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Our
Conductor
Ken Fleet, LPM’s
conductor since 1988, holds a B.Mus. from University of Western
Ontario and an M.Mus. from Westminster Choir College in Princeton,
New Jersey.
Ken
taugh vocal and instrumental music for thirty years at Medway High
School in Arva; he also taught in the Faculties of Music and Education
at Western for eleven years. he is a former conductor at the UWO
Singers and the Ontario Youth Choir, and a current co-conductor
of the award-winning Amabile Boys Choirs and the Amabile Chamber
Choir. Ken is also co-editor of a series of choral octavos published
by Neil A. Kjos Music (San Diego, California) for worldwide distribution.
This year Ken is returning to the Faculty of Education and he has
been invited to join the Ontario Choral Federation Board of Directors.
In 1996 Ken
conducted LPM, the Medway Senior Concert Choir, and the Medway Girls
Choir in recording seventy-two songs for Nancy Telfer’s Choral
Audio Library. The five CDs have been played on national radio in
Italy, Israel, Australia, and Argentina, and they have been used
extensively at major national and international music conferences.
Ken works extensively
as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor throughout North
America and, occasionally, in Europe. Ken’s enthusiasm, dedication,
and extensive knowledge of choral music are significant motivating
factors in LPM’s recent artistic development.
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