Wayne Riddell

Wayne Kerr Riddell CM (born September 10, 1936 in Lachute / Québec ) is a Canadian organist, conductor and music teacher.

Wayne Riddell studied at McGill University with Juliette Rodrigue and Kenneth Gilbert and then worked as organist and choir conductor at various churches in Montreal . From 1972 to 1986 he was music director of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul , with whose choir he recorded four LPs. In a long-term series he has performed oratorios by Bach , Handel , Mozart , Haydn , Mendelssohn , Brahms , Fauré and Duruflé . The choir received the 1980Healey Willan Prize . Riddell also served as the conductor of the Montreal Symphony .

He taught at Marianopolis College and in 1969 became choir director and vice president of the School of Music at McGill University. In 1962 he founded the Tudor Singers of Montreal , which he directed until 1986. He toured the US and Europe with the choir and made recordings for the CBC and records.

In 1988 Riddell conducted the National Youth Choir of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and the Ontario Youth Choir . In the same year he was awarded the Order of Canada , followed in 1992 by the Distinguished Service Award of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors .

Discography

• Jubilate , 1978
• Noël Nouvelet , 1979
• Te Deum , 1980
• Magnificat , 1984