Victoria Meredith

Victoria MeredithProfessor
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Admissions and Programs
TC 210F
Phone: 519-661-2111 ext. 82044
E-mail: vmeredit@uwo.ca

D.M.A. (University of Arizona, 1993)

Victoria Meredith teaches choral conducting and conducts the award-winning UWO Singers. She holds degrees in Music Education (Indiana University, 1972), Voice Performance (University of Northern Colorado, 1975), and Choral Conducting (University of Arizona, 1993). Choirs under her direction have received numerous honours and awards, including six CBC Choral Competition prizes and five performance awards from the Canadian Music Educators Association, and have performed at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the Canadian Music Educators Association, and the Kodaly Association of Canada. Dr. Meredith coordinates the Faculty of Music's extensive choral activities.

Dr. Meredith's research interests lie in the areas of choral repertoire, rehearsal techniques, the adult choral singer, and choral music in Canada. She has produced numerous critical performing editions of renaissance and baroque choral compositions which have been published and recorded by Neil A. Kjos Publisher. Her articles on a variety of topics of interest to choral musicians and educators have appeared in the Choral Journal, Anacrusis, the Canadian Music Educator, the Music Educators Journal and other professional journals. Her book, Sing Better As You Age (Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 2007) received the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors’ 2008 National Choral Award for Outstanding Choral Publication. Since 2006, Dr. Meredith has conducted the UWO choralconnections Adult Choir Program, which she designed for adult choral singers who are interested in combining vocal technique and choral rehearsal.

Victoria Meredith is a former president of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and served for six years as a member of the editorial board of the Choral Journal. She frequently serves as a jury panelist for arts organizations such as the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council and maintains an active career as a guest conductor, workshop clinician, and adjudicator. She has guest-conducted choirs across Canada and in the United States including the 1997 Ontario Youth Choir (CBC Choral Competition first-prize winners), the 1998 New Brunswick Youth Choir, the New Brunswick Spring Choral Fest 1999 and 2007, the 2001 Nova Scotia Youth Choir Camp, the 2002 Nova Scotia Youth Choir, the 2003 Pennsylvania Honor Choir, and the 2005 Nova Scotia Choral Federation’s Adult Choir Camp. Recent engagements have taken her to British Columbia, Alberta, Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, Trinidad, and Minnesota. In 2010 she will conduct the National Youth Choir.

Representative Publications

Book

  • Sing Better As You Age, Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Music Publishing, 2007

Monographs

  • Recommended Canadian Choral Repertoire, Montreal: Association of
    Canadian Choral Conductors, 2002
  • Recommended Canadian Choral Repertoire, Volume 2: Sacred, Montreal:
    Association of Canadian Choral Conductors, 2004
  • Foreign Language Pronunciation: A Guide for Singers and Conductors,
    Toronto: Choirs Ontario, 2001

Articles

  • New-found Choral Treasures, Anacrusis, Fall 2006
  • Science in Support of Choral Singing, Anacrusis, Fall 2005
  • Canadian Choral Mentors: 1940 Advice from Leslie Bell, Anacrusis, Winter/Spring, 2005
  • A Canadian Choral Mosaic, Anacrusis, Fall 2004
  • A Canadian Choral Tradition, Choral Journal, May 2004
  • Canadian Choral Mentors: An Interview with Leonard Ratzlaff, Anacrusis, Fall 2003
  • Canada's Expanding Choral Borders, Anacrusis, Fall, 2002
  • Through the Eyes of Three Female Canadian Composers: The Concert Mass,
    Choral Journal, February 2002
  • Canadian Choral Mentors, series, Anacrusis, 2001-
  • Trends in Choral Repertoire, Anacrusis, Fall, 2000
  • Sharing Traditions, Choral Journal, November 1998
  • Singing as Poetry: Qualities of Expressive Diction in Choral Singing,
    Proceedings of the international symposium Sharing the Voices: The
    Phenomenon of Singing, St. John's, Newfoundland, 1997, publ. 1998
    (reprinted in Canadian Music Educator, Spring 1999)
  • The Old World in the New: Metastasio's Verse and Diversity in North
    America, Proceedings of the international symposium Metastasio at Home
    and Abroad, London, Ontario, 1996, publ. as Studies in Music from the
    University of Western Ontario 16, 1997
  • The Pivotal Role of Brahms and Schubert in the Development of Women's
    Choir, Choral Journal, February 1997
  • The Conductor As Catalyst, parts 1 and 2, Anacrusis, Spring and Winter
    1996
  • Magic and Majesty: Spirited Choruses in Henry Purcell's Semi-Operas,
    Choral Journal, August 1995
  • Reaching New Heights in Choral Rehearsal, Music Educators Journal, May
    1995
  • Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus: Its New Relevance in the Changing
    World Order, Choral Journal, October 1994
  • Use or Misuse: The Voice is Yours - Minimizing Vocal Stress, Canadian
    Music Educator, October 1990 (reprinted in Anacrusis, Summer 1994)

Critical Choral Editions (Neil A. Kjos Music Company, San Diego, California)

  • Bach, Johann S. Gedenk' Herr Jesu, Kjos ED 8838, 1997
  • Bach, Johann S. Gloria Sei Dir, Kjos ED 8746, 1993
  • Certon, Pierre Je Ne Fus Jamais Si Aise, Kjos ED 5757, 1994
  • Donato, Baldassare All Ye Who Music Love, Kjos ED 8745, 1992
  • Handel, George Praise the Lord with Cheerful Noise, Kjos ED 6245, 1996
  • Lully, Jean-Baptiste L'Hiver, Kjos ED 5568, 1996
  • Purcell, Henry But Ere We This Perform, Kjos ED 8747, 1993
  • Purcell, Henry Come, Follow Me, Kjos ED 8764, 1994
  • Purcell, Henry Hush, No More, Be Silent, Kjos ED 8797 1996
  • Purcell, Henry Shepherd, Shepherd, Kjos ED 6233, 1994
  • Purcell, Henry Shivering Chorus, Kjos ED 8748, 1993
  • Rossi, Luigi Dormite Begl' Occhi, Kjos ED 6237, 1994

Recordings

  • Echo: Choral Creativity in Motion, University of Western Ontario
    Singers, Victoria Meredith, conductor, Compact Disc SL0022004, released
    March 2004
  • The King Shall Rejoice, University of Western Ontario Singers,
    Victoria Meredith, conductor, Compact Disc SL0012000, released March
    2000
  • Choral Audio Library, Vol. 1 and 2 (2 cds each), Neil A. Kjos
    Publisher (includes eleven choral editions published, rehearsed, and conducted by V. Meredith)

 

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