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