Sydney Guillaume
Sydney Guillaume is a prolific 34-year-old Haitian-American choral composer who has been featured on AfriClassical for the past five years.
His website lists his new scores:
Sydney Guillaume's YouTube Channel is:
Birthdate: July 22, 1982.
Praised by the Miami Herald for their
“impressive maturity and striking melodic distinction”, Sydney
Guillaume’s compositions are known to be intricate, challenging and yet
highly spirited. They promote human values and are full of heart and
passion. Many of his choral works, most with original poetry by his
father Gabriel T. Guillaume, have fostered an awareness of the beautiful
Haitian culture and continue to serve as an ambassador for his native
country. His compositions continually enthrall choirs everywhere and
have been performed around the world. They have been featured at
numerous conferences and international festivals like the American
Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the World Choir Games and Ireland’s
Cork International Choral Festival.
Nearly all of his choral music have
been commissioned works. He’s written for renowned choirs such as the
Grammy-award nominated Seraphic Fire, the Westminster Chorus, University
of Miami Frost Chorale, the Nathaniel Dett Chorale, Illinois Wesleyan
University Collegiate Choir, the Saint Louis Chamber Singers and the
Miami Children’s Chorus.
Guillaume also writes film music – he
has written original film and documentary scores for the Los Angeles
based company Loyola Productions.
Sydney is an active member of the
choral community as a composer, singer, clinician and conductor. In
2013, he conducted the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA)
District 12 Honor Choir. He has also presented at several symposiums and
conferences, both domestically and abroad. Most recently at the 2016
West Virginia ACDA Conference and the FORO CORAL AMERICANO in Argentina.
Since 2013 he has been the conductor
of Imbroglio Sextet, a group of musicians from Haiti, Spain, Bolivia and
the United States. They met in Haiti at the École de Musique St.
Trinité summer camp where they all volunteer as music teachers. As the
director of the sextet he has toured through Texas, Louisiana, Britain
and Spain.
His latest activities as conductor
include an all-Guillaume concert in the New York City’s Lincoln Center
and a concert with the Imbroglio Sextet at Carnegie Hall.
Sydney Guillaume graduated from the
University of Miami in 2004 where his works were performed by the Miami
University Chorale conducted by Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe. Originally from
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he is currently residing in Los Angeles,
California working as a full-time composer, conductor and clinician.
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