Pratik Gandhi (he/him/his) is a conductor, percussionist, clinician, and researcher based in Toronto. He currently serves as music director of the Milton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Rouge River Winds, as well as sessional instructor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, where he directs wind bands and teaches conducting. He was the founding music director of Soup Can Theatre and was also the resident conductor for the Toy Piano Composers. Pratik is a doctoral student at York University, where his research, supported by an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, investigates issues of equity and representation among wind band composers in Canada.

Pratik has been a guest conductor for orchestras and bands across Southwestern Ontario, including the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oakville Symphony, the Northdale Concert Band, and the Wellington Wind Symphony. He also served as assistant conductor of Symphony on the Bay (now the Burlington Symphony Orchestra) for five years, and as associate conductor with the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra for three years.

In frequent demand as a guest conductor and adjudicator across Canada, Pratik serves as adjudicator and Vice-Chair for the concert band division of MusicFest Canada, as well as syllabus coordinator for the OBA Provincial Band Festival. He adjudicated concert bands at the 2017 Alberta International Band Festival in Calgary and is a perennial adjudicator at the TCDSB Music Festival and the Trills & Thrills Festival in Toronto. Pratik regularly presents workshops on conducting techniques, wind repertoire, and percussion pedagogy.

Pratik received a B.Mus. in music education and an M.Mus. in conducting from the University of Western Ontario, where he studied conducting with Dr. Colleen Richardson, Jerome Summers and James McKay, and percussion with Dr. Jill Ball.  For more information, please visit www.pratikgandhi.ca&source=gmail&ust=1757612415423000&usg=AOvVaw2fS9yjvT9iFGkVUOErn0fQ" data-removefontsize="true" data-originalcomputedfontsize="14.666667">www.pratikgandhi.ca