Christopher Thomas, Chorus New Jersey All-State Chorus and Orchestra The Eighty-Seventh Annual Program THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Chorus, Orchestra and Audience Conducted by Jeffrey Santoro, President New Jersey Music Educators Association
Timothy Dixon, Orchestra Conductor Procession of the Nobles from Mlada......... Korsakow Carnaval Overture..........................................Dvorak Sola Gratia ...............................................Amundsen Finale from Symphony No. 5................ Shostakovich Orchestra PRESENTATION OF PINS TO THE CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Marie Blistan, President New Jersey Education Association Patrick G. Hachey, Chorus Conductor Wonder................................................. Mack Wilberg Spaseniye sodelal......................................P. Chesnokov No Time.............................................Susan Brumfield Baba Yetu........................................................... C. Tin Nyon Nyon.............................................Jake Runetad Song to the Moon.................................. Z. R. Stroope Signs of the Judgment.................................. M. Butler Chorus
Alleluia...................................................Jake Runestad Der Gang Zum Liebchen..................Johannes Brahms Evening Prayer............................................. Ola Gjeilo Balleilakka......................................Rahman arr/Sperry O Radiant Dawn.............................. James MacMillan Even When He is Silent................ Kim Andre Arnesen Music Keeps Us Here.................................. Sean Ivory Combined Orchestra & Chorus Let All the World................. Ralph Vaughn Williams Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall and Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. NJ-PAC Prudential Hall Newark, NJ
Christopher B. Thomas is Associate Professor, Director of Choral Activities, and Chair of the Department of Music at Rowan University. In his role as Director of Choral Activities, he oversees four curricular choirs and personally conducts the Rowan University Concert Choir, a chamber ensemble named Voices, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in choral conducting and choral literature. Under his direction, the Rowan University Concert Choir has performed at regional and state conferences of ACDA and NJMEA in addition to international performance tours throughout Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. He recently served as assistant conductor of Varna International Music Academy’s performances of The Creation by Joseph Haydn in Varna and Dobrich, Bulgaria, and returned in 2017 to serve on the conducting faculty for a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Domestically, his recent guest conducting engagements have been in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont. As a scholar, Thomas has presented at International, Regional, and State Conferences on choral literature, pedagogy, philosophical, and historical topics. In addition to his academic positions, Chris is also the Artistic Director of the 90-voice Greater South Jersey Chorus. In the past, he served several churches as director of music and was an award-winning music educator for grades 6-12 in the Illinois Public School systems. Thomas is president of NJ-ACDA on the planning committee of the 2018 Eastern Divisional ACDA conference in Pittsburgh. He received the BM in Music Education from Millikin University where he studied with Brad Holmes and graduate degrees (MM and DMA) in Choral Conducting at the University of Arizona under the direction of Bruce Chamberlain. Chris and his wife Jessica live in Glassboro with their son Greyson and daughter Elandra.
Timothy Dixon, Orchestra Timothy Dixon is Director of Orchestral Studies / Professor of Music at Messiah College (PA), and the Music Director/ Conductor of the American Youth Philharmonic, the leading youth orchestra in the Washington D.C. area. At Messiah College, he conducts the symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra and opera productions, and provides leadership to the string area, and is the lead teacher in the graduate program in orchestral conducting at Messiah College. Under his leadership, the orchestras at Messiah College have been selected to perform at many conferences and have won multiple awards from the National Opera Association. Timothy Dixon is the Conductor Laureate of the West Shore Symphony Orchestra (PA) and has been a regular conductor of the Harrisburg Opera Association. Active nationally and internationally, Dixon has conducted numerous all-state and other festival orchestras, as well as professional orchestras in the United States, Germany and Ukraine. He has also served as a music educator, grades 4-12, in the Middletown City School District (OH). Timothy Dixon holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Iowa, the M.M. in Orchestral Conducting from Michigan State University, and a B.A. and B.M. in Music and Music Education, respectively, from Miami University (OH). Timothy Dixon lives in Camp Hill, PA with his wife, Roxanne, a K-5 music educator in the Camp Hill School District, and his children Delaney and Alex.
TEMPO 60
OCTOBER 2018
