Our role as church musicians means that we, almost without exception, lead amateur singers. Thus, we are teachers first and foremost, and most of our work is in that important role.
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Bradley Ellingboe has led a wide-ranging career in the world of singing, including accomplishments as a choral conductor, soloist, composer, scholar and teacher. As a choral conductor he has led festival choruses in 38 states and 12 foreign countries. As a bass-baritone soloist he has sung under such conductors as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, and Sir David Willcocks. Ellingboe has over 110 pieces of music in print, including his largest work, the Requiem for chorus and orchestra, which made its Carnegie Hall debut with the composer conducting in 2010. For his scholarly work in making the songs of Edvard Grieg more accessible to the English-speaking public, he was knighted by the King of Norway in 1994. As a teacher, the University of New Mexico Alumni Association named him Faculty of the Year in 2008.
Recent Posts
The Importance of Good Conducting
Posted on Jan 28, 2013 10:16:06 AM by Bradley Ellingboe in Choral Techniques and Repertoire, in review-prelude
Conducting Gesture as It Shapes Tone
Posted on Jul 18, 2011 11:40:42 AM by Bradley Ellingboe in Choral Techniques and Repertoire
I have long operated on not only the obvious assumption that singing relies on the breath, but also upon the not-so-obvious assumption that the type of breath taken in is critical to the type of sound the singer produces. Our singers are, in fact, dependent upon our gestures in order to be better singers than they know how to be. And as such, we need to deserve to be looked at.
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