Gerda Blok-Wilson

Composer, conductor, music educator

Website

Contact – gerdawil@telus.net

Bio

Gerda Blok-Wilson’s works have been premiered and recorded by groups including the Gesualdo Six (England), Voces Inauditae (Scotland), Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Youth Choir (Austria), Choirs for Change (Halifax), Elora Singers, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, BC Boys Choir, St Patrick Regional High School Choirs, Cansing choir, Linden Singers (Victoria) and the Prince George Bel Canto and Cantata Choirs. 

“If you haven’t yet explored Gerda’s music, and are looking for something with a new and fresh voice, don’t hesitate! Her music is keenly connected to the text always in an innate way, and I love that her music has incredible breadth and variety.” Brian Stevens (Nazareth College Choirs) – Women’s History Month, Women Composers, March 2022.

When Gerda is not composing, she acts as Artistic director for Vancouver Cansing Choir and Artist in Residence for St Patrick’s Regional High School.

Gerda holds a Bachelor of Music and Professional Teaching Certificate (UBC), Kodály Teaching certificate (Vancouver Academy of Music), Master of Education (U of Calgary)-Kodály Music Education.

She has publications at Cypress Music Publisher, PH Publishers, Themes and Variations and Sheet Music Plus/Sheet Music Direct.

List of Works

Full list of works available here.

Selected Works

My Heart is Like a Singing Bird — SATB a cappella

Lullay, My Liking (2021) — SATB a cappella with divisi

I Had No Time To Hate (2021) — SATB a cappella with divisi

Fear (2021) — SATB a cappella

O Little Rose (2018) — TTBB or SATB a cappella

The Flute of Spring (2018) — SATB a cappella

The Wind will Carry My Song (2019) — SATB a cappella

Ave Verum Corpus (2021) — SSAA a cappella

The Water is Wide (2022) — SSAA a cappella

Discography

Radiant Dawn, “Lullay, My Liking” (2022) — Elora Singers; Juno-nominated.

Fading, “O Little Rose, O Dark Rose” (2020) — Gesualdo Six.

The Isolation Songbook, “I’m Nobody” (2021) – Helen Charlston, Michael Craddock, Alexander Soares.

Open the Stars to Me (2008) — Bel Canto Youth Choir; 12 youth choir pieces by Gerda Blok-Wilson.