Brian Tate Music

WELCOME

Thanks for visiting Brian Tate Music! Brian is a Victoria-based vocalist, composer/arranger, choir director, pianist, and educator. This site contains information about projects, performances, teaching, workshop offerings, and more.

BIO

Brian Tate is a Victoria, B.C. choral director, clinician, educator, and vocalist. An award-winning composer and arranger, dozens of his choral works are published and his music is performed worldwide. Brian directed Vancouver’s Universal Gospel Choir and City Soul Choir, and now directs the Vancouver Island Chamber Choir and the Broad View United Community Choir. He taught singing and choir for over 20 years at Langara College's Studio 58 theatre school and is now on the voice faculty of the Canadian College of the Performing Arts. Brian was a founding member of the world music a cappella vocal trio TriVo with Dawn Pemberton and Karla Mundy. He has had a lifelong interest in music of the African Diaspora, and has travelled and studied in Cuba and West Africa. He is frequently invited to give workshops for choirs and is known for his teaching skills, humour, and ability to inspire people from all levels and backgrounds to sing together.

Having experienced Brian Tate's musical leadership and musicianship on a number of occasions, I can testify that he brings exceptional energy and passion to the task. Brian doesn't just provide musical leadership. He becomes the music, embodying the message of peace, justice, and love in a way that is positively contagious. This is a man of deep integrity, whose music is driven by a deep purpose of personal and social transformation.

--Bruce Sanguin, Author

LISTEN

The three selections below feature Patrick Dubois, piano; Danny Parker, bass; Phil Belanger, drums.

Arrangements by Brian Tate