![Elspeth Maynard directs the SoCA High School Honour Choir in rehearsal Elspeth Maynard directs the SoCA High School Honour Choir in rehearsal, November 2018](http://www.uwindsor.ca/music/sites/uwindsor.ca.music/files/styles/full/public/hon-choir-emaynard-450x300.jpg?itok=fxkCCVUj)
Download a PDF of the Honour Choir Registration form
Be a part of the SoCA Honour Choir!
Singing in an honour choir is life changing!
Open to singers in grades 9 through 12 in Windsor & Essex County. No preparation required. No previous choir experience necessary.
Auditions will be held:
Sunday, June 2 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Monday, June 3 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Have fun AND challenge yourself!
Please email Elspeth Maynard, conductor elspethmaynard@hotmail.com to reserve an audition time and bring completed registration form with you to the audition.
Download a PDF of the Honour Choir Registration form
Rehearsals: Thursday evenings 7 - 9 pm at the SoCA Armouries, 37 University Avenue E., starting September 19, 2019.
Once accepted....
All participants’ parent/guardian must
- complete, sign and return a University of Windsor waiver.
- pay a fee of $250 (covers registration for September 2019 thru May 2020 season)
- Register Online and Pay by Debit/Credit Card
(secure e-commerce site) - deadline for fees, registration, and waiver is JUNE 30, 2019
If we have not received registration and payment for a singer by June 30, 2019, we will assume that the student is not interested in singing with the choir and we will seek alternate members.
Download a PDF of the UWindsor Parental Waiver
Please Register Online and Pay by Debit/Credit Card
(secure e-commerce site)
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PROFILE
Elspeth Maynard, conductor
![ELSPETH MAYNARD is known in the Windsor area as a soloist, chorister, conductor, and teach](/music/sites/uwindsor.ca.music/files/elspeth_maynard.jpg)
ELSPETH MAYNARD is known in the Windsor area as a soloist, chorister, conductor, and teacher. As a soloist, she has performed with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Community Orchestra, Windsor Classic Chorale, Guelph Chamber Choir and has presented recitals in the South Western Ontario and Detroit area. As a professional chorister, she was a founding member of the Exultate Chamber Singers and sang with Essex Singers for many years. She also toured Europe with the Guelph Chamber Choir on several occasions.
A graduate of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, she has also studied conducting with James Fankhauser, Jon Washburn, Robert Cooper, and Jerry Blackstone. She founded and directed the Windsor-Essex Youth Choir and has conducted the University of Windsor Chamber Choir, and the All City High School Girls Choir.
Elspeth spent most of her teaching career teaching vocal music at the Walkerville Centre for the Creative Arts where she conducted the WCCA Chamber Singers and Concert Singers and served as the Program Director of the enriched arts programme. She has taught voice and music education at the University of Windsor and has been asked many times to adjudicate at both the high school and university levels. Since retiring from the Board of Education, she teaches voice privately from her home studio.
Updated: April 29, 2019