Magdelena Ho-yan Tang is a teacher, researcher and choral conductor based in Toronto. Currently, she is a teaching artist for choirs at Sistema Toronto, and the assistant conductor at Bach Children’s Chorus. As a choral conductor, she has previously worked with children’s choirs such as Boston Children Chorus and Singapore International School (Hong Kong). A graduate of Butler University and Boston University, she studied and sang under the baton of Henry Leck, Eric Stark, Ann Howard Jones, Scott Allen Jarret and André de Quadro. Besides actively teaching in Hong Kong, her music studies experience gives her opportunities to perform and workshop in France, Berlin, London, Taipei, Brazil and the United States. In 2022, she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Her dissertation, “The Singing Public in Hong Kong: Choral Music as Social Life'' emphasizes the corporeal aspects of choral music in relation to the making of social life, including notions of identity, performative aspects of collective singing, and public space.