Emily Cox
Emily Cox AM is a leading Australian choral conductor and music director. She directs Canticum Chamber Choir and Brisbane Chorale, and lectures in choral studies at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
She is Choir Director at St Mary’s Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point, and works widely as a conductor and chorus master with professional performing arts companies and major arts festivals. Through her ensembles she has introduced Australian audiences to many unusual and beautiful works.
A graduate of Dartmouth College (USA) and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, she trained further overseas with noted choral specialists and is known as a festival and workshop director, adjudicator and educator for all age groups.
On Luminescence (MCD 558) she directs Canticum Chamber Choir in twentieth- and twenty-first-century works on the theme of light. She also features with Canticum and Brisbane Chorale on Joy to the World (MD 3359).
Emily Cox is featured on the following titles
Joy to the World
Christmas at the Sydney Town Hall, presented annually by the City of Sydney, began in 1978 when Robert Ampt became the fourth Sydney City Organist. The event has since grown into one of the city’s major Christmas celebrations.
Luminescence
Light is integral to colour, and musical integrity is often described in terms of its colour or luminescence. Celebrating Canticum’s 21st birthday, the programme seeks composers whose music shows a particular sensitivity to the choral instrument and to beautiful text.