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James A. Carpenter
James A.
Carpenter joined the Monteverdi Master Chorale as Artistic Director in
January 2002. A native of Burlington,
Vermont, he received his undergraduate education at Ithaca College, in Ithaca,
New York, majoring in choral music education and voice. He went on to study with the late Robert
Fountain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received the Master
of Music degree in choral conducting.
Mr. Carpenter began his career as an educator in the public schools of
Wisconsin and Florida, teaching choral and general music in grades K-12. In 1988 he joined the faculty of Mount
Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where he conducted choirs and
taught classes in musicianship and conducting.
Mount Holyoke choirs under his direction performed annually in New York
City, and toured throughout the eastern United States. He also conducted yearly performances of
major choral-orchestral works on the
Mount
Holyoke campus.
Mr. Carpenter has extensive experience with church and community
choirs. He has served Methodist,
Lutheran, and United Church of Christ congregations in Wisconsin, Florida, and
Massachusetts, in addition to conducting Catholic and Protestant chapel choirs
at Mount Holyoke College. He was
Assistant Conductor of the Winter Park Bach Festival Chorus, in Winter Park, Florida,
and Conductor of the Springfield Symphony Chorus, in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Mr. Carpenter served as conductor of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point Concert Choir for the spring semester of 2007, and conducted the UWSP
Women’s Choir for the 2008 – 9 season.
He has taught courses in Choral Literature, Music Education Methods, and
History of American Popular Music at UWSP, and is currently teaching Music
Theory for Musical Theatre Performers. He
is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the International
Federation for Choral Music, and the College Music Society, and has served on
the Executive Board of the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association.
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