Jeremiah Cawley
Jeremiah Cawley is a conductor and tenor whose interests and performance experience extend from the music of the Renaissance to contemporary art music. Jeremiah has conducted multiple world and US premieres, including music by Louis Andriessen and Michel Van Der Aa. He founded the Seattle-based new music ensemble The Box Is Empty, and has worked closely with contemporary groups including The Riot Ensemble (London, UK), appearing as guest conductor on the record Approaching Dutilleux (Coviello Classics). Jeremiah has served as music director for the Seattle-based Vespertine Opera Theater, with whom he most recently conducted Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia. Jeremiah is an inaugural member of the new vocal ensemble Solaris, whose first recording, Floodsongs (Albany Records), was released in 2014. Jeremiah has sung with the GRAMMY-nominated True Concord, London’s Lacock Scholars, and many other groups throughout the United States and United Kingdom. His recent solo work includes Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata virgine (1610), Jephthe (Carissimi), and The Crucifixion (Stainer). Jeremiah completed Master of Music and Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees at the University of Washington under the supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Boers. His dissertation, The Economics, Aesthetics, and Nonprofit Organization of Professional Vocal Ensembles was nominated for the American Choral Directors Association’s Julius Herford Dissertation Prize. He is currently on the faculty of Western Kentucky University, and has previously held posts at Georgia State University. He lives in Bowling Green, KY with his wife, Crystal.
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Michael McGlynn
Born in 1964 in Dublin, Ireland, Michael came late to choral music singing in his first choir at the age of nineteen. Despite the rich and sophisticated musical forms that lie at the centre of Irish traditional music, choral music does not exist as part of that tradition. Michael's compositional language combines elements of modality and contemporary compositional practices with a distinctive melodic awareness influenced strongly with the essence of traditional Irish song (sean nós).
He founded the choral ensemble ANÚNA, Ireland's National Choir, in 1987 as both a vehicle for his compositions and in an attempt to create a unique choral form for Ireland. In 2018 he founded M’ANAM, a new vocal ensemble for male voices and in 2019 the female vocal ensemble Systir. He will be Artistic Director of the Tampere Vocal Music Festival in Finland in June 2021.
He has produced and recorded seventeen albums for ANÚNA. ANÚNA (1993), Celtic Origins (2007) and Christmas Memories (2008) have featured in the US Billboard Charts. Deep Dead Blue (1999) was nominated for a Classical Brit Award and went top five in the UK Classical Charts.
Michael’s music has been commissioned, recorded and performed by ensembles that include the BBC Singers, Rajaton, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Grammy-winning US ensembles Conspirare and the Phoenix Chorale. Recent commissions include "Amhrán na Gaoithe" for Chanticleer and "O pia virgo" for New York Polyphony which appears on their Grammy nominated CD Sing Thee Nowell.
In 2019 Kansas City Chorale released an entire CD dedicated to Michael’s compositions entitled Artifacts : The Music of Michael McGlynn. He has written songs in many genres, collaborating with The Wiggles, Elvis Costello and with country music legend Rodney Crowell whose acclaimed 2017 album Close Ties includes a song written with Michael and features Crowell duetting with Sheryl Crow.
Albert Pinsonneault
Conductor Albert Pinsonneault is Director of Choral Activities at the University of St. Thomas, where he conducts the Chamber Singers and Concert Choir. Dr. Pinsonneault is also Founder and Artistic Director of the Madison Choral Project, and Artistic Director of the Madison Chamber Choir. Most recently he was Associate Director of Choral Organizations at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music where he conducted the University Singers, co-conducted University Chorale, taught the graduate choral literature sequence, and mentored graduate students in choral music.
A graduate of St. Olaf College (BM), the University of Minnesota (MM) and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati (DMA), Dr. Pinsonneault’s scholarship focuses on choral blend and intonation, the physical/kinesthetic act of conducting and the music of F. Melius Christiansen. His published work Choral Intonation Exercises is available through Graphite Publishing.
Timothy Tharaldson
Timothy Jon Tharaldson is the Director of Choral Activities at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas where he conducts four choral ensembles, teaches private voice, conducting, and vocal pedagogy. Prior to his current appointment, he taught at Rocky Mountain High School, Smoky Hill High School, and Ponderosa High School in Colorado. Active with community ensembles he was the Artistic Director of Longmont Chorale for five seasons and member of the nationally acclaimed Kantorei of Denver for ten seasons. Timothy has been commissioned by Kantorei (Denver), Ritterchor of Wartburg College, the Alexandria Area High School Concert Choir, St. Cloud State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. His composition Rest was featured by the 2015 Colorado All-State Mixed Choir and was also the contest piece performed by seven different choirs as part of the 122nd Queensland Eistedfod in Brisbane, Australia. His compositions are published through MusicSpoke, Hal Leonard, and Santa Barbara Music Publishing. Timothy is a member of the American Choral Director’s Association, American Composers Forum, Colorado Music Educators Association, and the Kansas Music Educators Association. He holds degrees from St. Cloud State University, University of Northern Colorado, and is currently pursuing a DMA in composition from the University of Kansas.