Conductor Education

Women’s Conducting Intensive at the Halifax Choral Conducting Institute, 2019

Passionate about conductor education and leadership development, Caron founded the Halifax Choral Conducting Institute in 2012. In 2019, the HCCI inaugurated a Women’s Conducting Intensive, the first of its kind in Canada. From 2017-21, Caron led Choral Kaleidoscope at Duquesne University, an institute for conductors at all levels in partnership with the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. She has given workshops/clinics to conductors and choirs across North America, including serving as conducting clinician for the 2024 ACDA Eastern Division Graduate Conducting Masterclass in Providence, RI.

Read about the 2019 Women’s Conducting Intensive in the Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/article-take-on-your-own-power-the-women-who-are-rising-to-the-musical/

Read about Caron in the 2023 Pittsburgh Magazine: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/maestra-meet-four-pittsburgh-conductors-who-seek-gender-equity/