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October 20, 2011
Sir Ernest
MacMillan Memorial Foundation
Announces $12,000 Award for Choral Conducting
(Note participation of the Elmer Iseler
Singers, in the article.)
The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation is pleased to
announce its award for 2012 in choral conducting. This is in recognition of Sir
Ernest MacMillan's celebrated career as a conductor, in particular his many
years with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (1942–1957) and the Toronto Symphony
Orchestra (1931–1956).
In conjunction with the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, Choirs
Ontario, and the Elmer Iseler Singers, the final round of the MacMillan
Foundation award process will take place at Podium, Canada's National
Conference, in Ottawa on May 19, 2012. Three finalists, selected through a
competitive process that is national in scope, will work with the Elmer Iseler
Singers in front of a jury and live audience.
The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award is intended to provide
significant career development opportunities to a young Canadian musician or
music scholar, typically at the graduate level. Reflecting Sir Ernest's
wide-ranging endeavours, the award is offered biennially in a wide variety of
musical domains. Notable recipients include Bernard Labadie (founder and
conductor of Les Violons du Roy and the choir La Chapelle de Québec), James
Sommerville (Principal Horn of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), soprano Meredith
Hall, the Tokai String Quartet (finalists in the 2004 Banff International String
Quartet Competition), the Lloyd Carr-Harris String Quartet (Grand Prize Winners
of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition) and, most recently Geneviève
Leclair, assistant conductor of the Boston Ballet Orchestra.
Sir Ernest's sons, Keith and Ross, founded the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial
Foundation in 1984 with a donation from the MacMillan family. Additional funds
have been obtained through the generosity of other donors. The principal goal of
the Foundation is to assist young musicians in their advanced education at the
graduate level and in so doing commemorate a great Canadian and his unique
career.
Further information on the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation can be found
at:
www:macmillanfoundation.com
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