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ARTS NOTES » Shortlist for Vancouver Chamber artistic director spans Canada, U.S., and Europe by Janet Smith on January 24th, 2018 at 1:36 PM

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The Vancouver Chamber Choir has released its candidate list for artistic director, and its 3 Martyn Brown: And the names come from as far afield as Europe. winner of the B.C. Liberal leadership debate was… Founding artistic and executive director Jon Washburn is to continue to lead the John Horgan choir until his successor has been chosen, when Washburn will take on his new role as 4 Vancouver's first vegan conductor emeritus and principal guest conductor. cheese shop set to open soon in Mount Pleasant The list of candidates is the following, with each appearing in performance with the VCC with several plant-based products during this season or the 2018/19 season. (The next one is Friday [January 26] at the Dunbar Ryerson United Church, featuring candidate Timothy Shantz [see below] in a 5 Closure of 10 Safeway program called Rivers of Light.) stores in B.C. reflects intense competition in Metro Vancouver grocery Kathleen Allan: conductor, composer, and soprano, and director of choral studies and trade associate orchestra conductor at the Vancouver Academy of Music; artistic director of Canzona, Winnipeg's professional baroque choir, and founding co-artistic director of the interdisciplinary chamber collective Arkora.

Erick Lichte: director of Chor Leoni Men's Choir since 2013; founding member, singer, and artistic director of the Minneapolis-based male vocal ensemble Cantus.

Nicol Matt: German conductor and founder and conductor of the Chamber Choir of Europe; former conductor of the Amadeus Choir. A lecturer and judge at many international choral competitions. Zoltán Pad: chief conductor of the Hungarian Radio Choir. Teacher of choral at the Liszt Academy's Kodály Institute.

Timothy Shantz: chorus master of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, artistic director of Spiritus Chamber Choir, and the founder and artistic director of Luminous Voices.

John William Trotter: Canadian-born, Chicago-based associate professor of music at the Wheaton College Conservatory and principal music director of the professional ensemble Chicago a cappella; past conductor of more than a dozen professional and orchestras on three continents.

Kari Turunen: artistic director of the male chorus Akademiska Sångföreningen, Kampin Laulu chamber choir, the choir of the cantors of the Finnish Lutheran Church, Chorus Cantorum Finlandiae, Ensemble Petraloysio, and the Spira Ensemble. 6 Patti Bacchus: Renaming Crosstown elementary a chance for Vancouver Michael Zaugg: Swiss-born, Canada-based artistic director and principal conductor of School Board to do the the professional chamber choir Pro Coro Canada in Edmonton; former chorus master of right thing the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. 7 Jack White announcement shows once again he has little JOIN THE DISCUSSION time for the world's concert cretins

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