About composer Hussein Janmohamed

 Hussein Janmohamed (b.1969)

Hussein Janmohamed is a global music education consultant deeply engaged in providing quality music education to vulnerable communities. For over 30 years, Hussein has worked in close partnership with schools, professional and community organizations to create vocal music experiences that can respond to the challenges of social and cultural change in a highly diverse society.

Hussein has performed with the Elmer Isler Singers as the James T. Chestnutt Choral Scholar, Chor Leoni Men's Choir, and Phoenix Chamber Choir. Hussein has directed the Vancouver Peace Choir, Canadian Ismaili choirs, University of British Columbia choirs, the Sarah McLachlan Children's Choir, the 2004 Youth Peace Choir, and more recently, global Ismaili music ensembles to commemorate the 80th birthday and Diamond Jubilee of His Highness the Aga Khan. He has been been commissioned by Ontario Presents, The Esoterics, the Aga Khan Museum for the Elmer Iseler Singers, Westcoast Sacred Arts Society with First Nations composer Russell Wallace, and by Classical Movements on behalf of the Nai Syrian Children's Choir for the 2018 Serenade! Choral Festival as part of the Eric Daniel Helms New Music Program.

Knowing first hand the power of singing with others to bring people together, Hussein has dedicated his efforts to promoting excellence in choral performance, composition and education, while emphasizing intercultural dialogue through conversations between choral music and spiritually inspired vocal arts from the Muslim world. Hussein's participatory pedagogies encourage intercultural dialogue and the creation of pluralistic vocal soundscapes from which we can draw shared wisdom and knowledge about how to live peacefully with one another.

For more information: https://www.husseinjanmohamed.com/