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 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