Press Comments

“…both repertory and performance were of such quality and character as to make the enthusiastic capacity crowd glad that it was there.”

“The singers achieved compatible blend, unity of intention and expression, and malleability to the wishes of the conductor, singing with unpretentious sincerity and persuasive charm, and rising with plenty of emotional reserve to climaxes.”

Dorothy Stowe,

Deseret News

“Versatile Canterbury Singers put on superb performance”

“Performing everything from Renaissance motets to Lennon and McCartney songs Canterbury Singers are one of the most versatile a capella choirs around.”

“The exceptionally talented vocalists who make up The Canterbury Singers are a joy to hear. Everything they perform is done with enthusiasm, verve and style.”

Edward Reichel

Deseret News

“The Canterbury Singers have learned to blend in a strong white tone on the Latin numbers … as a crisp, practiced group, the Canterburys are solid.”

Jerry Johnston

Deseret News

“…they displayed a faultless blend, precise control of dynamics and a wonderfully light articulation that kept things bright and clear even amid the exuberant polyphony of Batten’s ‘O Sing Joyfully.’”

Of William Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, “I liked the way Patterson framed the work, the disciplined drama of the middle sections rising gradually from the ‘Kyrie’ before sinking back into a meditative ‘Agnus Dei.’”

William Goodfellow

Deseret News

About Me

Myron Patterson has an established career as a choral conductor. He founded and directed The Canterbury Singers, Utah’s premiere and critically acclaimed chamber choir. Prior to moving to Salt Lake City, he was the assistant director of Collegium Musicum at Northwestern University, Illinois.

With The Canterbury Singers, Myron made several recordings along with numerous radio and television broadcasts. Under his musical leadership they performed on the Nova Chamber Music Series, the Madeleine Arts Festival, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts recital series, and on a highly successful concert tour to Vancouver, B.C.

In Vancouver, Myron sang tenor in the Choir of Men and Boys, Adult Mixed Choir and the Chamber Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, directed by Beal Thomas, and for seven years with the internationally award winning Gallery Singers, conducted by Frederick Carter, before becoming a founding co-director of the Minnesingers, winners in the CBC choral competition. With the Gallery Singers he toured Great Britain where they won numerous awards in various British choral festivals.

Myron has directed performances with choir and orchestra in such works as the Duruflé, Fauré, and Rutter Reqiuems. He has prepared choirs for performance with the University of Utah Chamber Orchestra under Robert Debbaut. He has served as a clinician for the Royal School of Church Music, and consultant for various organizations.

Equally at home with secular and sacred music, Patterson is noted for his ability to build a strong cohesive choral ensemble. He has worked with and sung for such noted choral luminaries as Sir David Willcocks, Simon Preston, Richard Proulx, and John Bertalot.

As an organist, Myron has performed recitals in Canada, the United States, his native England, and Germany, and has been guest organist with the Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra under maestro James Michael Caswell. Myron is Adjunct Associate Professor of Music at the University of Utah. He has held positions as music director, choir director, and organist in numerous churches. Additionally, he has also tutored sight singing to boy choristers at the Cathedral of the Madeleine.

Myron holds degrees in music from the University of British Columbia (B.Mus.), Northwestern University, Il. (MM), Trinity College, London (ATCL, LTCL), The Royal Canadian College of Organists (ARCCO (CHM)), and the Graduate Theological Foundation (DSM). His organ teachers include Beal Thomas, Richard Enright and Wolfgang Rübsam.

Myron is available as a guest conductor, workshop leader and presenter, and organist.