Carrie Loring

Soprano Carrie Loring is the longest-serving active member of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir, having joined in 1992. She received a BA from the University of Toronto, and her singing certificates from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Best known as longtime host of TV Ontario’s Polka Dot Door, she toured coast to coast with numerous children’s shows involving singing, guitar, storytelling, mime, and puppetry. Carrie has sung with The Elmer Iseler Singers, Opera Atelier, Choir 21, Elora Festival Singers, Soundstreams, Tallis Choir, Toronto Consort, The National Ballet of Canada, The Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Theatre of Early Music.

Enjoying the challenge of singing in different styles, she has sung backup vocals for Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), performed in the cast of Sondheim in September, and works as a voiceover artist and studio singer. She can be heard in the TV series The Tudors and The Borgias, the films Something About Mary Magdalene and Flightpath, in commercials including for Ikea and Apple’s MacBook, and has sung on 27 CD recordings. Carrie teaches private music lessons, leads a Toronto “Cherubs Choir,” and is the Conductor of the Kinder and Preparatory Choirs with the Bach Children’s Chorus.