Professor Carmen-Helena Tellez will be joining the Notre Dame faculty in July, 2012, with an appointment as Professor of Conducting in the Department of Music, and a major role to play in the program of Sacred Music housed in the Department of Theology. She is currently the Director of Graduate Choral Studies at the prestigious […]
Notre Dame welcomes New Choral Conductor
Professor Carmen-Helena Tellez will be joining the Notre Dame faculty in July, 2012, with an appointment as Professor of Conducting in the Department of Music, and a major role to play in the program of Sacred Music housed in the Department of Theology. She is currently the Director of Graduate Choral Studies at the prestigious […]
Kingsman’s choir scores a double victory
CAMBRIDGE, UK — A choir directed by former Choral Scholar Simon Phipps has just won two major European prizes. On 16 October The Swedish Chamber Choir, founded by Phipps in 1997, won the European Broadcasting Union’s ‘Let the Peoples Sing’ competition for amateur choirs. The competition was held in Salford, Manchester, and broadcast by 16 […]
Director inspired by high school teacher
By Margaret Bikman BELLINGHAM, WA == Ryan Smit, who grew up in rural farming community of Churchill, Mont., is in his first season as artistic director of the Bellingham Chamber Chorale, which performs its first concert of the season (twice) at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church. For […]
New Christmas CD from Australia
St John’s Cathedral in Brisbane Australia has just released its Christmas CD We Welcome Summer: Christmas in an Australian Cathedral. Great traditional pieces such as the David Hill brass arrangements of Once in Royal, O Come all ye faithful etc are placed beside Australian Christmas pieces by the likes of Matthew Orlovich, Clare Maclean, Peter […]
54th Annual GRAMMY nominations featuring choral ensembles
The nominations for the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards® were announed in Los Angeles last night, with the following five choral CDs nominated for “Best Choral Performance” – BEYOND ALL MORTAL DREAMS – AMERICAN A CAPPELLA Stephen Layton, conductor (Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge) BRAHMS: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM, OP. 45 Patrick Dupré Quigley, conductor; James K. […]