Chulalongkorn University Choral Festival is finally back!
Our supposedly annual festival since 2014 had, unfortunately, been postponed in two consecutive years of 2021 and 2022 due to Covid pandemic. Though the infectious disease is still around, we are thankful it has finally become less prevalent enough that we can bring choristers and directors back together on Chulalongkorn University campus to learn and sing together again, which is something we had always hoped to do.
This is now evident that Covid may deter us for a while, but it cannot stop us.
Choirs around the world have been affected during the past few years. School and university choirs are all facing challenges trying to rebuild the new generation of choral musicians. But these challenges will appear easier when we work together and share what we have with others.
Chulalongkorn University Choral Festival is proud to be part of supporting choirs of all levels in this rebuilding process. Thank you, Dr. Jo-Michael Scheibe, for teaming up with us again this year and being a big part of our festival. I cannot thank all the directors and singers enough for your resilience through these tough times. Thank you for keeping choral music going. Now, in the next few days of the festival. let’s take as much as you can, learn from the clinicians and your peers, give back as much as you can, and enjoy the festival!
Dr. Pawasut Piriyapongrat Festival Director
Jo-Michael Scheibe (born 1950) is the former chair of the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He serves as Professor of Choral and Sacred Music, teaching choral conducting and choral development. He formerly conducted the USC Chamber Singers. In 2008, he assumed a new post as National President-Elect of the American Choral Directors’ Association.[1] No stranger to the ACDA, Scheibe previously served as the organization’s Western Division President (1991–1993), as well as National Repertoire and Standards Chairperson for Community Colleges (1980–1989). Ensembles under his leadership have sung at six national ACDA conventions (1985, 1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2007), as well as two national conventions of the Music Educators National Conference (1996, 2000), and various regional and state conventions. A native of Southern California, Scheibe developed his love for music through his singing in church and at Westminster High School. After earning a degree in vocal and choral music education at California State University at Long Beach, he taught high school music at Vintage High School in Napa, California, and then at Huntington Beach High School. Other appointments included Long Beach City College, Northern Arizona University and the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Scheibe’s artistic collaborations have included choral performances with Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina and Kenny Loggins, as well as preparation of choruses for Sir Colin Davis and the London
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Symphony Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony and conductors Helmuth Rilling, Jahja Ling, Edoardo Müller, James Judd, Max Valdez, Thomas Sanderling and Alain Lombard, among others. Recordings of ensembles under Scheibe’s direction have been released on the Albany, Cane, Naxos, Arsis, and ANS labels.
A champion of contemporary music, Scheibe regularly commissions and performs new works of choral literature. He has helped to launch careers of promising young composers and to promote music by international composers largely unknown in the United States. Music publishers Walton, Colla Voce Music and Santa Barbara distribute the Jo-Michael Scheibe Choral Series[2] internationally.
Fall 2008 marked Scheibe’s return to the University of Southern California after a 15year tenure as director of Choral Studies at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music (1993–2008), as well as previous faculty
appointments at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff (1985–1993), Long Beach City College (1978–1985), Vintage High School in Napa, California and Huntington Beach High School. Scheibe received his D.M.A. from the University of Southern California and his B.A. and M.M. degrees from California State University at Long Beach, where he was presented with the distinguished alumnus award.
Scheibe has served as music and artistic director of many community choral organizations, including the Master Chorale of South Florida,[4] the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay,[5] and the Long Beach Master Chorale. He has directed music ministries in churches as well, most recently at Coral Gables Congregational Church, where he conducted the Chancel Choir and Vocal Ensemble, which
appeared at the 2004 ACDA Southern Division Convention in Nashville. A member of Chorus America, the International Federation of Choral Music, and several other professional and education organizations. He has conducted for Jubilate Mozart! with Hungarian composer János Czifra, performing scores where Mozart first composed them in the Salzburg Dom. Scheibe is in frequent demand internationally as a clinician, conductor and adjudicator for choruses at the university, community college, community and secondary levels.
18:30-20:30
Yala Municipality Orchestra Choir
King King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi Chorus (KMUTT Chorus)
Lao Duang Deuan Arr. K. Tantrarungroj
King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Chorus (KMITL Chorus)
Ye Love Me Thomas Tallis (b. 1505)
Chulalongkorn University Festival Choir
