Surinder Mundra

Surinder began his musical career at the age of nine, although not on the organ but, on the piano. He made his first recital debut very shortly after, and his first orchestral debut three years later with the Durham Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky’s First piano Concerto.

He has played on numerous occasions at Roy Thompson Hall, and has done many fundraising concerts for the Toronto General Hospital, for congenital heart research. He continues to perfect his craft on the piano. He came to discover the organ when he was seventeen. He had coincidentally dropped by a church to attend Mass and recognized the priest to be his high school English teacher. The organist who regularly played for the mass was sick, and the Father had asked Surinder if he could play the organ. Smugly, Surinder said yes thinking it would be not all that different from the piano, while having no previous experience playing the organ. The Mass went on with a few glitches in the music, leaving Surinder somewhat humbled but determined to learn the organ properly.