Chattanooga Bach Choir - Director & Musicians

Director David Long

As a conductor, David Long has developed an equal reputation for work with choir and with orchestra. Mr. Long has led both in Requiem settings by Faure’, Durufle’‚ Michael Haydn and Brahms, Vivaldi’s Gloria (RV588), Handel’s Messiah, numerous cantatas and motets by Bach, Pergolesi’s Magnificat, Haydn’s The Creation and Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Vesperae de Dominica and the Gloria by Randol Bass. He recently guest-conducted the Rome, GA Symphony and Three Rivers Chorus in Handel’s Messiah. Currently, he is the Music Director and Conductor of the Chattanooga Bach Choir, a position he has held since 2005.

Mr. Long also served as guest conductor at the 2007 Bach Festival in Rome, GA, where he led the Festival Orchestra and the Chattanooga Bach Choir in two cantatas by Bach. He has participated in conducting competitions and workshops, including both the Conductors’ Institute of the University of South Carolina, the Vakhtang Jordania International Conducting Competition in 2006, the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors and Orchestra Musicians in 2004, the Oregon Bach Festival in 2003, and the Symphonic Conducting Workshop and Competition at the Accademia dell’ Arte of Florence/Arezzo, Italy in 2001, where he was a prize winner and conducted a performance of Barber’s Adagio.

Since 2003, Mr. Long has served as the Director of Choral Music for Grace Episcopal in Chattanooga, where he has led the Grace Choir and Chamber Orchestra in numerous masses by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Faure’ in the liturgical setting.

Mr. Long is a past member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and participated with them in a 2006 Carnegie Hall performance and in recording the works of contemporary American composers. He was invited to Carnegie Hall to sing in the 2005 Choral Workshop with Helmuth Rilling. As a trumpeter, he is a former member of the Durham Symphony (NC) and a substitute with the Cobb Symphony Orchestra (GA) and Hendersonville Symphony (NC).

Mr. Long resides in Chattanooga with his wife, Karen, a television assignment editor, and their three children, Megan, Jacob and Cassidy.

Choir Members

Soprano Alto

Carey F. Anderson                        Bonnie Bryant*
Judith Austin                                Dabney Carden*
Rachael Henderson                      Martha Cartwright*
Melinda Hightower*                     Laurie Cooper*
Bobbie Howell*                            Charlynne Fry*
Katie King                                    Rita Heckrotte*
Lisa Lemza*                                 Suzanne Hemphill*
Margaret Lifsey                             Ida Hinck
Micki Parris                                  Barbara Kelley*
Anne Sauser*                                Marilyn Pruitt*
Rebecca St. Goar*                        Ann Riley
Carol Van Winkle*                       Kathleen Russell
Lonna Williams*                           Charlene Schwenk
                                                     Rhonda Slayton*
                                                     Susan Wilhoit*

Tenor Bass

Thomas Alford*                            Flint Dollar
Steve Hamacker                            Robert Hansel*
Steven Hinkle*                              Carl Hansen
Rick McAfee                                  Art Hart
Jay McCurdy                                   James Hartley
Delsin Menolascino                        Tony Hill*
Adam Puryear*                               Bob Hudson*
Robert Sauser*                                Philip Newton
                                                        Chris Pruitt
                                                        Dick Ramsey
                                                        Sanford Shaw
                                                        H. Paul Shurtz*
                                                         Jamie Stone
                                                         Mel Wilhoit*
                                                         Danny Williams
                                                         Tom Wolfe

* indicates member of the Chamber Chorus