January - February 1996
Melbourne, Victoria
Conductor
Margaret Pride
Margaret Pride is recognized as one of Australia's leading choral conductors and clinicians. She has conducted performances and given workshops and lectures in every state, as well as adjudicated major international festivals. Her choirs have toured to several eastern states cities in Australia and to overseas destinations in Europe, England and Asia.
Margaret is currently Music Director of Collegium Choirs, giving oratorio performances with the Collegium Symphonic Chorus, cantata and chamber repertoire concerts with the Collegium Musicum Choir, and specialized performances with the professional ensemble, Collegium Vocal Consort. In addition to these performances, Margaret currently freelances in Perth, interstate and overseas both as clinician and conductor.
After acquiring her doctorate in choral studies and conducting at the prestigious University of Southern California, Margaret was Senior Lecturer in Music, and Musical Director of Choral Studies at The University of Western Australia for nine years, and Music Director for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra Chorus for eight years. She has also been state and national president for the Australian National Choral Association. Awards have been numerous from leading bodies in both Australia and the United States.
Margaret has also had a leading role in developing choral music for young people; she developed a large choral program while working as Music Director for Methodist Ladies College (1974-85), she established Australia's first Masters Degree in Choral Music (Performance) at The University of Western Australia, she has adjudicated many choral festivals, and conducted both the National Youth Choir of Australia (1996) and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain (1997).
Singers
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Repertoire
- Aaron Copeland - Stomp Your Foot; The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land)
- Cohon - Hanerot Halalu; Erev Shel Shoshanim
- Sarah Hopkins - Two Kyries
- Alexandru Pasçanu - Chindia
- Claire Maclean - The Shelterless and Silent Plains
- Stephen Leek - Songs of Space, Sea and Sky
- Brahms - Zigeuner Lieder
- Mathias - Shakespeare Songs
- Tim Sexton - The Fields of Corn
- Andrew Applebaum - Penelope Spins