Elliott Haslam
William Elliott Haslam (* 1851 (?) In England , † November 23, 1915 in Toronto ) was a Canadian music teacher and choir director.
The son of the singer John Haslam grew up in Italy and studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He taught at Brighton High School and Britannia College in Manchester and then went to Toronto. There he founded the Toronto Vocal Society in 1885 and was choirmaster at St James' Cathedral from 1886 to 1893 . He has also written articles for the Musical Journal and the Canadian Musical Herald .
In 1890 he separated from the Toronto Vocal Society and founded the Haslam Vocal Society . The following year he became music director at Upper Canada College . He also ran the Harmony Club and taught at Toronto College of Music , where Bessie Bonsall and Florence Brimson were among his students. In the following year he had to give up his post for health reasons and lived in Michigan for some time.
From 1894 Haslam taught at the New York National Conservatory of Music under the direction of Antonín Dvořák . After its closure in 1895, he returned to Toronto. From 1901 until the outbreak of World War I he taught in Paris. There was Florence Easton his most famous pupil. In early 1915 he returned to Toronto, where he committed suicide in November of the same year.
Web links
- James B. McPherson: Elliott Haslam ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th edition. Volume 2. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-44088-X , p. 1277 ( limited preview in Google book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haslam, Elliott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haslam, William Elliott (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian music educator and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1915 |
| Place of death | Toronto |