MUSICAL
DIRECTOR
Prior
to taking up the position of Primrose Fuller Professor of Choral
Music at the Hartt School in the fall of 1999 and leadership
of its Vocal Studies Division in 2001, Edward Bolkovac was Senior
Lecturer in Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University
of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He became known throughout
Australia for his perfomances of Baroque oratorios, artistic
leadership of the Brisbane Early Music Festival and his many
international workshops. For many years Bolkovac was the Artistic
Director of the California Bach Society, one of the San Francisco
area's premiere performance organizations. In addition he was
director of the internationally recognized Kodaly Music Education
Program at Holy Names College in Oakland, CA where he also directed
the college choral ensembles and chamber orchestra. Recent performances
at the Hartt School have included Argento's I Love and I
Hate, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Britten's Flower
Songs, Brahms' Schicksalslied, Copland's Appalachian
Spring and Tenderland (Rivera concert version), Dello
Joio's Jubilant Song, Durufle's Requiem, Haydn's
Creation, Verdi's Requiem and Mozart's Coronation
Mass. In May 2001, he led the Hartt Tour Choir on a 2-week
concert tour of Austria, Germany and Hungary. He is also active
as an international choral clinician and conductor, having traveled
frequently to Australia, England, New Zealand, Taiwan and the
Philippines. In March of 2003 he was appointed as the new artistic
director of the New Haven Chorale. He studied conducting in
Hungary and completed his doctorate at Stanford University.
He was recently appointed as the Artistic Director of the New
Haven Chorale.
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