Michel Guimont was appointed the Music Director of the choir in September 2010.

After graduating from Concordia University with a degree in Psychology, Michel continued his education with a Bachelor’s degree in Music and then a Master's degree in Music (Composition), both from the University of Montreal. He has also taken courses in Choral and Orchestral Conducting at Westminster Choir School, Princeton, New Jersey. He took voice training with Jan Simons at McGill University and was, for several years, a private student of Wayne Riddell in choral conducting and vocal technique. He is fully bilingual in English and French and can also speak Spanish, German and Italian. Michel is also an accomplished composer having published two complete Psalm Collections (GIA Publications Inc.) and other sacred works which are used across Canada, the USA, and elsewhere.

Mr. Guimont has been Director of Music at St. John de Brébeuf Parish and was later Director of Music and Organist at St. Augustine of Canterbury , both in Montreal. Since 1991, he has been the Director of Music at Notre-Dame Basilica in Ottawa, where he has developed the music program there from a single choir to the present five choirs and heads a music program which is considered to have one of the best Cathedral choirs in Canada. He has taken his choirs on performance tours to Italy, Spain and Poland.

Michel’s wealth of musical experience and training and his passion for music will enable him take our choir to new levels of performance, and he is enthusiastic about working with the choir on a variety of secular and sacred repertoire in the future.

Carolyn Yip became the accompanist for the choir in September 2011.

Carolyn was born in Belleville, Ontario. She completed her Baccalaureate of Music in 2009 at the University of Ottawa where she studied piano performance with Andrew Tunis and composition with Steven Gellman. In 2011, she completed her Masters of Music under the tutelage of Andrew Tunis and Frédéric Lacroix. She has had lessons from visiting teachers namely Anton Kuerti and Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri. She has traveled to study, taken masterclasses and performed in France under the guidance of Jean-Paul Sevilla.

Carolyn has fondness for the vocal repertoire with a true love for lieder and mélodie. She has worked with solo vocalists as well as with choirs. She was pianist with the University of Ottawa Choral Ensemble from 2009-2011 under the baton of Laurence Ewashko, studying Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. She continues working with the University of Ottawa choir with musical director Michel Guimont. Carolyn remains active in Ottawa as an avid teacher, accompanist and collaborative pianist.