OUR PROGRAMS

Tomorrow’s Voices is back to in-person programming! While we didn’t let a global pandemic keep our kids from being heard through our Virtual Voices program, we are thrilled to be back in person for the 2022-2023 season.

We offer a barrier-free opportunity for kids who love singing to develop new skills, improve their self-confidence, and make meaningful connections with their peers. Together, with the help of our sponsors, we are able to inspire children to become heard through music.

Tomorrow’s Voices takes the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic seriously. Please review our policies.

Tomorrow’s Voices is back to in-person programming! While we didn’t let a global pandemic keep our kids from being heard through our Virtual Voices program, we are thrilled to be back in person for the 2022-2023 season.

Tomorrow’s Voices takes the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic seriously. Please review our policies.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Each week, Tomorrow’s Voices meets to practice new songs and prepare our participants for one-of-a-kind opportunities to perform with globally-recognized artists. Our programs are led by talented, experienced, and fun music directors who want to see the children of Tomorrow’s Voices grow into successful young adults. Tomorrow’s Voices allows children to develop new skills, improve their self-confidence, and make meaningful connections with their peers.

HOW CAN MY CHILD PARTICIPATE?

Our zero-cost, audition-free programs make Tomorrow’s Voices accessible to all families. Our programs are currently offered in St. Catharines, Hamilton, Toronto, Saskatoon, and now Vancouver for children ages 8-18 to participate in our after-school kids’ choirs.

Our Locations

St. Catharines

Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:15 pm

Grantham Optimist Club
188 Linwell Rd, St. Catharines, ON
L2N 6N3, Canada

Mendelt Hoekstra

Music Director

Mendelt, Executive Music Director Tomorrow’s Voices, grew up in Niagara. A lifelong lover of music, Mendelt has been performing for more than 35 years and enjoys collaborating with several different groups. Mendelt is the Chief Executive Music Director of Choir Nation and loves to bring people together through music. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of Momentum Choir, a highly successful performance choir comprised of adults who live with a disability. Mendelt is an award-winning director whose energy for music is palpable and contagious.

Hamilton

Mondays 5 – 6:15pm

Westdale United Church
99 N Oval
Hamilton, ON L8S 3Z2

Melissa Dutch

Music Director

Melissa is a singer/songwriter and vocal coach, specializing in contemporary pop, rock, and indie genres. She also works in technical study in jazz, classical voice, musical theatre, and opera. Melissa has been teaching for over a decade, and between 2018 and 2020, she was a founding teacher at Omari Music Studios: a studio in Oakville with a high standard for technical excellence in music study and performance. She has maintained her private studio, MDM Studio from 2020 to the present, and works with the Hamilton Music Collective as a teacher and coach, teaching piano, vocals, and Songwriting for Mental Wellness.

Melissa was educated in jazz and contemporary genres at Humber College’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program for Voice, with a focus on songwriting. She has an active career as a solo gigging, writing, and recording in Hamilton, Ontario, and the GTA. She has been creating content and releasing original music as a powerful vocalist and a poetic lyricist – releasing several singles including, “Meet You There”, and “Sparrows”, and a single/music video, “Pretty Disaster” from 2020-2021.

Toronto

Mondays 5 – 6:15 pm

College Street United Church
452 College St
Toronto, ON M6G 1A1

Anais Kelsey-Verdecchia

Music Director

Anais is a soprano and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto Ontario. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an Advanced Certificate in Performance from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, where she was fortunate to work with a variety of instructors who deepened her love of music and encouraged her natural musicality. For the majority of her schooling, she studied with legendary Canadian soprano Mary Morrison.
Armed with a lyric soprano sound that has been called “deliciously snappy” and a “mind-blowing” upper extension, Anais sings in several choirs and bands. When she’s not singing, Anais can be found playing sousaphone in a variety of brass bands around the city of Toronto.

Saskatoon

Tuesdays 6:30 – 8 pm

TCU Palace
35 – 22nd St. East,
Saskatoon SK, S7K 0C8

Brette Kristoff

Music Director

Brette has been involved in the early childhood music program since infancy, and even while in the womb, as both her mother (Nicole Wilton) and grandmother are/were musicians and early childhood music educators. Growing up in a musical household, she was encouraged to explore her creative and musical sides, enjoying a well-rounded and exploratory education. As a child, Brette was introduced to piano, violin, guitar, and voice— her favourite being musical theatre. She has been involved in assisting and teaching early childhood music classes through Wilton Academy of Music for many years, also working as a nanny/au pair in both Saskatoon and abroad. She enjoys working and learning with children through music and play in the early childhood music programs.

Brette holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in religion and culture and is currently pursuing her Master degree in religion and politics.

Vancouver

To Be Determined

Monique Hoekstra

Music Director

Surrey

Wednesdays at 3 – 4:30 pm

Kwantlen Park Secondary School
10441 132 Street
Surrey, BC V3T 3V3

OUR PROGRAMS

Tomorrow’s Voices is back to in-person programming! While we didn’t let a global pandemic keep our kids from being heard through our Virtual Voices program, we are thrilled to be back in person for the 2022-2023 season.

Tomorrow’s Voices is back to in-person programming! While we didn’t let a global pandemic keep our kids from being heard through our Virtual Voices program, we are thrilled to be back in person for the 2022-2023 season.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

HOW CAN MY CHILD PARTICIPATE?