Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor | The MacMillan Singers

Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor \| MacMillan Singers
Hilary Apfelstadt is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Toronto, a position she assumed in the fall of 2010. She conducts MacMillan Singers, a select chamber choir, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and choral repertoire. An alumna of the University of Toronto in Vocal Music Education, she earned graduate degrees in music education from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1993 – 2010, she was Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the Ohio State University in Columbus, where she also served as Associate Director of the School of Music from 2008 – 2010. Choirs under her direction have performed at regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), at MENC regional and state conferences, at Carnegie Hall (2006 and 2010), and in Europe. She has conducted numerous all-state and honor choirs throughout the U.S., and has guest conducted in Austria, Canada, Cuba, England, and Switzerland. In 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a live broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word.” In June 2011, she will conduct a choral festival at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. She has presented papers and conducting master classes in numerous professional venues, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals on choral music including the NCCO Choral Scholar and the ACDA Choral Journal. A prolific author, she has published more than seventy articles on choral music and education, and contributed two chapters to Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Choral Conductors on their Art (GIA, 2009). A life member of ACDA, Hilary Apfelstadt has served as state president of the North Carolina chapter, as Central Division President, and as National President (2007 – 2009). She remains on the Executive Committee through June 2013.

Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor | MacMillan Singers

Hilary Apfelstadt is Director of Choral Activities at the University of Toronto, a position she assumed in the fall of 2010. She conducts MacMillan Singers, a select chamber choir, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and choral repertoire. An alumna of the University of Toronto in Vocal Music Education, she earned graduate degrees in music education from the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds a diploma in piano performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

From 1993 – 2010, she was Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the Ohio State University in Columbus, where she also served as Associate Director of the School of Music from 2008 – 2010.

Choirs under her direction have performed at regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), at MENC regional and state conferences, at Carnegie Hall (2006 and 2010), and in Europe. She has conducted numerous all-state and honor choirs throughout the U.S., and has guest conducted in Austria, Canada, Cuba, England, and Switzerland. In 2009, she conducted the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in a live broadcast of “Music and the Spoken Word.” In June 2011, she will conduct a choral festival at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. She has presented papers and conducting master classes in numerous professional venues, and serves on the editorial boards of three journals on choral music including the NCCO Choral Scholar and the ACDA Choral Journal. A prolific author, she has published more than seventy articles on choral music and education, and contributed two chapters to Wisdom, Wit and Will: Women Choral Conductors on their Art (GIA, 2009).

A life member of ACDA, Hilary Apfelstadt has served as state president of the North Carolina chapter, as Central Division President, and as National President (2007 – 2009). She remains on the Executive Committee through June 2013.