Allison Savicz, Publicist, announces:
Charleston SC April 16, 2014─The
Charleston Festival of Choirs committee is pleased to announce the Sixth Annual
Charleston Festival of Choirs, Saturday, April 26, 2014.
This free, one-day festival will feature world-renowned conductor and
choral clinician Dr. Craig Jessop, former Music Director of the world
famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dr. Jessop
will serve at Festival Director and conduct the participating choirs in a finale Massed Sing Saturday, April 26 at 5:00pm.
The
CSO Spiritual Ensemble will serve as host choir and present a
performance that will be proceeded by the Choral Arts Experience, Mt.
Pleasant SC; Island Choraliers Kiawah and Seabrook Island SC; Riverside
High School Chorus, Durham NC, Bartram Trail High
School Festival Choir, St. John’s FL; and the acclaimed
CSO Gospel Choir under the direction of Candace B. McLeod.
The festival is a
joint venture between Lee Pringle, founder and President of the CSO
Spiritual Ensemble and CSO Gospel Choir, Jodi Breckenridge, owner,
Music Contact International of Burlington, Vermont and Marilyn Austin, former choral director at Wando High School.
Charleston Festival of Choirs Schedule April 26, 2014
free and open to the public; freewill donations accepted
Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting Street, downtown Charleston
1:30pm Choral Arts Experience, Mt. Pleasant SC; Michelle Graham, Director
2:00pm Island Choraliers, Kiawah Island SC; Nat Malcolm, Director
2:30pm Riverside High School Chorus Choir, Durham NC; Jill Boliek, Director
3:00pm Bartram Trail High School Festival Choir, St. John’s FL;
Barbara Mattingly, Director
3:30pm CSO Spiritual Ensemble, Charleston SC; David A. Richardson, Director
4:00pm CSO Gospel Choir, Charleston SC; Candace B. McLeod, Director
5:00pm Finale Massed Sing 100 + Voices, Dr. Craig Jessop,
Charleston Festival of Choirs Director
Dr.
Craig Jessop, Festival Director
Craig D. Jessop is
an American academic, musician and singer best known for his tenure as
the music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir from 1999 to 2008. He
was a student of Robert Shaw and received his
B.A. from Utah State University, M.A. from Brigham Young University and
D.M.A. from Stanford University. He has been the director of the
National High School Choir Festival since its founding in 2005.. He has
also spent seven years as a baritone with the Robert
Shaw Festival Singers and performed in the choirs of Helmuth Rilling
and John Rutter.
Jessop earned a
doctorate of musical arts in conducting and performance practice from
Stanford University with an earlier master's degree in music education
from Brigham Young University. He
completed
a bachelor's degree in music education at USU in 1973. Prior to his
association with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Jessop had a distinguished
career as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United
States Air Force, where he was director of the Singing Sergeants
(1979-1987), commander/conductor, Band of the United States Air Forces
in Europe (1987-91) and commander/conductor of the Air Combat Command
Heartland of American Band (1991-95
Under Jessop's
direction the Mormon Tabernacle Choir won many awards, including the
Special Recognition Award from the International Radio and Television
Society Foundation and a National Medal of Arts presented
by George W. Bush. He is director of the American Festival Chorus, a
new 270-member choir headquartered at Utah State University and in 2010
Jessop became the first Dean of the Caine College of the Arts (CCA) at
Utah State, created out of a split of the College
of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences into two colleges: CCA and the
College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
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