Carol Bernard Director
Place of birth: Montreal
Favorite Jireh experience: Hard to choose one…but one great thing is that I get to experience this adventure with my husband!
Biography: Carol Bernard has built an impressive music career as choir director, entrepreneur, singer, and producer. She founded Jireh Gospel Choir and Montreal Gospel Choir, was a judge for the Junos awards, juror for FACTOR, and was also the director of the music department of a French-speaking church with more than 2,000 members. In February 2013, her contribution to Quebec society was recognized when she was named a Black History Month laureate. In addition, her workshops are received with great enthusiasm, both in Canada and in Europe.
Born in Montreal to Jamaican parents, Carol was encouraged to start classical piano lessons when she was 8 years old. Not too many years later she started directing the choir at her small church. However, it wouldn’t be until many years later that she would leave a senior management position at CN Rail to pursue music full time. Bernard returned to university and completed a degree in music at the Université de Montréal, adding to her existing degree in mathematics and computer science from McGill University.
Carol is married to Ted Dettweiler and lives in Montreal, Canada.
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