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Headliners/Special Events
H eadliners/S pecial E v en ts

Headliners Boys, TENET, and Ekmeles. As an educator, he has
directed the University of Maryland Men’s Chorus,
served as director of choirs at the Special Music School
Chanticleer High School in Manhattan, and was also the choral
conductor for Juilliard’s new Summer Performing Arts
program.

The Soldiers’ Chorus of
The U. S. Army Field Band

The Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble
Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning
male chorus” by The New Yorker and is known around
the world for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling
virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by sing-
er and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly
took its place as one of the most prolific recording and
touring ensembles in the world, selling over one mil- The Soldiers’ Chorus, founded in 1957, is the vo-
lion recordings and performing thousands of live con- cal complement of the United States Army Field Band
certs. The ensemble has garnered Grammy Awards for of Washington, DC. The twenty-nine-member mixed
its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & choral ensemble travels throughout the nation and
Praises,” and the ambitious collection of commissioned abroad, performing as a separate component and in
works titled “Colors of Love.” Chanticleer is the re- joint concerts with the Concert Band of the “Musical
cipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Com- Ambassadors of the Army.” The chorus has performed
missioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America in all fifty states, Canada, Mexico, India, the Far East,
Award for Adventurous Programming. and throughout Europe, entertaining audiences of all
ages. In addition to presenting selections from the vast
Tim Keeler is music director of the San choral repertoire, Soldiers’ Chorus performances of-
Francisco-based, Grammy Award-win- ten include the music of Broadway, opera, barbershop
ning vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Prior quartet, and Americana. Most recently, the Soldiers’
to moving to San Francisco, he forged Chorus co-commissioned The Falling and The Rising:
a career as an active conductor, singer, A New American Opera, appeared on the CBS broadcast
and educator in New York City. He has sung with New Songs of Service, and was featured on the Grammy
York Polyphony, The Clarion Choir, the Choir of Trin- Award-winning album Soundtrack of the American Soldier.
ity Wall Street, the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and

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