A native of Richmond, Missouri, Dr. Cameron F. LaBarr is assistant professor of choral music at Lee University, where he conducts Choral Union and teaches conducting, choral literature, and choral methods. Formerly, he served as conductor of the University of North Texas Men’s Chorus and taught undergraduate conducting at UNT as a doctoral teaching fellow. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Missouri State University, where he studied with Dr. Guy B. Webb, and a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas, where he studied choral conducting with Dr. Jerry McCoy and orchestral conductingwith Maestro David Itkin.
Dr. LaBarr has worked as a guest conductor and clinician for various schools and festivals across the midwestern and southern United States. He holds memberships with the American Choral Directors Association, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, and serves on theboard of directors for the Dallas Chapter of Choristers Guild.
As a strong advocate for community singing, Dr. LaBarr has been associate conductor of the Dallas Rotary Men’s Chorus and the Denton Bach Society. He has served at various churches in Missouri and Texas, most recently at Christ United Methodist Church in Plano, Texas where he conducted the youth choirs and the Wesley Collegiate Chorale. In May of 2010, LaBarr led the Wesley Collegiate Chorale on tour in England and Wales, performing concerts in Cardiff, Worcester, Epworth, Oxford, and at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.
In 2011-2012, Dr. LaBarr will conduct choirs in festivals and tours in Rochester (NH), Newport (RI), Boston, Springfield (MO), Wichita, St. Louis, Amarillo, Colorado Springs, and Denver. Major works conducted this year by Dr. LaBarr include Mozart’s Requiem with the Christ UMC Sanctuary Choir and Orchestra and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Hodie with the Lee University Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra.
Cameron and his wife Susan reside in Cleveland, TN, where she works as choral editor for Choristers Guild and publishes music of her own through Santa Barbara Music Publishing (CA).
Dr. William Green
Associate Professor of Choral Music
Lee University School of Music
Cleveland, TN 37312
wgreen@leeuniveristy.edu
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A successful leader in choral music for over twenty years, William R. Green is Associate Professor of Choral Music at Lee University where he conducts the Choral Union and Chorale, as well as teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of Kentucky and the Master of Music from Georgia State University. Dr. Green performed and recorded with Robert Shaw as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus. The impact of this musical experience led Green to doctoral research on Shaw’s techniques on rhythm and phrasing, specifically in relation to the works of J.S. Bach.
In addition to his work with Shaw, Green has collaborated with many of the leading conductors of our time including John Rutter, Yoel Levi, Z. Randall Stroope, Ann Howard Jones, and Jefferson Johnson. He has led performances of many of the major works for chorus and orchestra, including Handel’s Messiah, the Requiems of Mozart and Faure, Brahms Ein Deutches Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in C Major, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music, and the works of Bach, Britten, Poulenc, Vivaldi, and Schubert, among others.
Dr. Green served as the Artistic Director and Conductor of Choral Arts of Chattanooga from Fall 2004 – Spring 2010 This exceptional ensemble provides professionally trained singers the opportunity to perform the finest choral masterpieces and contemporary literature. Of his work with this ensemble Ruth Cartlidge of The Chattanooga Pulse said, “Green’s touch with the waves of sound in Brahms’ Nänie was simply lovely. There is an aura of suppressed energy in his pianissimos that would make many choral directors envious.”
Dr. Green is active nationally and internationally as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician most recently working with choirs from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. He has presented workshops throughout the United States, as well as in Central America and Israel.
William is married to his college sweetheart Twyla Daugherty Green and together they have two children, Jonathan and Mary Beth.