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Children's Choir

Our Children’s Choir continues this fall with Adeen Ashton Fogle. Please see below for details on our upcoming Children’s Choir.

Taylor Swift Children’s Choir Fall Session

  • Day & Time: Saturdays from 3:30-4:30pm
  • Session Dates: September 28th to December 14th
  • Location: Leslieville School of Dance & Music (1461 Gerrard St. E)
  • Cost: $337.92 +HST for the 12-week session
  • Ages: 6-12
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About the Children’s Choir

Do you have a child who loves to sing? We invite them to join us, sing their hearts out, and become a part of our vibrant musical community. Our Taylor Swift Children’s Choir will be guided by our seasoned and talented instructor Adeen Ashton Fogle and will cover a variety of Taylor Swift’s songs.

About Adeen

With a wealth of experience spanning across various musical genres, Adeen is a seasoned vocal coach and musical director. Adeen has a knack for fostering music-making among individuals of all ages and skill levels. Their approach to teaching focuses on creating an inspiring, joyful, and musically aspirational safe space for people to blend voices together in harmony. 

Adeen’s remarkable 30-year career as a musical director in London, UK, includes:

  • Eight years directing the Tri-Borough Children’s and Youth Choirs for the London Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, and Hammersmith & Fulham, in partnership with the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Academy of Music, and the BBC.
  • Serving as Musical Director and Composer in Residence for the Tri-Borough’s commissioned productions of Tempest and Thames Odyssey sung-through pieces involving the BBC Orchestra and 500 voices.
  • Being commissioned as Composer in Residence to write and direct the Boroughs’ 2012 London Olympic song “Celebrate.”
  • Being commissioned to write and direct the 2013 British Holocaust Memorial Day song “A Bridge of Voice” performed by adult choirs across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Adeen directed the London choir that performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall for the Royal-attended Holocaust Memorial Day event as well as the televised media event.
  • Musical Directing of numerous “West End Cares” vocal ensemble concerts involving casts from London West End shows.
  • Coaching adult contestants in singing performance in the BBC reality TV show Get Your Act Together.
    Musical Directing of numerous musical productions and showcases involving the musical theatre college students of the Italia Conti Academy, The Urdang Academy, Arts Educational Schools, and The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts.

Since returning to Canada, Adeen has directed adult choirs at Sheridan College, serving as a professor of voice, as well as children’s and youth choirs for Sistema. These have involved several municipal Canada Day concerts. Adeen also directs a professionally trained company of Neurodivergent performers.

Adeen has recorded over 100 songs as a soloist with the BBC Radio Orchestra and has performed in numerous concerts and musicals throughout Europe, London’s West End, and Toronto, including Les Miserables, Whistle Down the Wind, The Rocky Horror Show, Cabaret, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, and Oliver!

Adeen loves being a part of our local community and is delighted to be celebrating four years of teaching piano, singing, and voice production at the Leslieville School of Dance & Music. We are so very fortunate to be able to work with Adeen!

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