Shallaway - Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus ( previously   NSYC-  Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir)
 is a community-based  Canadian cultural organization from St. John's, the oldest city in North America. Founded by 
Artistic Director, Susan Knight, it comprises 220 young artists  ( aged  of 8  - 18  ) from the  region.  Its senior ensemble,
Camerata, has been invited to perform at the World Symposium.

At the heart of the Shallaway vision is the valuing, promoting and transmitting of Newfoundland and Labrador's distinctive
and rich culture, to celebrate cultural diversity and connection within Canada and around the globe, and to develop its
young choristers as leaders for the future in and for Newfoundland and Labrador.    

In Copenhagen, Shallaway is delighted to be performing at the Tivoli Gardens Concert Hall with fellow choristers from
Denmark, China and Hungary in the Gala Songbridge project ( www.songbridge.com ). It is also greatly looking forward
to presenting Ann and Seamus, its commissioned opera (Stephen Hatfield), in the Queen's Hall of the Royal Library.
(www.annandseamus.com )

 Awards

•   Winner of 1st prize  in the Youth Category  and runner up for the Grand Prix at the 2005 Tolosa International
    Choral Festival (Spain) 
•  Winner of the  Chorus America's 2004 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence
•   Winner of the HEALEY WILLAN GRAND PRIZE  -  2002 CBC Radio - Grand Prix in the National Competition
    for Amateur Choirs -  
•   Let the Peoples Sing - London 2001 - 3rd place
•   Winner of 1st prize and 2nd prizes at International Kathaumixw, in 1998 British Columbia Canada
•   Music Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (MIA) 2001, Best Classical Artist Award for
   Full Circle   
•  Nominated  for Best  Classical Recording of the Year  ECMA 2002 for  Full Circle   
•  Best  Classical Recording of the Year Award  -  ECMA 2001, for At the Rim of the Carol-Singing Sea
• .Classical Recording of the Year Nomination for Rock Within the Sea: Songs of Newfoundland   

 Invitations/Tours

• 2007-08 IFCM World Symposium Denmark and Irish tour of Newfoundland opera Ann and Seamus
• 2006-07 North American Tour Ann and Seamus opera (Kennedy Center , Washington, DC, National Arts
  Center, Ottawa, etc.)
• 2005-06 Tolosa International Choral Festival
• 2004-05 Tour of Argentina
• 2003-04 Tour of Ireland
• 2002-03 October - Command Performance Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (Oct), American Choral Director's
  Association, New York City Feb)
• 2001-02 Let the Peoples Sing, London (Oct), Joy of Singing International Choral Festival, Toronto, (June)
• 2000-01 World Symposium of Childrens' Choirs, Vancouver
• 1999-00 International Society of Music Educators, Edmonton
• 1998-99 Sympaatti International Festival, Finland

Website: www.shallaway.ca

 For more information, contact:
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Kathryn Atkin
Executive Director
Shallaway - Newfoundland and Labrador Youth in Chorus Inc.
6 Logy Bay Road, Suite 200
St. John's, NL
A1A 1J3
709-738-6768 (Office)
709-685-8696 (Cell)
kathryn.atkin4@gmail.com
www.shallaway.ca
Our Opera Project:  www.annandseamus.ca

Artistic Director
Susan Knight is a socio-cultural entrepreneur working in choral music. A conductor, educator and producer of
international repute, she works through the arts to celebrate heritage while also invoking/provoking change.
Her innovative practice works through the transformative power of music to create empathetic community,
promote leadership and global consciousness and develop youth as critical agents-of-change.
Founder of Shallaway (1992) and Festival 500 (1994), she is active as a consultant, speaker, clinician,
adjudicator, editor and guest conductor. She currently serves on the Boards of Chorus America, Irish Business
Partnerships, International Federation of Choral Music, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Canadian
Commission to UNESCO. She is invested in the Orders of both Canada, and Newfoundland and Labrador,
and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Memorial University.