John Erwin, Artistic Director and Conductor

 

Professor John M. Erwin began his work with the Arkansas Chamber Singers in October 1999. He was raised and educated in Arkansas, earning a Bachelor of Music Education from Arkansas State University in 1967 where he was named Outstanding Graduate of the University. Serving as a Teaching Assistant to the choral director Alfred Skoog, he recieved his Master of Music Education from Arkansas State University in 1968. Studies at other institutions include A.B.D. for Doctor of Musical of Arts, University of Illinois, and graduate work at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Erwin has also studied with Paul Hillier, Robert Shaw, Frieder Bernius, Harold Decker, Weston Noble, Alfred Skoog, and Howard Swan.

 

John Erwin is the Director of Choral Music at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway where he conducts the UCA Concert Choir and the UCA Chamber Singers. Under his direction, they each have earned national and international recognition for their excellence. In February 2005, the UCA Concert Choir performed at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in the Walt Disney Philharmonic Hall in Los Angeles. In 2004 the UCA Concert Choir was a finalist in the Riva del Garda International Choral competition and recieved two gold certificate awards in both secular and sacred categories.

 

John Erwin is a national leader in the standards and repertoire for colleges and universities and is active is a clinician and adjudicator. During part of the spring of 2005, Professor Erwin was on sabbatical leave from UCA studying and working with Conductor Paul Hillier in Tallin, Estonia, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Gent, Belgium. He was chosen as the recipient of the Arkansas Arts Council Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2008.

 

 

Timothy Allen, Accompanist

 

Timothy Allen was born in St. Albans, England and attended St. Alban’s School and started learning the organ at age thirteen. In 1981 he was elected as Organ Scholar at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University where he completed his Master’s degree in Music. In 1986, Timothy was appointed Assistant Master of the Music at Chelmsford Cathedral in Essex, England.

In 1991 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Columb’s Cathedral in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. While there he resuscitated the Men and Boys Choir and, together with his counterpart at Derry’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Donal Doherty, he founded the Two Cathedrals Festival. This major cross-community Festival became Northern Ireland’s premier music event and won several awards for its groundbreaking work.

Timothy came to the USA in 2001 and has spent five years working in St. Louis, MO, before his appointment to Trinity Cathedral in October 2006. The Arkansas Chamber Singers welcomes Tim.

 

 

 

 

Board of Directors, 2011-2012

 

	OFFICERS
		Marci Hixson, President Susan Walker, Secretary Walter Walker, Treasurer
	BOARD MEMBERS
		Robert Brack Lauri Brown Jeff Cotton Anne Crow Ernie Dumas Ann Hedge-Carruthers Markham Howe Gary Moore Jackie Walker
	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
		Lisette Christensen