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SUMMARY:Singsation with Elaine Choi
DESCRIPTION:Join Elaine Choi for a Singsation workshop.\nIt’s a community singing workshop\, and a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning – with people who love to sing! \nThe Theme: Finding Resilience Through Song\n\nIn October of 2024\, conductor\, educator\, and friend of TMChoir\, Elaine Choi was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her public display of resilience as she embarked on her cancer journey has inspired musicians across the country. Together\, we will journey with Elaine through the music that showed her adversity in the darkness\, enabled her to find courage within\, and most importantly\, build an unwavering community of support and love. Experience how repertoire creates connection and highlights our shared resilience in this Singsation. Immerse yourself in the art of togetherness\, and celebrate the strength found in hope and human connection – through song! \nYour Conductor: \nElaine Choi (D.M.A.) immerses herself in Canada’s vibrant choral community as a conductor\, educator\, adjudicator\, chorister\, and collaborative pianist. She currently serves as Director of Music at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church\, Artistic Director of Pax Christi Chorale\, and Founder & Artistic Director of Babεl\, an ensemble dedicated to highlighting choral music of the Asian diaspora. Active nationally and internationally\, she has led performances at the PODIUM National Choral Conference (2024)\, Ontario Youth Choir (2024)\, Luminato Festival (2025)\, AMIS Festival (2025/2026)\, and the Bangkok International Choral Festival (2022)\, among others. Elaine earned her Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Toronto under the mentorship of Dr. Hilary Apfelstadt and was awarded the Ontario Arts Council’s 2023 Leslie Bell Prize. \nLearn more about Elaine Choi. \nThe workshop will take place in Cameron Hall at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. \nTicket: $15 (+ fees) online or $20 at the door \nRegister for the Workshop \nSingsation is made possible through the support of our donors
URL:https://www.tmchoir.org/event/singsation-with-elaine-choi/
LOCATION:Yorkminster Park Baptist Church\, 1585 Yonge St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4T 1Z9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Singsation
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SUMMARY:Singsation with Kai Leung
DESCRIPTION:Join Kai Leung for a Singsation workshop.\nIt’s a community singing workshop\, and a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning\, with people who love to sing! \nThe Theme: A New Generation of Canadian Choral Composers \nJoin us for an energizing Singsation with conductor\, composer\, and TMSinger Kai Leung celebrating a new generation of Canadian choral composers whose fresh perspectives are opening new possibilities for the choral art form. Together\, we’ll explore music by Sami Anguaya\, Francesca Hauser\, Nicholas Wanstall\, and more\, uncovering the stories\, ideas\, and inspirations that give each work its distinctive voice. Discover your next favourite composer and hear the future of Canadian choral music come alive. \nYour Conductor: \nKai Leung is a choral conductor\, composer\, singer\, voice teacher\, and a baritone with the TMSingers. He is also the Artistic Director of Modern Sound Collective and Oakville Choral. A graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music\, Kai’s compositions have been performed by choirs across Canada\, the United States\, and Europe. \nKai is the 2026 winner of the Ruth Watson Henderson Composition Competition\, presented by Choirs Ontario\, and the 2023 recipient of the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s Debbie Fleming Prize for Choral Composition. In 2026\, he conducted the World Youth Choir in concert in Shanghai\, China. \nLearn more about Kai Leung. \nThe workshop will take place in Cameron Hall at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. \nAdmission: $20 (+ fees) online or $30 at the door \nRegister for the Workshop \nSingsation is made possible through the support of our donors
URL:https://www.tmchoir.org/event/singsation-with-kai-leung/
LOCATION:Yorkminster Park Baptist Church\, 1585 Yonge St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4T 1Z9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Singsation
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SUMMARY:Singsation with Jean-Sébastien Vallée
DESCRIPTION:Join Jean-Sébastien Vallée for a Singsation workshop.\nIt’s a community singing workshop\, and a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning\, with people who love to sing! \nThe Theme: From Handel to Elgar: Exploring the Great English Choral Tradition \nExplore some of the greatest works in the English choral tradition\, from the grandeur of Handel to the rich\, expansive sound world of Elgar. Through music by composers including Handel\, Parry\, Stanford and Elgar\, we’ll trace the evolution of this remarkable tradition and discover how its sound\, style and institutions helped shape choral music far beyond Britain\, including the development of Canada’s own choral culture.  \nJoin Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée for a journey through some of the most enduring works in the English choral tradition. \nYour Conductor: \nInternationally-recognized conductor\, scholar\, and pedagogue Jean-Sébastien Vallée was named as the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir’s 8th Artistic Director in June 2021. In addition to his work as Artistic Director of the TMChoir\, Jean-Sébastien is Full Professor of Music\, Director of Choral Studies\, and Coordinator of the Ensembles & Conducting Area at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and was recently appointed the Director of Choruses of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Conductor of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Jean-Sébastien has conducted ensembles throughout North America\, Europe\, and Asia and has prepared choruses for leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra\, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra\, and the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa. In addition to his interest in choral\, operatic\, and orchestral music\, Jean-Sébastien is an advocate for contemporary music\, making one of his priorities to premiere and commission works by young composers and program rarely performed repertoire. He has recorded extensively under the label ATMA Classique.  \nLearn more about Jean-Sébastien. \nThe workshop will take place in Cameron Hall at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. \nAdmission: $20 (+ fees) online or $30 at the door \nRegister for the Workshop \nSingsation is made possible through the support of our donors
URL:https://www.tmchoir.org/event/singsation-with-jean-sebastien-vallee-3/
LOCATION:Yorkminster Park Baptist Church\, 1585 Yonge St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4T 1Z9\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Singsation with Jody Malone
DESCRIPTION:Join Jody Malone for a Singsation workshop.\nIt’s a community singing workshop\, and a wonderful way to spend a Saturday morning\, with people who love to sing! \nThe Theme: Belonging\, Connection & Shared Music-Making \nMusic has a remarkable way of bringing us together. Join Jody Malone\, Artistic Director of Singing Out\, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQIA+ mixed choir\, for a life-affirming Singsation exploring two expansive\, transcendent works by composers Ola Gjeilo and Elaine Hagenberg. \nInspired by Singing Out’s inclusive\, non-auditioned community\, this session welcomes everyone\, from first-time singers to experienced musicians. Together\, we’ll discover how different voices\, skills and perspectives can come together to create something beautiful. Come and experience the joy of singing together!  \nYour Conductor: \nJody Malone is the Artistic Director of Singing Out\, Toronto\, as well as a retired music teacher from Cawthra Park Secondary School for the Performing Arts in Mississauga. She has worked with all the pianists there\, as well as having conducted the women’s choir\, the mixed choir\, the jazz choir and the Mass choir. A graduate of McGill University with an Honours in School Music\, a graduate of the University of Toronto in Education and a graduate of OISE Toronto in Counselling Psychology\, Jody brings an emotional understanding of the power of music to be essential to the healing process. Without music\, we are lesser human beings. With music\, we are limitless.  \nThe workshop will take place in Cameron Hall at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. \nAdmission: $20 (+ fees) online or $30 at the door \nRegister for the Workshop \nSingsation is made possible through the support of our donors
URL:https://www.tmchoir.org/event/singsation-with-jody-malone/
LOCATION:Yorkminster Park Baptist Church\, 1585 Yonge St.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4T 1Z9\, Canada
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