Canadian conductor, composer and soprano Kathleen Allan is rapidly becoming internationally respected for her performances and compositions. Her work has been commissioned and performed by ensembles throughout the Americas and Europe. She is the 2016 recipient of the Ernest MacMillan Prize in Choral Conducting and in 2015, she made her Asian debut conducting Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Japan. She is the Director of Choral Studies at the Vancouver Academy of Music and is the Artistic Director of Canzona, Winnipeg’s professional baroque choir. She is the founding co-artistic director of Arkora, a chamber music collective dedicated to interdisciplinary performance. As a soprano, she has premiered over two dozen solo vocal works and has sung with leading professional choirs including the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Skylark (Atlanta), and the Arnold Shoenberg Chor (Vienna). She holds a composition degree from the University of British Columbia and a master’s in conducting from Yale University.
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