The Cantemus Chamber Chorus, based in Ipswich, Massachusetts, announces the appointment of Jane Ring Frank as its new Music Director, their seventh leader in the 29-year history of the 40-member group. Ring Frank is best known in Boston as Founder/Artistic Director of Boston Secession, a professional choral ensemble that performed and recorded from 1996-2010. The Boston Globe called Secession an “extraordinary chorus, notable for its beautiful balance, musical surety, and English-style straight-toned singing” (March 2008).
With degrees in accompanying as well as conducting, Ring Frank is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church in Winchester, and Artistic Director of the Concord Women’s Chorus, a 50-voice women’s chorus. Previously, she was a faculty member at Emerson College for 12 years, and the Conductor of Philovox, publishing house E.C. Schirmer’s resident professional recording chorus.
For her first concert program with Cantemus, on December 3 and 4, Ring Frank has selected contemporary American composer Byron Adams’ impressionistic “Trois Illuminations,” with texts by the 19th-century French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud; a Christmas “Midnight Mass” by 17th-century French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier; plus other seasonal works.
The board and the singers of Cantemus are delighted to welcome Jane Ring Frank!
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