A prize-winning organist who has given recitals across Canada,
Mexico and the US, Syd Birrell is best known as the founder and conductor of
the Peterborough
Singers, an 80-piece singing group that became
nationally prominent when it placed 2nd in the CBC’s
2004 national choral competition for mixed groups. He is also
Director of the Ministry of Music at Murray St. Baptist Church and
organist at Lakefield College School.