{"id":73364,"date":"2021-12-14T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=73364"},"modified":"2021-12-14T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T17:04:52","slug":"scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-five-emerging-conductors-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/12\/14\/scoop-toronto-mendelssohn-choir-names-five-emerging-conductors-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Names Five Emerging Conductors For Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73365\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/TMC-2022-Choral_Conductors__Symposium.jpg\" alt=\"(L-R) Joshua Boggs, Ann Chen, Marcus Desir, Sarah Maria Leung, Matt Taylor; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium participants. (Photo courtesy of the TMC)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Joshua Boggs, Ann Chen, Marcus Desir, Sarah Maria Leung, Matt Taylor; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium participants. (Photo courtesy of the TMC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a three-year break, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has announced the names of five hopefuls to participate in this year\u2019s Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmchoir.org\/tmc-choral-conductors-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hopefuls<\/a> (listed below) will arrive in Toronto this winter for a five-day workshop with artistic director Jean-S\u00e9bastien Vall\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joshua Boggs (Emory, Virginia) \u2014\u00a0Assistant Professor of Choral and Vocal Studies at Emory &amp; Henry College in Virginia, and Founding Artistic Director of AppOpera.<\/li>\n<li>Ann Chen (Los Angeles, California) \u2014 Currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in choral music at the University of Southern California. Before that, she taught and conducted in Vancouver, B.C.<\/li>\n<li>Marcus Desir (Los Angeles, California) \u2014 Conductor of the recently established Los Angeles-based singing group, De-Nuance, and is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in choral music at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Maria Leung (Toronto, Ontario) \u2014Music Director at the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto, Assistant Conductor at Pax Christi Chorale, and the project-based group Incontra Vocal Ensemble.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Taylor (Athens, Georgia) \u2014\u00a0 Currently a DMA student at the University of Georgia, pursuing a degree in Choral Conducting on a Hoveland Choral Fellowship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What they\u2019ll learn<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The conductors will work on repertoire on the theme of Songs of Sanctuary: a musical reflection on the meaning of exile and sanctuary through the works of Caroline Shaw, Paul Hindemith, Roderick Williams, Benjamin Britten, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The Symposium concludes with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/toronto-mendelssohn-choir-choral-conductors-symposium-concert-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a concert on Feb 5, 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why it matters<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Education has increasingly become an essential part of classical music organization mandates related to community engagement. These programs offer a chance for new talent to gain experience in a professional setting. Most of these conductors will be looking to hone the skills needed to run auditions, rehearsals and performances of their own choirs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a three-year break, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir has announced the names of five hopefuls to participate in this year\u2019s Choral Conductors\u2019 Symposium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":73365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,11,875,39,63],"tags":[39898,30643,39897,39899,39901,39900,3349],"yst_prominent_words":[10117,27365,6914],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/TMC-2022-Choral_Conductors__Symposium.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-j5i","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73366,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73364\/revisions\/73366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73364"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}