Choral Arts Appoints Cornell's Scott Tucker Artistic Director4425642

The Board of Directors of Choral Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Tucker, present P.E. Browning Director of Choral Music at Cornell University, as its new artistic director, efficient with the 2012-2013 period.

Tucker is just a musician, conductor, composer and teacher whose passions vary from symphonic works to globe music to new music. Throughout his 17-year tenure at Cornell, Tucker has focused the Men's Glee Club and the Women's Chorus, along with overseeing those activities of the Cornell Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Sage Chapel Choir. Under Tucker's management, the Cornell choirs performed often with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra throughout its operation, and collaborated with acclaimed artists such as for example Anonymous 4, Peter Schreier and Samit Mulondo. The Cornell choirs also tour nationally and internationally.

Scott Tucker has extensive experience planning large-scale symphonic works, and has prepared main works for all top conductors, including Peter Schreier, Fabio Mechetti, Daniel Hege, Carl St. Clair, Heiichiro Ohyama, LanFranco Marcelletti, and Erich Leinsdorf. He has also served as a guest conductor for the Ny State Baroque, the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and Ensemble X, in addition to choral celebrations through the country.

Deeply devoted to helping audio, Tucker has commissioned more than 30 works throughout his tenure at Cornell, and has premiered works from composers such as for example Ernani Aguiar, Bernard Rands, Steven Stucky, Augusta Read Thomas, Carol Barnett, David Conte, Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, and many others.

Just before his time at Cornell, Tucker was an assistant conductor at Harvard University, a music teacher at Milton Academy in Boston, and an award-winning musician in the Boston area.