作为俄克拉荷马州的首席艺术组织，塔尔萨清唱剧合唱团力图展现这一地区最好的合唱音乐。成立于1992年的塔尔萨清唱剧为听众带来鼓舞人心的音乐，它是由100位杰出、资深的音乐家志愿者组成的声乐合唱组织，一同分享伟大合唱音乐的激情，奉献古典音乐艺术表演。塔尔萨清唱剧合唱的使命是提升人们的音乐生活水平，把合唱杰作带给塔尔萨和周围地区的观众。除了保证每年都举办的合唱作品音乐会，塔尔萨的清唱剧合唱还在墨西哥、希腊、意大利、英格兰和爱尔兰地区进行旅行演出音乐会。
Tulsa Oratorio Chorus
As one of the premier fine arts organizations of Oklahoma, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus seeks to present the very best of choral music to the region. Inspiring audiences since 1992, Tulsa Oratorio Chorus is a 100 voice choral organization of talented and dedicated volunteer musicians who share a passion for great choral music and dedication to the art of classical music performance. The mission of Tulsa Oratorio Chorus is to elevate the human condition, bringing choral masterpieces to audiences in Tulsa and the surrounding region. In addition to maintaining an annual concert series of choral masterworks, the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus has performed concert tours in Mexico, Greece, Italy, England, and Ireland.
Tim Sharp
Tim Sharp is Executive Director of the American Choral Directors Association, the world’s largest association of choral conductors, students, scholars, composers, and choral industry representatives. Dr. Sharp pursues an aggressive agenda of strategic planning and innovative initiatives to keep the American Choral Directors Association energized and relevant in the 21st century. He represents choral activity in the United States to the International Federation for Choral Music, is Vice-President of the Musical International database, and appears regularly as guest conductor and choral clinician throughout the world.
Tim is in his ninth season as Artistic Director of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, Tulsa, OK, where critics characterize his performances as having “stunning power” and “great passion and precision”. In a recent review of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus’ performance of Mozart’s Requiem, arts critic James Watts stated, “The Tulsa Oratorio Chorus, prepared by its artistic director Tim Sharp, was in excellent form, summoning up rafter-shaking power…and showing great sensitivity ...”
Dr. Sharp is Principal Guest Conductor of the Leonardo Da Vinci International Choral Festival in Florence, Italy. In 2016, he served as chorus master for the annual Classical Musical Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria, where Tulsa Oratorio Chorus performed Joseph Haydn’s Stabat Mater, Mass in Time of War, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Choral).In 2011, Sharp served as Principal Guest Conductor at the International Festival of the Aegean in Syros, Greece, where TOC was the featured chorus in the production of Verdi’s La Traviata, and performed Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. He made his New York City Alice Tully Hall debut in 2014 conducting Handel's Messiah. Tim returned to Carnegie Hall in April of 2017 for the eighth time, on this occasion conducting his composition Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass. Tim has conducted and played bluegrass banjo on this work in over one hundred performances throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland. Critics have characterized this multi-movement work as “dynamic”, “crowd-pleasing”, and described the composition as “…unfailingly true to itself, lacking in pretense, simple, direct, and heartfelt.”
Before coming to ACDA, Sharp was Dean of Fine Arts at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, where he held the Elizabeth Daughdrill Endowed Chair in Fine Arts. At Rhodes, Tim conducted Rhodes Singers and MasterSingers Chorale. In 2003, Sharp’s production of Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi won an Ostrander Award, Memphis’ annual award for excellence in theater. While in Memphis, Tim served as archivist for The Blues Foundation, and returns to Memphis each year to adjudicate the International Blues Challenge. Prior to his position in Memphis he was Director of Choral Activities at Belmont University, Nashville, TN, where he conducted the Belmont University Chorale and Oratorio Chorus. While in Nashville, he received choral credits on the Grammy Nominated and Dove Award winning recording, A Glen Campbell Christmas.
Dr. Sharp’s publications include Collaborating in the Ensemble Arts: Working and Playing Well with Others, Mentoring in the Ensemble Arts: Helping Others Find Their Voice, Precision Conducting, Up Front! Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor, Achieving Choral Blend and Balance, Memphis Music Before the Blues, Nashville Music Before Country, Jubilate! Amen!, The German Songbook in the 19th Century, A Short History of the American Choral Directors Association, Collaborative Creativity, and a wide variety of published articles, essays, and CD liner notes for recordings by Helmuth Rilling, Iona Brown, Neville Marriner, Michael Kelly Blanchard, and The King’s Singers. His most recent book publications include the historical-critical edition Johannes Herbst: Hymns to be Sung at the Pianoforte, published by Steglein, and Innovation in the Ensemble Arts: Sustaining Creativity, published by GIA.
Dr. Sharp’s choral compositions and arrangements exhibit his interest in conceptual programming, exemplified by the choral collection Salvation is Created, An Early American Service of Lessons and Carols, the Integra Music young voices series including Christmas Messiah for Young Voices and Vivaldi’s Gloria for Young Voices, his own choral series through Gentry Publications, and his self-published bluegrass mass, co-created with Wes Ramsay, Come Away to the Skies: A High Lonesome Bluegrass Mass.
Tim received his education at Bluefield College (AA), Belmont University (BM); The School of Church Music, Louisville, KY (MCM; DMA); and studied further at the Aspen Music School, Aspen, CO; the NEH Medieval Studies program at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; throughout Belgium on a Rotary Scholarship; and at Cambridge University (UK), where he is a Clare Hall Life Fellow.
