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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. He currently
holds an appointment as Associate Lecturer in the UWSP
Department of Theatre and Dance, teaching in the Musical
Theatre program.
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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