For the past 30 years, Wayne Vogan was the COC Orchestra’s Performance Librarian. His job description? “To make sure that the right music is in the right place at the right time,” says Vogan. It sounds simple, but in reality it’s a highly complex and very important job, one that requires deep musical knowledge, great organizational (and people) skills, and above all, meticulous attention to detail—“that borders on the obsessive,” quips Vogan.
A native of Moncton, New Brunswick, Vogan graduated with a BA in Music from Mount Allison University, and a MA in Musicology from the Eastman School of Music. He got into opera while at Eastman, as a rehearsal pianist and stage manager in opera productions, which he found to be a lot of fun. After Eastman, he moved to Toronto and worked as a freelancer before joining the COC in 1986 as a member of its music staff. In 1993, Vogan became the COC Orchestra’s librarian when his predecessor, Robert Sutherland, left to
