Choral

Welborn E. Young

Welborn E. Young, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Professor of Music, holds a BME degree and a MA in Conducting degree from Middle Tennessee State University and a DMA in choral conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Young teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, graduate seminars in choral repertoire, German diction, and conducts the Women's Choir and Chamber Singers. In addition, Dr. Young is the Conductor of the Choral Society of Greensboro. He has served as guest conductor and clinician in festivals and clinics in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Washington D.C., Illinois, and Washington. Recently, His choirs have toured Austria, the Czech-Republic, Hungary, Italy, and England. He is the former Artistic Director and Conductor for Windy City Performing Arts, Inc. in Chicago. These ensembles received enthusiastic reviews in such papers the Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Windy City Times. In the summer of 1998, Dr. Young was a featured festival conductor at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Netherlands. That same summer he was guest conductor of Chicago's Grant Park Symphony Chorus and assisted with the preparation of their first recording. He has prepared and conducted the Nashville Symphony Chorus and appeared as guest conductor with the Nashville Opera Association. 334-5428 or email: weyoung@uncg.edu