Deadline Update

The Festival Chorus deadline has been extended. Conductors may turn in their forms to the coordinators no later than May 4, 2012. 

Our Festival Chorus is an excellent opportunity for adult and advanced high school singers to perform wonderful literature with a world-class conductor. Encourage your singers to participate in this unique choir.

Our Children’s Honor Chorus adjudication process has been completed, and sponsoring choir directors were notified via e-mail about their choristers who were accepted for this summer’s program.  Our Children’s Honor Chorus page has been updated accordingly.  The ensemble gives advanced singers the experience to work with other singers from around the region and the opportunity to learn new skills to bring back to your ensemble.

OUR 2012 HEADLINE CLINICIANS

 

Tim Sharp

Tim Sharp is Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the national professional association for choral conductors, educators, scholars, students, and choral music industry representatives in the United States. Sharp, an active choral conductor and researcher/writer, has varied his career with executive positions in both higher education and publishing and recording. Tim has conducted university, church, community, and children’s choirs, conducted ACDA and MENC all-state and honor choirs, and formed choirs in such unlikely settings as a federal penitentiary and a chamber of commerce meeting. His choirs have toured domestically and abroad, singing in some of the world’s premiere concert and acoustic settings including St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has recently been appointed Artistic Director/Conductor of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus.

New York City-based Jim Papoulis composes, orchestrates, and conducts music for dance, film, ensembles, and choirs. His compositions are known for exploring new modes of musical communication by honoring and connecting classical and traditional forms with non-Western sounds. Jim’s distinct and ever-evolving approach unites classical with contemporary sounds, world rhythms, R&B, and voices, while combining live instruments with current composing and recording technology. Papoulis’ extensive professional and nonprofit travels enable him to bring his distinctive musical and conducting style to performances across a broad spectrum of musical styles. He actively seeks to immerse himself in the music, instruments, and culture indigenous to an area, and incorporates these elements into his work.