Lieut. George Henry Ziegler ED, LCTM, ATCM

George Henry Ziegler devoted his life to the musical development of his community. He graduated from the University of Toronto and the Toronto Conservatory of Music.

He was a flautist with the 29th Regiment Band, the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He was organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Church, St. Andrew’s Church and at Trinity United from 1917-1950.

Founder of the Berlin Conservatory of Music in 1913, he retired as principal in 1974. He organized the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Ontario Registered Music Teacher’s Association and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, which he directed. He was leader of the 29th Regiment Band of the Scots Fusiliers of Canada, and of the Kitchener Musical Society Band for forty-one years. He organized the Kitchener Ladies’ Band and the first Kitchener Boys’ Band.

Ziegler served on the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, and on the board of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music.