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About the CUGC
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Meet the Director
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Professor Scott Tucker
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Professor Scott Tucker,
Priscilla Browning Director of Choral Music
As Director of Choral Music, Professor Scott Tucker conducts the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus. Prior to coming to Cornell, Tucker was the Choral Director at Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. He also served as Assistant Conductor of both the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and has conducted the Clark University Choir, the Worcester Consortium Orchestra, and the Regis College Choir.
Professor Tucker received a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1986 and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Tufts University in 1981.
Birth:
September 17, 1957
Awards:
Stephen and Margery Russell Award (2008) for excellence in teaching
Talbot Baker Award (1993) for excellence in teaching
St. Botolph Award (1985) for artistic excellence
Presser Scholarship (1980) for academic excellence
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 Asst. Conductor John Rowehl |
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John Rowehl, Assistant Conductor
John Rowehl began his musical training at age seven with classical piano lessons. Eight years later, after two consecutive first-place finishes in Hawaii's state-wide piano competition, he was invited to study at the Juilliard School. John chose instead to earn a B.A. in philosophy at Stanford University, where he also studied voice and served as vocal accompanist.
Continuing his steady march out of the tropics and into the frozen north, John came to us at Cornell to pursue a Ph.D. in philosophy, where he currently works as editor of the Philosophical Review. In Ithaca, John studies and teaches voice and has served as studio pianist for Susan Davenny Wyner and Judith Kellock. He is also on the staff of Cornell's Vocal Coaching Program.
John has been heard as baritone soloist in the Finger Lakes Bach Festival, with Ensemble Sine Nomine, and NYS Baroque. A long-time member of the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, John served in 1997-1998 as the group's Acting Musical Director.
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 Prof. Emeritus Thomas Sokol |
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Professor Emeritus Thomas Sokol
Professor Sokol served as acting Director of the CUGC and the Cornell Chorus while Professor Tucker was on sabbatical during the 2002-2003 academic year.
Since joining the Cornell Music faculty in 1957, Thomas Sokol has served as Director of Choral Music; Department Chairman; Conductor of the Glee Club, Chorus, Chorale, Chamber Singers and Sage Chapel Choir; and, since 1995, as Professor Emeritus. He also has been Conductor and Music Director of The Dessoff Choirs of New York and the Buffalo Schola Cantorum and Choral Conductor at Tanglewood and at Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Professor Sokol has conducted concerts, broadcasts, and telecasts in twenty-seven countries and he has been chorusmaster for over four hundred concerts in collaboration with distinguished conductors and eminent orchestras. He served terms as President of the Intercollegiate Musical Society and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and he has been awarded a Carnegie Fellowship in Teaching, a Ford Foundation Grant in the Arts and Humanities, the National Orchestral Association Conducting Award and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
Professor Sokol served as acting Director of the CUGC and the Cornell Chorus while Professor Tucker was on sabbatical during the 2002-2003 academic year.
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