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12.08.04 Dr. John Warren conducts during the 2004 Colonial Christmas Warren selected to attend Carnegie Hall workshop Erskine College Associate Professor of Music Dr. John Warren has been chosen as a singer and conductor for the 15th annual Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop in New York, led this year by famed German conductor and Bach scholar Helmuth Rilling. Warren is one of only 72 singers accepted by a competitive application process for the workshop offered Jan. 10-15, 2005. He is also one of only four participants among the 72 selected to conduct in the master class with Rilling. Singers chosen as conductors will have the opportunity to conduct the chorus with a small ensemble of instrumentalists and receive feedback from Rilling. "I am thrilled for this opportunity," Warren said. "We will rehearse daily and perform a concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke's Saturday, January 15, in Carnegie Hall." The trip to New York is a return journey for Warren, who has sung at the Carnegie Hall Workshop before. "I sang twice there with Mr. (Robert) Shaw in the 1990s," he said. "It was the same sort of setup where you send off a vocal audition tape and they choose you." The late Robert Shaw founded the workshop in 1990. "But he never did a conducting master class, it was just performance," Warren explained, so this time will be something of a new experience. The major work the chorus will perform is Mozart's Mass in C Minor, he said. Warren, who serves as director of choral activities at Erskine, conducts the Erskine College Choraleers, Chamber Singers and Women's Chorale. Last week, he directed the 10th annual presentation of "A South Carolina Colonial Christmas," in which all choral groups participated. He said singing in the chorus at the workshop "will help me remember what it's like" to be under the direction of a conductor as his students are. Warren believes his week in New York will be rewarding both professionally and personally. He describes his previous Carnegie Hall Workshop experiences as "life-changing" and expects this one to have a similar impact on him. "Since Mr. Shaw died, Maestro Rilling is probably the preeminent choral conductor in the world." Warren said. Warren's father, who is also a choral conductor, plans to audit the workshop and father and son will room together. "It should be a wonderful week," he said. "My in-laws are going to come and stay with our children so my wife can fly up on Friday for the concert Saturday and we'll come back together on Sunday." The workshop falls in the middle of Winter Term at Erskine, and Warren will have to miss several days of class. "I'm sure my students will be devastated," he joked. "But I'll leave them plenty to do." Warren, who has taught at Erskine since 1999, is a graduate of Furman University. He received a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a doctoral degree from the University of Miami. |
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