Jean Ashworth Bartle, CM OOnt is a Canadian choral conductor, teacher, and Founder/Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Children's Chorus. 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 won the 1977 Leslie Bell Scholarship, and the 1982 Sir Ernest MacMillan Scholarship, which enabled her to study with Sir David Willcocks and Margaret Hillis at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey. 

March 7th, 1947 in (Age 77)