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“American Immigrant Experience” Concert Hella Johnson. Recording credits include Requiem and
Threshold of Night, both Grammy nominees for best cho-
ral recording. Recordings as a conductor include The
Saturday 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Road Home and Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil with the
Meyerson Symphony Center Desert Chorale. Habermann is a regular guest with all-
state and university choirs and graduate conducting
programs in the United States and abroad.
Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Morning/Afternoon Concerts
Concert Session A
Wednesday 9:30 am -11:30 am
Meyerson Symphony Center
Wednesday 1:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Winspear Opera House

Founded in 1982 by Lawrence “Larry” Bandfield,
the Santa Fe Desert Chorale is one of the longest-run- Nixa High School
ning professional music organizations in New Mexico,
as well as one of the most distinguished American pro- Chamber Singers
fessional chamber choirs. “The Santa Fe Desert Cho-
rale [is] a top-notch, 24-voice group… comprising the
crème de la crème of professional choral singers from
coast to coast” (Dallas Morning News). Their annual sum-
mer festival is one of the nation’s largest choral events.
Artistic Director Joshua Habermann has led the Cho-
rale since 2008 in repertoire spanning seven centuries,
from early polyphony to contemporary works.

Joshua Habermann is in his sixteenth
season as artistic director of the Santa Fe The Nixa Chamber Singers are a nationally rec-
Desert Chorale, one of America’s lead- ognized choral ensemble from Nixa High School,
ing professional choirs. From 2011 to celebrated for their exceptional performances across
2022 he led the Dallas Symphony Cho- prestigious venues. They showcased their talent at the
rus, and he continues to work regularly with symphon- Missouri MEA Conference (2023) and the Southwest
ic and professional choruses. As a singer, Habermann ACDA Conference (2024). Additionally, they claimed
performed with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus the title of Grand Champions at the Worlds of Fun
under Helmuth Rilling and Conspirare under Craig Festival of Choirs in 2022 and 2023. This ensemble

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