Our Staff

Jody Malone, Artistic Director

While currently tackling a career as a vocal/piano specialist and choral conductor at Cawthra Park Secondary School for the Performing Arts in Mississauga, Jody was then offered the opportunity to work with adults in a community choir setting in 2008. She jumped at the chance to work with the LGBTQ mixed choir community in Toronto, and loves working with adults of all age ranges and musical experience. This turn in her career offers the unique opportunity to strive for musical excellence and to participate in advocacy with the LGBTQ community.

Jody was educated at McGill University in Montreal, obtaining an Honours degree in School Music with a discipline in piano. She went on to Teacher’s College at the University of Toronto with a specialty in Music and French. Later on during a 2002 sabbatical year, she obtained a Master’s degree in Education with a discipline in Counselling Psychology.

Her passions include hiking, yoga, travel to England and abroad, dinner parties with friends, cycling trips, and most recently….’Downton Abbey’. Let’s hope there will be another season!

She thanks Singing OUT and our audience members and supporters for the privilege to serve them with the joy of choral music.

director@singingout.com

Beth Hanson, Accompanist

Since 2002, with the exception of a 2 1/2 year hiatus to work on solo repertoire, Beth has been the accompanist and erstwhile arranger for Singing Out. “The choir is my social network, my second family, and because of my career as elementary school music teacher, my link to the world of adult choral music. I get to keep up my piano technique with the Rutter, Lauridsen and Eric Lane Barnes we seem to keep in our repertoire. And, I will inflict my curling, cycling and drawing fanaticism on anyone willing to listen.”

accompanist@singingout.com

Dianne Clare, Assistant Artistic Director

A lifelong vocal musician, Dianne is currently working as the Director of the Scarborough Chapter of Sweet Adelines and the Assistant Director of Singing OUT: Toronto’s LGBTQ community chorus. Dianne has travelled with the choruses to international festivals and events and has been involved in music leadership seminars, international directors’ conferences, and chorus retreats, in which she received training and mentoring from highly respected coaches, internationally acclaimed directors and judges, and voice teachers.

In her years as a choral singer and soloist, Dianne has sung a wide array of musical styles, from classical to folk, pop, jazz and barbershop, and has a thorough knowledge of the components that support, enhance and create great sound. She is also a master of blending, which is essential for vocal groups. She prefers to work with singers in an a cappella format, but is also comfortable working with accompaniment.

Dianne has also worked for many years as a vocalist and sound mixer, producing high quality vocal music tracks for choral singers to use as a learning aid. Her highly trained ear is extremely useful in the mixing and recording process as well as in helping singers with precise interval training. She is a natural teacher, leader, and motivator, who brings out the best in her singers through empowering support, strong technical skills and consistent reinforcement of vocal skill building.

For more information please see www.dcvocalmusic.com

Chorus Administrator

TBD

administrator@singingout.com