Lisette Canton is a choral and orchestral conductor, vocal coach and technician, guest conductor, adjudicator, workshop leader and early music specialist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the JUNO award-winning and internationally acclaimed Ottawa Bach Choir, and is also Associate Professor and Head of Choral Conducting at York University in Toronto, where she conducts the Chamber Choir and Concert Choir, and is in charge of the graduate program in choral music.

Dr. Canton has been a guest conductor at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, and, in addition to directing a large concert series in Ottawa, has taken the Ottawa Bach Choir on five successful European tours (2022, 2014, 2009, 2007 and 2005), including three invitations as the first Canadian choir and Canadian representative to perform in the prestigious Bachfest Leipzig in 2014, 2022 and 2027. She has conducted numerous concerts in London, Paris, Venice, Leipzig, Lübeck, Stuttgart, Bayreuth, Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, Amsterdam, Groningen, Ypres, Passchendaele, Mexico City, at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, the Winspear Centre in Edmonton, and across Canada; and has prepared choirs for Franz-Paul Decker, Johannes Ullrich, Pinchas Zukerman, Helmuth Rilling and John Rutter. She was also invited to perform in the International Choral Festival at the University of Caen, France, in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of D-Day, in 2004. She has conducted performances with the Ottawa Bach Choir, Ensemble Caprice Baroque Orchestra and the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra in the prestigious Meet in Beijing international festival in Beijing and Shanghai, China, in 2016.