PODIUM 2022 will be held in Toronto, Ontario - May 19-23, 2022 in partnership with Choirs Ontario
Mark your calendars! More information coming soon.
Choral Canada is seeking people from Ontario and Canada to join as members of the Podium 2022 Planning Committee. Please submit your expression of interest by Friday, April 23, 2021. Click HERE for more information.
Announcing Podium 2022 Co-Chairs
Choral Canada is glad to announce that Elaine Choi and Mark Ramsay have been selected as Co-Chairs for Podium 2022 in Toronto!
Elaine Choi is currently in her tenth year as Director of Music at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, overseeing a vibrant music ministry that includes a choir school program, sanctuary choir and professional chamber choir. Elaine is the conductor of the Soprano Alto Chorus at the University of Toronto and the founder of chamber ensemble Babεl, with a mission to bridge cultures through choral music.
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Mark Ramsay is Assistant Professor of Music Education and Coordinator of Choral Activities at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at Western University. In addition to his teaching duties at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, he is the conductor of Western University Singers. He is also the artistic director of Toronto’s Exultate Chamber Singers and the editor of Choirs Ontario’s publication, Dynamic.
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Cancelled: PODIUM in Montreal, Québec - May 14-17, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Choral Canada and Alliance chorale du Québec had to make the difficult decision to cancel PODIUM 2020 in Montréal. We are grateful to the staff, the planning committees, and our co-chairs Roseline Blain and Patricia Abbott for all their hard work and creative energy toward this program. We are also grateful to all our delegates and other participants who donated back partial or entire Podium fees back to the program. Because of your generosity, Choral Canada and Alliance choral du Québec have been able to move forward on a stronger foot, continuing to provide high quality programs and services, particularly during this difficult time. We are also grateful to the Government of Canada (Canadian Arts Presenter Fund) and the SOCAN Foundation for honouring their support of the PODIUM 2020 program.
PODIUM 2020 gratefully acknowledges the support of:
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About PODIUM, our National Choral Conference & Festival
PODIUM is Choral Canada’s national biennial bilingual choral Conference and Festival and the top meeting place for Canada's choral community and beyond.
PODIUM is co-presented by Choral Canada and one of Canada's provincial choral organizations every two years. It brings together choral practitioners, researchers, administrators, students, representatives from the music industry, choristers, composers and other members of the choral community from across the country and beyond for professional development, the sharing and proliferation of ideas and research in choral music, performance, networking, and to celebrate Canada's choral communities.
The goals of PODIUM are to:
More specifically, the PODIUM Conference & Festival aims to:
History of PODIUM
Early PODIUM conferences (1982, 1984 and 1986) were held as part of existing provincial events in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia respectively. The first self-supporting conference, PODIUM East, was hosted by the New Brunswick Choral Federation and Mount Allison University Department of Music in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1988. While each conference has its own special flavour, focus and theme, the name PODIUM has been maintained since that time.
PODIUM is co-presented by Choral Canada and one of Canada's provincial choral organizations every two years. It brings together choral practitioners, researchers, administrators, students, representatives from the music industry, choristers, composers and other members of the choral community from across the country and beyond for professional development, the sharing and proliferation of ideas and research in choral music, performance, networking, and to celebrate Canada's choral communities.
The goals of PODIUM are to:
- celebrate & recognize choral excellence in Canada
- provide professional development, performance, research dissemination and networking opportunities for Canada’s choral community, and
- undertake choral advocacy initiatives to increase awareness of choral music and engage new participants.
More specifically, the PODIUM Conference & Festival aims to:
- Connect the choral community: PODIUM provides a setting for participants to mobilize knowledge through networking; attend a variety of presentation formats such as research paper presentations, workshops, panel discussions, roundtable dialogues, poster sessions, conducting masterclasses, reading sessions, and lecture-recitals; sing with and for each other
- Expand the choral community: PODIUM will expand current definitions of choral music by presenting diverse vocal ensembles; showcasing performances with varied musical genres; creating and engaging with other art forms; and growing audiences (public) from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and cultural groups
- Inspire the choral community: PODIUM inspires and ignites an interest in, and passion for, choral singing through exposure to new repertoire, innovative pedagogies, and creative performances; building awareness of the continuum of types of choral ensembles (from professional choirs to community-based vocal ensembles); and providing opportunities to develop excellence in choral technique.
History of PODIUM
Early PODIUM conferences (1982, 1984 and 1986) were held as part of existing provincial events in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia respectively. The first self-supporting conference, PODIUM East, was hosted by the New Brunswick Choral Federation and Mount Allison University Department of Music in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1988. While each conference has its own special flavour, focus and theme, the name PODIUM has been maintained since that time.
Previous Podiums have been held in:
1982 Kingston, ON
1984 Winnipeg, MB
1986 Vancouver, BC
1988 Sackville, NB
1990 Calgary, AB
1992 Waterloo, ON
1994 Saskatoon, SK
1996 Québec City, QC
1998 Halifax, NS
2000 Edmonton, AB
2002 Toronto, ON
2004 Winnipeg, MB
2006 Victoria, BC
2008 Sackville, NB
2010 Saskatoon, SK
2012 Ottawa, ON
2014 Halifax, NS
2016 Edmonton, AB
2018 St. John's, NL
2020 Montreal, QC (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2022 Toronto, ON...coming soon!
1984 Winnipeg, MB
1986 Vancouver, BC
1988 Sackville, NB
1990 Calgary, AB
1992 Waterloo, ON
1994 Saskatoon, SK
1996 Québec City, QC
1998 Halifax, NS
2000 Edmonton, AB
2002 Toronto, ON
2004 Winnipeg, MB
2006 Victoria, BC
2008 Sackville, NB
2010 Saskatoon, SK
2012 Ottawa, ON
2014 Halifax, NS
2016 Edmonton, AB
2018 St. John's, NL
2020 Montreal, QC (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
2022 Toronto, ON...coming soon!