DR. MARTA McCARTHY

CURRENTLY

• An Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, where she has been directing the choirs and teaching musicianship for over fifteen years.
• Conducts the University of Guelph Symphonic Choir, Chamber Singers, Women’s Choir and Women’s Chamber Choir.ALSO
• Conducted the University of Waterloo Choir for five years
• Taught choral techniques at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the University of Toronto.
• Sessional Instructor Wilfrid Laurier University and Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo.
• Conductor, The Toronto Concert Singers, Toronto, Blessed Trinity Liturgical Choir.BACKGROUND

• PhD Music Education – Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
• BEd Faculty of Education, University of Toronto
• MMus Choral Conducting – Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ
• MusBach Music Education – Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
• ARCT Piano Performance. Royal Conservatory of Music, TorontoAWARDS HIGHLIGHTS

• The 1999 Elmer Iseler Conducting Fellowship.
• Ontario Volunteer Service Award
• Named a member of the June Callwood Circle of Caring
• Named a Woman of Distinction for Arts & Culture in Guelph.SOME INTERESTING FACTS

• Honoured to conduct the 2014 Ontario Youth Choir with recent performances in Ottawa, Midland, and Toronto.
• Elected by her peers to be President of Choral Canada, this country’s nationalrepresentative of choral conductors, singers, administrators, composers, industry associates, and accompanists