Lydia Adams

As an ambassador of the Canadian Music Centre and hailed by the CMC as “the new leading exponent of the Canadian choral composer”, Lydia Adams has dedicated her career to the growth of Canadian choral music. She is Artistic Director of both the Elmer Iseler Singers and the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, national leaders in commissioning, premièring, performing and recording Canadian choral works. In the fall of 2016, Lydia was appointed director of the Western University Singers. In June 2012, Dr. Adams was announced as the winner of the Roy Thomson Hall Award of Recognition, part of The 2012 Toronto Arts Foundation Arts Awards. In June 2013 Lydia Adams won the Ontario Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in the Artist category. Most recently, in Spring 2018, Lydia Adams received the honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from Cape Breton University for her dedication “to the preservation and evolution of musical culture.”