Edward Moroney continues his eclectic career as an organist-choirmaster, accompanist and music educator in Toronto. A graduate of the Univ. of Toronto in compositon and vocal music education, he studied with John Beckwith, Derek Holman, Oskar Morawetz and Lloyd Bradshaw. As a chorister at St. Michael’s Cathedral Choir School, he studied organ with Victor Togni, and latterly with Charles Peaker and Douglas Bodle. Mr. Moroney is a former organ-scholar of St. Chad’s College, Durham University (UK), a diploma-holder of both the English and Canadian Royal Colleges of Organists, and a fellow of several learned societies and British music colleges.

 

Mr. Moroney was the founding accompanist of the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus, and for many years was the accompanist of the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir, the Opera In Concert Chorus and the Univ. of Toronto Women’s Chorus. Mr. Moroney accompanies the TMYC on two CDs, and has played for many distinguished choral conductors, including Robert Cooper, Elmer Iseler, Lloyd Bradshaw, John Rutter and Robert Sund, both in concerts, tours and broadcasts. At the Univ. of Toronto, he was the only studio accompanist for the legendary voice teacher Irene Jessner.

 

In 1973 Mr. Moroney was awarded the inaugural Leslie Bell Choral Conducting Scholarship (Ont. Arts Council), and was honoured in 2002 with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (Canada). He has been the organist-choirmaster of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church since 1998, and currently teaches at St. Michael’s Cathedral Choir School.