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Eventually, pedagogical and musical interests amalgamated and I began my studies in choral conducting and music education. During my 7 years at the Music Academy in Basel, I taught Junior High School in Münchenstein. Specialized in music education, I worked with 60 to 80 teenagers on a daily basis, instructing singing, choir, dance, music theory and history. Having concluded my degrees in Basel, and then Stockholm, I moved to Montreal where I founded the Montreal Choral Institute. This umbrella organization facilitates workshops for amateur choirs, masterclasses for conductors and produces the professional choir voces boreales. The drive behind the venture was to create an environment to bring together my creative and my pedagogical vision. Pro Coro Canada has over the last 5 years put in place an Emerging Artist program that provides opportunities for conductors, composers, and singers, both as individuals and in our youth choir #connect. Conductors lead rehearsals and direct Pro Coro in subscription concerts, composers have their new creations workshopped, performed and recorded, and singers receive coaching, and perform alongside the professionals. In addition, annual reading sessions with MacEwan University yields 8 to 10 new choral works by students. The Choral Art program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity has established itself as a go-to place for conductors and composers from across North-America and Europe to immerse themselves in choral music. And the visiting choirs from Alberta and beyond experience new ways of singing, and working with the voice and the body. The next edition of Choral Art will take place in 2023.
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