MEDIA RELEASE
FOR
RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY
DATE: April 6, 2007
CONTACT: Kelly
Maloney, (206) 878-3710, ext. 3146
Sandra
Glover, (206) 878-3710, ext. 6170
Highline Community College Chorale Invited to Perform in Carnegie Hall
DES
MOINES, Wash. — The Highline Community College
Chorale is scheduled to perform live in Carnegie Hall April 22, 2007, by
invitation from MidAmerica Productions in New York. The choir will
join four other outstanding choruses selected from throughout North
America to form a festival chorus of approximately 175 singers,
accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Geoffrey
Boers. All the choirs will participate in a performance of Haydn’s Mass in Time of War (“Paukenmesse”).
“This excellent chorus received this
invitation because of the quality and high level of musicianship demonstrated
by the singers and the exceptional recommendation given by Dr. Glover’s choral
colleagues. It is quite an honor just to be invited to perform in Carnegie
Hall. These wonderful musicians not only represent the quality of music and
education within the institution, but they also become ambassadors for the
entire
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community,”
said Principal Conductor-in-Residence for MidAmerica
Productions, Dr. Jonathan Griffith.
The
singers will spend five days and four nights in New York City in preparation for this
concert.
Highline Community College was founded in 1961 as the first
community college in King
County. With
approximately 9,500 students and 350,000 alumni, it is one of the state’s
largest institutions of higher education. The college offers a wide range of
academic transfer and professional-technical education programs, with day,
evening and weekend classes. Alumni include former Seattle Mayor Norm Rice,
entrepreneur Junki Yoshida and noted author Ann Rule.
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Sandra Glover, D.M.A., soprano,
has performed throughout the United States,
Canada and Europe
as soloist with ensembles and orchestras, appearing on public radio and TV
broadcasts, as well as numerous Christian recordings. She has sung a variety of
operatic and oratorio roles. Concert
work includes appearances with International Folk Festival, Lovisa, Finland,
Tacoma Community Choir and String Ensemble, Pacific Lutheran University
Orchestra, Pro Musica, University of Puget Sound
Jacobsen Series, Rainier Symphony, Federal Way
Chorale and Orchestra.
Dr.
Glover earned B.M. and B.F.A. degrees from Pacific
Lutheran University,
M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from University
of Washington. Glover is
listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges
and Universities, Outstanding
Students of America, Who’s
Who Among America’s
Entrepreneurs, and Who’s Who Among America’s
Teachers 2004, 2005, 2006. She recently received an Outstanding Faculty Award from Highline Community College.
A
well-known clinician and adjudicator, Glover has presented vocal topics for
MENC All-State and All-Northwest Conferences, Teachers’ Summer Sessions at Boise State
University, WSMTA State
Conventions, and has judged many regional and state solo competitions. She is a
frequent guest lecturer to NATS programs and local schools. In April 2004, Dr.
Glover shared lectures with Jianghai
University, Yangzhou Environmental
College, and Yangzhou University
during her tour to China.
In July, 2007, Ms. Glover will be featured pedagogue at the annual Summer
Session of the ACDA conference held at University
of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA.
Glover
Studio students have been accepted as scholarship winners in major
universities, conservatories, young artist opera programs and have been
national competition winners.
Dr.
Glover is a member of WSMTA, WMEA, Sigma Alpha Iota, and is past president of
Tahoma Chapter NATS. Dr. Glover has
served on the music faculties of Pacific School of Theology, Northwest University,
University of Puget
Sound, Pacific Lutheran University Lecturer, and Highline Community College.
Dr.
Geoffrey Paul Boers
Dr. Geoffrey Paul Boers is Director of Choral
Activities at the University
of Washington in Seattle
(UW), where he conducts the Chamber Singers, University Chorale, and the
department’s premier undergraduate vocal ensembles. He also teaches choral
literature, conducting, and choral techniques as a part of the graduate choral
curriculum. He is also the conductor of the Tacoma Symphony Chorus. During the
past decade, Dr. Boers has emerged as one of the Northwest region’s leading
choral conductors and teachers. The Chamber Singers have been featured at many
honor festivals, conventions, and workshops, including the National Kodaly Conference, Washington State Music Educators
Convention, National Association of Schools of Music National Convention, and
the American Musicological Society’s national convention; earning high praise
for their expressiveness and technical mastery. Dr. Boers is in constant demand
as a conductor, clinician, and workshop leader, both nationally and
internationally. His recent conducting engagements have included the West Coast
premiere of Terry Riley’s Sun Rings with
the Kronos Quartet and the University of Washington
Chamber Singers, Fanshawe’s
African Sanctus at the Sydney Opera
House, and Poulenc’s Gloria and an All-Mozart concert at Carnegie Hall.
Over
the past years, MidAmerica Productions has brought together
conductors, choruses, soloists, and orchestral musicians for performance at
some of the world’s greatest venues, especially at New York’s Isaac Stern Auditorium at
Carnegie Hall. In addition to presenting classic choral and instrumental works,
MidAmerica Productions has championed the works of
contemporary composers. On MidAmerica’s series in
Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln
Center’s Avery Fisher
Hall, there have been approximately 31 World Premieres, 16 United States
Premieres, and 50 New York Premieres.
For
more information about MidAmerica Productions, please
contact Kathleen Drohan at 212-239-0205 or kdrohan@midamerica-music.com