Simmons Chorale Winter Concert
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Posted by Web Team, December 06, 2006
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Looking for a night of festive music? Come to the Simmons Chorale Winter Concert! The performance will be located in the Trustman Art Gallery at the Main Campus Building on Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30 pm. There will be music for everyone – classical, folk, sacred and secular songs of the season, and Simmons songs. You will also have the chance to sing along!
For many years, the Simmons Chorale was a huge chorus that sang with other college choirs, performed in festivals, and even did a European tour. It is our goal to bring it back to its former glory. Today, the chorale features sixteen singers, including undergraduate and graduate students, a resident director, and a Simmons professor.
Danica A. Buckley, conductor and soprano, began her career in choral conducting by cajoling high school friends to sing with her in various performances. She continued her conducting education by founding and leading numerous groups and being involved with opera and musical theatre in North Carolina, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Cape Cod while completing a BA in English from Norwich University, an MA in English from North Carolina State University, and then teaching English and Music. During several summers, she attended choral conducting seminars at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, and most recently she earned her MM in Choral Conducting from Boston Conservatory in 2006. In addition to her work as conductor of the Choral Art Society, she is conductor of the Braintree Choral Society and the Simmons College Chorale. She also is music director at First Parish in Brookline.
Sarah Morrow, assistant conductor and soprano, has an MA in vocal performance from NYU. She holds a BM in vocal performance from Long Island University where she studied with soprano, Ruth Golden. Sarah also studied with Ms. Golden in the summer of 2004 in Urbania, Italy while appearing in the Oberlin in Italy opera scenes program. In summer 2005 she attended both the Florence Voice Seminar and Eastman School of Music’s Baroque Performance Workshop. At NYU, Sarah appeared as Kim in the Von Suppe’s The Audition and the First Witch in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Sarah also played Amore in both Leardini’s Psiche and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with the New York Continuo Collective under the direction of Grant Herreid. Ms. Morrow recently moved to Boston to become involved in early music and participate in small ensembles specializing in the Baroque style. She is the soprano section leader and a soloist for the First Parish Choir in Brookline, the Choral Art Society, and Braintree Choral Society. She is also assistant conductor of the Simmons Chorale, for which she has also soloed and arranged.
Our singers are Rebecca Macijeski, Megan Coleman, Emily Joyce, Liz Kennerley, Rachael Woody, Rachel Czubryt, Chrissie Cahalan, Allison Hoffman, Liz Leonard, Maria Angeles, Dinah Juergens, Courtney Hora, Annabelle Seow, Sarah Derron, Sarah Morrow, and Leanne Doherty.
Come join us for a night of fun and sensational singing!
