|
Adjudicated performance for the following
types of choirs:
- High School
- College
- Church
- Community
- Clubs or Organizational
Choirs will be judged by number of voices and not by age or type of music.
All choir members are invited for an Evening Concert on the stage of the Passion Theatre, conducted by
the Choir Master of the Passion Play production with the Passion Play Choir. Music selections will be chosen by the Choir Master.
Choir members, invite your family and friends to hear your performance and join you for
sightseeing in the Bavarian region of Germany.
Pre- and post-festival sightseeing tours will
be offered. A very special Peter Deilmann river
cruise on board the Mozart will be offered
from June 3 – 10, 2007
Group leaders will want to take advantage of
our experienced tour planning staff for customized
sightseeing opportunities.
Watch for full details Fall, 2005!!
Camp Kirkland
 Over the past three decades, Camp Kirkland has emerged as one of the premier Church musicians in the nation. He is recognized as the pioneer in establishing instrumental music as a viable medium in the life of the church music program. In 1971, he began the instrumental music program at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Florida. This program is still a model of excellence in music and effectiveness in ministry. Students and associates of Mr. Kirkland lead many of the great church orchestras around the country.
In addition to being a highly skilled and recognized educator, clinician and spokesman, Camp Kirkland has enjoyed a brilliant career as an arranger and orchestrator. He has over a thousand publications in his catalog and is an important contributor to the leading publishers of church music today. He has the reputation of being a consummate professional both in the creative process, in the recording studio, and in working with church music programs around the country. Camp's love for Christ is evident in every phase of his art. Church musicians around the world have been blessed not only by his music but also by his testimony to the faithfulness of God. Camp Kirkland continues his music ministry, assisted by his wife Fran, through Camp Kirkland Productions, located in Franklin, Tennessee.
Dr. Horace Boyer
 Horace Boyer is Professor of Music Theory and African-American Music at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an acknowledged scholar in the field of African-American gospel music. He has directed numerous choirs and toured forty states performing gospel music with his brother James. Dr. Boyer has published over forty articles in journals such as Music Educators Journal, the Black Perspective in Music, and the Black Music Research Journal. He contributed ten arrangements of Negro Spirituals and gospel songs to Lift Every Voice and Sing, a 1982 supplemental hymnal for the Episcopal Church of the United States, for which he served as general editor for the 1993 revision. His new book, How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel has just been published by Elliot and Clark.
Dr. Boyer grew up in Winter Park, FL in a deeply religious home. Both his parents were ministers in the Church of God in Christ, and Boyer sang in the choir from third grade. Horace and his brother James began performing the music they'd learned at local churches and, at ages 15 and 16, started recording gospel records as "the Boyer Brothers." With money earned from their performances, the brothers put themselves through Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach. The Boyer Brothers have since traveled throughout 40 states, appearing in concerts, festivals, and on television in solo performances, as well as with such famous gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson and Clara Ward. Boyer went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D degrees in music from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. He has directed countless singers in choirs, ensembles, and workshops.
Bob Burroughs
 Bob Burroughs was born in Tazewell, VA and is currently a member at Brookwood Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL. Bob held church positions at First Baptist Church, Muskogee, OK (1961-65) and First Baptist Church, Abilene, TX (1965-71). He served as Composer-In-Residence, Samford University, Birmingham, AL (1971-80), Composer-In-Residence, Palm Beach Atlantic College, West Palm Beach, FL (1990-94) and Director of the Church Music Department, Florida Baptist Convention, Jacksonville, FL (1994-2001).
Burroughs holds degrees from Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC (AA), Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK (BME), and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Church Music, Ft. Worth, TX (MCM).
Bob has over 2000 published works in print with 28 different companies including three books: Church Music In Today's World - Tempo Music; So You Want To Be A Composer - Lorenz; and This Idea Will Work - Lorenz
"I believe strongly in children/youth choirs. They are the backbone of the future. Without them and without training them, we will be very way short of musicians in the immediate future. Churches who are cutting back or eliminating children's choirs will sorrowfully regret this action soon, when there are no singers, instrumental players, bell ringers or soloists available." He enjoys cooking, reading, racquetball, and walking. Bob and his wife have two children and five grandchildren.
Thomas Gropper
 Thomas Gropper was born in the town of Braunlage in Central Germany. He studied opera and concert singing
with Markus Goritzky at the University for Music and Theater in Munich, Germany. He further studied
oratorio singing with Adalbert Kraus and Hanns-Martin Schneidt as well as melody singing with Helmut
Deutsch. Since he finished his studies he has worked with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Josef Metternich.
His main focus lies in oratorio singing where he has interpreted every important bass and baritone part
from Monteverdi and Schuetz to Orff and Britten. Many of his performances have been recorded for radio
and CD. These concentrated mainly on oratorios and cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Gropper has sung with the Munich Philharmonics, the Munich Bach Choir, the Munich Motetten Choir, the
Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt, the Berlin and Munich Symphonic Orchestras and the Heinrich-Schuetz-Ensemble
Munich. He has worked under conductors like Fabio Luisi, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Hayko Siemens, Wolfgang
Kelber, Roderich Kreile and Siegfried Heinrich.
The highlights of this season were Orff’s “Carmina Burana“ at the Stiftsruine Bad Hersfeld Festival and
the following concert tour, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s „First Walpurgis Night“ with the Berlin Symphonic
Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmony Concert Hall, Haendel’s „Theodora“ together with Emma Kirkby at the
Residence Munich as well as Orff’s „Carmina Burana“ with the Munich Motetten Choir in Istanbul.
Thomas Gropper also works in the area of opera singing. He could for example be heard as Figaro, Don
Giovanni and Papageno. He sang the part of Don Febeo from Simon Mayr’s “Che Originali” at the City
Theater Ingolstadt as well as for a CD production. And he participated in several scenic productions of
Bach’s “Johannes Passion” and Orff’s “Carmina Burana”.
An important part of Thomas Gropper’s work is education. He is voice coach at the Munich Bach Choir and
the Munich Motetten Choir and he teaches at Munich’s Drama School. Since 1997 he has worked as a teacher
at the Munich Conservatory where he became professor for song, speech and singing didactics in 2001.
* Several other Adjudicators will be added including several from Germany.
|
