Emmanuel de Leon Jr., DMA Candidate (ABD), is an award-winning Filipino conductor, music educator, scholar, and advocate of contemporary choral music. He was named Outstanding Conductor at the 2nd Tokyo International Choir Competition in 2019, and is a recipient of several grants from the University of Notre Dame and the University of the Philippines (UP)...
Joung-A Yum is a conductor, singer, and pianist currently based in Los Angeles, USA, and was born in South Korea. After receiving her Bachelor’s in Piano Performance from Sookmyung Women’s University, she realized her true passion was vocal music and worked to earn her Master’s in Choral Conducting from the Korean National University of Arts...
Dr. Lauren Ramey is the Associate Director of Choral Activities and Director of Music Education at East Tennessee State University where she conducts BucsWorth Tenor Bass Choir and Greyscale. She also teaches courses in choral conducting and music education. Prior to her appointment at ETSU, Dr. Ramey served as assistant conductor for the Florida...
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Matthew Boutda obtained his Bachelor of Music in Piano from the University of Toronto in 2017 and Master of Sacred Music in Organ in 2020. Matthew is currently studying Master of Music in choral conducting at the University of Western Ontario, where he serves as the Assistant Conductor of the Western...
Mattias Lundberg is a baritone, conductor, and composer from Washington, DC, currently completing a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the Yale School of Music. He is a proud graduate of Haverford College, where he received a B.A. in music. During college, Mattias was the musical director of his acapella group, the Haverford College...
Raoul Carlo (Miggi) Angangco is a Filipino choral conductor and sopranist currently pursuing his Doctor of Music degree in Choral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. As an Associate Instructor for the Choral Department, he has served as director of the IU All-Campus Chorus, and assistant conductor for the Singing Hoosiers and...
Organist With playing described as having “bracing virtuosity” (Chicago Classical Review) and being “fearless and extraordinary” (Amarillo-Globe News), Isabelle Demers has enraptured critics, presenters, and audience members around the globe. Her 2010 recital for the International Society of Organbuilders-American Institute of Organbuilders convention “left the entire congress in an atmosphere of ‘Demers fever’.” That same...
Baritone Renowned for his luminous voice “capable of the most powerful explosions as well as the gentlest covered notes” (Toronto Star) baritone Russell Braun rightfully claims his place on the concert, opera and recital stages of the world. His intelligent and thoughtful portrayals of Chou En-lai, Billy Budd, Prince Andrei, Figaro, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Don...
Raneem Barakat (she/her) is a Syrian Mezzo-Soprano based in Toronto. She has just earned her bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance, with Honours, from the University of Toronto – Faculty of Music, under the supervision of Prof. Darryl Edwards. As a soloist, she performed with many orchestras and choirs, in Canada and around the globe, including...