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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Music should be good, interesting, and simply genuine
By Yulia Bentia KIEV, UKRAINE — The National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine hosts a concert dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Shchedryk Children’s Choir, which has no analogues in Ukraine, and maybe in the whole world. The choir may be called children’s only according to the age of its members, because the rest […]
It’s not your normal ‘Messiah’
By Scott Tady PITTSBURGH — Holiday tradition gets thrown for a loop in a re-imagined version of Handel’s “Messiah” making its world premiere next weekend at Heinz Hall. This “Messiah” gets theatrical and goes time-tripping. Dazzling lights will illuminate fully costumed members of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh acting out allegorical scenes set in non-linear […]