Toronto based Singer/Actor/Musician Donna Garner was raised on a dairy farm near Stratford, Ontario as the youngest of thirteen children in a home filled with music. Her classical musical studies took her to Western University, The University of Toronto and to the AIMS Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria.
Donna works as an actor, a singer, a pianist and multi-instrumentalist. Her performing has taken her across Canada, the U.S. and Austria in such roles as Baruška in Once The Musical, Thea in Two Pianos, Four Hands, Vi Petty in Buddy:The Buddy Holly Story, Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret and Fairy Godmother for Disney, to name a few.
When not on stage, Donna is in demand as a voice specialist for masterclasses, lectures, adjudicating, private voice lessons, repertoire coaching, accompanying, and as a Music Director. She has been a member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music since 1997 and the Voice Faculty for the prestigious Sheridan College Musical Theatre program.