6/29/2023 0 Comments Brave church westminster![]() ![]() ![]() As a young artist, Silky attended the Florence Voice Seminar with Benita Valente, Sally Wolf and Martha Collins. She is currently a student at Teacher’s College of Columbia University. Carter is a graduate of Westminster Choir College, where she holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education, under the tutelage of Laura Brooks Rice and Margaret Cusack. Known for her “soaring high notes,” soprano, Silky Marsharika Carter is versed in a range of repertoire that includes music from Bach, to Händel, to Gershwin and others. ![]() He holds the Master of Arts in Practical Theology degree from Regent University, and Bachelor of Music degrees in Sacred Music and Music Education from Westminster Choir College. Brown is also a proud member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, Inc. Professor Brown holds membership in the National Association for Music Education, National Alliance of Black School Educators, American Choral Directors Association, International Society for Black Musicians, National Collegiate Choral Organization and the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., for which he is Eastern Region Director and Chief Editor of EMERGENCE: Research & Performance Topics in Black Music, a scholarly publication which will be released in 2022. The world premiere of David Lang’s The Mile-Long Opera: a biography of 7 o’clock marked his debut with the Mile-Long Opera Company and workshopped OMAR, a new opera on the life of Omar Ibn Said composed by Rhiannon Giddens with Spoleto Festival USA, and will serve as Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for the 2022 premiere performances. He made his New York Lyric Opera Theatre debut at Carnegie Hall performing scenes from Massenet’s Manon and Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. Among his most notable engagements were the filmings of two PBS specials with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. He will conduct the Morris Area High School Honor Choir this academic year.Ī noted baritone, Brown has sung on concert and opera stages across the country, as both soloist and chorister. He has lectured at the University of Miami, Millikin University and the College of New Jersey. He has presented for the National Conference of the American Choral Directors Association, New Jersey Education Association and music for Virginia, Georgia, Illinois and Maryland Music Education Association Conferences. In addition, the Westminster Jubilee Singers will perform Hall Johnson’s Son of Man as part of their twenty-fifth anniversary in addition to performances locally and in Wilmington, Delaware as part of the Bent But Not Broken Choral Festival.Īs a clinician, Professor Brown has headlined the Voices United Choir Festival for the New Jersey chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and the Harlem Classical Music Festival. Loatman to commemorate the ensemble’s fifteenth anniversary. Messiah, Dove’s The Passing of the Year and a commissioned work by Richard M. This season, he will lead Capital Singers of Trenton in performances of Handel’s Ensembles under his direction have been featured in radio broadcast at Princeton Theological Seminary, performed at the historic Playhouse at Rodney Square and members of his ensembles at Carnegie Hall and at the Centennial Convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. Recent seasons have included performances of Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor, Faure’s Requiem in D Minor, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert, Undine Smith Moore’s Scenes from the Life of a Martyr, Rosephanye Powell’s The Cry of Jeremiah Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. Maintaining an active conducting schedule, he is founder and artistic director of Elmwood Concert Singers and is artistic director and conductor of Capital Singers of Trenton. A church musician, he is director of music and worship arts at Elmwood United Presbyterian Church. In addition to his responsibilities at Westminster, he is Lecturer of Music in the College of Communication & Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University where he developed coursework related to music and social justice. He is a member of the conducting, organ and sacred music faculty at Westminster Choir College, where he conducts the Westminster Jubilee Singers and teaches African American Choral Literature. holds credits in conducting, sacred music and music education. ![]()
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