FACULTY
DR.
KENNETH SHEPPARD
Institute Director
Kenneth Sheppard is Professor of Music at Southwestern University in Georgetown,
Texas where he conducts the University Chorale and teaches classes in conducting
and music education. In February 2002, the Chorale performed at the annual convention
of the Texas Music Educators Association. In recent years the Southwestern Chorale
has performed such works as Mass in B minor and The Passion According to St.
John by J. S. Bach, Elijah by Mendelssohn, King David by Honneger, Mass in C
Major by Beethoven, Mass in C Minor and Requiem by Mozart, as well as Judas Maccabaeus
and Ode for St.Cecilia by Handel.
Sheppard was the conductor of the Southwestern University Chamber Orchestra for
thirteen years, but he relinquished this duty to accept an appointment as Artistic
Director of Chorus Austin. His duties for Chorus Austin include a full season
of choral/orchestral works with the Austin Civic Chorus and the Austin Vocal
Arts Ensemble. In December 2003, Sheppard made his third appearance as guest
conductor for the Austin Symphony with the Austin Civic Chorus performing Handel's
Messiah. He has prepared the choruses for performances of Haydn's Lord Nelson
Mass, Orff's Carmina Burana, Brahms' Gesang der Parzen, Vaughan Williams' Serenade
to Music, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with the
Austin Symphony Orchestra - the performance of Boris Godunov received the "Outstanding
Choral Performance Award" of the 2002-2003 season from the Austin Critics
Table.
Sheppard conducted the Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble in a performance at the International
Festival-Institute at Round Top, Texas in 2001. He prepared the chorus for the
Festival-Institute’s performance of Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande
in the summer of 2002. Also, he appeared as guest conductor of the Big Spring
Symphony last April.
Sheppard earned the Ph.D. at Texas Tech University where he studied with Gene
Kenney. Also, he has done extensive private study with the late Dr. B. R. Henson
(founder of the Conductor’s Institute) and limited study with Dr. Clyde
Roller.
Sheppard is known for preparing students for careers in teaching and conducting.
Many of his former students now hold positions as conductors and teachers in
public schools, churches and universities.
MR. BRAD BOULEY
Brad Bouley is founder and Artistic Director of the Texas Master
Chorale, which is in its eighteenth season. Mr. Bouley is
Director of Fine Arts for the Tomball
ISD, after serving as the Director of Choirs for twenty years.. The Texas
Master Chorale, performs primarily major choral/orchestral music
including such works
as Messiah by Handel, Lord Nelson Mass by Haydn, Magnificat and Christ lag
in Todesbanden by Bach, Glorias by Rutter, Poulenc and Vivaldi,
Ein Deutches Requiem
by Brahms, Requiems by Fauré, Duruflé and Mozart, Vesperae
solennes de confessore by Mozart, and Mass in C Major by Beethoven. The Chorale
performed
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass at the Texas Choral Directors Convention in 2000
and has been invited back again this summer to perform the Mozart C Minor
Mass
with guest conductor Roger Melone. Mr. Bouley holds degrees from the University
of
Oklahoma and Sam Houston State University in Music Education and Conducting.
He is active throughout the state as a choral adjudicator and clinician.
He is in demand for school staff development workshops in conducting for
vocal
and
instrumental directors. Mr. Bouley is past Region Chairman of TMEA, Region
9 and past Area Chairman for TMEA Area D. In 1993, he was the recipient of
the
Texas Excellence Award for Outstanding High School Teachers, and in 1992
he was the recipient of the Tomball ISD Outstanding Teacher Award. Mr. Bouley
is a member
of Pi Kappa Lambda, ADCA, TCDA, TMEA and TMAA.
DR.
ELLSWORTH PETERSON
Dr. Ellsworth Peterson, musicologist, is Professor Emeritus of Music and former
holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts at Southwestern University.
He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University, an S.M.M. from Union
Theological Seminary and a B.M. from Southwestern. He joined the faculty at Southwestern
in 1965. Dr. Peterson led Southwestern's first Arts in London summer program
and established the only affiliation between a U.S. college and the annual Aldeburgh
Festival in England. As a Brown Chairholder, he has brought internationally recognized
scholars and performers to campus through five Brown Symposia. Gustav Mahler
and His Vienna (1982) featured a Viennese Ball. Benjamin Britten and the Ceremony
of Innocence (1985) included SU’s production of Curfew River that was broadcast
nation wide on PBS. A group from Thailand presented performances of their country's
national epic in Gods, Giants, and Monkeys: The Ramakian in the Arts and Culture
of Thailand (1988). The Quartets of Shostakovich: Odyssey of a Man and of A Nation
(1995) offered the rare complete performance of Shostakovich's quartets by the
Manhattan String Quartet. In February 2000, Dr. Peterson presented a Brown Symposium
on the music of Oliver Messiaen, Ratios and Radiance, Feathers and Faith.
For further information, write or call:
Dr. Kenneth Sheppard
Southwestern University
PO Box 770
Georgetown, TX 78627-0770
(512)-863-1358
sheppark@southwestern.edu
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