Assistant Conductor​/Director of Musical Outreach

Assistant Conductor / Director of Musical Outreach

Chor Leoni - Vancouver, BC International Search

Chor Leoni is a community dedicated to changing lives through music. For 35 years, we've combined world-class artistic excellence with deep community engagement: inspiring audiences, training artists, educating youth, and advancing the choral art form by creating, promoting, and presenting lower voice choral music. Our vision is simple: to engage and enrich the world through choral singing. As one of North America's most active choral organizations, we take that seriously.

Beyond Vancouver we've been recognized internationally through numerous festival awards, including the Margaret Hillis Award, the most prestigious honour given by the professional organization Chorus America.

With more than 15 series concerts a year, local touring and charity performances, three youth education programs, a choral festival, exciting commissioning projects, and robust digital programming, Chor Leoni is an organisation driven by its impact. All of this is powered by a tight-knit, mission-driven team.

Chor Leoni is seeking a full-time Assistant Conductor / Director of Musical Outreach to help shape the next chapter of one of the world's most impactful choral organizations. You'll work to support our Artistic Director and be ready to step onto the podium for any of our weekly rehearsals or 15+ annual concerts. You'll also build Chor Leoni's youth and community programs into some of the most mission-driven choral education offerings in the country.

As you live and work in Vancouver, BC, you'll engage a community of 15,000+ audience members, 10,000+ consistent digital viewers, 200+ young singers across our MYVoice and Emerging Choral Artist programs, and our 70-voice volunteer choir. This is a rare chance to combine world-class musicianship with real ownership over program growth.

You bring top-level musical instruction and training, balanced with a gift for creating belonging: internally with our artists and Artistic Director, and externally with the singers, families, and communities you'll serve. You move comfortably between supporting someone else's artistic vision and leading independently, and you bring fresh energy, rigor, and heart to a mission you believe in.

This position will be buoyed by Chor Leoni's full-time staff and board, a group of professionals and supporters who are eager to support you in this new position. The scope of this role, and its compensation, are meant to grow alongside the programs you build.

• Support the Artistic Director
• Cover the Artistic Director for rehearsals and performances
• Conduct preparatory and sectional rehearsals as requested
• Attend rehearsals to collect and organize the Artistic Director's markings, and listen for ensemble preparation
• Advise the Artistic Director on issues of balance and other musical considerations
• Manage the choir's roster, attendance, and season participation alongside section leaders
• Liaise with the Artistic Director and Production Manager on score and marking distribution, and manage scores for collaborators
• Prepare rehearsal and performance seating charts and other choir logistics
• Assist in concert production, including lighting, sound, and supertitles, and work with Chor Leoni's Production Manager
• Attend weekly staff and production meetings, plus meetings with the Artistic Director
• Lead youth, education & community programs
• Recruit, manage, and direct MYVoice, Chor Leoni's 10-week, non-auditioned program for tenors, baritones, and basses aged 12-19
• Through your vision, grow MYVoice into one of the most locally impactful choral education programs in the country, engaging singers and audiences year-round
• Recruit, manage, and help prepare the Emerging Choral Artist Program and the MYVoice Invitational choirs
• Create new initiatives that bring choral singing into our local community

• Represent Chor Leoni in public and community settings
• Attend all Chor Leoni concerts, special events, and programs as needed
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed

• Supporting the Artistic Director and 70 volunteer singers in the preparation and presentation of busy and impactful concert seasons
• Preparing and conducting youth choruses to a high standard of impact and quality
• Piano skills strong enough to run rehearsals and sectionals independently
• Recruiting, managing, and building youth choral programs from the ground up
• Deep knowledge of…