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

 

Julie Drexler                            Bonnie Bryant

Rachael Henderson                  Dabney Carden

Sonya Henry                            Laurie Cooper           

Melinda Hightower                  Rita Heckrotte           

Teri  Johnson                            Suzanne Hemphill

Lisa Lemza                               Barbara Kelley

Betty Anne Neal                       Carolyn Kemp

Micki Parris                              Charlene Schwenk

Anne Sauser                              Penny Tullock

Carol Van Winkle

                       

Tenor                                            Bass

 

Martha Cartwright                    Robert Hansel

Steven Hinkle                           Carl Hansen

Robert Sauser                           Tony Hill

Susan Wilhoit                            Ben Johnson

                                                  Ted Long

                                                  Sanford Shaw

                                                         Mel Wilhoit

                                 
 

                                                  

                            


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