Patricia Guy Tupper

Patricia Guy Tupper has been a Music Educator since 1980, performing roles as Music Teacher, Classroom Teacher and most recently as School Administrator. Throughout her varied career, she has always sung in and conducted choirs in her spare time. From the earliest days of her undergraduate degree at Dalhousie University, she has taught singing at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, taught in various schools and has conducted numerous children’s choirs. Patricia has sung in and conducted many adult church choirs throughout the Halifax area. As a student, Patricia was hired to train 20 non singing dancers to sing for the national traveling show of ‘Meet the Navy’. She was appointed Apprentice Conductor of the Dalhousie Chorale, and was the first recipient of the Don Wright Scholarship for excellence in choral conducting.

Early in her teaching career, Patricia was appointed Assistant Conductor of HRSB’s Youth Honour Choir by her supervisor, Kaye Pottie. It was during this enriching experience that she honed her skills with her cherished mentor.

Traveling to Lunenburg every week for 4 years to conduct The South Shore Chorale, Patricia has always relied on her husband John to be her chauffeur and her favourite bass. For 22 years they sang together in the Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica as lead singers. Over those 22 years, Patricia became Assistant Conductor and for the past 15 years, Music Director of St. Mary’s Gallery Choir – a position from which she retired in August of 2022.

Patricia is part of a legacy at the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo. Her father, Capt (N) Guy, was on the organizing committee for the first Tattoo in 1979, providing substantial military support. Patricia has been involved since 1983 singing with the Adult Choir, which she now directs, and the Children’s Chorus, which she founded in 1984 and directed until 2010. A particular highlight for her was the formation of the first Military Wives Choir who made their debut in the 2012 Tattoo.

Continuing with her military connection, Patricia became the conductor of the Canadian Military Wives Choir in 2023.

For her decades of contributions to volunteerism and music culture in Nova Scotia, Patricia was awarded the Platinum Jubilee Medal from the late Queen Elizabeth ll.

In the fall of 2024, Patricia was appointed as the new conductor of The Chebucto Community Singers, a position she assumed in January of 2025.

A wife, mother and grandmother, Patricia now devotes herself to being a substitute Administrator in schools in the HRM and when not working, she spends her time studying the piano.