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Festival of Voices
2010-2011
Concert Season
Festival of Voices
September 25, 2010
Haydn's
Creation
October 22 - 24, 2010
with the Florida Orchestra
A Holiday
Pops
December 10 - 12, 2010
with the Florida Orchestra
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9
&
Schoenberg's
Friede auf Erden
(Peace on
Earth)
February 25 - 27, 2011
with the Florida Orchestra
Discover!
April 9 - 10, 2011
Celebrating the opening of the new USF School of Music Concert Hall |
Dr. James Bass
Music and Artistic Director
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 Dr.
James Bass
Music and Artistic Director
We are pleased to welcome Dr. James Bass as our
Music and Artistic Director.
Dr. Bass also serves as the Director of Choral Activities at the
University of South Florida School of Music.
Dr. Bass comes to us from the Western Michigan University where he conducted the
University Chorale, Collegiate Singers, and Grand Chorus and taught graduate and
undergraduate courses in choral conducting, philosophy, and literature. Dr.
Bass received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of
Miami-Florida, where he was a doctoral fellow, and Master of Music and Bachelor
of Science degrees from the University of South Florida.
Dr. Bass' conducting experience includes a variety of choral and orchestral
ensembles including chamber choirs, women's choruses, mixed-voice choirs,
symphony orchestras, string orchestras and string chamber ensembles. He has
conducted choirs at the University of Central Florida and University of
Miami-Florida, as well as being our assistant conductor for a time. He has
served as Director of Choral and Orchestral Activities at Howard W. Blake High
School for the Performing Arts in Tampa and conductor of the Tampa Bay Youth
Orchestra. He has prepared choirs for Sir Colin Davis, Sir David Willcocks,
Jahja Ling, Michael Tilson Thomas and Robert Shaw.
Dr. Bass is a bass soloist and chorus master for
Seraphic Fire,
the Miami-based professional choir and he recently appeared with the
New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas
as bass soloist. He is currently on the Executive Board of the
American Choral Directors Association
Central Division serving as College Repertoire and Standards chairperson.
Check out John Fleming's article in the St.
Pete Times published Wednesday, May 12, 2010:
Master Chorale appoints new artistic director
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