GEORGE EMLEN (Music Director)
Revels' music director
George Emlen is a conductor, composer, arranger songleader and
music educator. He has directed choral ensembles all his adult
life in churches, schools and theatrical productions. A graduate
of Dartmouth College, he earned his Master of Music degree in
choral conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music, where
he studied with Lorna Cooke de Varon. While living in Maine he
conducted the Acadia Choral Society, which he founded in 1979;
the Oratorio Chorale; and, for 18 seasons, the Mount Desert Summer
Chorale. His choral compositions and arrangements are published
by Lawson-Gould and Thorpe.
Mr. Emlen is on
the faculty of New England Conservatory, where he directs the Conservatory Camerata. He is also a faculty member at Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., in
the Creative Arts in Learning graduate program, where he
teaches music courses to classroom teachers throughout the
U.S. He previously taught and conducted at Noble and Greenough
School in Dedham, Mass., and was music director at the Putney
School in Vermont. He has also taught at the College of the
Atlantic and the University of Maine at Machias.
Mr. Emlen has been
the music director of Revels, Inc., since 1984. With the
artistic director, he creates the Revels stage productions,
selects and trains the adult and children's choruses, for
researches and arranges musical selections, and engages instrumentalists.
He directs and produces Revels recordings, edits
and engraves all of Revels' published musical materials,
including choral octavos and songbooks, and he assists the
nine other Revels organizations nationwide in developing
their annual productions. He also leads public singing events
such as RiverSing, Spring Sing and Revels Pub Sings.
For more on George Emlen, go to www.georgeemlen.com
Photos
by Roger Ide
