Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Prestigious Choral Arts Society appoints Cornell’s Scott Tucker artistic director

ITHACA, N.Y. — The Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C. - one of the most prestigious choirs in the country – has announced the selection of Scott Tucker, Cornell University professor of music, as its new artistic director, effective with the 2012-2013 season.
Tucker has been director of the Cornell Glee Club and University Chorus for the past seventeen years, and was unanimously selected by the Choral Arts Society after a rigorous 12-month international search to replace Norman Scribner, who founded the Choral Arts Society forty-six years ago and has been its director ever since.
“While Cornell will be very sorry to see him go, we’re deeply appreciative of the stature of his new position,” said Steve Pond, Cornell music department chair. “Scott has spent the last decade-and-a-half building an amazingly vibrant choral program at Cornell. He can be proud of his accomplishments here, and has built a strong legacy for future conductors to live up to.”
During his tenure at Cornell, Tucker also oversaw the activities of the Cornell Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Sage Chapel Choir. Under Tucker’s leadership, the Cornell choirs toured nationally and internationally, performed frequently with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra during its operation, prepared major works for several leading conductors, and collaborated with acclaimed artists such as Anonymous 4, Peter Schreier and Garrison Keillor of NPR’s Prairie Home Companion.
In a statement, Scribner said that Tucker’s gifts embrace “an intense natural musicality, a consummate technique, a fabulous ear, and a vast reservoir of knowledge and experience in virtually all periods and styles, together with a clear vision for the future of music in our own time…Scott’s appointment heralds a brilliant new era in the Choral Arts Society’s pursuit of excellence in the choral arts.”
For more information:
www.choralarts.org
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ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES THREE-CONCERT SERIES AT ITHACA COLLEGE

July 10, 2012
For immediate release
Contact: Nicole Marie Milano, 585-399-3652
nmilano@rpo.org
July 9, 2012
ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ANNOUNCES THREE-CONCERT SERIES AT ITHACA COLLEGE
Educational Partnership Allows School of Music Students to Attend for Free Through Student Rush Program

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is excited to partner with the Ithaca College School of Music to co-present three concerts in 2012–13. These concerts will take place in Ford Hall on Friday, October 5 at 7:30 PM; Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM; and Sunday, March 24 at 4 PM. Through this partnership between Ithaca College and the RPO, all Ithaca College students will be given the opportunity to attend the RPO concerts free of charge through the Student Rush Ticket Program.

Next season’s RPO performances will feature larger orchestral works including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8; Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 1, “Nordic;” and Gershwin’s classic Rhapsody in Blue. The RPO partnership will provide a platform for educational collaborations with the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra.

Jeffrey Meyer, Director of Orchestras at Ithaca College said, “This newly developed partnership will add great depth to our already very strong orchestral program. Our students are already fortunate to have frequent interaction with a very fine professional chamber orchestra. This partnership with the RPO, one of the Northeast's top professional orchestras, will greatly expand our students' education and professional advancement potential by putting them in close contact with an excellent full symphony orchestra.”

RPO President & CEO Charlie Owens noted, “This exciting partnership is truly the cornerstone of the RPO’s efforts to expand our regional presence and deepening our connections to many of the leading cultural and educational institutions throughout the region. We are thrilled to provide Ithaca College students with opportunities to hear more great symphonic music, and to finding creative ways to enrich their educational experience.”

For more information, go online to ithaca.edu/music or rpo.org.

Editors Please Note:

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Ford Hall at Ithaca College

Opening Weekend Celebration
Friday, October 5 at 7:30 PM

Arild Remmereit, conductor
James Ehnes, violin

ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH Celebration Overture
KORNGOLD Violin Concerto
GOOSSENS Tam o’Shanter, Scherzo after Robert Burns
HANSON Symphony No. 1, “Nordic”

Rhapsody in Blue
Friday, February 8 at 7:30 PM
Ward Stare, guest conductor
Terrence Wilson, piano

STILL Symphony No. 1, Afro-American Symphony
DOUGLAS LOWRY Commissioned work
HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

Romantic Dvořák
Sunday, March 24 at 4 PM
Andreas Delfs, guest conductor

WAGENAAR Cyrano de Bergerac Overture
PERSICHETTI Concerto for English Horn
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
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