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Who We Are
Christine Rabey, Artistic Director
Christine Rabey (she/her) is a mezzo-soprano, choral conductor, and secondary teacher who is excited to be integrating into the Northumberland community. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Bachelor of Music Education, and received her Masters of Teaching at the University of Toronto. Since completing her studies, she has been working in the Secondary panel at the Peel District School Board, where she has recently been teaching in the Regional Arts Program at Cawthra Park Secondary School. In this position, alongside teaching vocal music and musical theatre, she directed the Junior Concert Choir and Senior Concert Choir, and vocal directed their production of the musical Something Rotten. A lifelong lover of choral music, Christine was a section lead at Metropolitan United Church in London during her undergraduate studies, and more recently sung as a section lead for the Modern Sound Collective and the choir at Royal York Road United Church. She has served as Conducting Intern with Young Voices Toronto, and as an Associate Conductor with the Oakville Choir for Children and Youth before starting with La Jeunesse, where she has so enjoyed combining her passion for choir and musical theatre!
Debbie Fingas,
Associate Director /Accompanist
Debbie is the Minister of Music at Trinity United Church in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, where she accompanies weekly services and conducts the children’s choirs, Chancel Choir and Jubilate Handbell Choir. An experienced organist, pianist, choral director, singer and flautist, Debbie has performed in numerous concerts and recitals throughout southern Ontario. She has toured the Canadian Maritime provinces as Conductor for the North Lakeshore Massed Chorus on their tour commemorating the start of WW I. She conducts workshops in handbell ringing and has been faculty for the Ontario Guild of English Handbell Ringers Festival and the National Convention for Handbell Musicians of America. In addition, she is the President of the Northumberland Centre of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, The Past Chair of Music United and serves on the executive for the Southern Ontario Chapter of the Hymn Society.Debbie graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education. She also holds a Master of Arts in Church Music from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Debbie has completed a Doctorate of Ministry at the University of Toronto where her thesis was a qualitative study examining how participating in church choir or handbell choir nurtures a participant’s spiritual life.
