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Director
Dr. Edward Lundergan
is Director of Choral Activities at
SUNY-New Paltz, where he conducts the
Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and College-Community Chorale, and teaches music
theory, history and conducting. He is Artistic Director of
Kairos: A Consort of Singers, a
16-voice ensemble dedicated to the performance of unaccompanied choral music
from the Renaissance to the present. Last year, Kairos began a Bach
Cantata Series to wide acclaim. He has been Music Director for numerous
productions of the Gilbert &
Sullivan Musical Theater Company,
including
The
Medium, Sweeney Todd, Iolanthe, The Merry Widow, A Little Night Music, Tomfoolery
and this fall's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
He has appeared as guest
conductor with the Music in the Mountains Festival, the Poné Ensemble and the
Hudson Valley Society for Music. For the past two summers he has served as guest
conductor for the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Dr. Lundergan received his M.M. from
the University of Michigan and his D.M.A. from the University of Texas at
Austin. His doctoral treatise on Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem received
the Julius Herford Award as the outstanding dissertation in the field of choral
music for the year 1991. He is a member of the editorial board of the
Choral Journal.
Accompanist
Gary Palmieri
recently retired as choral director at
Arlington High School in Poughkeepsie, New
York. He is an adjunct faculty member at SUNY-New Paltz. At
SUNY, for the music department, he is the accompanist for choral activities, a
vocal coach, a studio accompanist, and a tutor in music theory. In the theater department he accompanies
their annual musical. He has been an accompanist and an associate music director
for the Gilbert & Sullivan Society for a number of years and presently is the
accompanist for the
Camerata Chorale and the
Ulster Choral Society. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music
education with extensive graduate work in piano and choral conducting from
Western Connecticut State University and the Hartt College of Music. He has wide
ranging experience in directing, producing and accompanying over 150 musicals
with such groups as the Sharon Playhouse, the Gilbert & Sullivan Musical
Theater Company, SUNY-New
Paltz, Theatre Music Workshop, the Hotchkiss Summer Theatre, Har-Bur Summer
Theatre, Children's Community Theater, Amity, Housatonic and Arlington High
Schools.
Mr. Palmieri prepared the Arlington Chorus for five appearances at Carnegie
Hall where they performed with composer/conductor John Rutter, Weston
Noble, the Manhattan Philharmonic, and the New England Conservatory Orchestra. |
