Director
Marg Stubington – Music Director
Marg Stubington is an active choral conductor, pianist and educator. She is the music director of the Canadian Centennial Choir (appointed in fall 2009) and at First United Church, Ottawa (since 2013).
Over the last 25 years, Marg has directed a variety of choirs in Ottawa: Vox Femina (founder), Musica Viva Singers, Tone Cluster – quite a queer choir, Ottawa Gay Men’s Chorus, Glebe–St. James United Church Choir and the Ottawa Regional Youth Choir. She is a regular choral clinician at Canterbury High School in Ottawa and St. Michael’s Catholic High School in Kemptville, and has led workshops with the Ottawa Brahms Choir, Musica Ebraica and the Arnprior Community Chorus.
A graduate of McGill University (Bachelor of Music: Piano) and the University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Education: Primary-Junior), Marg brings passion and creative energy to all of her work. Among other achievements, Marg developed and directed the KidSingers children’s choir program for its first three years (2007–2010); it remains a thriving part of OrKidstra–Sistema Ottawa, an award-winning charitable social development program.
Actively involved with CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians, Musiciens amateurs du Canada) as a young musician and now as a member of the teaching faculty, Marg regularly leads the choir and orchestra for CAMMAC Ottawa–Gatineau’s annual concert, and directed the Ottawa Valley Music Festival program in Arnprior in 2019 and 2022 (in partnership with CAMMAC Ottawa–Gatineau).
In March 2018, Marg was one of six conductors selected to participate in the inaugural Amadeus Choral Workshop for Conductors presented by Lydia Adams, conductor and artistic director of the Amadeus Choir in Toronto.
Marg has encouraged the commissioning and premiering of choral works by Canadian composers: Donald Patriquin’s World Music Suite Three (2010) with Musica Viva Singers, and Nick Piper’s Nisi Pontus et Aer, Nothing But Sea and Sky (2014) and Laura Hawley’s In Song (2017) with the Canadian Centennial Choir.