About Us
The Center For Sound Music Education is a registered not for profit organization that fosters well-being, joy and beauty in the world through the creation of artistic, educational opportunities and resources that empower students and educators.
Meet our Creative Directors
Jennifer Moir
Jennifer Moir is a highly respected conductor, educator and adjudicator with a growing international reputation. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards and was honoured with the distinguished Leslie Bell Prize Award for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Art Council in 2004. In May of 2010, she was nominated for the Premiere’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts, in the category of Emerging Artists.
Ms. Moir is invited regularly to serve as a clinician for festivals and leads workshops for music students and educators in both Europe and North America. In 2009, she was the guest artist in residence at the Sibelius Academy and the Konservatori in Helsinki, Finland.
Currently on Faculty at Western University, Jennifer conducts Les Choristes (women’s choir) and The Chorale (mixed choir) at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, as well as teaching Vocal Methods and maintaining a voice studio. Jennifer has served on faculty with The Voice Care Network, based at St. John’s University, Minnesota., and served as Artistic Director for the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers from 2004 – 2014.
Jennifer Moir is a highly respected conductor, educator and adjudicatorwith a growing international reputation. She is the recipient of numerousteaching awards and was honoured with the distinguished Leslie Bell PrizeAward for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Art Council in 2004. In Mayof 2010, she was nominated for the Premiere’s Awards for Excellence inthe Arts, in the category of Emerging Artists.Ms. Moir is invited regularly to serve as a clinician for festivals and leadsworkshops for music students and educators in both Europe and NorthAmerica. In 2009, she was the guest artist in residence at the SibeliusAcademy and the Konservatori in Helsinki, Finland.Currently on Faculty at Western University, Jennifer conducts LesChoristes (women’s choir) and The Chorale (mixed choir) at the DonWright Faculty of Music, as well as teaching Vocal Methods andmaintaining a voice studio. Jennifer has served on faculty with The VoiceCare Network, based at St. John’s University, Minnesota., and served asArtistic Director for the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers from 2004 – 2014.
Babette Lightner
Babette Lightner (She) from the Mississippi River Watershed near Rush Creek.My work, Wholeness in Motion and Language of Wholeness, is an on-going synthesis of 40 years exploring movement, somatic work, nature, mythology, and culture. I am a Certified Alexander Technique teacher (30 years) and a LearningMethods™ teacher (20 years). I taught in the Professional Actor Training Program and Music Department at the University of Minnesota and have lectured and taught for many universities, institutions and organizations including the Guthrie Theater, Sister Kenny Institute, Balk Opera Music Institute, Taipei National University of Arts in Taiwan, Western University in Ontario and many more. My explorations into human movement have taken me around the world, from dancing with a folk dance troupe in the villages of South India to performing with a post-modern physical theatre company in the warehouses of Boston. My writing, teaching and video work centers on co-creatively exploring what it is to thrive and how to counter the dominant hierarchical cultural framework that is embedded in our bodies and our strategies. The work is one voice in the global movement to embody Life-Giving paradigms on a personal level for global change.
Jennifer Moir is a highly respected conductor, educator and adjudicatorwith a growing international reputation. She is the recipient of numerousteaching awards and was honoured with the distinguished Leslie Bell PrizeAward for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Art Council in 2004. In Mayof 2010, she was nominated for the Premiere’s Awards for Excellence inthe Arts, in the category of Emerging Artists.Ms. Moir is invited regularly to serve as a clinician for festivals and leadsworkshops for music students and educators in both Europe and NorthAmerica. In 2009, she was the guest artist in residence at the SibeliusAcademy and the Konservatori in Helsinki, Finland.Currently on Faculty at Western University, Jennifer conducts LesChoristes (women’s choir) and The Chorale (mixed choir) at the DonWright Faculty of Music, as well as teaching Vocal Methods andmaintaining a voice studio. Jennifer has served on faculty with The VoiceCare Network, based at St. John’s University, Minnesota., and served asArtistic Director for the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers from 2004 – 2014.
Meet our President
Josh Hill
Josh Hill is currently the Head of Music at Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute in Kitchener Ontario. He received his Bachelors degree in Music Education for Western University in London, where he was a flute major in the studio of Anne Thompson. Upon graduation he completed his Bachelors in Education also from Western University before joining the Waterloo Region District School Board.
Josh is passionate about using music as a vehicle to create inclusive communities where all stakeholders can find belonging and be empowered to reach their potential. Josh is a Barrday Teacher of Excellence award winner, a member of the Laurier Center For Music in the Community, and was privileged to share his ideas as a speaker at the TEDx Kitchener conference in 2017.
Josh is also the Project Manager for the Kaleid Choral festival and was excited to be able to help in the transition of moving the festival from Woodstock to the Waterloo Region in 2016. Josh feels very privileged to sit as President for CSME and to be able to contribute to the realization of the vision of our extraordinary Creative Directors.
Jennifer Moir is a highly respected conductor, educator and adjudicatorwith a growing international reputation. She is the recipient of numerousteaching awards and was honoured with the distinguished Leslie Bell PrizeAward for Choral Conducting from the Ontario Art Council in 2004. In Mayof 2010, she was nominated for the Premiere’s Awards for Excellence inthe Arts, in the category of Emerging Artists.Ms. Moir is invited regularly to serve as a clinician for festivals and leadsworkshops for music students and educators in both Europe and NorthAmerica. In 2009, she was the guest artist in residence at the SibeliusAcademy and the Konservatori in Helsinki, Finland.Currently on Faculty at Western University, Jennifer conducts LesChoristes (women’s choir) and The Chorale (mixed choir) at the DonWright Faculty of Music, as well as teaching Vocal Methods andmaintaining a voice studio. Jennifer has served on faculty with The VoiceCare Network, based at St. John’s University, Minnesota., and served asArtistic Director for the Woodstock Fanshawe Singers from 2004 – 2014.