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.

Mr. Long served for five years as the Director of Choral Music for Grace Episcopal in Chattanooga and 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

 

Betsy Craig                                Dabney Carden

Carol Doucette                         Laurie Cooper

Rachael Henderson                 Rita Heckrotte         

Melinda Hightower                 Suzanne Hemphill      

Lisa Lemza                                Anita Paul

Hannah LoRusso                    Michelle Waller

Betty Anne Neal                      Carolyn Kemp

Micki Parris                             Charlene Schwenk

Anne Sauser                             Susan Wilhoit


                       

Tenor                                            Bass

 

Martha Cartwright                  Will Benson

Peter Cooper                             Robert Hansel

Hal Miller                                  Carl Hansen

Robert Sauser                           Tony Hill

Ty Wert                                      Ben Johnson

                                                     Jamie Stone

                                                     Sanford Shaw'

                                                     John Van Winkle

                                                          Mel Wilhoit
                              

                                 
 

                                                  

                            


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