Soloist and chorister: Integration and responsibility

LORNA MACDONALD maintains a distinctive career as performer, academic and administrator. She is a graduate of Dalhousie University and the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) with post-graduate work in the U.S. and Europe. The esteemed singers Eleanor Steber and Elena Nikolaidi were among her teachers. Her career was based in the U.S. until 1994 when she was appointed Head of Voice Studies at the University of Toronto. There she teaches voice and voice pedagogy in the graduate, undergraduate and opera divisions and she has developed collaborations with St. Michael's Hospital Departments of Otolaryngology and Speech Pathology. Previously she was Associate Professor of Voice at Westminster Choir College, Princeton. Lorna MacDonald has been the recipient of awards from the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Dallas and Fort Worth Operas, NATS, and the National Opera Association. In 1998 she was selected from among Ontario's professors for OCUFA's prestigious Teaching Award for "teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to university teaching ". Her performing includes solo recitals, premières and chamber music with Canada's finest performers, with broadcasts by CBC and PBS. She has performed many lyric-coloratura roles in opera and oratorio to critical acclaim. Professor MacDonald is sought as judge for many vocal competitions such as Metropolitan Opera auditions, E-gré, Canadian Opera Company and music festivals throughout North America. She has been a performer/clinician for the International Congress of Voice Teachers (Philadelphia), National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities (NY), NATS National Convention (San Antonio), Canadian Institute of Church Music (ON) and Internationale Chant Choral (France).