By Mike Pryce   WORCESTER, UK — ADRIAN Lucas, who has been conductor of  Worcester Festival Choral Society (WFCS) for 15 years, will pick up the baton for the last time for the society’s spring concert in Worcester Cathedral on Saturday, March 24. Mr Lucas, who has been cathedral organist and director of music since 1997, is stepping […]

JAMESTOWN, NY —  Mary Schmidt of Jamestown has been selected to be the new music director of the Viking Male Chorus and Damkoren. She started in her new position at the chorus’ rehearsal on Feb. 13.   The following members of the Chorus were elected officers on Jan. 9: Mike Yager and Jim Gardner, co-presidents; […]

By Joe Gulick   LUBBOCK, TX — Lubbock High School’s Westerner Chorale left Friday morning for a trip to England that will include a concert at St. Paul’s Cathedral, one of the most historic and exclusive venues in the world for choirs The 42 students, under the direction of Robin Dent and Carolyn Hefner, also will […]

BARRY, WALES, UK — BARRY Choral Society’s new conductor is Thomas Morgan. In 2010 Thomas graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, having studied composition with Dr Robert Spearing, winning the Barry Choral Society Composition Prize (2008, 2010) and the Elgar Society Prize (2007). Between 2007 and 2011 he was also director of […]

By Kristin Froneman   VERNON, ON — It was 15 years ago that Lydia Adams received a call from the board of directors of one of Canada’s most respected choral groups. Their esteemed leader had fallen ill, and they needed someone to take over the baton in the interim. Adams, who was living in London, Ont. […]

By McLean Bennett   EAU CLAIRE, WS —  Evan Lloyd looks almost like the students he teaches. The Memorial High School choir director’s professional attire — a pair of black slacks topped by a lime-green button-down shirt — is about the only thing setting the fresh-faced 25-year-old apart from the T-shirt-and-jeans-clad teenagers under his charge. […]