Eleanor Daley (composer)

{{For|the wife of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley|Eleanor "Sis" Daley}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Eleanor Daley

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|OC}}

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| birth_name = Eleanor Joanne Daley

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|04|21}}

| birth_place = Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada

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| instrument = organ, piano

| genre = Choral and Church Music

| occupation = Composer, Choir director, Choral Clinician and Accompanist

| years_active = 1982 – present

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| website = [http://www.fairlawnavenueunited.ca/Eleanor_Daley_publications.htm Published Works of Eleanor Daley]

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Eleanor Joanne Daley {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}}{{cite web | url=https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-appointees-december-2022 | title=Order of Canada appointees – December 2022 | website=The Governor General of Canada | date=29 December 2022 | access-date=29 December 2022 }} (born April 21, 1955) is a Canadian composer{{cite web|url=http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=117514|title=Vivaldi the centerpiece for Wheatland Chorale|last=Peña|first=Susan L.|date=15 December 2008|work=Reading Eagle|accessdate=13 February 2011}} of choral and church music,{{cite book|title=The American Organist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jfw8AQAAIAAJ|volume=43|year=2009|publisher=American Guild of Organists|page=17}} a church choir director, choral clinician and accompanist. She lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.[https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/04/25/fiorito_toronto_choral_society_offers_ghostly_strains.html "Fiorito: Toronto Choral Society offers ghostly strains"]. Toronto Star, By Joe Fiorito, April 25, 2012 Among her best-known works are The Rose Trilogy and Requiem.{{cite book|author=Robert Chase|title=Memento mori: a guide to contemporary memorial music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8RgKAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-8108-5745-2|page=xvi}}

Early life and education

Daley was born in Parry Sound, Ontario. She earned a bachelor's degree in organ performance from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and attained diplomas in piano and organ, having studied in both Canada and England.

Career

As a composer, Daley has been commissioned by choral groups and arts organizations throughout North America and Europe.{{cite book|title=The Voice of Chorus America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4TYJAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Chorus America}} In Canada, she composed for the Elmer Iseler Singers, the Amadeus Choir, the Bach Children's Chorus, the Maryland State Boychoir, the Amabile Youth Singers, Toronto Children's Chorus, the Cantabile Singers of Kingston, the Savridi Singers, the Vancouver Men's Chorus and the Victoria Scholars.

Daley worked under commission to a number of groups in the United States, including the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, Texas Woman's University, the Texas Choral Directors Association, and received the 2008 Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association.{{cite web|url=http://acda.org/page.asp?page%3Dbrock_pieces |website=American Choral Directors Association|title=Raymond W. Brock Memorial Commission |accessdate=2016-03-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308063227/http://www.acda.org/page.asp?page=brock_pieces |archivedate=2016-03-08 }}, Retrieved March 2016 Commissions from Europe include festivals in Norway and Germany, and England's Oxford University Press. Daley's music has been published by Canadian, US, and UK-based printing houses.

Daley's a capella work "I Sing a Maiden" was performed in New York in 2014 by a 400-voice choir as part of an International Women's Day celebration.[http://nyconcertreview.com/tag/carmina-burana/ "Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) presents Lust & La Femme Mystique: Carmina Burana and Music in Celebration of International Women’s Day in Review"]. New York Concert Review, Barrett Cobb, March 14, 2014

Daley continues to work as a composer. Her work "My Master from a Garden Rose" has been recorded by the Genesis Ensemble.[https://www.naplesnews.com/story/entertainment/2017/07/20/genesis-ensemble-new-naples-vocal-sound/451669001/ "Genesis Ensemble a new Naples vocal sound"]. Naples Daily News, Harriet Howard Heithaus. July 20, 2017 2018 she serves as the music and choir director at Fairlawn Avenue United Church and as accompanist for the Bach Children's Chorus.

She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022, "for her contributions to Canadian music and choral culture as a renowned composer and accompanist."{{Cite web |date=29 December 2022 |title=Order of Canada appointees – December 2022 |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-appointees-december-2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229155748/https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-appointees-december-2022 |archive-date=29 December 2022 |access-date=29 December 2022 |website=Governor General of Canada}}