Chamber Singers

The Chamber Singers of the Yale Glee Club is a group of eighteen singers who perform choral works primarily designed for a small ensemble. Their repertoire ranges from sacred music to madrigals to modern pieces. Selections from the repertoire are performed throughout the year at various Glee Club concerts. Membership is open by audition from within the Glee Club.

Miles Canaday is studying choral conducting at Yale School of Music with Marguerite Brooks and Jeffrey Douma, where he has also received conducting instruction from Masaaki Suzuki, Simon Carrington, and Simon Halsey. Currently in his second year of study, he is the Assistant Conductor of the Yale Glee Club and the Principal Assistant Conductor of the Yale Camerata. He began singing as a treble in the Choir of Men and Boys at Christ Church in Greenwich, CT in 1996 and has continued to participate in vocal ensembles, performing across the US and Europe. After graduating from Phillips Academy Andover, he was the Music Librarian for the Little Orchestra Society of New York City during their 2005-2006 season. He completed a B.A. in music with honors from Harvard College in 2010, where he studied conducting with Jameson Marvin and Federico Cortese and was President of the Harvard Glee Club. With a keen interest in early 20th century music, he completed a senior thesis analyzing Stravinsky’s Petrushka.