2025 Adjudicators

From his beginnings as a boy treble with Derek Holman, to Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir under Robert Cooper, Mitchell Pady went on to study voice and composition at Western University, and has had the great fortune to work with many other visionary

choral conductors, including Sir David Willcocks, Helmuth Rilling, Paul Hillier, Tõnu Kaljuste and Kaspars Putnins.

As a conductor, Mitchell has worked with orchestras and choirs across Canada and is in demand as a festival adjudicator and clinician. He is the artistic director for Chroma Vocal Ensemble, the Cellar Singers, Oriana Women's Choir, and A Choir'd Taste. Mitchell has served as guest conductor for the Elmer Iseler Singers, leading the sopranos and altos in their Toronto Symphony Orchestra appearance in Holst's The Planets, an EIS series concert featuring David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, as well as conducting additional performances of The Little Match Girl Passion at Ottawa's Music and Beyond Festival and the Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound. Mitchell began working on the faculty of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2018, coordinating commissions and coaching the young musicians to award winning performances of new choral works.

Dora and Juno award winner, Mitchell sings professionally with the Elmer Iseler Singers under Lydia Adams, and Choir 21 with David Fallis, and has recorded for Naxos, Perimeter Records, Centrediscs, and Chandos.