Saturday, May 17th at 7:30pm
Breen Center for the Performing Arts
Lorain Avenue at West 30th Street
Songs include Brahms' poetic "Love Song Waltzes" with 4-hand piano, Thompson's dazzling "Tarantella," and Billy Joel's finger-snapping "For the Longest Time." The special guest artist, soprano Rebecca Hoke of Philadelphia's acclaimed choir "The Crossing", will enchant with music like Dowland's "Come Again, Sweet Love."
The Singers' Club, founded in 1892, is the oldest continually performing arts organization in Cleveland. The 55 member all-male chorus is dedicated to the performance of fine choral music and supports the development of tomorrow's choral artists through its annual S. Livingston Mather Scholarship competition.
Music Director and conductor: Melvin P. Unger
Membership chairman: Dean Myers
Dr. Melvin P. Unger came to the Cleveland area in 1998 to become Director of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute at Baldwin-Wallace College, a position that he continues to hold. He also conducts the B-W Singers, a relatively new ensemble of some 70 members. His previous academic and choral directing experience was principally in Edmonton, Alberta, where he taught at the North American Baptist College and conducted the Da Camera Singers for 17 years.
Mel Unger is a graduate of the University of Illinois (Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Music), the University of Oregon (Master of Music in Choral Conducting), and the University of Saskatchewan (Bachelor of Music in Choral Music Education). He was one of the first North American students to study under renowned conductor and Bach specialist Helmuth Rilling, at the State Conservatory of Music in Frankfurt, Germany.
Unger’s choirs have appeared at a number of competitions, festivals, and choral conventions in Canada and the United States. In 1996, his Da Camera Singers were chosen to serve as principal chorus-in-residence at the Classical Seminar-Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria; during this time, the chorus performed the Vierne Mass at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna under Unger’s direction.