Music Directors, Anglican Chorale of Ottawa James Caswell
James Caswell is a graduate of the University of Ottawa with degrees in music and education, and is in demand in the National Capital Region as conductor, accompanist and clinician.
Mr. Caswell is the Music director of the Canadian Centennial Choir, a position he has held since 1994 and, after a ten-year hiatus, returned as the Music Director of the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa, for our 2008 UK tour.
James was the Director of Music at First Baptist Church from 1992 to 2001, and the accompanist for the University of Ottawa Choir from 1991 to 1998. As a guest conductor, he has appeared with the Cantata Singers of Ottawa, the Ottawa Choral Society and the Opera Lyra Ottawa Chorus. He has also appeared as organist with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. In 1998, he was a participant conductor at the Oregon Bach Festival, under Helmuth Rilling.
James continues to be active as an accompanist throughout the region and is now the vocal performance teacher in the Arts Canterbury programme at Canterbury High School in Ottawa.
Stephen Candow
Stephen Candow a native of St John's, Newfoundland, holds a B.Mus. in performance from Memorial University and a B.Mus. Ed
. from the University of Toronto. In 1998 Stephen won the post of Guinness Organ Scholar at Christ Church Dublin, Ireland.
Following his year in Dublin, he went on to become the assistant organist in Canada's Methodist Cathedral, Metropolitan United in Toronto. While there, he was also the accompanist for the renowned Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir.
Stephen returned to Newfoundland in 2002 where became organist and choirmaster of St Michael and All Angels Anglican Parish, an accompanist for the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir and chair of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Avalon Centre.
In 2005, he moved to Ottawa to take up the prestigious post of Director of Music at St Matthew's Anglican Church.
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Matthew Larkin 1996-2008
Our Music Director from 1996 to 2006, Matthew Larkin has led the Chorale on five U.K. Tours, and for 10 years in our offerings to Churches here in the Ottawa area.
A native of Oxford, England, Matthew Larkin moved to Canada shortly before his sixth birthday.
Matthew received his early musical training as a boy chorister at St. George’s Cathedral (Anglican) in Kingston, Ontario, becoming assistant organist there while still in high school. He later studied with John Tuttle at the University of Toronto, and was Organ Scholar of Trinity College. He also attended the Royal College of Music, London, UK, where he was a student of Nicholas Danby.
Matthew began his professional career as a choral conductor in Victoria, BC, where he was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at the Church of St. John the Divine in 1988. He moved to Ottawa in 1995 to take up a similar position at St. Matthew’s Church, where he built the St. Matthew’s Boys’ Choir into an ensemble of national importance. In the 2002-2003 academic year, he served as Director of the Choir of Men and Boys at St. James’ Cathedral, Toronto. In September 2003 Matthew was appointed Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Ottawa.
While in Ottawa, Matthew has served as Director of the Ottawa Opera Boys’ Choir (1999-2002), Founding Director of Euphonia Chamber Choir (2001-2004)
In June 2005, Matthew began duties as Director of the Ottawa Choral Society, the national capital region’s most historic choir. Matthew enjoys an enviable reputation as a recitalist, accompanist, composer and recording artist, and has appeared as soloist with many of Canada’s orchestras and in concert halls across Canada
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Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill 2003-2006
Associate Director of the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa from 2003 to 2006, Bruce has been on three U.K. Tours with the Chorale - Wells in 1998, Exeter in 2004, and Canterbury in 2006.
A native of Victoria, British Columbia, Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill completed his MA in musico
logy at the University of Victoria before moving to Toronto for doctoral studies at the University of Toronto. He left his job as Organist at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Victoria, and for seven years was Organist and Choirmaster at St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Scarborough, and College Organist for St. Michael's College on the University of Toronto campus.
Since 1997 he has been Organist and Director of Music at Christ Church Deer Park in Toronto. He is the accompanist for Pax Christi Chorale, and the rehearsal accompanist for the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir. Bruce is also a member of the award-winning Exultate Chamber Singers.
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Andrew Teague 1994-2002
.Andrew Teague founded the Anglican Chorale of Ottawa in 1994. Andrew is well-known on the Canadian music scene, especially in Ottawa, as a result of his time as Organist & Choirmaster at 
St. Matthew's Anglican Church in Ottawa during the early nineties.
During this time he also taught in the music department at Carleton University, where he also directed the University Choir. He was founder member of the committee of the South Eastern Ontario branch of the Royal School of Church Music.
On returning to the UK in 1994 to take up the post of Director of Music at St. Elphin's School, Andrew also became Organist & Choirmaster at St. Peter's Church in Nottingham. In January 2003 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Bradford Cathedral,
Andrew also continues his work as an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (recent visits to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan) and also as an Area Co-ordinator for the Royal School of Church Music. Originally trained at Oxford and Cambridge universities, he has also held posts as Organist in Brighton and Oxford.
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