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 […]
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Choral leader continues to shape sound
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. […]
Profile:Evan Lloyd, Memorial HS
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. […]
Choral Evensong March 18 – Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand
The choir of St. Mark’s Anglican church, 95 Remuera Road, Newmarket, sing Choral Evensong Sunday March 18th at 5pm. Mag and Nunc: Samuel Arnold in A. Preces and Responses: Harry Bramma in A. Anthems: “Cast thy burden” (Mendelssohn) and “God so loved the world” (John Goss – NOT Stainer!).
What’s on Great Sacred Music, Sunday, March 11, 2012
Great Sacred Music airs every Sunday from 8-11 a.m. eastern on 89.7 FM in Central North Carolina and online at http://theclassicalstation.org with your host Rob Kennedy —————————————————— 08:00:20 Martin Herbst (attributed): Forty days and forty nights Choir of Wells Cathedral, Malcolm Archer Rupert Gough, organ 08:03:57 Sir Edward Bairstow: Psalm 51, “Have mercy upon me, […]
Angie Johnson to conduct clinic in Singapore
By Veronica McLaughlin OSWEGO, IL — Oswego’s Angie Johnson, Artistic Director for the Young Naperville Singers (YNS) and Young Fox Valley Singers (YFVS), will be heading to Singapore to conduct a five-day children’s choral clinic from March 12-16. Johnson was the only clinician chosen from the United States to work with choirs from select Singapore […]