Conducting
Current Artistic Director
Concino Chorus and Collaborative Arts Society
Choral Development Vision
Enliven choral singing by celebrating the past and joyfully exploring the possibilities of the future in a global and local multi-cultural, emotional, spiritual and heartfelt context.
- Embrace and include all individuals and cultures – we are bundles of joy to be loved and cherished and choral singing is one way to do this.
- Allow music to connect us to our innermost hearts – this includes physical (heart beats have been shown to sync up when singing), emotional and spiritual connections.
- Making the words and music understandable and authentic to the culture that produced them.
- Singing together to find the hidden “rhythm” which some people describe as the “beat”, “flow” or being “in the zone”.
- Working on breathing that is more than just supported singing – it is the foundation of choral inspiration. A choir that breathes together, sings together!
- Focusing with intent on listening to each other, vowel formation and voice placement which come together to produce the magic of singing – making beautiful sounds that are more than the sum of their parts.
Conducting Samples
Conducting Experience
1988 - 1995
Music Director and Conductor of Christ Moravian Church Choir
1990 - 1993
Conductor of the Interdenominational Massed Choir for the Family Night of Christmas Music
1998 - 2000
Conductor of PanCanadian Christmas Choir
2004 - 2006
Co-Conductor with Mandy Loban-Jordan of MidSun United Church Children’s Choir
2015 - 2019
Conductor of Calgary Suzuki Strings Association Spring Festival Workshop Ensemble (String and Classical Guitar Orchestra)
2017 - 2020
Assistant Conductor of St. Mary’s University Choir under Malcolm Edwards
2018 - 2019
Conductor of String & Classical Guitar Orchestra at the International String Gala premiering works jointly composed with Mandy Loban-Jordan – “Tango Enredado” and “Voyages – Epic Journey”
2020 - 2022
Concino Chorus and Collaborative Arts Society – founder, conductor and artistic director
Recent Workshop Experience
Luminous Voices Conducting Workshop led by Timothy Shantz
Attended a week-long workshop in August 2021 led by Dr. Timothy Shantz. The workshop included studies in Alexander Technique with Dr. Timothy Pyper and we were honoured to have Cree composer Andrew Balfour as a special guest and musical resource and singer/composer Sherryl Sewepagaham. Repertoire included Balfour - Ambe, Anthem for a Doomed Youth, Qilak, Vision Chant, Braden - Crooked by Nature, Byrd - Regis Tharsis a 5, Gibbons - Out of the Deep, Hawley - No one asked me, No one asked me, Janmohamed - Sun on Water, Pärt - Nunc Dimittis, Sewepagaham - Enchantment of the Crickets, Okâwîmâw askiy, Togni - Psaume 98, Wadsworth - Far, Far away.
Spiritus "Sound Space" led by Spiritus conductor Mark Bardel and Jean-Louis Bleau.
Attended the one day workshop led by conductor Mark Bardel, Repertoire included Margaret Rose - Arcady, Margaret King - My Song, Victoria - O Magnum Mysterium, Bob Ingalls - Ave Maria.
