WELCOME TO THE THIRD WEBINAR IN OUR
TOGETHER AT HOME SERIES
August 2, 2020 at 5pm ET
Decoding and Programming Renaissance Music for Today’s Choirs with Dr. Miles Canaday '10
Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Whitman College
Join us for an exploratory conversation about Renaissance music and its context within today’s choral canon. The style and original notation of sixteenth-century polyphony require some degree of decoding for both singers and audiences alike. Dr. Canaday will discuss the process of rediscovering forgotten masterworks and transcribing them for modern performers. Just as important is the creative process of weaving this music into today’s concert programs.
Listen to a preview of some of the music Dr. Canaday will discuss during Sunday's webinar:
Click on the box below to download a PDF version of the handout for the webinar.
Dr. Miles Canaday '10
Dr. Miles Canaday is Assistant Professor of Music at Whitman College, where he is the Director of Choral Activities. Miles served as Visiting Director of Choirs at William & Mary, and was previously the Assistant Conductor for the Eastman Chorale and the Eastman-Rochester Chorus. Before his work in western New York, he conducted collegiate, church and community ensembles across Colorado, including the Metropolitan State University of Denver Women’s Chamber Choir, the Laudamus Chamber Chorale of Fort Collins, and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Aurora.
Miles graduated with a B. A. in music with honors from Harvard College, where he studied conducting with Jameson Marvin and Federico Cortese and was President of the Harvard Glee Club. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Dr. William Weinert. Miles completed a doctoral research project on the unpublished choral works of Spanish Renaissance composer Sebastián de Vivanco, and was the recipient of the Walter Hagen Prize in Conducting. Miles received a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from the Yale School of Music, studying with Profs. Marguerite Brooks and Jeffrey Douma.