Career
Bartle became a naturalized Canadian in 1968 and received an ARCT in performance in 1970, ARCT in teaching in 1973, and a Bachelor"s with Honours from the University of Toronto in 1977. Jean Ashworth Bartle founded the Toronto Children"s Chorus (TCC) in 1978 in order to provide a children"s choir for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She has brought the music of Canadian composers to many audiences and expanded the choral repertoire by commissioning and promoting Canadian compositions.
She stepped down as artistic director of the choir in 2007, after 29 years at the helm.
She is highly active as a choral clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor throughout North America, Europe, Israel, South Africa,st, and the Pacific Rim. She holds an annual choral conductors" symposium that attracts choir directors from around the world.