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Along with my experience as 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.
FYI, I am available for live Skype interviews,
class discussions, etc for anyone interested, This has been a very
rewarding way to interact with directors and students around the
country. I am happy to do this free of charge. Please contact me for more information on any of the following:
Recent teaching/guest conducting/clinician appearances: ONGOING DURING SUMMERS: JUNE/JULY 2009, 2010, 2011 etc. Choral Director of the gifted HS choir at North Carolina Governor's School East, based at Meredith College (for more info on this incredible program, visit www.ncgovschool.org (Plus scroll to bottom for more information about the music programming for this school FEBRUARY 2011 Guest conductor for week long
festival organized by NOVEMBER 2010 Guest conductor for Armstrong County (PA, near Pittsburgh) Honors Choir NOVEMBER 2009 Judge 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 was thrilled to do this along with fellow composer/conductors Eleanor Daley and Lee Kesselman. OCTOBER 2009 Speech/Workshop
for college age conducting/composition students FEBRUARY 2009
OCTOBER 2008 Guest
conductor for massed treble choir at Naperville North HS & IL State
University OCTOBER 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." OCTOBER 2008 Workshop at Westminster College The repertoire of the chorus, under the direction of Westminster adjunct
music faculty Mr. Kris Harper, includes two of Carey's
pieces: "A Million Miracles" and "The Curlew's Song." Carey worked with
chorus member and flautist Amber Kunder to imitate the
sound of the curlew bird on the flute. Clinic at Illinois State University, Normal, IL FEB 2008 Clinic with Central Division ACDA children's honors choir, Grand Rapids, MI MARCH 2006 Clinic with honors choir at OAKE national
convention in Chicago More info on my work @ NC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL: Ongoing during summers JUNE/JULY 2009, 2010, 2011 etc. Choral Director of the gifted HS 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. Update: First program (June 30, July 1, 2009) 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.
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composer / conductor All materials and information on this site © 2011 Paul Carey and respective music publishers No part of this site or its contents may be reproduced without written consent. 
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