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Walton Music (choral), Boosey & Hawkes (wind band), Choirs under her direction have performed at multiple
and Chester Music (piano). ACDA and CMEA conferences. She has presented in-
terest sessions for ACDA, CMEA, AGO, and univer-
sities and conservatories worldwide. She has served
as state president and college and university chair for
University of Denver Colorado ACDA. Awards include the Dale Warland

Lamont Chorale Award for Excellence in Choral Conducting, First
Place in the American Prize for Choral Performance,
and Chorus America’s Robert Shaw Fellowship. Sailer
received her DMA from Northwestern University and
MM and BM from the University of Denver.

University of West Indies
Mona University Singers

The Lamont Chorale is the premier choral ensem-
ble at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of
Music. Members include undergraduate and graduate
music majors and students from across the DU cam-
pus. A winner of a number of national and interna- The University Singers has distinguished itself as
tional awards under the direction of Catherine Sailer, one of the leading choral groups in the Caribbean,
the ensemble won first place in the American Prize in noted for its versatility, spanning a varied number of
Choral Performance and earned a second-place award musical genres including classical, American negro
in the prestigious Barenreiter Mårten Jansson compe- spirituals, jazz, folk, gospel and local and international
tition. The chorale is stylistically flexible, performing popular music. A special feature of the choir’s reper-
diverse repertoire from the Renaissance through the toire is the original music of Caribbean composers.
present day and often in collaboration with other en- Many of these composers have emerged from and are
sembles and composers. The Lamont Chorale has current members of the group. The choir is the pre-
performed at conferences for ACDA and CMEA. This mier performing arts ensemble on the Mona Campus
is their third appearance at SWACDA. of The University of the West Indies (UWI) and stands
as the cultural ambassadors for the UWI. Presently, the
Catherine Sailer serves as director of choir has a full complement of over forty members,
choral studies at the University of Denver comprising undergraduate and graduate students of
Lamont School of Music, associate con- the UWI. The University Singers has been invited to
ductor of the Colorado Ballet Orches- perform at numerous state and official events, and in
tra, conductor of The Evans Choir, and the presence of notable world figures including the late
music director of the Littleton Symphony Orchestra. Nelson Mandela.

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