Roger Treece
designs musical experience: composing, arranging, producing, engineering,
singing, and teaching. His work spans
genres – classical, pop, jazz, commercial, world – and bridges mediums, equally
comfortable in the studio or concert stage, integrating the perspective of the
performer with the behind-the-scenes view of the producer.
His most ambitious
project to date is the 2010 album VOCAbuLarieS, for which he was the lead
architect, composing, orchestrating, recording, and editing seven extended
compositions for voices, percussion, acoustic and virtual orchestra. Inspired by the improvisations of Bobby
McFerrin, conceived by McFerrin’s manager, Linda Goldstein, and performed by McFerrin,
Treece and 50 musicians from around the world, VOCAbuLarieS has been recognized
as “a masterpiece”, “a glimpse of the future of choral music”, “a new standard
for choral recording,” and was nominated for three Grammy awards. Treece has conducted and performed
VOCAbuLarieS with Bobby McFerrin and select musicians at the Vienna Opera
House, Jazz At Lincoln Center, the Oregon Bach Festival, Montreal Jazz
Festival, Schleswig-Holstein, Stimmen, and Ravinia festivals and in Munich,
Prague, San Francisco and London.
As a composer,
Treece has been commissioned by musical organizations worldwide, including the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Danish Radio Symphony and Choir, the Los
Angeles Master Chorale, and the Chicago Children’s Choir. Treece has also written hundreds of works for
high school and college-level choir, orchestra, jazz band and chamber ensemble,
many of which are published through the UNC Jazz Press, Lindalamama, and
Edition Ferrimontana.
An
impassioned educator and clinician, he has taught extensively in both the US
and in every country in Europe, helping thousands of musicians of all age
groups toward virtuosic musicianship and stylistic flexibility in all aspects
of composing and arranging, as well as vocal performance skills, integrating
improvisation and world music techniques with traditional vocal pedagogy. His Circle Songs curriculum, a program of
study in composition, arranging, rhythm, conducting for singers, has been
adopted for integration into the curriculum of the Royal Danish Academy of
Music.
Roger Treece
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Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe
Jo-Michael Scheibe
Jo-Michael Scheibe
chairs the Thornton School of Music’s
Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the University of Southern
California, where he conducts the USC Chamber Singers, teaches choral
conducting and choral methods, and supervises the graduate and
undergraduate choral program. In 2008, he assumed a new post as National
President Elect of the American Choral Directors’ Association.
Ensembles
under his leadership have sung at six national ACDA conventions (1985,
1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2007), as well as two national conventions of
the Music Educators National Conference (1996, 2000), and various
regional and state conventions.
Scheibe’s artistic collaborations include choral
performances
with Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Salvatore Licitra, Maria
Guleghina and Kenny Loggins, as well as preparation of choruses for Sir
Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the
Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony
and conductors Jahja Ling, Edoardo Müller, James Judd, Max Valdez,
Thomas Sanderling and Alain Lombard, among others. Recordings of
ensembles under Scheibe’s direction have been released on the Albany,
Cane, Naxos, Arsis and ANS labels.
Fall 2008 marked
Scheibe’s return to USC after a 15-year tenure
as director of Choral Studies at the University of Miami’s Frost School
of Music (1993-2008), as well as previous faculty appointments at
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (1985-1993), Long Beach City
College (1978-1985), Vintage High School in Napa, California and
Huntington Beach High School. Scheibe received his D.M.A. from the
University of Southern California and his B.A. and M.M. degrees from
California State University at Long Beach, where he was presented with
the distinguished alumnus award.
Sharon J. Paul
Sharon J. Paulis an Associate Professor of Music,
Chair of Vocal and Choral Studies, and Director of Choral Activities at the
University of Oregon. She earned her D.M.A. in choral conducting from
Stanford University, an M.F.A. in conducting and performance practice from
UCLA, and a B.A. in music from Pomona College.
From
1992 to 2000, Dr. Paul served as artistic director of the San Francisco Girls
Chorus (SFGC) and conductor of Chorissima and Virtuose, the organization’s highly
acclaimed performance ensembles. Under
her leadership, the chorus released four compact discs, premiered major works
by American composers, and represented the United States at the World
Conference of the International Society for Music Education, the Spoleto
Festival in Italy, and the Taipei-San Francisco Sister City Celebration in
Taiwan. Dr. Paul appeared on screen with
members of Chorissima in the film What Dreams May Come, and conducted
SFGC singers for the soundtrack of The Talented Mr. Ripley. In June of 2000, the SFGC was the first
youth chorus to win the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence,
a national honor presented by Chorus America.
Dr.
Paul has conducted All-State choirs in Hawaii, California, and New York.
University of Oregon choirs under her direction have performed at OMEA State
Conferences, ACDA’s Northwestern Division Conference, and MENC’s Northwest
Conference.
Dr. Sharon Paul
Dr. Joshua Habermann
Joshua Habermann
Joshua Habermann is the
incoming Director of the Dallas Symphony
Chorus. He graduated from Georgetown University and the University of Texas
at Austin, where he completed doctoral studies in conducting with Craig Hella
Johnson. Dr. Habermann is currently the
music director of the Miami Master Chorale and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale. He
is also the director of choral studies at the University of Miami’s Frost
School of Music, where he conducts the Frost Chorale and other choral
ensembles. From 1996 to 2006, Dr. Habermann served as the
Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.
Tim Seelig
For
the past 30 years, Dr. Seelig has enjoyed a major musical career as a renowned
conductor, singer, teacher and author. Having just accepted the
post of Artistic Director and Conductor of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Dr. Seelig is also part of the music faculty at
Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. Additionally, he is the Conductor Emeritus of the Turtle
Creek Chorale, which he conducted for 20 years. During that time, the chorus recorded 37 CD’s,
was featured in two PBS documentaries and appeared at numerous national and
regional American Choral Directors Association conventions.
Dr.
Seelig holds four degrees, including the Doctor of Musical Arts from the
University of North Texas and the Diploma from the prestigious Mozarteum in
Salzburg, Austria. He has four books and
three DVDs on choral technique, including best sellers The Perfect Blend and The
Perfect Rehearsal. His latest publication is a DVD and Companion Guidebook
titled The Music Within, which was
released in July of 2010.
Dr. Seelig’s early training was as a singer. He made his European operatic
debut at the Staatsoper in St. Gallen, Switzerland and his recital debut at
Carnegie Hall. He has two solo
recordings and was featured in world premieres of prominent composers including
John Corigliano, Conrad Susa and Peter Schikele (P.D.Q. Bach). In
June 2010, Dr. Seelig conducted his 6th appearance at Carnegie Hall and will
conduct at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and for the LGBT Choral Festival
in London, both in 2011.
Known for his enthusiasm and sense of humor, Grammy Magazine says, “Dr. Seelig
takes eclecticism to new heights.” Fanfare
Magazine says he raises singers from “the ranks of amateur choir to one receiving
wide recognition for excellent performances of appealing, fresh repertoire.” The New York Times calls Seelig an “expressive
performer,” and the Fort Worth Star Telegram quips, “Seelig slices a thick cut
of ham.”
