Biography

For over 10 years, he conducted the professional chorus and orchestra at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. He has guest conducted the Choral Society of the Hamptons, the New York Virtuoso Singers, the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra, and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. He has conducted most of the major choral works, including a recent performance of Brittenıs War Requiem with the Blacksburg Master Chorale and choirs from Virginia Tech and Roanoke College.

Mount has conducted three recordings in Moscow of large choral works by New York composer, John Schlenck. The first of these, with the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra, was recently released on Albany Records and the other (Moscow State Radio and Television Orchestra) on the Composer's Recording Society label. All 3 recordings were with the professional Moscow New Choir.

Stony Brook University choirs under his direction have sung, by invitation, at the Utrecht Early Music Festival and festivals in Taiwan, Seoul, Quebec, Torrevieja and Cantonigros (Spain), and San Juan (Argentina). The Camerata Singers released their first professional CD on Koch Classics International in 2004 and were hailed by Fanfare magazine as Êperformances on a very high level╔.precise, musical, and always in tune.Ë Dr. Mount has conducted numerous high school honor choirs and church music festivals and has served as clinician in the U.S. and abroad. He has published articles concerning choral music and his video, Refine Your Conducting Technique , is distributed by Santa Barbara Music Publishing ("...a superb contribution to the profession...." The Choral Journal).

Dr. Timothy Mount, Director of Choral Music
Dept. of Music
State University of New York
Stony Brook NY 11794-5475
tel: 631-632-7329
email: tmount@notes.sunysb.edu
fax: 631-632-7404

Stony Brook's graduate choral conducting program is limited to 2 students in residence and offers a unique learning environment for advanced conductors, similar to an apprenticeship. Conductors direct accredited Stony Brook ensembles, not pick-up groups or "lab" choruses. They are also encouraged to receive recital credit for conducting approved, off-campus choirs. Rehearsals and concerts are observed weekly, followed by private lessons. Lessons are flexible and can be tailored to student needs and interests. Topics can include performance practice, conducting recitative, diction, vocal production, rehearsal technique, chant transcription and interpretation, etc. Past students have conducted ballet with chorus, modern works with the Contemporary Chamber Players in Stony Brook and New York City, prepared and conducted editions of early Renaissance music, conducted performances with the Baroque Ensemble, and performed for the American Guild of Organists.