Mishaal Surti

Mishaal Surti

Mishaal is a system leader, choral composer, conductor, tenor, and speaker based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has led performances, workshops, and keynote sessions across Canada and internationally, collaborating with major educational, choral, and public service organizations. His choral compositions have been featured throughout North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, while his ongoing work bridges music, pedagogy, and executive leadership to inspire creativity, innovation, and belonging.

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Happy to share that my arrangement of the Hindu bhajan, Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram, is now available for purchase through MusicSpoke. Focused on the importance of unity and harmony, this bhajan brings voices together to show that as a community we are more similar than we are different. I’m excited to share that my composition, Beauty of the Stars, commissioned by @exultatechambersingers, is now published and available for purchase through Cypress Choral Music. Check out https://mishaalsurti.com and https://cypresschoral.com/composers/mishaal-surti/beauty-of-the-stars/ to preview the score and listen to Exultate Chamber Singers’ world premiere performance. Many folks may not know that over the last three years I’ve been working on a project alongside other Asian Canadian composers and educators focused on introducing music from our communities to the world. This project has now come to full fruition with my arrangements of a Gujarati folk song, He Ranglo, now published by Tracy Wong Series and distributed by Graphite Publishing! Voiced for both SAB and SA, this piece introduces singers and the audience to the energy and rhythm of garba - a community and celebratory dance found throughout the state of Gujarat in India and around the world. I’m excited to share that I have joined the roster of @musicspoke composers! You can explore, hear and purchase scores for my arrangements of the Hindu bhajan, Aarti, as well as my composition Spare a Tear for TTBB at https://musicspoke.com/composer/mishaalsurti. Joining my fellow @babel.chorus singers to perform “When Dawn Shines” as part of the 2025 Luminato Festival was once in a lifetime! (Or technically 6 times in a lifetime 🤓) Thanks @drelainechoi and @krystian.lada for the vision and letting my music be a small part of this experience! It is hard to describe the feeling of watching a diverse Canadian audience experience a bhajan that I have grown up with - in a whole new way. Thank you to @cantabilechambersingers and @cher_cjc for including my arrangement of “Aarti” as part of this year’s Celebrating Human Diversity Program! Thanks to @thedanschool for including “When Dawn Shines” as part of the fall term concerts and 2024 @queensuniversity Remembrance Day Services. Check out a clip of @dchristieca and the Queen’s University Choral Ensemble. I was honoured for “When Dawn Shines” to be featured this past year by the @jmuschoolofmusic choral ensembles, including in @tenorricky_’s Masters of Choral conducting Graduate Recital. Check out a clip of the University Chorus: Tenor/Bass Ensemble!