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Director
Dr. Edward Lundergan
is Director of Choral Activities and Chair of the Music Department at
SUNY-New Paltz, where he conducts the
Concert Choir, Chamber Singers and College-Community Chorale, and teaches music
theory, history and conducting. He is Artistic Director of
Kairos: A Consort of Singers,
a 18-voice ensemble dedicated to the performance of unaccompanied choral music
from the Renaissance to the present. Five years ago, Kairos began the Bach
Cantata Series at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York to wide critical
and popular acclaim. Last year Kairos celebrated its 15th anniversary, and
the ensemble concluded its anniversary year with a special Bach Cantata performance of Handel's
early work
Dixit Dominus and Bach's Magnificat. He has been Music Director for numerous
productions of the Gilbert &
Sullivan Musical Theater Company,
including
The
Medium, Sweeney Todd, Iolanthe, The Merry Widow, A Little Night Music, Tomfoolery
and last fall's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the
Bardavon Theater.
He has appeared as guest
conductor with the Music in the Mountains Festival, the Poné Ensemble and the
Hudson Valley Society for Music. For several summers he has served as guest
conductor for the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Dr. Lundergan received his M.M. from
the University of Michigan and his D.M.A. from the University of Texas at
Austin. His doctoral treatise on Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem received
the Julius Herford Award as the outstanding dissertation in the field of choral
music for the year 1991. He is a member of the editorial board of the
Choral Journal.
Accompanist
Gary Palmieri
retired as long-time choral director at
Arlington High School in Poughkeepsie, New
York. He is an adjunct faculty member at SUNY-New Paltz. At
SUNY, for the music department, he is the accompanist for choral activities, a
vocal coach, a studio accompanist, and a tutor in music theory. In the theater department he accompanies
their annual musical. He has been an accompanist and an associate music director
for the Gilbert & Sullivan Society for a number of years and presently is the
accompanist for the
Camerata Chorale and the
Ulster Choral Society. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music
education with extensive graduate work in piano and choral conducting from
Western Connecticut State University and the Hartt College of Music. He has wide
ranging experience in directing, producing and accompanying over 150 musicals
with such groups as the Sharon Playhouse, the Gilbert & Sullivan Musical
Theater Company, SUNY-New
Paltz, Theatre Music Workshop, the Hotchkiss Summer Theatre, Har-Bur Summer
Theatre, Children's Community Theater, Amity, Housatonic and Arlington High
Schools.
Mr. Palmieri prepared the Arlington Chorus for five appearances at Carnegie
Hall where they performed with composer/conductor John Rutter, Weston
Noble, the Manhattan Philharmonic, and the New England Conservatory Orchestra. |
