Sharing Joy Through Song!
Home for the Holidays
Join the Achill Choral Society this winter for Home for the Holidays,
a joyful celebration of music, cherished seasonal favourites, and festive cheer.
Concert details coming soon — we look forward to celebrating the season with you!
Join Achill – Your Community Choir!
Photograph by Kate Karklins – Klikd Images
As the Headwaters Region’s premier community choir, we currently have 65 singers. There’s always room for more! Our concerts feature songs diverse in style, culture and message.
Rehearsal Location:
Upstairs at Westminster United Church,
247 Broadway, Orangeville, ON, L9W 2Z5,
from 7:00 P.M. to 9:30 P.M.
New Members for Fall/Winter 2026 Welcome: Wednesday on September 9, 2026, at 7 P.M.
Please contact “info@achill.ca“
if you wish to attend and to receive further details including a Pre-registration Form so that you can pick up your set of vocal scores at the first rehearsal. These scores are on loan, to be returned to Achill’s Librarian.
Also you can connect with us on facebook.com/AchillChoralSociety
EMILY TAUB
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / CONDUCTOR
A graduate of the Voice Program at McMaster University, Emily Taub is a lead alto with the choir at Eglinton St. George’s United Church and currently a member of the Elmer Iseler Singers. In 2024, she was awarded the James T. Chestnutt Conductor’s Scholarship under the mentorship of Lydia Adams.
Emily served as Assistant Conductor of the Avanti Chamber Singers for the 2024-2025 season under the direction of Rachel Rensink-Hoff and was the winner of the choir’s inaugural Composer/Arranger Competition. She recently performed as a background vocalist for Sarah Brightman’s production of A Christmas Symphony.
An active clinician and educator, Emily has worked with choirs across the region, most recently as a guest speaker at CANACC (the Canadian A Cappella Conference) and as an adjudicator for the NCDSB Choir Fest. They are also the founder and Artistic Director of Choir À La Mode, a chamber choir celebrating music of every genre, now in its 11th season.
When not conducting, Emily works as a recording artist, teaches private voice lessons in Hamilton, composes and arranges choral music, and performs throughout the GTA with her gospel trio, EmBoddiement.
Emily is over-the-moon excited to take the helm as the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Achill Choral Society.
NANCY DETTBARN
COLLABORATIVE ACCOMPANIST
Nancy is a faculty member at the Lakefield Summer Music Festival and has piano studios in Toronto and Orangeville. She is a dynamic adjudicator and clinician who provides workshops on piano and the Alexander Technique for musicians, and plays throughout the area and in the United States as soloist and collaborator.