ABOUT
Emma Colette Moss.
Emma Colette Moss is a Czech-Canadian conductor and pianist with a passionate commitment to enhancing the accessibility of music for all audiences. She is currently completing a Master’s of Music in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Toronto, under the guidance of renowned conductor and violist, Uri Mayer; her studies are supported by both a University of Toronto Fellowship and SSHRC CGS-M Award. She completed her Undergraduate Degree with Honours in Composition and Piano Performance in Toronto, where she received numerous awards such as the Monika Ryckman and Ben McPeek Scholarships. She has studied under artists and academics such as Daniel Raiskin, Kenneth Kiesler, and Larysa Kuzmenko. In collaboration with Toronto Children’s Chorus, Orchestra Breva, Concreamus Choir, Babel Chorus, Mississauga & Oakville Symphony Orchestras, and Navona Records, amongst others, Emma Colette Moss has shown herself to be an emerging artist of note, developing her abilities for well over 15 years.
She has served as Assistant Conductor of Pax Christi Chorale and Apprentice Conductor of Orchestra Toronto and has held Assistant Conductor Positions with the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Oakville Symphony. Additionally, she is co-founder and co-director of the Sinfonietta Aionia, an ensemble that uses orchestral performance as a catalyst for social change. — In 2023, Emma was invited to both the Conductor’s Retreat at Medomak, hosted by Kenneth Kiesler and the Medomak Symphony Orchestra, and the 2023 RBC Canadian Conductor’s Showcase, hosted by Daniel Raiskin, Monica Chen, and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, she will assume the role of Assistant Conductor with the National Academy Orchestra of Canada under the guidance of Tania Miller.
In the Fall of 2024, Emma will begin Doctoral Studies at the University of Toronto in Orchestral Conducting, where her dissertation project will explore Topic Theory in Late 19th-Century Russian Orchestral Music, namely the works of Mily Balakirev and the new Russian style.
Land Acknowledgement
Our lands spanning from Lake Ontario to the Niagara Escarpment are steeped in rich, ever-expanding, and incredibly fascinating Indigenous history, which we so greatly respect and uphold as individuals and as a community.
We acknowledge one land that we are meeting and working on, being Toronto, is the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
The territory around the Niagara Escarpment, an area in which we also operate, is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy, the Ojibway and other allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.
We would like to acknowledge that the regions forming the Niagara Escarpment are part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.