Sharing Their Voices: A Short History of Choral Societies in Nineteenth-century Newfoundland

GLENN COLTON, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Lakehead University, where he teaches courses in Music History, Canadian Music, Form and Analysis, and Music Criticism. His research areas include Canadian music and nineteenth- and twentieth-century piano music, with a special interest in the music of British Columbia composer Jean Coulthard and the musical traditions of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has contributed articles to the Canadian University Music Review, the International Alliance for Women in Music Journal, the University of Toronto Quarterly, The Phenomenon of Singing, and Fermata, among other publications, and edited the first published edition of Coulthard's Piano Sonata No. 2 (Vancouver: Avondale Press, 1997). Glenn is presently engaged in a major research project entitled Music in Newfoundland and Labrador: A history. As a pianist, he has given many solo and chamber performances in Newfoundland, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia (including the world premiere of Coulthard’s complete Images for solo piano in 1996), and has served as a piano adjudicator at music festivals and competitions in Newfoundland and Ontario. He is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland (B.Mus., 1990), McMaster University (M.A., 1992), and the University of Victoria (Ph.D., 1997). Glenn is delighted to return to his native St. John's for his third Phenomenon of Singing Symposium.