Lux Et Amor: The Music Of Dan Forrest And Ola Gjeilo
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall
Acts
James M. Meaders, Guest Conductor
Forrest: LUX: The Dawn From On High
Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Gary A. Weidenaar, Guest Conductor
The Music of Ola Gjeilo
Gjeilo: Ubi Caritas
Dreamweaver
The Ground
Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Dreamweaver
The Ground
Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Distinguished Concerts Singers International
Doug Martin, Director
Langley High School Concert Band (VA)
Also Featuring:
Estelí Gomez, Soprano
Participating Groups
Central Washington University Choir
Langley High School Concert Band (VA)
The Festival Choir of Christ Church Sugar Land
Windermere Singers
Cor de Cambra Óscar Esplá (Mutxamel, Spain)
Blundell's School Chamber Choir
Auckland Welsh Choir
Immaculate Conception Church Choir, Washington, PA
Francis Howell North Knight Choir
St. Ignatius Church Choir
Mt. Carmel High School's Classical and Bel Canto Ensembles
Raincross Master Chorale
Cantabile
Wytheville Community College Choir
Francis Howell Central Tour Choir
Rushingbrook Singers
Concert Choir
Buncombe Street United Methodist Church Chancel Choir
The Resonants
Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater, Florida
St. Paul's United Methodist Church Choir and Pikes Peak Community College Choir
Central Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Indianapolis
The Chancel Choir of First United Methodist Church, Lubbock, TX
The Queensland Choir
Special Guests
Artist's Name
James M. MeadersArtist's Name
Gary A. WeidenaarArtist's Name
Ola GjeiloArtist's Name
Estelí GomezParticipating Group Directors
Central Washington University Choir
Gary A. Weidenaar
Gary Weidenaar is in the middle of his 36th year of teaching. Since 2006, he has served as Director of Choral Studies at Central Washington University, where over 200 singers make up the four choirs which comprise CWU’s traditional choral offerings. Weidenaar’s background is broad and varied. For the first fifteen years of his career he taught at public or private schools in Michigan, Germany, Norway, and California – with nine of those years overseas. His assignments included teaching everything from 3rd-13th grade students. He holds degrees from Western Michigan and Michigan State Universities and earned his doctorate at the University of Kansas in 2002. While studying at KU, Gary sang on this stage under his then-professor Simon Carrington (of King Singers fame) in a DCINY concert! Dr. Weidenaar spends a great deal of time with directors and/or choirs of all levels. He has presented workshops to music educators throughout the US; as well as in Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany. He has adjudicated, served as clinician, or conducted over 1,700 choirs since 2002. His Chamber Choir has collaborated with Ola Gjeilo on four separate recording sessions, which have yielded 11 multi-camera YouTube videos of the composer’s music.
The Festival Choir of Christ Church Sugar Land
R. DeAndre Johnson
R. DeAndre Johnson is the pastor of music and worship life at Christ Church Sugar Land in Sugar Land, TX. He received a B.M. in Sacred Music at Centenary College of Louisiana where he was a student conductor for the Centenary College Choir and Centenary College Camerata, directed by Dr. Will K. Andress and Dr. Julia B. Thorn, respectively. He earned a Master of Sacred Music from Southern Methodist University where he studied with Dr. Alfred Calabrese, Dr. Pamela Elrod-Huffman and Dr. C. Michael Hawn. DeAndre has been the chorus master and a frequent guest conductor of the Houston Ebony Opera Guild, a community chorus committed to the preservation and performance of classical music of the African diaspora.
The Festival Choir of Christ Church is a non-auditioned adult chorus that sings a wide variety of choral music, from late-Baroque and classical to contemporary gospel, as it leads in worship at the 10:55am Festival Service. The choir also performs major concerts at least twice a year and tours nationally and internationally every two years.
The Festival Choir of Christ Church is a non-auditioned adult chorus that sings a wide variety of choral music, from late-Baroque and classical to contemporary gospel, as it leads in worship at the 10:55am Festival Service. The choir also performs major concerts at least twice a year and tours nationally and internationally every two years.
Windermere Singers