Jennifer Enns Modolo grew up singing in K-W area school and church choirs, as well as with the accomplished Inter-Mennonite Children’s Choir. Since earning an Honours Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2001, she has been a busy professional soloist, festival adjudicator, chamber choir singer and voice teacher. Jennifer is currently a member of Hamilton’s Capella Intima and the local Spiritus ensembles. Besides guest-performing with orchestras and large choral groups across Canada, she is much in demand as a recitalist and chamber musician, collaborating regularly with lutenist Magdalena Tomsinska (her colleague on this series) and pianist Lorin Shalanko. Jennifer believes that anyone can learn to sing and delights “in helping each student find his or her own unique voice…”
Magdalena Tomsinska
Magdalena Tomsinska majored in classical guitar and lute in her native Poland, where she received her Master of Music before immigrating to Canada in 1992. In addition to a busy professional instrumental career, she teaches at the Beckett School of Music in Waterloo. Her historic instrument specialties include renaissance lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo. She has been a guest soloist in both Canada and Poland with groups such as the Tactus Vocal Ensemble, Nota Bene Baroque Players, Renaissance Singers, Cardinal Consort, Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz and Cantor Anticus. She has also been featured with many Canadian vocal and instrumental soloists, including Stephanie Kramer, Daniel Cabena, Rona Goldensher, Terry McKenna, and Jennifer Enns Modolo (with whom she performs on this series). As well as presenting and participating in many early music workshops, Magdalena has been heard on nearly a dozen international recordings and in the short television film, Sounds of Canada. She has also made her mark in the early music field for a 2012 article based on her original research into an important 17th-century Polish lute manuscript.
