JURY - MASTERS
Lisette Canton博士， 合唱节艺术总监
加拿大约克大学音乐学院副教授、合唱指挥系主任、合唱音乐研究生课程负责人
加拿大国际合唱节艺术总监
加拿大渥太华巴赫合唱团创始人、艺术总监
美国卡内基音乐厅、纽约林肯中心客座指挥
Canton博士是加拿大约克大学副教授，音乐学院合唱指挥系主任，合唱音乐研究生课程负责人，并担任室内合唱团、音乐会合唱团和男声合唱团指挥。
Canton博士还是国际知名的加拿大渥太华巴赫合唱团创始人兼艺术总监，多次率团在加拿大、美国以及欧洲和亚洲多国进行巡演和受邀参加知名的艺术节表演。
在约克大学任职之前，Canton博士曾在卡尔顿大学，渥太华大学，伊利诺伊大学香槟分校和麦吉尔大学等多所大学任教。
Canton博士是加拿大国际合唱节艺术总监，并在2018年2月首届加中文化联委会上，在中国文化部长雒树刚和加拿大文化部长乔美兰的共同见证下，与中国国际合唱节正式签约，达成合作。Canton博士同时担任中国国际合唱节大师。
Canton博士同时还兼任卡内基音乐厅和纽约林肯中心客座指挥，以及美国和加拿大多个合唱团的客座指挥。
Canton博士出生于路易斯安那州新奥尔良，但大部分时间生活在加拿大，拥有伊利诺伊大学香槟分校合唱指挥博士学位、伊士曼音乐学院合唱指挥音乐硕士学位和麦吉尔大学表演音乐学士学位。她的指挥师从Donald Neuen, Don V. Moses, Fred Stoltzfus, Ann Howard Jones, Chet Alwes和Paul Vermel; 声乐师从Jan Simons, Lorie Gratis and James Bailey，以及钢琴师从Esther Master and Dorothy Morton，并且是多个专业协会成员。
Antonio Llaca 教授
Antonio Llaca 教授出生于古巴，成长于加拿大。他任教于卡尔顿大学和 咖第诺音乐学院以及南美几所大学，教授合唱指挥和古典吉他。他在Sherbrook 大学获得了合唱指挥硕士学位，师从世界闻名的音乐大师 Michael Zaugg, Christopher Jackson, Robert Ingari, Patrick Roux, Laurence Ewashko and Luis Zea.
Llaca 教授常年活跃于加拿大和南美的合唱舞台， 指挥、教授合唱，在世界各地为合唱艺术辛勤播下了种子，获得了丰硕的成果。
作为合唱艺术教授，Llaca 教授指导过许多个加拿大和国际上的合唱团，包括中国的团体，在世界闻名的卡内基音乐厅、加拿大国家艺术中心等地举行了音乐会，获奖无数。
Llaca教授是广受欢迎的合唱临床指导教授，曾在2018年北京合唱音乐国际联合会（IFCM）以及各种加拿大和国际机构和合唱节上举办研讨会。作为乐器演奏家，他也在加拿大各地举办过多场器乐表演，包括同加拿大国家艺术中心管弦乐团和蒙特利尔的Orchester Métropolitain的合作演出。
Llaca教授是加拿大合唱音乐艺术的倡导者，每次在表演中他都会在曲目中加入重要的加拿大音乐，并受本地作曲家的委托为音乐会制作合唱作品。 他以编制出品新人新作品和小众作品闻名。 此外，Llaca教授还为渥太华的音乐界和观众们带来了William Billings，Esteban Salas，JoséAngelLamas和Manuel de Zumaya 等殖民地时代作曲家的作品。
Llaca教授带着他的合唱演奏团巡回演出，游遍了加拿大、拉丁美洲和亚洲。 作为一名热情洋溢的指挥家和教育家，他以他的音乐和合唱艺术知识而享誉世界。 Llaca教授的2019-2020演出季将包括指挥来自美国和捷克共和国的巡回合唱团的表演，还会与加勒缪交响乐团合作的勃拉姆斯安魂曲表演。
Llaca 教授常年活跃于加拿大和南美的合唱舞台， 指挥、教授合唱，在世界各地为合唱艺术辛勤播下了种子，获得了丰硕的成果。
作为合唱艺术教授，Llaca 教授指导过许多个加拿大和国际上的合唱团，包括中国的团体，在世界闻名的卡内基音乐厅、加拿大国家艺术中心等地举行了音乐会，获奖无数。
Llaca教授是广受欢迎的合唱临床指导教授，曾在2018年北京合唱音乐国际联合会（IFCM）以及各种加拿大和国际机构和合唱节上举办研讨会。作为乐器演奏家，他也在加拿大各地举办过多场器乐表演，包括同加拿大国家艺术中心管弦乐团和蒙特利尔的Orchester Métropolitain的合作演出。
Llaca教授是加拿大合唱音乐艺术的倡导者，每次在表演中他都会在曲目中加入重要的加拿大音乐，并受本地作曲家的委托为音乐会制作合唱作品。 他以编制出品新人新作品和小众作品闻名。 此外，Llaca教授还为渥太华的音乐界和观众们带来了William Billings，Esteban Salas，JoséAngelLamas和Manuel de Zumaya 等殖民地时代作曲家的作品。
Llaca教授带着他的合唱演奏团巡回演出，游遍了加拿大、拉丁美洲和亚洲。 作为一名热情洋溢的指挥家和教育家，他以他的音乐和合唱艺术知识而享誉世界。 Llaca教授的2019-2020演出季将包括指挥来自美国和捷克共和国的巡回合唱团的表演，还会与加勒缪交响乐团合作的勃拉姆斯安魂曲表演。
Kathleen Allan
Kathleen Allan is the incoming Artistic Director and Conductor of the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto and is the Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional Baroque choir. Originally from St. John’s, NL, Ms. Allan is in high demand as a conductor, composer and clinician and is equally comfortable working in early, contemporary, and symphonic repertoire. Until 2019, Ms. Allan served as the Director of Choral Studies and Associate Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at