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Bradley Ellingboe, Director of Choral Activities
Bradley Ellingboe has led a wide-ranging career in the world
of singing, including accomplishments as a choral conductor, soloist, composer,
scholar and teacher. As a choral conductor he has led festival choruses
in 40 states and 14 foreign countries. He made his operatic conducting
debut in 2011, leading the world-premiere performances of Stephen Paulus’s
opera Shoes for the Santo Niño in a
joint production by the Santa Fe Opera and the University of New Mexico. As a bass-baritone soloist he has sung
under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Karl Jenkins and Sir
David Willcocks. Ellingboe has over 110 pieces of music in print,
including his largest work, the Requiem for chorus and orchestra, which made its Carnegie Hall debut with the
composer conducting in 2010. Ellingboe led the European debut of his Requiem in 2011, with concerts in Budapest, Bratislava and
Prague. For his scholarly work in
making the songs of Edvard Grieg more accessible to the English-speaking
public, he was knighted by the King of Norway in 1994. As a teacher, the
University of New Mexico Alumni Association named him Faculty of the
Year in 2008.
Bradley Ellingboe has been on the faculty of the
University of New Mexico since 1985, where he is Professor of Music and Regents
Lecturer. He has served as Chairman of the Department of Music. In
the fall of 2005 Ellingboe stepped down from his post as Head of the Voice Area
and assumed the title of Director of Choral Activities. He is a graduate
of Saint Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music and has done further
study at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bach Aria Festival, the University of
Oslo and the Vatican.
Ellingboe has won annual awards for his choral
compositions from ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Arrangers and
Publishers since 2000. His choral music is widely sung and is published
by Oxford, Augsburg, Walton, Hal Leonard, Mark Foster, Choristers Guild,
Alliance, Concordia, and particularly the Kjos Music Company, for whom he edits
two series of choral octavos. His music has been performed and recorded
by such groups as the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Philip Brunelle’s VocalEssence, the Saint Olaf Choir, the Harvard Glee Club, Craig
Hella Johnson’s Conspirare, and
the choirs of the University of Michigan and Luther College, among many others.
He has prepared choirs for such luminaries as Dave
Brubeck, Moses Hogan, Alice Parker, Morten Lauridsen, René Clausen and Robert
Ray. At the request of composer Libby Larsen the UNM Women’s Chorus, "Las
Cantantes," recorded all Larsen’s music for treble chorus. He was asked to guest conduct the Santa
Fe Desert Chorale in a series of concerts in December, 2011.
An active church musician, Ellingboe was Director of
Music at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Albuquerque from 1990-2009. He has
given workshops for the AGO, PAM, ALCM, and NPM. He has been on the
summer faculties of Saint Olaf College, Southern Methodist University and
Montreat. He was a member of the
national board of the Choristers Guild from 2004 – 2011.
Professor Ellingboe is the editor of Choral Music for
Sundays and Seasons (2004), published by Augsburg Fortress Press.
He is also editor of two books of songs by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg:
45 Songs of Edvard Grieg (1988)
and A Grieg Song Anthology (1990)
published by Leyerle Publications.
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Regina Carlow
Regina Carlow, Ph.D., holds
degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, The Catholic University
of America, and Westminster Choir College in the area of Music Education and
Curriculum with an emphasis in Choral Conducting. She is an Assistant Professor in the University of New
Mexico’s Department of Music and teaches courses in Choral and General Music
Education as well as numerous Special Topics in Music Education. Dr Carlow
holds an academic year certificate from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute.
She is the conductor of Dolce Suono
and the artistic director of the UNM Children’s Chorus.
Dr. Carlow’s research and
teaching interests include: the
child voice, social justice in music education, narrative research as it relates
to the stake holders in music education, the study of the musical experiences
of immigrant students, and integrating special needs and culturally diverse
students into music classrooms in the U.S. She has published articles in the Bulletin
of the Council for Research in
Music Education and the Maryland
Music Educators Journal and is a
contributing author in Spotlight on Teaching Chorus and Teaching Music in The Urban Classroom. She is the author of Exploring the Connection
between Children’s Literature, published
by Libraries Unlimited.
In the past four years at UNM
Carlow has created numerous service-learning programs that partner music
education students and public school music programs in preschools, elementary
and mid schools throughout New Mexico.
