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Musical Director
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The Board
- André Desjardins,
President
- Michael Roth, Vice-president
- Gaétane Normandin,
Treasurer
- Karine Grégoire,
Secretary
- Isabelle Rivard, Executive Dir.
- Norman Robert, Musical Director
- Alice Martin, Communications
- Élyse Grenier, Internal relations
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Norman Robert |
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Norman Robert, a Canadian baritone, studied singing with Madame Evelyne Brunner in Lyon, France. Specialising in opera and musical theatre, he has been performing in numerous productions in Canada, the United States and Europe. Among other productions, he was part of the distribution of the bilingual Canadian and American Tour of Les Misérables, Jeanne La Pucelle at the Place des Arts and Leonardo Da Vinci at the Casino of Paris. Throughout his career, he has given numerous concerts and recitals and worked with many musical ensembles, including the Ensemble Amati and the Grenoble Symphony Orchestra. During the 2009/2010 season, performed in Marseille and Geneva.
Since September 2008, Norman is acting as artistic director and choir master for the Ensemble vocal Extravaganza. And during 18 years, Norman has worked with Chœur Vives Voix, a semi-professional choir that recently received the 2009 Ville de Longueuil Diffusion de la Culture Award for its production of Offenbach’s Blue Beard.
Norman works as associate producer for television production firms known for their filming and broadcasting of musical shows such as Paul McCartney, Sting and Placido Domingo at the Festival d’Été de Québec.
Norman also dedicates parts of his time to teaching vocal technique and interpretation, giving master classes and vocal coaching to choirs in the larger Montreal area.
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Walter Wittich |
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Originally from Germany, Mr Wittich completed his diploma in Musical Theater Performance at the Studio Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria. He arrived in Canada in 1992, studying Modern Dance at the School of the Toronto Dance Theater.
Since then, he has performed as a professional modern, ballet and jazz dancer across the country, including the Banff Center Festival Ballet, Alberta Ballet, Toronto Dance Theater and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. He has choreographed extensively for professional and amateur companies, music videos and television, but his favorite experience as a choreographer has always been his involvement with choir-music and movement.
He has choreographed and staged performances for the Vancouver Men’s Chorus, the Calgary Men’s Chorus, and he is now with Extravaganza Vocal Ensemble since 2008.
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