the Vancouver Academy of Music and was the Associate Conductor of the Vancouver Bach Choir. She was the 2016 recipient of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Prize in Choral Conducting which accompanied her role as Apprentice Conductor of the National Youth Choir of Canada. In 2015, Ms. Allan made her Asian debut conducting Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Japan. She is a founding co-Artistic Director of Arkora, an electric vocal chamber consort dedicated to blurring lines between the music of our time and masterworks from the ancient repertoire.
Her compositions have been commissioned, performed and recorded by ensembles throughout the Americas and Europe and have been featured at two World Symposiums on Choral Music. Her collaboration with Labrador youth choir Ullugiagâtsuk was featured at the National Arts Centre Canada Day celebrations on July 1, 2017. She is published by Boosey and Hawkes, Cypress Choral Music, and is a MusicSpoke composer. Also an accomplished soprano, she has appeared as a soloist with the National Broadcast Orchestra, Berkshire Choral Festival, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In addition to freelancing regularly in Canada and the US, she has performed with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Early Music Vancouver, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Vienna), Skylark Vocal Ensemble (Atlanta), and the Yale Schola Cantorum. She holds a degree in composition from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in conducting from Yale University.
www. kathleenallan.com
Her compositions have been commissioned, performed and recorded by ensembles throughout the Americas and Europe and have been featured at two World Symposiums on Choral Music. Her collaboration with Labrador youth choir Ullugiagâtsuk was featured at the National Arts Centre Canada Day celebrations on July 1, 2017. She is published by Boosey and Hawkes, Cypress Choral Music, and is a MusicSpoke composer. Also an accomplished soprano, she has appeared as a soloist with the National Broadcast Orchestra, Berkshire Choral Festival, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In addition to freelancing regularly in Canada and the US, she has performed with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Early Music Vancouver, the Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Vienna), Skylark Vocal Ensemble (Atlanta), and the Yale Schola Cantorum. She holds a degree in composition from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in conducting from Yale University.
www. kathleenallan.com
Dylan Bell
In a word… multifaceted. Juno-nominated Dylan Bell’s musical curiosity has kept him effortlessly crossing and blurring musical boundaries.
