Artist Insight: Dr. Kenneth Singleton
The Denver Brass is excited to welcome Conductor Emeritus Dr. Kenneth Singleton back to the podium for our season finale Let Freedom Ring! on May 19, 3:00pm at Bethany Lutheran Church. Dr. Singleton is renowned in the music education world as one of the elite college conductors and pedagogue and we are couldn't me more pleased to have him join us for this concert.
Dr. Kenneth Singleton directs the UNC Wind Ensemble and Concert Band and is Chair of the Wind Conducting Program. He has also served as Director of Concert Bands at New Mexico State University, and has directed ensembles at the Hartt School of Music, Albertus Magnus College, and Yale University. Singleton holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida, and two master's degrees from the Yale University School of Music. His doctorate in tuba performance was the first awarded by Yale University in that area. An avid transcriber of brass music (over 1,000 titles) and a music editor for the Charles Ives Society, Singleton has nearly fifty publications to his credit, mainly works for band and wind ensemble. His Ives editions have been recorded by the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Concertgebow Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and numerous other ensembles. He is presently conductor of the Denver Brass, the region's premiere brass ensemble. Singleton is in constant demand around the nation as a guest clinician and conductor, and has conducted All-State Bands in New York, New Mexico, Tennessee, North Dakota and Colorado. He has been named the College of Performing and Visual Arts Scholar of the Year, and has received the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Award. Dr. Singleton is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association, as well as a member of the Colorado Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame.
Join us as we celebrate our military, first responders, police officers, firefighters, and all those dedicatd to preserving the enduring spirit of America.
More information can be found by CLICKING HERE and tickets can be purchased at www.newmantix.com/denverbrass or by calling 303-832-HORN(4676).