ROBERT INGARI

Robert Ingari is a full professor at Université de Sherbrooke, where is the director of the masters in choral conducting program and the École d’été de chant choral whose 2013 edition won the institutional award Grande distinction en enseignement universitaire. As a composer, his works have been performed by university, amateur and professional choirs in Canada, the United States and Europe. In 2014, his cantata Psalm 23 had its European premiere at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. And in 2015, he conducted the world premiere in Paris of his choral work Vient le jour on a poem by Hélène Dorion with the professional ensemble Sequenza 9.3 and the cellist Henri Demarquette at the Cathédrale Saint-Louis des Invalides. Robert Ingari is also the founding director of the Choeur de chambre du Québec, a 16-voice a cappella chamber choir devoted to premiering new French-language choral works. In May 2018, he won the Prix de la recherche et de la création à l’Université de Sherbrooke for Vient le jour. Since 2015, he has participated in annual week-long intensives in Paris with the French composer Philippe Hersant. He has also given conducting masterclasses at the Conservatoire national supérieur musique et danse de Lyon and has conducted workshops on his works in Paris and Reims, France. In October 2019, the Children’s choir of the Maîtrise de Notre-Dame-de-Paris invited Mr. Ingari to compose two works for children’s choir, cello and organ whose world premier will take place in Paris on June 1, 2021 under his direction. His Trois méditations pour violoncelle seul will be premiered as part of that concert performed by the cellist Marc-Didier Thirault, of Reims, France. In February 2019, he received the Ordre du mérite choral from the Alliance chorale du Québec for his exceptional service to the Quebec choral community. And in 2013, Robert Ingari was named Mérite estrien by La Tribune of Sherbrooke and Radio-Canada for his personal and professional achievements.