Michael Braz - WInter 2003

Michael Braz**

Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University, SAI Friend of the Arts Michael Braz is a member of the Graduate and Honors faculties, teaching theory/aural skills, orchestration and choral arranging classes, as well as courses on Finale music software and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He recently presented a paper, "Wagner and the Gifted Non-Music Major: Interdisciplinary Approaches to The Ring of the Nibelung," at The College Music Society's 45th Annual Meeting in Kansas City, MO. His arrangement of America, the Beautiful for SSA choir and piano premiered at American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Southern Division Convention with the ACDA Southern Division Children's Honor Choir, Lynne Gackle, conductor, at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC; and his arrangements of Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, for SATB choir, brass quintet, handbells, and congregation, and "The Heavens Are Telling" from Haydn's Creation, for SA choir, soloists, and keyboard, have been accepted for publication by Hinshaw Music. Previously, he performed and taught orchestration and composition in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic with the Georgia Southern Music Department's Studies Abroad program. Closer to home, he conducted the Richmond County (GA) All-County Middle School Chorus at Paine College, in Augusta, GA. His current projects include composing original music for a play commemorating the Statesboro, GA bicentennial celebration and serving as president of the Statesboro Arts Council, which is responsible for restoring an 1890s bank building and a 1930s movie theatre into a $4 million visual and performing arts center. He can be contacted at (912) 681-5397 (school) or by E-mail at mbraz@gasou.edu.

Performances

Under the direction of Julia Schmidt-Pirro, the Paideia Women's Chorus sang The Piper and the Child and Jubilate Deo at Trinity Episcopal Church in Statesboro, GA, and at Asbury United Methodist Church in Savannah, GA.

Braz guest-conducted I Hear a Voice Callin' for Me and Jubilate Deo at the Raleigh Boychoir's Fourth Annual Festival of American Music, Thomas Sibley, director, at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC.

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The 2003 American Composers Update

Michael Braz**

Performances

Further Information




		The 2003 American Composers Update as published in PAN PIPES, Volume 95, Number 2 Michael Braz** Professor of Music at Georgia Southern University, SAI Friend of the Arts Michael Braz is a member of the Graduate and Honors faculties, teaching theory/aural skills, orchestration and choral arranging classes, as well as courses on Finale music software and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He recently presented a paper, "Wagner and the Gifted Non-Music Major: Interdisciplinary Approaches to The Ring of the Nibelung," at The College Music Society's 45th Annual Meeting in Kansas City, MO. His arrangement of America, the Beautiful for SSA choir and piano premiered at American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Southern Division Convention with the ACDA Southern Division Children's Honor Choir, Lynne Gackle, conductor, at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, NC; and his arrangements of Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing, for SATB choir, brass quintet, handbells, and congregation, and "The Heavens Are Telling" from Haydn's Creation, for SA choir, soloists, and keyboard, have been accepted for publication by Hinshaw Music. Previously, he performed and taught orchestration and composition in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic with the Georgia Southern Music Department's Studies Abroad program. Closer to home, he conducted the Richmond County (GA) All-County Middle School Chorus at Paine College, in Augusta, GA. His current projects include composing original music for a play commemorating the Statesboro, GA bicentennial celebration and serving as president of the Statesboro Arts Council, which is responsible for restoring an 1890s bank building and a 1930s movie theatre into a $4 million visual and performing arts center. He can be contacted at (912) 681-5397 (school) or by E-mail at mbraz@gasou.edu. Performances Under the direction of Julia Schmidt-Pirro, the Paideia Women's Chorus sang The Piper and the Child and Jubilate Deo at Trinity Episcopal Church in Statesboro, GA, and at Asbury United Methodist Church in Savannah, GA. Braz guest-conducted I Hear a Voice Callin' for Me and Jubilate Deo at the Raleigh Boychoir's Fourth Annual Festival of American Music, Thomas Sibley, director, at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC. **Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts Further Information 2000-2001 American Composers Update 1999-2000 American Composers Update 1998-1999 American Composers Update 1997-1998 American Composers Update
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