Dream Keeper
Music for Voices and Piano
With Guest Conductor Charles Bruffy
Conductor of the Kansas City Chorale and the Phoenix Chorale
Featuring John Walker, pianist Principal Pianist of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Professor of Piano at South Dakota State University
Friday, January 13, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Belbas Theater at the Washington Pavilion
In Sioux Falls
Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
BJ Haan Auditorium at Dordt College
In Sioux Center, IA
Concert Selections
Charles Bruffy
Guest Conductor Charles Bruffy is one of the most admired choral conductors in the United States, respected and renowned for his fresh and passionate interpretations of standards of the choral repertory and for championing new music. He currently conducts the Kansas City Chorale, the Kansas City Symphony Chorus and the Phoenix Chorale, and is Director of Music at Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church. In 2008, Mr. Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale received a Grammy award for their Chandos recording, Spotless Rose.
John Walker
Pianist John Walker is Principal Keyboard for the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Associate Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at SDSU. Walker's performances include solo appearances with the South Dakota Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, the Diablo Symphony and Contra Costa Chamber Orchestras in California, and the Shasta and Paradise Symphony Orchestras in northern California. He was a member of the Colorado Festival Orchestra for four years, and has performed solo and chamber music in Italy, Switzerland, Slovenia and throughout the Midwest.
The Power of Heaven
Friday, May 13, 2011
album release info coming soon
photos by Tom Dempster
