Bradley Ellingboe, professor of music, College of Fine Arts, is conducting a festival choir made up of groups from around the country in Carnegie Hall on Sunday, May 25. The choir will sing Faure’s Requiem.
Photo: Bradley Ellingboe
The New England Symphonic Ensemble will play for the participating choruses: Churchill Chamber Choir, Winnipeg, Canada; Rocky Hill High School Concert Choir, Rocky Hill, Conn.; Albuquerque Festival Singers, Albuquerque, N.M.; Marist College Chamber Choir, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Warwick Valley Chorale, Warwick, N.Y.; H.M. Jackson High School Choir, Mill Creek, Wash.
Each and every ensemble that performs for the MidAmerica Productions Carnegie Hall Concert Series has been specifically recommended or referred by an expert in the field or by one of the more than 100 guest conductors who have appeared in the series. Ensembles can also be accepted after submitting an audition tape to General Director and Artistic Director Peter Tiboris.
This is Ellingboe’s first time conducting in Carnegie Hall. However he was a guest lecturer there in the fall at the request of the Norwegian Consulate to lecture on the music of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, in commemoration of his centennial.
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