UWO Singers
The University of Western Ontario Singers (formerly known as the Faculty of Music Singers) has long been recognized as one of Canada's most outstanding university mixed choral ensembles. The choir has been a repeat winner of the CBC Radio Choral Competitions and has placed first in the BBC International Choral Competition. They have toured in Canada and the United States and have sung for national conventions of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Kodály Society of Canada, and have collaborated with other ensembles in events such as University Voices and several concerts with Orchestra London and London Pro Musica. They have premiered numerous commissions and new works, including R. Murray Schafer's Apocalypsis. The diverse repertoire styles performed by the choir are reflected in their most recent recordings, “The King Shall Rejoice” and “Echo: Choral Creativity in Motion”.
Selected by audition from students across campus, most members of the UWO Singers are voice majors in UWO’s Don Wright Faculty of Music. The choir performs between six and ten concerts each academic year both on and off campus, including regular performances with the UWO Symphony Orchestra.
Preceded by the University Choir directed by Alfred Rosé, the ensemble was developed as a Faculty of Music ensemble by Deral Johnson who conducted the choir from 1969-89. Since Johnson's retirement, conductors have included Ken Fleet, Gerald Neufeld, and current director, Victoria Meredith who has conducted the choir since 1998.
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