​The JUNO Award winning Elmer Iseler Singers (EIS), conducted by artistic director Lydia Adams since 1998, is singing its 46th Concert Season in 2024/25. This 20-voice professional choral ensemble, founded by the late Dr. Elmer Iseler in 1979, has thrilled audiences internationally, and led the way in developing exciting new choral works and experiences, building a stellar reputation in Canada, the United States and abroad, performing a wide range of repertoire with a focus on Canadian composers. 

EIS presents a concert series in Toronto each season, and the choir is featured as guest artists and collaborators with many professional colleagues, including Esprit Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Gryphon Trio, among others. The EIS tour regularly throughout Canada, East, West and North, engaging community singers and conductors of all ages through workshops and concert performances. Most recently, the EIS and TSO received a 2019 GRAMMY nomination and 2019 JUNO award for their Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Chandos CD recording, with Peter Oundjian conducting.

The Elmer Iseler Singers are dedicated to the education of emerging choral singers, conductors and composers, and sponsor conducting and compositional workshops, as well as the James T. Chestnutt Scholarship, a choral mentorship with Lydia Adams and the Singers. The Singers are thrilled to have joined with the VIVA Singers as Associate Choirs. This collaboration will include an ongoing mentorship model and we are delighted to share the skills and knowledge of the Elmer Iseler Singers with the VIVA Singers and their stated aims of performance artistry, vocal music education, inclusion, leadership and mentoring, and community.