


JOHN H. DICKSON, Artistic and Musical Director, is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Choral Studies at Louisiana State University. Recently retired after forty-four years of collegiate teaching, he continues his conducting through workshops, festivals, and as the founding artistic director of Coro Vocati, one of Atlanta’s most accomplished professional chamber choirs. As a conducting pedagogue, he has presented masterclasses before the Association of British Choral Directors, the American Choral Directors Association, the Royal Northern Music Conservatory (Manchester), and the Russian State Music Conservatories of St. Petersburg and Moscow. He has conducted festivals and workshops in England, Wales, Scotland, Finland, France, Italy, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the U. S. For three decades his choirs have been featured at conventions of the ACDA, ABCD, Texas Music Educators Association, and the National Collegiate Choral Organization. A Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge University, Dr. Dickson sang with Sir David Willcocks and The Bach Choir; a second post-doctoral fellowship allowed him to serve as David Hill’s assistant conductor. He is the Founding Director of the Oxbridge C. S. Lewis Choral Institute.

Kirk Rich is Director of Music at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Louisville and was previously Director at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, for three nations conventions of the American Guild of Organists, and for two international tours with the Royal School of Church Music America National Choir including cathedral residences in Dublin, St. Albas, and Salisbury. He has twice been a prize-winning finalist in the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organize Performance and holds degrees in performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Houston Moores School of Music.
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