lakes' Touring Chorus and a Men's Choir in Wales.
Accompanist
Adam Falconi is a full-time freelance musician in the GTA. He works as a performer, consultant, and background performer in Toronto’s film and television industry, having completed contracts for major networks including HBO, Netflix, CBC, Paramount, and Disney. He performs regularly as a percussionist with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, and Rose Orchestra. He is a contractor for the Canadian Armed Forces Bands, and works as a wedding and corporate event-band drummer for Main Event Music, as well as his own private bands and ensembles.
Adam is the pianist and music/choir director at Asbury and West United Church in North York, as well as the accompanist for the Brampton Festival Singers. He also runs music outreach and education programs at several daycares and early childhood centres, performing live-concerts to entertain and inspire young children.
From 2010-2018, Adam toured the world aboard Holland America Cruise Lines and Carnival Cruise Lines, as a drummer and music director, and from 2018-2020 he went on tour the hit YouTube musical act ‘Post-Modern Jukebox’.
Adam currently resides in Richmond Hill with his wife and son.
