Billy Gollner

Billy Gollner is a singer, musician, voice teacher, and piano teacher currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Performance highlights of his career include, appearing as a backing vocalist for Andrea Bocelli and having the honour of singing for the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and for vocal legend, Sarah McLachlan. Billy has been working full time as a voice and music teacher since 2012.

Currently, Billy serves as a Faculty Member at Capilano University in their Musical Theatre and Acting for Stage & Screen Program where he teaches Voice Lessons (both singing & speech), Group Singing Class/Masterclasses in Musical Theatre, Jazz, and Pop/Rock, and VoiceOver classes. In London, Billy had the honour of teaching singing at the Urdang Academy (a London-based Performing Arts University) in their Bachelor’s of Musical Theatre Program. His work as a voice teacher is well regarded amongst his peers and colleagues. Billy was recently honoured when asked to contribute a chapter to Marci Rosenberg and Dr. Wendy LeBorgne’s second edition of their book, The Vocal Athlete: Application and Technique for the Hybrid Singer (Plural Publishing).

Billy holds a Master of Arts degree from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Musical Theatre Performance, a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Vancouver Community College, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Art, and Technology from Simon Fraser University, and a Certificate of Liberal Arts from Simon Fraser University. For his Bachelor of Music, Billy was honoured to be named the valedictorian of his graduating class.