Dina Cindric

Dina is a choral director, singer and multi-instrumentalist. She has performed at festivals across Canada and Europe with numerous ensembles in a number of genres: classical, folk, indie, avant-garde, jazz. She has been teaching music for over 20 years and is the founding director of the Monday Night Choir and female Balkan singing group Sava, in Montreal.

Born in Canada to Croatian immigrants, Dina studied Croatian singing and tamburica from the age of 12. With support from the Canada Council for the Arts, in 2018 she travelled to Croatia to collect folk songs and study archaic singing styles from both Croatia and Serbia.

Dina is deeply committed to sharing her knowledge gained over several decades to contribute to the preservation of folk songs, as well as the transmission of original and ancestral knowledge. She is particularly interested in creating spaces where creative music-making is possible and accessible to all, focussing on a cappella folk singing as a means of connecting people to themselves, others, and the world around them.