Director of Music
Douglas Knight
In June 2007, Douglas Knight joined the staff of Cedar Park United Church as its new music director. He has been an active church organist for the past 25 years, and comes to us after a 20-year career as minister of music for the Anglican Parish of Vaudreuil, as organist and choir director at St. James Anglican (Hudson) and concurrently the organist at St. Mary’s (Como).
Although many of Douglas’s musical activities have been centered around Hudson with his musical directorship of the community choir the Hudson Choristers and the community theatre groups the Hudson Music Club and StudioTheatre, he is actually a longtime resident of Pointe-Claire (over 20 years), and well known to many as the founder of the Pointe Claire-based concert choir the Knight Singers and as the present conductor of the Lakeshore Chamber Orchestra.
Many often refer to Douglas as a Gilbert and Sullivan specialist, having been the music director/conductor of the Montreal West Operatic Society for over a decade, and yet in fact he is also well versed in conducting grand opera, having studied for a number of years with Metropolitan Opera conductor Paul Nadler in New York and with Gustav Meier, head of conducting studies at Tanglewood and the University of Michigan. Douglas holds a degree in piano performance with highest distinction from McGill University. He teaches piano and voice privately, sings and composes, and has interests in oil painting, gardening, and cooking.
