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 | Bob Chilcott Bob Chilcott has a fast-growing reputation as one of Britain’s most popular composers of accessible choral music. He has been involved in choral music for mof his life, having been a boy chorischoral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and also a member of the vocal group ost ter and ve The King’s Singers for twelyears. Since 1997 he has worked as a full-time composer, and become involved in a growing number of conducting projects, particularly with children’s and youth choirs. Chilcott has recently been working on two commissions for BBC Radio Three. Making Waves is a new work for two upper-voice choirs, commissioned by the Newfoundland Youth Symphony Choir. Its creation and performance forms the basis of a half-hour television special for the CBC TV in Canada. Bob continues to keep up a hectic schedule as a workshop leader and conductor. He is now entering his ninth season as conductor of the Chorus of the Royal College of Music, in London. As well as leading singing days in his own country, he has served as a guest presenter at the forum for choir conductors in Limburg, Germany, and has conducted concerts and broadcasts with the BBC Singers in London. He has been be a featured conductor for Americafest at the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis, and at the Europa Cantat Junior festival for young choirs in Namur, Belgium. He is also one of the first conductors from outside the American continent to be invited to conduct one of the National Honor Choirs at the National Convention of the American Choral Director’s Association New York City, February 2003. |
 | Robyn Reeves Lana, Founder and Managing Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Children’s Choir and Conductor of Bel Canto and Girl Choirs, is a sought after children’s choir clinician and conductor. She has prepared choirs for performance with the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, the Vocal Arts Ensemble, international festivals and CCM choirs and orchestras. In addition to preparing the choir for two compact disc releases, Mrs. Lana has prepared them for a recording with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Erich Kunzel on the Telarc label. She has presented techniques for educating and performing chamber music for young children at the Chamber Music America National Convention. Presently, she devotes her professional life to the growth, development, and artistry of CCC and is Educational Coordinator/Hostess for the Linton Chamber Music Series’ Peanut Butter and Jam Sessions, the 1999 Post Corbett Award winning classical music concert series for preschool age children. Mrs. Lana is published in The Chorister, the publication for the Choristers Guild, and is a member of Chorus America, OAKE, AOSA, and ACDA serving the ACDA Central Division Children’s Choir Repertoire and Standards Chair. Having earned both Bachelor and Master degrees in Music Education with a focus in Choral Conducting and a Cognate in Voice from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she studied extensively with Dr. John Leman and Dr. Karen Wolff, as well as Dr. Earl Rivers and Dr. Elmer Thomas. Level III Orff-Schulwerk Certified, she has done post-graduate work with Henry Leck at Butler University. Mrs. Lana began her training with children’s choirs under Dr. Karen Wolff, Founder of the CCM Children’s Choir, in 1983 and continued her work in the program through 1993. An experienced general music specialist in public and private schools, she has also worked in churches with musicians of all ages and has taught voice privately. |
| Dr. Barbara Tagg Barbara Tagg is Artistic Director / Founder of the internationally recognized Syracuse Children’s Chorus, currently celebrating their 22nd season. She is an Affiliate Artist at Syracuse University where she conducts the S.U. Women’s Choir. In demand internationally, Dr. Tagg has presented concerts and workshops in England, Europe, Canada, Hong Kong and China, as well as for universities and choral organizations throughout the United States. Dr. Tagg is the first nationally elected chair of the American Choral Directors Association Repertoire and Standards Committee and is a member of the board of directors of Chorus America. Recognized for her dedication to American music and new compositions, Dr. Tagg has premiered over 65 works for treble choirs. In addition to serving as the Artistic Director / Conductor for the annual Children In Harmony Choral Festival at the Walt Disney World Resort® since its debut, Dr. Tagg conducts the Adirondack Children’s Chorus at the Adirondack Festival of American Music each summer. She is an Honorary Member of the Ernst Bacon Foundation, and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. Dr. Tagg has been honored by ACDA, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Civic Morning Musicals, and Sigma Alpha Iota for her commitment to musical excellence, music education and to the choral art. |
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