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Along with being the music and founding artistic
director of Vox Caelestis, a professional women's chorus, I have coached
and conducted all levels of other choirs in rehearsal and
performance. As part of my work with Vox Caelestis, I initiated and
helped launch a successful annual scholarship program to benefit high
school senior women pursuing music degrees in college. I have also
taught vocal jazz at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, IL, as well
as led classes in choral writing at Chicago College of Performing Arts
at Roosevelt University. Please contact me for more information on any of the following:
Recent conducting or clinician appearances: NOVEMBER 2009 I will be one of the the three judges for Nancy Menk's 25th Annual Women's Choir Festival, held at St. Mary's College in South Bend, IN. Nancy has been giving HS women's choirs a great opportunity to strut their stuff for years now, and I'm thrilled to be doing this along with fellow composer/conductors Eleanor Daley and Lee Kesselman. JUNE/JULY 2009 I will be leading the 32 voice women's choir at North Carolina Governor's School East, based at Meredith College (for more info on this incredible program, visit www.ncgovschool.org This is an amazing program for 800 gifted HS juniors from all over North Carolina in all disciplines. The performing arts program especially is geared toward challenging young people to discover cutting edge arts-- thus no Mozart, instead John Tavener, or thus... no Brahms, but instead Aarvo Part. This is going to be way cool, and Sherri, Aidan and I love North Carolina anyway, ya know! I'll blog about this and post progress, concert dates, etc. We are going to present two very amazing programs-- and actually, the second program will be mind-blowingly deep and very theatrical. Update: First program (June 30, July 1) completed to standing ovations two nights in a row. The program was as follows (all works from the last 15 years): Loosin Yelav (Armenian folk song)
arr. Carey Second Program (July 24): Clear Pool
Carey The second program revolved around water and morphed into war. Clear Pool represented nature in accord, but a disturbance late in the text implying man has upset the balance of nature. Wade in the Water is a spiritual which talks about muddying water on purpose, Aglepta is an avant-garde fog of confusion in order to thwart an enemy. the main piece of the concert, Jager's I dream of peace, is about the horrific ethnic cleansing wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990's. Water no longer even exists in Sarajevo as it has been cut off by the Bosnian army which ha besieged the city for four years. Finally, that piece ends with a hope for peace, and the Albinoni Adagio and Lake Song finish the arc with nature restored, but with poet Collette Inez' admonition to "call out your names", implying that we all must say who we are, and what we stand for while here on earth. The Albinoni is the piece which the famed "Cellist of Sarajevo" played for 22 days in a row in a bombed out church, to pay tribute to 22 civilian bombing victims in Sarajevo. I have just been asked by Nancy Menk to be one of the clinicians for her 25th anniversary women's HS choir invitational in South Bend, IN. Nancy is awesome- and how amazing is it that she has been doing this now for 25 years?! This event will be Nov 19th-20th. Spring 2006 OAKE national convention- clinic with honors choir Feb 2008 clinic with Central division ACDA children's honors choir, Grand Rapids, MI April, 2008 clinic at Illinois State
University, Bloomington, IL Oct. 11, 2008 Guest conductor for massed treble choir at Naperville North HS & IL State University Treble Choir Festival Oct. 24-25, 2008 Guest conductor for Pennsylvania MENC State Honors Choir Program: "It was so much fun having you as a conductor. I never interpreted
the meaning of songs like that before in choir! I hope they invite you
to come back soon! And I'm not a fan of a lot of contemporary
arrangements, but yours are great. I'm tired of singing bad arrangements
of old songs and
arrangements of popular music." Monday, November 3, 2008 The Westminster College Women's Chorus hosted choral
composer and arranger Paul Carey for a workshop
Oct. 28. Upcoming Feb 28, 2009 Guest conductor Conducting premiere of new piece commissioned by The Festival Choir of Madison, WI plus other music
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composer / conductor All materials and information on this site © 2009 Paul Carey and respective music publishers No part of this site or its contents may be reproduced without written consent. 
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