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The Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition 2008 Miguel Felipe, BCE’s Music Director The 2009 Jury will be announced late-summer, early-fall 2008.
 Miguel Felipe, Music Director
A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Miguel currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his duties with the Boston Choral Ensemble, Miguel is a member of the faculty of The Boston Conservatory where he is the conductor of the Women's Choir and instructor of ear training, harmony, and counterpoint. In 2005, he was a guest faculty member at Brown University. Since 1994, Miguel has served in various positions as a church music in Cincinnati and in Boston, including seven years as a director of music in downtown Boston. Most recently, Miguel spent several weeks in Bandung, Indonesia where he was as guest speaker and instructor for the Bandung School of Church Music and 3rd Symposium on Church Choral Music hosted by the Bandung Choral Society. Miguel performs similiar work as clinician around New England. From 2000 to 2004, Miguel was artistic director of The Maine Gay Men's Chorus. Immediately prior, Miguel was also a student at the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestral Musicians in Hancock, Maine, Michael Jinbo, director. Katherine Foley is an accomplished vocalist, conductor, and teacher. A graduate of Westminster Choir College, Ms. Foley has appeared with the Westminster Symphonic Choir with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony. Locally, Ms. Foley has appeared as a soloist with numerous Boston area choruses including the Neponset Choral Society and the Masterworks Chorale. Ms. Foley sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She teaches voice lessons out of her home and has also taught at Philips Exeter Academy. As the assistant conductor of the Newton Community Chorus, Ms. Foley prepared the chorus for performances of the Bach Magnificat and the Mozart Requiem, as well as John Corgliano’s Fern Hill. Ms. Foley was the founding conductor of the Babson/Olin Community Choir and is also the choir director at Christ Church United Methodist in Wellesly. An accomplished pianist and conductor, Ring Frank started her career in Los Angeles as assistant to Prof. Frank Pooler, an important choral innovator known for championing new music and experimental performance techniques. With degrees in accompanying and conducting, she began her professional career as associate conductor of the 70-voice University Choir, staff pianist, lecturer, and musical director/conductor for the Department of Theatre Arts at California State University, Long Beach. Her many engagements include her work as artistic director of Boston Secession, a professional choral ensemble; as conductor of Philovox, publishing house E.C. Schirmer’s resident professional recording chorus; as resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University; as faculty member at Emerson College; as director of music at the First Congregational Church in Winchester; and, finally, as conductor of the Concord Women’s Chorus, a 50-voice women’s chorus. Josh Stoddard has been singing tenor with BCE since 2005. Josh is originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began studying cello and voice at a young age. He graduated from the College of Wooster in 2002 with a degree in mathematics and a minor in music. In 2004 he received an MS in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a focus on automatic music information retrieval. Josh is an expert in harmonic theory and pitch spelling, and some of his work has been published by the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). He is currently working as a software engineer for Autodesk, Inc. Josh has sung with many New England choirs over the years, and has toured with singing groups in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Besides BCE, Josh currently sings with the Worcester Chorus under Andrew Clark. In May 2007, BCE premiered Josh’s choral setting of the 23rd Psalm, his first composition for a cappella choir. Andy Vores was born Wales and raised in England. He studied composition at Lancaster University with Edward Cowie. From 1982 he worked in London as Composer-in-Residence at The City University and as a music copyist for Universal Edition, Schott Music, Novello, and Faber Music. In 1986 he was a Fellow in Composition at Tanglewood, studying with Oliver Knussen. In 1989 he moved to Boston where he was offered one of five three-year funded residencies with the composers' collective NuClassix. He was Communications Director of the American Composers Forum in St. Paul from 1993 to 1994, returning to Boston to teach composition at the Walnut Hill School for Performing Arts. From 1999 to 2001 he was Composer-in-Residence to the BankBoston Celebrity Series, and from 2002 to 2005 Composer-in-Residence to the New England Philharmonic. In 2001 he was appointed as Chair of Composition, Theory, and Music History at The Boston Conservatory.
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Jane Ring Frank
