Margo MacKinnon

Margo Christine MacKinnon Baculis (born April 21, 1931 in Windsor / Ontario ) is a Canadian singer ( soprano ) and vocal teacher .

MacKinnon sang at the age of fourteen on the WJR radio station in Detroit. She then studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto with Herman Geiger-Torel , Dorothy Allan Park , Emmy Heim and Ernesto Vinci, and from the mid-1950s she appeared with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and in various television programs on CBC ( The Big Revue , Your Hit Parade ) and the CBS ( Arthur Godfrey 's Talent Scouts ). In 1956, 1957 and 1960 she appeared in the annual revue Spring Thaw .

In 1963 MacKinnon married the clarinetist Al Baculis and moved to Montreal. At the opening concert of the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec in 1966, she sang Serge Garant's Anerca and the aria of Ishtar from R. Murray Schafers Loving . With the Society's ensemble, she performed John Hawkins ' Waves (1971), Bruce Mathers Madrigal V (1973), Gilbert Amy's Sonata pian' e forte (1974) and Jean Barraqué's Chant après hant (1979). She also sang Alan Heards Voices (1970) and Norma Beecroft's Rasas III (1975), worked as an actress and singer in several films and in 1975 in the television production of Neil Chotem's ballet Pythagore 1 à 7 . She taught singing at the Vanier Cegep in Ville St-Laurent (1977–1986) and at Concordia University (1982–1986).

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• Margo MacKinnon ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Margo MacKinnon in the Internet Movie Database (English)