Oksana Rodak is a conductor, bandurist and music educator of broad experience. Oksana is a graduate of the University of Toronto where she received her Master of Music degree and obtained the Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She studied choral conducting and bandura at the National Music Academy of Ukraine where her professors were maestro Pavlo Muravsky, Vitaliy Lysenko, Serhiy Bashtan and Kostiantyn Novytsky. She also studied bandura with Hryhory Kytasty. Oksana has held positions as Artistic Director of Young Naperville Singers, Conductor with Anima, and Coordinator of Children’s Music at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. She currently is Artistic Co-Director of the Women’s Bandura Ensemble of North America, Artistic Director of Spectrum Youth Singers, director of the ODUM  Bandura School in Chicago, and more. Oksana began playing bandura in the Hnat Khotkevych ODUM Bandurists’ Ensemble of Toronto, founded by her mother, Walentina Rodak. She has been awarded the Master Teacher Diploma from the CME Institute for Choral Teacher Education and is winner of the Leslie Bell Conducting Prize.