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2011-2012
Concert Season
Summer Sing
July 23, 2011
Festival of Voices
October 1, 2011
Carmina Burana
October 14 - 16, 2011
with The Florida Orchestra
Andrea Bocelli
December 4, 2011 St. Pete Times Forum
Christmas at
the Pops!
December 9 - 11, 2011 with The Florida Orchestra
Celebrate Delius
January 6 - 8, 2012 with The Florida Orchestra Performing and recording
Delius' Sea Drift and Appalachia: Variations on an Old
Slave Song
The Peace
Project
March 30 -
31, 2012
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Dr. James K. Bass
Music and Artistic Director
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Robert Summer
Founder and Music Director Emeritus
Dr. Robert Summer,
founder and music director emeritus of The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, serves as
Professor of Music and Coordinator of Graduate Choral Studies at the University
of South Florida School of Music. Dr. Summer has prepared many choruses
for conductors including Irwin Hoffman, Jahja Ling, Julius Rudel, Sir David
Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner, and Robert Shaw. The Master Chorale and USF
Chamber Singers were invited by Shaw to participate in performances and a
recording on Telarc Records of the Mahler Symphony No. 8 with the Atlanta
Symphony and Chorus in 1991.
Dr. Summer has been a guest conductor of The Florida Orchestra on a regular
basis, having conducted performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana, Verdi’s
Requiem, the Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem, Bach’s Mass in B Minor,
and other major choral/orchestral masterworks. In 1990 he had a Carnegie Hall
debut conducting the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra and several choirs from
throughout the United States in Schubert’s Mass in G Major. The Master
Chorale and the USF Chamber Singers under his direction, joined Sir David
Willcocks and The London Bach Choir in June 1996 for a performance of the
Berlioz Requiem in Westminster Cathedral, London, as well as in a concert
of American and English music at King’s College Chapel in Cambridge.
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