FOUR CHORAL CONDUCTORS receive THE AMERICAN PRIZE “EXCELLENCE in MUSIC EDUCATION” Citations Excellence in music education is not confined to the classroom or to the applied music studio. Conductors, whether leading school ensembles, community or professional organizations, have a major role in education, not only of the performers they lead with such diligence, but […]
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TRINITY WALL STREET NAMES COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR JULIAN J. WACHNER DIRECTOR OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS
Julian Wachner to Conduct the Trinity Choir and Set the Artistic Vision for Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel July 19, 2010 – – Composer and conductor Julian Wachner has been named Director of Music and the Arts for Trinity Wall Street, the historic Episcopal parish in Lower Manhattan, it was announced today by the […]
ERIC NELSON wins THE AMERICAN PRIZE
Maestro Eric Nelson, of Atlanta, GA, has won The American Prize in Conducting in the community chorus division. For a full list of winners of the spring competitions of The American Prize, please visit our blog: www.theamericanprize.blogspot.com Eric Nelson: B.M.-Houghton College, M.M.-Westminster Choir College, D.M.-Indiana University. Currently Director of Graduate and Choral Studies at Emory […]
Vancouver Chamber Choir – your inflight entertainment!
Vancouver Chamber Choir … your Air Canada enRoute entertainment! Travelling this summer? The Vancouver Chamber Choir could be flying with you! If you are travelling with Air Canada between now and December 2010, be sure to tune in to your inflight audio entertainment. After rushing around a busy airport, you can unwind to the […]
Walter Hawkins, 1949-2010, singer and founder of Love Center Choir
Hawkins was born in Oakland and began singing in gospel choirs as a teenager, along with his brothers. In 1967, as a member of the Edwin Hawkins Singers, he recorded “Oh Happy Day,” which would become one of the first gospel-leaning songs to cross over to the mainstream, winning a Grammy and being named one […]
Musical with all-a-cappella accompaniment
When you first hear the remarkable singing in “Brick: An A Cappella Musical,” you scan the lineup of singers to find out where all those sounds are coming from. In place of a band, vocal arrangers Adam Hogston and Joe Mokrycki create instrumental sounds with voices: percussion, bass, melody line, rhythmic movement and harmonies — […]