Raised and based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Zoe Leger has made a name for herself as one of the top contemporary music educators in Eastern Canada. Zoe is the founder and director of the Atlantic Contemporary Vocal Institute, an organization aimed at providing exceptional educational opportunities for pre-professional and professional singers. Zoe holds a full private studio of amateur and professional singers and has taught in the music departments at St. Francis Xavier University, the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Community College.

Zoe has taught singers of all ages, styles and levels, but her primary focus as a teacher is instructing professional and high-achieving amateur singers (plus those that are ready to get to that level!). Zoe has coached professional singers and actors, post-secondary and post-graduate students and other vocal coaches.

Zoe’s studio teaching focuses on contemporary music (jazz, pop, R&B, folk, indie) and she has a plethora of experience teaching classical and musical theatre as well. Zoe is an accomplished pianist and also teaches self-accompaniment for singers, composition, arranging, as well as jazz and classical theory. Zoe has led several vocal ensembles of teen and adult singers and is an in-demand clinician in school, private and university settings.

As a performer, Zoe has sang across Canada and the United Kingdom in a variety of solo and ensemble settings. Zoe’s debut album The Girl From Yesterday (2016) was nominated for Jazz Recording of the Year for the East Coast Music Awards as well as the Music Nova Scotia Awards. As a composer, Zoe has written and arranged music for solo instruments, string quartet, choral ensembles, chamber ensembles and orchestras.