蒂姆夏普
蒂姆夏普(Tim Sharp)是美国合唱协会的执行总监，该协会是世界上最大的由合唱指挥、学生、学者、作曲家和合唱业的代表组成的合唱行业协会。夏普（Sharp）博士以大刀阔斧的激进日程推行着一项积极的战略规划和创新计划，以使美国合唱协会在21世纪以来持续保持活力并目标明确。他是国际合唱联盟的美国合唱代表，是国际音乐数据库的副主席，并且经常作为客座指挥和合唱指导者出现在世界各地。
蒂姆（Tim）连续九季担任塔尔萨（Tulsa）清唱剧合唱团的艺术总监，塔尔萨，当然，评论家用“惊人的力量”和“极大的激情和精准度”等词汇评价其表演。在最近的一场“图尔萨清唱剧合唱团”的莫扎特安魂曲专场演出的乐评中，艺术评论家詹姆斯（James Watts）如是说，在艺术总监蒂姆夏普(Tim Sharp)的带领下图尔萨表现出极佳演绎方式，唤起掀翻屋顶的力量……并且表现出了极致的敏锐度。
夏普博士(Sharp)是意大利佛罗伦萨的达芬奇国际合唱节的主要客座指挥。2016年，他担任了一年一度的奥地利艾森施塔特(Eisenstadt)的古典音乐节合唱专家，在那里，塔尔萨的清唱剧合唱团演出约瑟夫•海顿（Joseph Haydn）的“圣母悼歌”，“战时弥撒”和贝多芬的第9交响曲（合唱）。2011年，夏普在希腊的锡罗斯（Syros）爱琴国际音乐节担任首席客座指挥，在该节日上图尔萨清唱剧合唱团在希腊的圣尼古拉斯东正教堂演绎了威尔第的“茶花女”片段，以及拉赫玛尼诺夫的“彻夜晚祷”。2014指挥亨德尔的弥赛亚作为他在纽约市爱丽丝塔利厅的首次亮相。2017年的4月是蒂姆（Tim）第八次回到卡耐基音乐厅，这一次他带来了自己创作的最新作品：“来到天空：寂寞蓝草音乐的弥撒”。蒂姆在美国、加拿大、英国和爱尔兰指挥并演奏超过一百场的蓝草音乐班卓琴专场。乐评人们将这一多乐章作品描述为“动态的”，“大众的愉悦”，并评价其作曲风格为“……忠实自我的，没有借口，简单，直接，发自内心的。”
在来到ACDA之前，夏普曾在孟菲斯的罗德学院担任现代艺术学院院长，在那里他举办了伊丽莎白多尔斯的特聘教授讲座。在罗德岛，蒂姆指挥了罗兹歌手和大师合唱团。2003年，夏普出品的普契尼（Puccini）的贾尼•斯基基赢得了奥斯特兰德奖、孟菲斯年度卓越戏剧奖。在孟菲斯的时候，蒂姆是蓝调基金会的档案管理员，每年都会回到孟菲斯担任国际蓝调音乐比赛的评委。在他在孟菲斯的职位之前，他曾是位于纳什维尔的贝尔蒙特大学的合唱艺术总监，在那里他曾任贝尔蒙特大学合唱团和清唱剧合唱团的指挥。也是在纳什维尔时期，他获得了格莱美奖提名和圣鸽奖最佳唱片奖“格伦坎贝尔的圣诞节”。
夏普博士的出版物包括：“合唱艺术中的团队合作:与他人一起工作和表演”，“合唱艺术的启导:帮助别人找到他们的声音”，“精确指挥法”，“向前一步！成为完整的合唱指挥”，“达到合唱的融合和平衡”，“蓝调之前的孟菲斯音乐”，“乡村音乐之前的纳什维尔音乐”，“欢呼！阿门!”，“十九世纪的德国歌曲”，“美国合唱指挥协会简史”和“协作的创意”，以及发表在各类期刊上的各种文章，论文， Helmuth Rilling、Iona Brown、马里纳、Michael Kelly Blanchard以及国王歌手CD专辑的内页。他最新出版的著作包括历史批判版重编约翰纳斯•赫伯斯特：圣诗应该由弱到强的演唱，由Steglein出版；合唱艺术的创新：持续的创造力，由GIA出版
夏普博士(Sharp)的作曲和改编展现出他对概念化作品的兴趣，比如：合唱谱集创造救赎、早期美国礼拜课及颂诗，因特格拉音乐青少年系列包括青少年版圣诞弥赛亚和维瓦尔第荣耀颂青少年版，绅士出版社出版的他自己的合唱作品系列，他自己出版的蓝草音乐弥撒，与葳斯•雷蒙斯共同创作的，来到了天空：寂寞蓝草音乐的弥撒。
蒂姆先后在布鲁菲尔德学院和贝尔蒙大学获得了音乐学士学位；随后在路易斯维尔的教堂音乐学校取得博士学位；后来在阿斯本音乐学校（科罗拉多州）进一步学习;以及参加哈佛大学国家基金人类学研究项目的中世纪专题课程，剑桥文学硕士,获得劳特莱奖学金访遍比利时;剑桥大学(英国)卡莱尔学堂终身会员。
