Alana MacPhee joined the Canta Mara artistic team in September 2023 as Junior Choir Conductor. Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Alana holds a B. Mus. in Voice and a B. Mus. Ed. from Memorial University of Newfoundland.  For the past twenty years, Alana has been an active music educator who has taught classroom music in Bermuda, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. She is also a private music instructor offering lessons in voice and piano. She is currently teaching elementary music with the Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education at Kings County Academy and Wolfville School.

Alana has always been involved with choral singing, having grown up singing in Newfoundland with the Shallaway Youth Choir. She was also a member of the award winning Lady Cove Women’s Choir. She was involved in facilitating the successful “So You Always Wanted to Sing” Initiative of Festival 500 Growing the Voices in St. John’s with other talented individuals. She is looking forward to spreading her love of choral music with Canta Mara this year.