{"id":6971,"date":"2020-04-10T21:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T21:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2020-06-17T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:47:26","slug":"chanticleer-names-sixth-music-director-tim-keeler-assumes-post-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/chanticleer-names-sixth-music-director-tim-keeler-assumes-post-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Chanticleer Names Sixth Music Director: Tim Keeler Assumes Post in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Chanticleer.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based men\u2019s vocal ensemble Chanticleer has named Tim Keeler as its next Music Director succeeding William Fred Scott who retires in June. Keeler will take up his duties as the 2020-2021 season, Chanticleer\u2019s 43rd, begins.<\/p>\n

Chanticleer, known worldwide as \u201cAn Orchestra of Voices\u201d is the winner of multiple Grammy and other awards including Musical America Ensemble of the Year. Chanticleer has to date created over 60 new works, and released over 50 recordings. Over 120 men have sung with the group since its founding in 1978. Its annual concert schedule of 100 performances takes it throughout the United States, regularly to Europe, and often to Asia.<\/p>\n

Tim Keeler sang as a countertenor in Chanticleer in the 2017-18 season. In Chanticleer\u2019s history he will be the fourth of its six Music Directors to have been a member of the ensemble. He is currently the Conductor of the University of Maryland Men\u2019s Choir, having directed choirs at the Julliard Summer Performing Arts Program, the Special Music High School, the Young People\u2019s Chorus of New York City, and vocal groups such as the Trident Ensemble, Audivi, and the Princeton\u2019s Katzenjammers.<\/p>\n

As a singer he has performed with numerous choirs and vocal groups including the choirs of Holy Trinity, Trinity Wall Street, and King\u2019s College Cambridge, and ensembles Tenet, Ekmeles, Trident, and Audivi.<\/p>\n

Keeler has a special interest in the education of young people. During his season singing with Chanticleer he was a member of the Education Committee and led many clinics and workshops. As Music Director he expects to participate actively in Chanticleer\u2019s multi-faceted award-winning education program.<\/p>\n

A 2020 graduate of the University of Maryland\u2019s Doctoral program, he holds a Master of Music from the University of Michigan and a Master of Philosophy in Music Studies from Clare College of the University of Cambridge, England. He graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2011.<\/p>\n

Keeler\u2019s appointment comes shortly after Chanticleer\u2019s announcement that retiring President and General Director Christine Bullin would be succeeded in September by Philip Wilder. Wilder sang as a countertenor with Chanticleer from 1990-2003 and has since had a distinguished career in arts management, coming to Chanticleer from six years as Executive Director of San Francisco\u2019s New Century Chamber Orchestra. For the first time in its history, Chanticleer\u2019s artistic and administrative functions will be carried out by former members of the ensemble.<\/p>\n

Keeler comments: \u201cReturning to Chanticleer feels like coming home. In this new role, I look forward to building on the close relationship I developed with the ensemble as we toured and sang around the world. Being their Music Director is a huge and joyous responsibility not only to them but also to our faithful audiences. I can’t wait to come back to close friends and beautiful music!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Chanticleer.org The San Francisco-based men\u2019s vocal ensemble Chanticleer has named Tim Keeler as its next Music Director succeeding William Fred Scott who retires in June. Keeler will take up his duties as the 2020-2021 season, Chanticleer\u2019s 43rd, begins. Chanticleer, known worldwide as \u201cAn Orchestra of Voices\u201d is the winner of multiple Grammy and other … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4835,5914,5912,4585,5913],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}