New Choices in Art Song Repertoire: Canadian composers Emilie LeBel and Cecilia Livingston is a mini-lecture recital program designed to expose audiences to the compositions of two contemporary Canadian female composers Emilie Lebel and Cecilia Livingston.  Both composers, who will be in attendance at this NATS presentation, are currently experiencing incredible success around the world and have very distinct compositional styles.  Voice teachers, always interested in finding more diversity in their repertoire choices, will leave this lecture performance with a sense of each composer’s musical characteristics, how the commissioning process works, as well as a handout of resources for 21st century Canadian songs by female composers gaining traction in the world today, with a focus on Emile and Cecilia’s published song repertoire.