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April 05, 2007
WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD 21st ANNUAL CHORAL DAY ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1
—Timothy Mount, director of choral music at Stony Brook University, will be special guest conductor
More than 350 students from nine New Jersey middle and high schools will participate in the 21st annual Choral Day at William Paterson University in Wayne on Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Timothy Mount, professor and director of choral music at Stony Brook University, will be conductor for the event.
Students will rehearse several musical selections with Mount from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Shea Center on campus. A concert will be held at 12:30 p.m. featuring performances by the William Paterson University’s Chamber Singers, Opera Workshop and by Stephen Bryant, professor of music and director of choral activities at William Paterson. The program’s grand finale will feature the high school students in a performance of several works, including Mozart’s Ave verum corpus.
Mount teaches master’s and doctoral students in conducting at Stony Brook, where he was the first recipient of the Bentley Glass Great Teacher Award. He has recorded with the Vedantic Arts Ensemble, the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra, the Moscow New Choir, and conducted the Choral Society of the Hamptons, the New York Virtuoso Singers and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Stony Brook University choirs under his direction have sung, by invitation, ay the Utrecht Early Music Festival and festivals in Taiwan, Korea, Canada, Spain and Argentina. He has also conducted numerous high school honors choirs and church music festivals.
Schools expected to attend include Hawthorne High School, Passaic High School, East Orange High School, Pompton Lakes High School, Garfield High School, West Orange High School, Spotswood High School, Memorial Middle School in Spotswood, and Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield.
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