Director:

HONEY NOVICK

 

Creative Vocalization Studio
New Songs for Peace (officially endorsed by UNESCO)

Education:

She attended the Toronto Hebrew Day School,
King Edward Public School and Harbord Collegiate.

She studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and privately with Charles Jordan, Richard Armstrong, William Andrews
(Jazz) Don Cherry, Abby Lincoln, Joe Williams

WORKSHOPS with Michelle George, Julie Lyonn Lieberman;
Paul Newham; Eurythmics with Marianna Kotyk and Diane Pellier;
WOL (Writing Out Loud) with Linda-Dawn Pettigrew
Background:
Her repertoire ranges from light classical to avant-garde jazz to children's music, as well as poplar and folk tunes. Honey sings in seven languages, including Japanese, Hebrew, Yiddish, French, Italian, Spanish, English and ONE song in Mandarin.

Concert Hightlights:
  • Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
  • Opening of Walker Court at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
  • Concert for World Peace at Seibu Lions' Stadium, Tokyo, Japan
  • Irving Layton Tribute at Centaur Theatre (with Leonard Cohen in attendance) Soloist for Music of Mordechai Sandberg,
    York University

Career Highlights:

 

 


Sang for:

  • Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau
  • Toronto Mayor Philip Givens
  • Toronto Mayor David Miller

Wrote music for:

  • Mel's Bells for Mayor Mel Lastman of North York
  • National Writers' Union of America, NYC
  • People's Voice Café, NYC
  • Anthems for Canada-Cuba Friendship Day (6 years in a row) for municipal and federal Canadian governments
  • Performance at Rainbow Room, Hollywood, California
  • Addressed the Spirituality in Health Care Conference of Medical and Healthcare professionals, Toronto
  • Peace in Education conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
  • "Love Letters to Sal Mineo" Tribute, Hollywood, Calif.

Soloist and Support Soprano for Beth David B'nai Israel Beth Am Synagogue and the Toronto Jewish Folk Choir

Composer for TVO campaign song "Way to Go TVO"

Keynote Speaker, YMCA Peace Award to Rubin "Hurricane" Carter

CBC's
  • Morningside
  • Midnight Jazz
  • Gilmour's Albums

CTV's Canada AM

Romper Room
Awards:

 

Winner:

  • 2010 Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Award Winner
    "..Congratulations, our awards committee met yesterday, and unanimously elected you this year's recipient of
    The Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Award.
    We are honored to present this award to you at The Fourth Annual Bed Push Parade Opening Ceremony, by the Patient Built east wall at Queen and Shaw, on the grounds of CAMH, at 1pm on Saturday July 17th 2010."

  • CAPAC (Composers, Authors, Publishers Association of Canada) 7 years in a row

  • Yamaha Classical Music Competition (vocals), Tokyo, Japan

  • Ben and Hilda Katz Foundation: Ossington Institute; Opportune Productions

  • Honourable Mention - Most Popular Poem Award
    Verse Afire, The Ontario Poetry Society for "The Blackness of AMazing"


Nominee:

Affiliations:
  • SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors, Publishers of Canada)
    Music Gallery
  • VOW (Voice of Women)
  • SGI (Soka Gakkai International)
    International Society for the Creation of Value
  • TWAS (Toronto World Art Scene)
  • Fat Albert's (longest running folk music club in North America)
  • Canada-Cuba Friendship Association
  • Yiddish Vinkl (Yiddish language club)
  • Table of Plenty - Complementary Medicine Committee, Koffler Breast Centre, Mt. Sinai
  • 3rd Seder Music Committee - Holy Blossom Temple
  • OWN (Older Women's Network)
  • Jewish Music Committee of Toronto (former Board member)
  • Inner City Angels (former board member)
  • ISIS- International School for Interdisciplinary Studies
    (former board member)
  • Dalcroze Society
  • Singer's Guild of Toronto
  • National Association of Teacher's of Singing
  • Canada-Cuba Friendship Association