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Samuel Tam
We are glad to announce that Session has selected Samuel Tam to be our new Director of Music. Samuel is a graduate of McGill in Organ Performance and Orchestral Conducting. For two years he was Organ and Choral Conducting Scholar at the Church of St Andrew and St Paul (Presbyterian) in Montreal and chapel organist at the Presbyterian College.
Samuel joined the Canadian Opera Company in 2007 as Apprentice Conductor, and has assisted on many of COC's mainstage productions including: Le Nozze di Figaro, Tosca, Eugene Onegin, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Pelléas et Mélisande, Renard, Don Giovanni, Simon Boccanegra, La Bohème, A
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Midsummer Night's Dream, Cosi fan tutte, Rusalka, Idomeneo, Aida, and Death in Venice. He also conducted a COC Amphitheatre production of Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. He has worked with conductors Johannes Debus, Steuart Bedford, Marco Guidarini, Jan-Latham Koenig, Martin Isepp, and Sir Richard Armstrong.
Since Sam's arrival at RPC in September 2011, the choir has sung the festival cantata Rejoice in the Lamb by Bejamin Britten, and — together with orchestral support — J. S. Bach's cantata Sleepers Wake.
The RPC Choir with former Directors of Music Mary
Legge (front left) and Melody McShane (front centre)
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