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Coming up!
16th Summer School 2009 & 'Sing for Life' day with...
Bruce Rogers
Professor/Conductor/Director of Choral Studies
Mount San Antonio College, California
Bruce Rogers’ musical successes span classical and jazz music genres, with the Mount San Antonio award-winning Chamber Singers and the outstanding vocal jazz ensemble Singcopation. His choirs have sung at U.S. State and National choral conventions and have toured widely in the U.S. and Europe.
He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003 conducting the National Collegiate Festival Choir and New York Chamber Orchestra in the Mozart Coronation Mass, and was invited again in 2005 to conduct the Faure Requiem. He has recently conducted a choral/instrumental ensemble in The Hague, Netherlands. In 2007 he conducted the American Choral Directors Association National Two-Year College Honour Choir in Miami; and for the Music Educators National Convention, the North West Jazz Choir.
In mid 2007 the Mt San Antonio Chamber Choir won first prize in the International Competition for Choirs in Austria, the Choir of the World prize and Pavarotti Trophy at the Llangollen Eisteddfod in Wales and the Grand Prix Champion Award in Varna, Bulgaria. His vocal group Singcopation won the 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Downbeat Magazine Award as the top vocal jazz choir in the U.S.
Past leaders
Link to past leader biogs (since this website was developed.)
Timothy Sexton
Composer/ Conductor/Arranger/Singer/Adjudicator
Adelaide, South Australia
Tim Sexton works as a freelance musician across the vocal and instrumental worlds. In 20 years of musical leadership he has become an acclaimed South Australian.
He has composed over 200 works, from major theatre works, film scores and musicals to commissioned works for children; and his music is recorded on 17 CD’s.
He has sung bass solo in over 30 opera productions for the State Opera of South Australia and he has conducted over 1200 concerts; 110 of which have been concerts and recordings with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted many operas and musicals, including acclaimed performances of Philip Glass’ Akhnaten and Einstein on the Beach. He was Associate Chorus Master for Wagner's Gotterdammerung in Perth in 2003 and was Chorus Master and Rehearsal Conductor for the Ring Cycle in Adelaide in 2004. He has also worked with such Australian music icons as David Campbell, David Hobson, Rachael Beck and Julie Anthony.
In 2001 Tim formed the Adelaide Art Orchestra, which performs for theatre and ballet and is a regular feature of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. He is Music Director of the Adelaide Vocal Project. Tim has a particular interest in popular music of the 1920's to 1940's and will focus on stylistic considerations as part of his 2009 leadership.
