Wendy Woodland

Wendy is a graduate of Memorial University’s School of Music, and completed theatrical training at Holland College and Dalhousie University.  For over thirty years this cross over singer has been a part of the music scene in Newfoundland as singer, actor, director, writer, conductor, and adjudicator. Working with Terra Bruce Productions, Camber Arts, Gros Morne Summer Music, Gros Morne Theatre Festival, Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, Stage West Theatre Festival, Stephenville Festival, Wintertide Chamber Music Festival, and Bay of Islands Musical Arts has given her opportunity for a varied repertoire.  Named Artist of the Year (Corner Brook) in 2018, she has performed in concert with well-known NL artists Brian Way, Bob McDonald, Kelly Ann Evans, David Pomeroy, Duo Concertante, Shirley Montague, Louis McDonald, and Jonathan Monroe. She has also performed with The Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra; the 2023 Music of the Night concert and as soprano soloist for Schubert’s Mass in G with The Philharmonic Choir. Selected credits include No Change in the Weather (Terra Bruce Productions) Tell Me On a Sunday (Rotary Arts Center), Phantom of the Opera (Opera on the Avalon), The Power of One (Perchance Theatre), Lucy Duhart’s Westside Saloon and King of Broadway (Gros Morne Summer Music), Into the Woods, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, I Do I Do, Oliver, The Music Man (TNL), Nunsense (Stephenville Festival). She worked for many years in television, having produced and hosted programs on ROGERStv for seventeen seasons, most notably being Corner Brook Café and appeared in seasonal productions by both NTV and CBC.  

As a music educator and conductor for 35 years, Wendy is passionate about choral music and has worked with individuals and groups of all ages. From being musical director of Joseph Two-Two Meets the Hooded and Fang and Fiddler on the Roof, to the Bay of Islands Musical Arts Chorus concerts and rehearsal conductor for Handel’s Messiah, she works to instill the joy of singing with every opportunity that presents itself. She was part of the artistic teams of both the Atlantic Boychoir and Atlantic Girls Choir, as soloist and west coast rehearsal conductor.