Timothy Shantz

Timothy Shantz is a conductor, collaborator, tenor soloist, teacher and life-long dreamer. Named Artistic Director of the Richard Eaton Singers in 2023 he is also Founder and Artistic Director of Calgary’s professional choir, Luminous Voices, and the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alberta’s Department of Music.

The Calgary Philharmonic Chorus and Spiritus Chamber Choir flourished during his tenure between 2008-2020 through premieres, tours, recordings and performances. As a conductor, he is recognized for the breadth of his work. Luminous Voices was nominated for a JUNO Award in 2020 for Peter-Anthony Togni’s Sea Dreams. Both Luminous Voices and Spiritus Chamber Choir earned national choral awards, including Outstanding Choral Recording, and the Healey Willan Grand Prize for Choirs. In 2021, he was honoured to receive the Richard S. Eaton Award of Distinction from Choir Alberta in recognition of exemplary service to choral music in the province of Alberta. Shantz holds a Doctor of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with a dissertation focusing on the unaccompanied work, Sun-Dogs by James MacMillan.