News and Notices

SANTA MONICA, CA — Santa Monica High School choral director Jeffe Huls was honored as one of 10 teachers from the five supervisorial districts across Los Angeles as part of Music Center’s prestigious 30th Annual BRAVO Awards for 2012 at the Disney Concert Hall last week. The ceremony, which was hosted by Garry Marshall, honored the […]

LONDON, UK — The Vatican has invited the Westminster Abbey choir to sing at St. Peter’s basilica in an unprecedented ecumenical gesture. The Westminster Abbey choir will join with the Sistine Chapel choir to perform at liturgical celebrations of the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, June 29. In a joint statement, leaders of the two […]

By Joan Hellyer   FAIRLESS HILLS, PA — Pennsbury sophomore Jackie Moruzzi found herself doing some double-takes during her choral group’s recent trip to Europe. “We were very much alike,” Jackie, 16, said of the musicians that the Pennsbury choir performed with in Leipzig, Germany. The German musicians are members of the Leipzig Youth Orchestra and […]

By Scott Atkinson   GENESSEE COUNTY, MI — Linda Priestap spent her career teaching music but feared she wouldn’t be good enough for Carolyn Mawby’s chorale.   Eleven years later, the 66-year-old Lapeer woman likens it to a spiritual experience.  “She takes the music off the page. It stops being notes and bar lines,” said Priestap.  On […]

The University of New Mexico choral program is searching for a qualified Masters student in choral conducting.  A full assistantship is available.  For further information, please contact:   Bradley Ellingboe Professor of Music Director of Choral Activities The University of New Mexico 505-277-4429

The LSU School of Music recently announced that John H. Dickson will become the school’s new director of choral studies and serve as a professor of music, effective Aug. 15. Dickson will fill the vacancy left by longtime Director of Choral Studies Kenneth Fulton, who is retiring after 27 years with the LSU School of […]