Community Choirs - leader

Eric Dale Knapp

Eric Dale Knapp
Artistic Director, World Voices Australia 2007

Eric Dale Knapp, conductor-in-residence with MidAmerica Productions, has an extensive background in orchestral and choral conducting. He founded and currently serves as music director for Orchestra de Camerata and the Chamber Music Series at Salisbury House in Des Moines, Iowa.

He is Associate Conductor of the Connecticut Choral Society & Orchestra, Music Director for the Mark Thallander Foundation in Los Angeles, Music Director of the New Jersey Choral Society & Sinfonia and Artistic Director of the Voices in the House Choral and Organ Festival to be held at the Sydney Opera House in 2006. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Drake University and has studied orchestral conducting at The Juilliard School, the New York Conductors Institute. 
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Vision

An awe-filled event has been created, in which our community choirs will perform a varied program of choral literature, including Tres Cantus Laudendi by Mack Wilberg. In addition, the much honored concert organist Frederick Swann has agreed to collaborate with the Community Choir track. Uniquely the Community Choir track is open to individuals as well as whole ensembles as our repertoire for the Opera House concert features massed works. Individual choirs will enjoy additional performance opportunities in other venues as well.

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