Jennifer Moir

Jennifer Moir is a Canadian choral artist and educator living in Finland and working as a Lecturer in the Global Music Department of Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. Her areas of interest and teaching experience include working with singers, choirs and teachers as well as mentoring choir leaders in global choir leadership and pedagogy practice. In addition to her teaching, Jennifer serves as coordinator for the Global Music’s mentoring and well being studies and coordinates aspects of study guidance and orientation programming at Sibelius Academy.

Voices, sound, silence, rhythm, spaces, connection, nature, laughter, listening and co-creative collaboration are the elements that shape her work, which flows between coaching one person in a moment of a song to co-creating innovative, interdisciplinary choral art collaborations.

For over 20 years, Jennifer conducted community choirs in Canada and taught voice, choral conducting and community engagement through music at Western University. She is the founder and artistic director of the Kaleid Choral Festival and co-founder and creative director for the Center for Sound Music Education, an organization dedicated to artistic research of well-being and excellence through music teaching, performance and community engagement projects.

With her holistic approach to working with choirs and conductors, Jennifer has served as a choral adjudicator and clinician for numerous festivals at the national and international level in North America, Europe and Scandinavia. Recent festivals and workshops include Tampereen Sävel (Finland), Vocal Leadership Program, Codarts (Netherlands), Inspiration Course in Global Choir Leadership (Finland).

At present, Jennifer is the artistic director for ILMA vocal ensemble as well as Open Voice choir and Maailma-kuoro, three Helsinki based ensembles. Prior to moving to Finland, Jennifer worked extensively with university based choirs, adult and youth community choirs and vocal ensembles in Canada. Under her direction, these ensembles commissioned over 60 new works for choir by Canadian composers, made recordings and won national and international awards  through the CBC Choral Competition, The Choral Olympics, Linz, Austria, Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Wales.

Jennifer has been honoured for her work in Canada as a recipient of the Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting by the Association of Canadian Choral Communities, the Pedro Goldman Humanitarian Award and Teaching Excellence Award (Western University) and a nomination for the Premiere’s Award for Excellence.