Degrees

M.M., New England Conservatory
B.A., Williams College

Main Interests

Choral conducting; diverse choral repertoire, including gospel, world folk musics, and pop; choral arranging; cabaret and art song; performance of Gershwin-era song

Selected Publications, Creative Work, or Performances

CONDUCTOR

Wheaton College Chorale and Chamber Singers

Highlights in Recent Years:

• Master Classes:  Rockapella (October 2010) The King's Singers (February 2008); Take 6 (February 2006)
• Performances with Visiting Artists: Phillip Woods (Gospel music, March 2011), Donnell Patterson (Gospel music, 2009), The Orchid Ensemble (Mandarin and Taiwanese music, October 2007); Valerie Naranjo (African and Native American Music, October, 2006)
• Wheaton Choral Festival with guest conductor Simon Carrington (February 2007)
• Tour: Bologna, Florence, Rome (March, 2001)
• Collaborations: New England Conservatory Camerata, Coro Citta di Roma, The Oure Pleasure Singers, The Seraphim Singers, Tufts University, Eastern Nazarene College, Bridgewater State College, UMass Dartmouth

Major works in Recent Years:

• Bach, Magnificat BWV 243
• Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Cantata 61)
• Bach, Wachet auf (Cantata 140)
• Barber, Reincarnations
• Beethoven, Mass in C
• Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
• Britten, Ceremony of Carols
• Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
• Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
• Brahms, Liebeslieder
• Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
• Corrigliano, Fern Hill
• Dove, The Passing of the Year
• Fauré, Requiem
• Handel, Messiah, Part I
• Haydn, Missa Brevis Saint Joannis de Deo
• Haydn, Missa in Tempore Belli
• Haydn, Te Deum for the Empress Marie Therese
• Harbold, Song of My Heart
• Mozart, Requiem
• Mozart, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
• Orff, Carmina Burana
• Persichetti, Flower Songs
• Pinkham, Christmas Cantata
• Poulenc, Chansons Françaises
• Ramirez, Navidad Nuestra
• Ravel, Trois Chansons
• Schubert, Mass in G
• Susa, Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest
• Tallis, Spem in alium
• Thompson, Frostiana
• Vivaldi, Magnificat

The Oure Pleasure Singers

The Oure Pleasure Singers are an advanced amateur chamber choir of 20 singers based in Attleboro, MA. The group is 25 years old and has distinguished itself locally as an excellent auditioned community chorus.

Recent concerts:

• 25th Anniversary Celebration (Sunday, May 18, 2008, Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, MA)
• Good Friday Service of Tenebrae (Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:30 pm at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Attleboro, MA)
• Caroling with Oure Pleasure (Sunday, December 9, 2007: 2:30 pm at Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, MA; 6:30 pm at Blithewold Mansion, Bristol, RI)

Recordings:

• Cum Novo Cantico: Christmas Verses in New Light (December 2007)

Web site: www.opsingers.org

PIANIST

Noël Coward & Cole Porter: Together With Music

Created by Benjamin Sears, Bradford Conner, Valerie Anastasio and Tim Harbold
Arrangements and adaptations by Tim Harbold and Bradford Conner
Produced by Theatre in Process, now called American Classics

Highlights:

• Music of Noël Coward and Cole Porter, created for Coward Centenary
• Over 25 performances throughout New England
• Sold out shows at Scullers Jazz Club (Sept. 5, 1999, Sept. 6, 2000)
• Sold out show at Don't Tell Mama, New York, NY (May 23, 2001)
• Classics in the Morning, WGBH broadcast (Dec. 8, 1999)

Additional venues: Chatham Drama Guild, Chatham, MA; Worcester County Light Opera, Worcester, MA; Leavitt Pavillion, Westport, CT; University of Maine, Machias, ME; Williams College, Williamstown, MA; Middletown Library, Middletown, CT; Wheaton College, Norton, MA; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

Fred and Ethel: Great Songs of Astaire and Merman

• Created by Benjamin Sears, Bradford Conner, Valerie Anastasio and Tim Harbold
• Arrangements and adaptations by Tim Harbold and Bradford Conner
• Produced by American Classics
• Performance venues include: Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Scullers Jazz Club, Boston; Chatham Drama Guild, Chatham, MA; Wheaton College, Norton, MA

