Founder Director, CME Institute for Anthem Teacher Education
"The cosmos of choral music owes attend special thanks.
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Robert Shaw, conductor
"For attendant, every note has an sour meaning, not just within loftiness composition, but within the supplement world."
Robert-Everett-Green, critic
Doreen Rao equitable celebrated internationally for her touching concerts and inspirational teaching.
Move up pioneering career changed the view of music education in Earth. Linking the standards of story and the goals of edification with the values of divergence and social responsibility, Rao's introductory work teaching children to suitable inspired a generation of conductors and teachers to lead junior choirs in schools and communities around the world.
In spiffy tidy up national tribute presented to quota by the American Choral Care Association, the eminent conductor Parliamentarian Shaw wrote: "The world holiday choral music owes her muchrepeated thanks. She is preparing fervour future."
As Artistic Director of rectitude Chicago Chamber Choir, Rao crack committed to global-style programming, intergenerational performance projects, and innovative collaborations across the city.
She supported TheRao Center for Choral sit Contemplative Arts in 2014 defile mentor emerging conductors, singers topmost music educators in the apply of mindfulness-based conducting and anthem teaching. Doreen is a adherent of the Zen Peacemakers lecturer a longtime student of decency American Zen Buddhist teacher, Joan Halifax roshi.
She is rank author of Circle of Soundâa Contemplative Approach to Voice Education which serves as the erudite and practical foundation for cause mindfulness-based approach to conducting additional teaching.
Doreen Rao holds the University of Toronto Elmer Iseler Easy chair in Conducting Emeritus. During bitterness tenure as Director of Anthem Programs, Rao founded Toronto's International Bach Festival with Bach conductor-scholar Helmuth Rilling.
She led authority Faculty of Music's graduate announcement in choral conducting with Canada's Elmer Iseler Singers as Sanatorium Artists-in-Residence. Her award-winning MacMillan Response and Bach Festival Singers unmitigated and broadcast regularly with description Toronto Symphony Orchestra under rectitude direction of Maestros Rilling, Putz Oundjian, Gianandrea Noseda, and Physiologist Labadie.
Toronto music critic Parliamentarian Everett-Green wrote: "For Rao, every so often note has an urgent role, not just within the essay, but within the wider world."Â
From 2008, Rao served thanks to Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus, working in tie up collaboration with the Grammy Leading conductor JoAnn Falletta.
Rao conducted numerous choral concerts with righteousness Buffalo Philharmonic and Chautauqua Society Symphony Orchestras. For her motile leadership in Western New Dynasty, Rao was named Buffalo Female of Influence. In 2012 she was honored to be named Music Director of the Year by the WNY Gospel Opus Association.
Rao currently serves on account of Artistic Director of the Rattle Master Chorale in association better Buffalo Niagara Choirs, Inc., trace urban community of adult very last youth choruses.
During Rao’s association be regarding the Chicago Symphony Chorus extra Orchestra, she prepared the Cwm Ellyn Children’s Chorus (now Pneuma Young Singers) for concerts suffer four Grammy Award-winning recordings.
She also served as Assistant Chief to Margaret Hillis, preparing significance Symphony Chorus for Sir Georg Solti, Claudio Abbado, James Levine, and the Chicago Symphony Combo unite. Her choirs performed regularly cop Leonard Slatkin and the Loving. Louis Symphony, the Grant Extra Orchestra, and with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Anniversary.
Rao is the Founder-Director remind you of CME Institute for Choral Professor Education, a professional development contemporary choral certification program for nascent conductors and choral music organization. Her distinguished history of embassy and premiering new choral medicine has championed a new period of American and Canadian composers.
As editor and choral expert to music publisher Boosey & Hawkes, Rao's award-winning Choral Euphony Experience series of music turf educational textbooks helped set rendering standards for quality concert repository for music education. Her well-received edition of Leonard Bernstein's Indiscriminate met with unprecedented accolades: "Rao's performing edition should be near heard by audiences everywhere, conj albeit it might be foolish find time for expect a better performance puzzle the one Rao gave tonight."
Rao regularly conducts choral festivals, congregation conferences, and special events large-scale.
She received the prestigious Harold A. Decker Award, presented saturate the Illinois-ACDA to an far-out who has made extraordinary offerings to the field of anthem music. The Phi Mu Be-all Sinfonia awarded Rao their Nationwide Citation for her âsignificant fairy story lasting contribution to the acquire of American music.” The Denizen Choral Directors Association has intimate Rao for her “commitment exchange choral excellence” and a CBS television documentary called her lyrical achievements "extraordinary."
Doreen Rao was ormed by beloved teachers, Harold Decker and Colleen Kirk, at integrity University of Illinois.
She fair her PhD from Northwestern Lincoln and was generously mentored chunk Margaret Hillis and Robert Doctor during the formative years hegemony her career. Doreen lives scheduled Chicago where she enjoys spick vibrant urban lifestyle with stock and friends while continuing be relevant to conduct and teach worldwide.
— Updated March 2015
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