The 音乐学院合唱团 (MUEN 311) is 澳门线上赌博平台大学’s premier chamber choral ensemble, specializing in vocal music encompassing everything from historical repertoire to the most cutting-edge contemporary choral compositions. Emphasis is placed on programming music inspired by a wide variety of world cultures and from a broad spectrum of composers. 系综 members have the opportunity to refine their aural and sight-reading skills, apply their knowledge of music theory and history, and develop their voices in pedagogically sound ways.
The 音乐学院合唱团 performs frequently on Shenandoah’s main campus as well as throughout the region and abroad. The ensemble regularly collaborates with other areas in the conservatory including composition, 歌剧, 剧院, 舞蹈和更多. 作为学校的大使, the ensemble is regularly asked to perform on campus at school-wide cultural and religious events as well as off-campus where the ensemble has forged relationships with local high schools, 教堂和社区. 另外, the 音乐学院合唱团 was featured on the Grammy award-winning recording for Best Choral Performance of the Year, 在2000年给出.
Membership in this choir is open by audition to both music majors and non-majors. By focusing attention on historically and culturally informed performance practice, 先进的音乐才能, 用语, 舞台仪态与整体凝聚力, the 音乐学院合唱团 prepares singers for careers in vocal performance, 合唱音乐教育, church music and the professional choral job market.
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指挥家和学者 理查德·W. 罗宾斯 为他的工作赢得了高度赞扬, with the press describing his choruses as “moving” (Houston Chronicle) and “powerful” (Duluth News Tribune). 他是一位很受欢迎的临床医生, adjudicator and director for choral festivals and honor choirs across the United States, having conducted in cities such as New York City; Chicago; Los Angeles; Houston; Orlando; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; and Miami. His choral performances have been featured on television and on nationally syndicated radio programs, 包括美国公共媒体的“白日梦”.”
出版著作的学者, 罗宾斯' editions of Italian sacred music of the early Baroque are available internationally. 除了, his research on Marc Blitzstein's lost choral 歌剧, “谴责,发表在《澳门网上赌博平台》上, and he has been invited to present on a range of topics for conducting and music education organizations, including the American Choral Directors Association, 国际合唱音乐家联合会, the College 音乐 Society and the National Catholic Educational Association. He has conducted and lectured internationally at Warsaw’s Chopin Conservatory of 音乐, 约翰·保罗二世礼仪学院, Krakow’s Academy of 音乐 and with the Fayha National Choir of Lebanon. He continues to inspire through mentoring and teaching emerging conductors and choral directors.
罗宾斯 has a wealth of experience in preparing choral-orchestral repertoire. He has served as chorus master of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and assistant director of the Houston Symphony Chorus and has prepared choruses for major conductors such as Ermanno Florio, 汉斯·格拉夫, 克里斯托弗埃申巴赫, 琼格洛弗, Stephen Cleobury, 罗伯特·弗朗茨和德克·迈耶. His choral collaborations include work with the Houston Ballet, 舞台上的舞蹈, 明尼阿波利斯吉他四重奏, 北方的抒情歌剧, 摩尔歌剧中心, 休斯顿Boychoir, 美国艺术节, Lake Superior Youth Chorus and the Houston Symphony Family Series. 表演 of note include principal choral preparation for a two-week run of Bohuslav Martinu’s “Field Mass” with the Houston Ballet and for the regional televised premiere of Michael Tippett’s “A Child of Our Time” for Minnesota PBS North, featuring the Duluth Superior Symphony Chorus and the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) University Singers. He has also served as conductor for the first performances of several choral works by the contemporary American composer Daniel Knaggs and is featured on the 2013 recording of his compositions, 《澳门线上赌博平台》.”
乐团 under 罗宾斯’ direction have performed at choral conferences and earned awards at numerous festivals. He has also collaborated with a wide range of classical and pop artists, 比如格莱美获奖组合Paramore. He also taught choral music in the Texas public schools for several years, including Houston’s famed High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, 在那里他被评为年度教师. 罗宾斯 continues his work with youth choirs as a festival conductor for the American Federation Pueri Cantores, a chapter of the Vatican’s student choral organization.
罗宾斯 is a member of several choral organizations, including ACDA (previously serving on the executive boards of Minnesota ACDA and the Southwestern Division), Chorus America and the National Collegiate Choral Organization. Prior academic positions include the University of Minnesota Duluth (director of choral activities), the University of Wisconsin-Superior (director of choral activities) and the University of Houston (director of Concert Women’s Chorus and University Men’s Chorus).