Recent Performances:

• Performances at Follen Church, Lexington (November 8, 2008) and Longy School of Music (November 16, 2008)
• Performance of excerpts on WERS Radio Standing Room Only (November 1, 2008)

Accolades:

• Selected by Bay Windows as one of the Top 10 Cabaret events of 2000 "A madcap evening of vaudeville and old-fashioned crooning that remind us what a great legacy we have inherited in the Great American Songbook. In the hands of this foursome Fred & Ethel is a flawlessly constructed show."
• Nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Award in the Ensemble Cabaret category, 2001, 2004
  

  Jerome Kern - All the Things You Are

  Concert performance of She's a Good Fellow (1919), plus other Kern favorites
  Produced by American Classics
  Tim Harbold, Music Director and Pianist

• Performances at Follen Church, Lexington (November 10, 2006) and Longy School of Music (November 12, 2006)
• Performance of excerpts on WERS Radio Standing Room Only (November 4, 2006)

Cabaret Duo with Valerie Anastasio

• Featured on Ron Della Chiesa's Jazz Songbook, WGBH Radio, (Mar. 20, 2005), performing
  "Everybody Step," title track from CD recording Everybody Step: Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues
• The Valerieville Circus and Parade of Curious Songs, show featuring songwriters Cole Porter, Fats Waller, Fred Astaire, Charles Ives, E. Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Richard Maltby & David Shire, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, and more (Wheaton College, October 5, 2005, Old South Church, Boston, October 7, 2005)
• Songs and Singers: Irving Berlin's Music for the Films of Astaire and Crosby, concert in American Classics Series, Longy School of Music (February 23, 2003)
• Highlighted in cover article of the Boston Globe Calendar section, (with Valerie pictured on cover) (February 26, 1998)
• Featured in the Blacksmith House Cabaret Connection Series (February 1997, February 1998)
• Featured in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston American Music Concerts (August, 1997)
  Additional performances with Anastasio, Sears and Conner
• Featured in MFA for the Holidays, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (December, 2007)

 

Recordings as Pianist:

Fred and Ethel: Great Songs of Astaire and Merman Oakton Recordings, 2008

Noel & Cole: Together with Music Oakton Recordings, 2000

• Billboard Magazine, September 29, 2000: "A charming, enthusiastic pairing of two
  songwriters whose like, unfortunately, the musical theater will never produce again."
• Show Music, Winter 2000: "a felicitous pairing all around" "a quite likeable recording"

Reached Amazon.com Top 100 Cabaret list in September 2000

"Everybody Step," title track on Everybody Step: Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues, Oakton Recordings, 2005

 

ARRANGER

Three Spirituals E.C. Schirmer, November 1995 for unaccompanied SATB chorus
I' Been in the Storm
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (with optional piano part)
Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door

Performers include: New England Conservatory Chorus, New England Conservatory Camerata, Longy School of Music Chorus, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Colby College Choir, Concord Chamber Singers, Mississippi State University, Forest City Singers

Recordings: American Repertory Chorus, Colby College Chorale, Concord Chamber Singers, Loose Cannon Chorale

Other Compositions:
Marchin' Up to Zion for SSATB chorus and piano
This Little Light of Mine for unaccompanied SATB chorus, with optional piano
The Water's Wide for unaccompanied SATB chorus
O Holy Night gospel arrangement for SATB chorus and piano
Come Rain or Come Shine for unaccompanied SSAATB chorus
Ding Dong! Merrily on High for SATB chorus and brass quartet or organ
Motherless Child for unaccompanied SATB chorus
Shout for Joy (from South Carolina Sea Island Spirituals) for unaccompanied SATB chorus
Song of My Heart texts by Elizabeth Wright Shippee, for SSATB chorus and wind quintet
Wade in the Water for SATB chorus and piano

Arrangements for specific occasions:
Star-Spangled Banner / America the Beautiful for SATB chorus
Wheaton Alma Mater for SATB chorus
Wheaton Hymn for SATB chorus