In 2006 Dr. Carlow founded the UNM Children’s Chorus, a non-auditioned children’s chorus that focuses on
inclusive and affirming choral singing practices for young voices.
Carlow is in demand as a
choral clinician and festival adjudicator throughout the U.S. Prior to her
appointment at the University of New Mexico, she was artistic director of the
Capitol Hill Youth Chorus in Washington, DC, the music director of the Choral
Arts Society of Frederick and held positions at the Anne Arundel Community
College and the Frederick County Community College. For more than 20 years, Regina was a general and choral music educator in public schools in the Washington, D.C. metro area, teaching in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. She has worked as a consultant for the Washington Opera, as well as for the D.C. Arts and Humanities Forum, where she presented workshops for artists in residence, as well as classroom teachers in the areas of integrating opera into the classroom, learning styles and developmentally appropriate arts activities and lesson plans for introducing Die Walkure to elementary school students. |
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Lauren Saeger
Lauren Saeger, director of UNM’s newest choral ensemble,
the Jazz Choir, is a jazz soloist and educator with a diverse background.
She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in commercial music from Millikin
University, where she was a member of the Downbeat award-winning vocal jazz ensemble, One Voice. Her
Master of Music in vocal jazz studies is from Georgia State University in
Atlanta.
Ms. Saeger is a former member of The United States Field
Band Soldiers' Chorus. As a member of the Chorus, Lauren performed all
over the country, including at the Chautauqua Institution and the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion. She was a frequent soloist with the Field Band,
singing varied musical styles from musical theatre to jazz standards.
During Lauren’s enlistment, the Chorus was conducted by various luminaries of
the musical world including Erich Kunzel, Paul Salamunovich, Doc Severinsen,
and Keith Lockhart, and performed with talents like Rita Moreno, Aaron Neville,
and Rosemary Clooney.
Subsequent to her time in the Army, Lauren taught for
four years at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She directed
Encore!, the auditioned vocal jazz ensemble in the School of Music, as well as
the Women’s Choir, a 100-voice choir open to all women. In addition,
Lauren taught music theory and musicianship, applied voice, and created the
vocal jazz pedagogy class for choral music education majors.
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Maxine Thévenot
'She elicits huge and brilliant sounds with a minimum of conducting movement — the mark of one who has the utmost confidence in her singers.' Albuquerque Journal, June 2011Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Maxine Thévenot is one of North America's leading young choral directors. Equally at home working with amateur and children's choirs as with adult professional singers, Dr. Thévenot has trained and conducted ensembles across Canada and the USA. Dr. Thévenot serves as director of the University of New Mexico women's choir, Las Cantantes, and has made three commercial recordings with the group, whose “sensitive, heartfelt singing” was lauded by the American Record Guide.
In 2006, Maxine Thévenot founded and is the Artistic Director of New Mexico's only professional resident vocal ensemble, Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, celebrating their 5th anniversary this year. She has since led a number of major projects including sold-out performances of Handel's Messiah with an all-male solo quartet. The Santa Fe New Mexican declared, “One can feel how precisely and warmly Thévenot conducts this music”. Polyphony releases its debut recording this season, Winter: an evocation. (www.polyphonynm.com)Acclaimed by The American Organist for her “consummate musicianship”, in her capacity as Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico, she conducted the Cathedral Choir on tour in the UK in 2010 at St Paul's Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and York Minster, and directed the choir's most recent recording, Missa Campanella. Regarding this recording, the Association of Anglican Musicians praised Dr. Thévenot's “very fine direction” and “a lovely sound, rich in enthusiasm, warm in tone, and with a contagious energy to their performances”. Maxine Thévenot holds degrees from the University of Saskatchewan (Bachelor of Music) and the Manhattan School of Music (Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts), where she was twice recipient of the Bronson Ragan Award for “most outstanding organist”. She is also an Associate of the Royal Canadian College of Organists and the Royal Conservatory of Music, and a Fellow of the National College of Music, London, UK. In addition to her work as a choral director, Dr. Thévenot maintains a distinguished international career as an organ recitalist, recording artist and visiting lecturer at universities. She has also contributed, as a writer and photographer, to several international publications.www.maxinethevenot.com
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