Malibu, California May 12–15, 2010 - Pepperdine University
Malibu, California May 12–15, 2010 - Pepperdine University
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mAttHEW OLTmAN, Music director,<br />
joined Chanticleer in 1999 singing tenor<br />
with the ensemble. In 2004 he was appointed<br />
Assistant Music director under Joseph<br />
Jennings and in 2009 took over artistic leadership<br />
of the company following Mr. Jenning’s<br />
retirement. during his decade with the<br />
ensemble, Mr. oltman appeared on twelve<br />
critically acclaimed recordings, toured extensively<br />
throughout north America, europe<br />
and Asia, and led numerous workshops and<br />
masterclasses with choristers world-wide. He<br />
is the editor of the Chanticleer choral series,<br />
published by Hinshaw Music and was deeply<br />
involved in the publication of Chanticleer’s<br />
Silver Jubilee Anthology of Music and A<br />
Chanticleer Christmas Anthology. Before<br />
joining Chanticleer, Mr. oltman sang with<br />
the Santa fe desert Chorale for four seasons<br />
and was on the faculty of Simpson College<br />
where he taught harmony, french diction,<br />
choral techniques and voice. More recently,<br />
he served as guest conductor and clinician for<br />
ensembles such as the uC Berkeley Chamber<br />
Chorus, the utah Symphony Chorus, the<br />
pacific youth Choir (portland, or), the Iowa<br />
youth Chorus, Coro (Houston, tX), and the<br />
Sonoma County Choral Society’s Midsummer<br />
night Sings.<br />
mARTI O’REAR has been children’s minister<br />
of Greenville oaks Church of Christ in Allen,<br />
texas, since 2006. She was formerly children’s<br />
minister of Highland Church of Christ in<br />
Abilene, texas, for 15 years. Marti earned a<br />
degree in music education from pepperdine<br />
university and is a trained vocalist who stays<br />
involved in local choral groups. She is presently<br />
singing with the plano Civic Chorus and<br />
has a great love for helping children to worship<br />
in song.<br />
mARy K. OyER, professor emerita of<br />
Goshen College, is recognized internationally<br />
as a scholar, educator, hymnologist, and<br />
church musician. A guiding force for two<br />
Mennonite hymnals, she is a frequent clinician<br />
and song leader for hymn festivals across the<br />
u.S. and Canada. Through her knowledge of<br />
and passion for African hymns, she has influenced<br />
north American churches to introduce<br />
these hymns to their congregations. She has<br />
also introduced cultural and artistic values<br />
from Kenya and taiwan into her classrooms<br />
at four different academic institutions. A videodisc<br />
honoring the work of professor oyer,<br />
Nurturing Spirit Through Song: The life of Mary<br />
K.Oyer, was released in 2006.<br />
presenters • Speakers •Conductors<br />
RObERT PAgE, the first paul Mellon<br />
professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon<br />
university, has been declared a “national<br />
treasure” by the American Record Guide. He is<br />
one of the most distinguished choral conductors<br />
in the u.S., serving as director of special<br />
projects and choral activities for the pittsburgh<br />
Symphony and as music director and conductor<br />
of the Mendelssohn Choir of pittsburgh,<br />
which came to international prominence under<br />
his guidance. His work is available on more<br />
than 40 discs, several of which are Grammy<br />
Award winners. Active in the national choral<br />
scene, he is a founding member of Chorus<br />
America and a catalyst in the commissioning<br />
of major works of the 20th century including<br />
The lovers by Samuel Barber and An American<br />
Oratorio by ned rorem.<br />
ALICE PARKER says that she sang before<br />
she spoke. Composer, conductor, and<br />
teacher, parker has devoted her life to choral<br />
and vocal music. She graduated from Smith<br />
College with a major in music performance<br />
and composition, then received her master’s<br />
degree from the Juilliard School where she<br />
studied choral conducting with robert Shaw.<br />
She is known for her arrangements with Shaw<br />
of folk songs, hymns, and spirituals, sung by<br />
choruses around the world. She is the author<br />
of Melodious Accord: Good Singing in Church<br />
(1991) and The Anatomy of Melody (2007).<br />
She has made 13 acclaimed recordings, most<br />
with the Musicians of Melodious Accord, a<br />
16-voice professional chorus. recent releases<br />
include My love and I; listen, lord; O Sing<br />
the Glories; The Family Reunion; Angels and<br />
Challengers, and the remastered for Cd, Songs<br />
for eve.<br />
JOHN H. PARKER is a professor of english<br />
at lipscomb university. He earned his B.A.<br />
at lipscomb, his M.A.r. at the Harding<br />
university Graduate School of religion, and<br />
his M.A. and ph.d. in english at the university<br />
of tennessee. He is author with paul Seawright<br />
of Abide with Me: A photographic Journey<br />
Through Great British Hymns (2009). Web sites<br />
include:<br />
www.abidewithmehymns.com<br />
www.interimcofc.com<br />
www.shakespeareauthority.com<br />
AURELIO PORfIRI is associate professor<br />
of music for the university of Saint Joseph,<br />
Macau, China; and is guest professor for the<br />
Music education department of the Shanghai<br />
Conservatory of Music . He has a terminal degree<br />
in choral music from the Conservatorio<br />
of San pietro a Maiella in naples, Italy. A composer<br />
of considerable renown, his works have<br />
been commissioned for and sung on Vatican<br />
radio. He writes in a wide range of forms, including<br />
oratorios, masses, motets, and hymns<br />
in Italian, latin, and english. In addition to<br />
his musical compositions and Cds, he is the<br />
author more than 150 articles and two books.<br />
HENRy PRICE is the Blanche e. Seaver<br />
professor of Music at pepperdine university.<br />
He also serves as director of the pepperdine’s<br />
flora l. Thornton opera program and the<br />
Heidelberg Summer Music program. during<br />
his 20 years as a leading operatic tenor, he<br />
performed with many of the world’s leading<br />
opera companies and symphony orchestras.<br />
He frequently serves a master class clinician<br />
and adjudicator with such organizations as<br />
the Metropolitan opera Guild, the national<br />
Association of teachers of Singing, and the<br />
national opera association. He holds a B.A.<br />
from the university of north texas, a d.M.A.<br />
from Claremont Graduate university, with<br />
additional postgraduate work at the Juilliard<br />
American opera Center.<br />
mILTON PULLEN has been professor of<br />
music and director of choirs at pepperdine<br />
university in <strong>Malibu</strong>, <strong>California</strong>, since 1995.<br />
Born and reared in texas, he has a B.M.ed.<br />
in voice from texas A&M university, and an<br />
M.M. in conducting from the university of<br />
Houston. Before coming to pepperdine, he directed<br />
award-winning high school programs in<br />
texas for 24 years. for six years he was a member<br />
of the music faculty at Abilene Christian<br />
university serving as an associate professor<br />
of music and director of choral activities.<br />
His choral groups have performed for three<br />
texas Music educators Conventions and the<br />
1995 national Convention of the American<br />
Choral directors. under his direction the<br />
pepperdine university Concert Choir sang for<br />
the <strong>California</strong> Music educators Association<br />
Clinic/Convention in the Spring of 2005. In<br />
the fall of 2005 pullen received the pepperdine<br />
university Howard A. White excellence in<br />
teaching Award.