Tyrone Paterson, Conductor

Tyrone Paterson

is a Canadian opera conductor and vocal coach. He has held leadership roles at several Canadian opera companies, including Opera Lyra Ottawa, Calgary Opera, and Manitoba Opera. Paterson is known for his contributions to the development of emerging opera talent in Canada and for conducting performances internationally. He studied vocal performance at the University of Calgary, where he received the Don Wright Award for Vocal and Choral Music. He later pursued graduate studies in management, earning a Master of Science degree with distinction and obtaining the designations of Chartered Manager (C.Mgr.) and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI).

Paterson made his professional conducting debut with Calgary Opera at the age of 25, leading the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He later served as Resident Conductor and Artistic Administrator for the company.

From 1998 to 2014, Paterson served as the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Lyra Ottawa. During his tenure, he introduced a Young Artists Training Programme, later renamed the Opera Lyra Studio, which provided professional development opportunities for emerging Canadian singers.

He has guest conducted with opera companies across Canada, including Vancouver Opera, Edmonton Opera, and Manitoba Opera, as well as with the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Internationally, he has led performances in Austria, Italy, Romania, and China. Notable engagements include The Magic Flute at the Beijing Music Festival and Medea with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.

Since 2005, Paterson has served as Music Advisor and Principal Conductor for Manitoba Opera. His conducting has received critical acclaim, including reviews noting his “sensitive leadership” and “dynamic musical direction.”

Paterson has been a guest lecturer and conductor at the University of Western Ontario, working with the Western University Symphony Orchestra

Contents: About the Collection | About the About Page | Tech

About the Collection

This site is generated using CollectionBuilder-GH, a project to create a free and simple digital collection using GitHub Pages from:

• a CSV of collection metadata
• a folder of JPG images or PDF documents

The template repository features four objects from the University of Idaho Library’s Digital Collections.

For full details of creating your own collection site, visit CollectionBuilder Documentation!

About the About Page

We want to make engaging interpretive pages easier to create, so CollectionBuilder gives you tools to write with your collection content!

The template comes with a customizable “About” page layout designed for long form content with rich media embeds. Content is written in Markdown and enhanced using “includes” that pull in collection content, external media, and Bootstrap features like cards and modals. We hope this makes it easier for site builders to develop the collection AND add interesting and engaging contextual information.

Each “include” file has several options, which are documented in the files themselves–copy the examples to see how it works with your content! In the demo below, we’ve given display widths of 25% and 50% to save space, but you can feature the entire image or document.

You can also see a page featuring a bonanza of feature includes options on our CollectionBuilder-GH demo site.

Include Collection Items

The template provides includes to pull your collection objects and metadata into your interpretive page, allowing you to write with your materials directly embedded in the content.

Include an Image

• Image –> {% include feature/image.html objectid="demo_001" width="75" %}

Include a PDF

• PDF – > {% include feature/pdf.html objectid="demo_002" width="50" %}

Include a Video

• Video: {% include feature/video.html objectid="demo_004" %}

Include an Audio File

• Audio: {% include feature/audio.html objectid="demo_003" %}

Include Bootstrap Features

The template also provides includes to make it easier to add Bootstrap components to your Markdown writing. These features allow you to better organize and highlight your content.

Include a Card

• Card – > {% include feature/card.html header="This is a Card" text="The card features an image from the collection as a cap" objectid="demo004" width="25" centered=true %}

Include a Button

• Buttons – > {% include feature/button.html text="Button Link to Somewhere" link="https://collectionbuilder.github.io/" color="success" %}

Include an Alert

• Alerts – > {% include feature/alert.html text="this is an *alert* that 'warns' a user" color="warning" align="center" %}

Include a Modal

• Modals – > {% include feature/modal.html button="This is a modal using a 'primary' colored button to invite clicking" title="when clicked:" text="A Modal will pop out a box with some more information" color="primary" %}