Since he first discovered his parents’ eclectic Beethoven-to-Bob Dylan record collection, Dylan’s musical curiosity has kept him effortlessly crossing and blurring musical boundaries. Dylan is a mainstay on the Canadian music scene, having sung with many of Canada’s premiere vocal ensembles such as Cadence; Hampton Avenue, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, The Watch, the eclectic FreePlay Duo, and the 1980s-era vocal pop group Retrocity. When he’s not singing, he freelances as a keyboard player and bassist, working with varied artists from world-music’s Autorickshaw, to veteran rockers Honeymoon Suite, to his own Police tribute band, Synchronicty III, as well as studio and theatrical work.
Behind the mixing board, Dylan has produced or engineered several award-winning albums, including a Juno co-nomination as Best Engineer for the Cadence album Twenty For One, the album Ferris Wheels with the world-renowned Swingle Singers from London, England, and the most recent, Juno-nominated album with the a cappella legends The Nylons, Skin Tight.
Dylan’s work as a composer and arranger has garnered international recognition, as winner of the John Lennon International Songwriting Competition and a Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award. When it comes to vocal arranging, Dylan wrote the book… literally. His major work “A Cappella Arranging” (co-written with Deke Sharon) was published by Hal Leonard Music in 2013 to international acclaim. His choral compositions can be heard in such varying contexts as the Victoria Scholars, the Canadian Chamber Choir, and Cadence. Dylan is also in demand worldwide as an instrumental teacher and vocal/choral clinician.
www.dylanbell.ca
Since he first discovered his parents’ eclectic Beethoven-to-Bob Dylan record collection, Dylan’s musical curiosity has kept him effortlessly crossing and blurring musical boundaries. Dylan is a mainstay on the Canadian music scene, having sung with many of Canada’s premiere vocal ensembles such as Cadence; Hampton Avenue, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, The Watch, the eclectic FreePlay Duo, and the 1980s-era vocal pop group Retrocity. When he’s not singing, he freelances as a keyboard player and bassist, working with varied artists from world-music’s Autorickshaw, to veteran rockers Honeymoon Suite, to his own Police tribute band, Synchronicty III, as well as studio and theatrical work.
Behind the mixing board, Dylan has produced or engineered several award-winning albums, including a Juno co-nomination as Best Engineer for the Cadence album Twenty For One, the album Ferris Wheels with the world-renowned Swingle Singers from London, England, and the most recent, Juno-nominated album with the a cappella legends The Nylons, Skin Tight.
Dylan’s work as a composer and arranger has garnered international recognition, as winner of the John Lennon International Songwriting Competition and a Contemporary A Cappella Recording Award. When it comes to vocal arranging, Dylan wrote the book… literally. His major work “A Cappella Arranging” (co-written with Deke Sharon) was published by Hal Leonard Music in 2013 to international acclaim. His choral compositions can be heard in such varying contexts as the Victoria Scholars, the Canadian Chamber Choir, and Cadence. Dylan is also in demand worldwide as an instrumental teacher and vocal/choral clinician.
www.dylanbell.ca
Anna Lynn Murphy
Anna Lynn Murphy received a Bachelor of Music degree from Queen’s University. As Founder and Artistic Director of Young Singers, Anna Lynn continues to proudly share her musical expertise, her love of singing and her energy. She maintains a private voice studio and enjoys working with singers of all ages. She adjudicates at music festivals and often provides clinics for school boards, churches and community choirs. Anna Lynn is Music Director at St. Dunstan of Canterbury Anglican Church.
