Yanik Giroux

Voice Coach-Accompanist-Music Director

B.MUS-Voice Performance / Performing Arts Certificate / ATCL-Performing Musical Theatre

Languages Spoken: French / English

Trained singer, actor & dancer, Yanik is a graduate from the University of Montreal (B.Mus-Voice Performance), the Canadian College of Performing Arts and the Chemainus Theatre Acting Internship Program.

Voice & piano teacher, vocal coach, music director, stage director and accompanist for local

groups and theatre companies across Canada, he has been teaching musical theatre at Boston

Dance Collective, Canadian College of Performing Arts, Dansko Studios and Kaleidoscope

Performing Arts Studio.

Performing and directing credits include performances with Victoria Operatic Society (A Chorus

Line), Four Seasons Musical Theatre (The Little Mermaid), Theatre North West (Dancock’s Dance,

Portia White, All Shook Up), Chemainus Theatre (Hello, Dolly!, Sherlock Holmes, Little House On The

Prairie), Ballet Victoria (Ballet Off Broadway), Langham Court Theatre (Jacques Brel, 25th Annual

Putnam County Spelling Bee), Belfry Theatre (Urinetown), Pacific Opera Victoria (La Traviata) and Kaleidoscope Theatre (Little Shop Of Horrors, Hair, Singin’ In The Rain, Rocky Horror Show, Aladdin, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).

He also directed for companies in Montreal (Broadway II) and Toronto (Bye Bye Birdie, Seussical),

and has been artistic director for Pacifique en Chanson in Vancouver for the past six years.

He is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Associate of

Trinity College London-UK and holds certification in Somatic VoiceworkTM-The LoVetri Method

from the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University, Virginia.

Yanik keeps busy as a full time voice coach at his own studio, Yanik Giroux Performing Arts

Studio in Victoria, British Columbia, specializing in Musical Theatre & Contemporary Commercial Music.