Christine Gevert, conductor, holds a master’s degree in organ and early music performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg, Germany. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music theory, basso-continuo and choral conducting from the Conservatorio Nacional de Chile, she studied choral and orchestral conducting in Berlin and harpsichord in London. She has taught at the Berlin Church Music School, the Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. While conducting and performing in Europe and South America, she also recorded for Carpe Diem and Alerce. She has led master classes and workshops in early music, harpsichord, and baroque vocal technique at music festivals in Germany and Chile, and has appeared locally at Boston Early Music Festival, Music Mountain, the Berkshire Choral Festival, and the Amherst Early Music Festival. She was chorus master of the Salisbury Light Opera Company for five seasons. The founder and artistic director of Crescendo, Christine is organist and choir master at Trinity Church, Lime Rock.
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Jack Brown is in his third season the Artistic Director of Berkshire Lyric, where he is responsible for the Berkshire Lyric Chorus and the Blafield Children's Chorus. In addition to presenting six varied concerts a year, Berkshire Lyric provides several creative music education programs for young singers in the Berkshires including the Young Musicians Scholarship Program, The Berkshire Lyric Choral Scholars Program and an annual college choral festival in Pittsfield. He is well known locally as a singer, having appeared as a soloist with every choral society in the region including Albany Pro Musica and the Berkshire Bach Society. Nationally he continues to perform as a soloist, most recently in the Brahms Requiem in Georgia and in Beethoven's Ninth in Illinois. His early training as an instrumentalist was followed by his primary vocal study with Richard Cross at Juilliard and choral conducting with Robert Baker of Yale and Union Theological Seminary. A native of Philadelphia and a long time New Yorker, he now lives in Stockbridge. Jack is on the faculty at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, where he directs the Simon's Rock Chorus and Anonymous 10, a select a cappella women's ensemble. He also teaches voice at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville CT. and at The Berkshire Music School in Pittsfield.
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