Habermann to leave Master Chorale

By Lawrence A. Johnson

Joshua Habermann, artistic director of the Master Chorale of
South Florida, will leave the position at the end of this season
after three years.

The 42-year old choral director will move to Texas to take up a
new assignment as chorus director for the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra.

That also means that the Frost School of Music at the University
of Miami will be looking for a new director of its Choral Studies
program since Habermann will resign that position as well.

Habermann’s relatively brief Master Chorale tenure is
effectively over from a public performance standpoint since the
March concerts of Verdi’s Requiem and the April-May performances of
the Faure Requiem are slated to be conducted by Albert-George
Schram and Eduardo Marturet, respectively. That makes last
November’s Master Chorale performancs of Haydn’s Creation
Habermann’s retroactive swan song in South Florida.

The choral director is expected to continue his work as music
director of the Desert Chorale in Santa Fe.