BBS: Conductor Penna Rose

BBS: Conductor Penna Rose
PENNA ROSE, Director of Chapel Music at Princeton University, is a conductor, organist, pianist, composer and vocal arranger. From 1987 to 1992 she was assistant conductor and pianist for the New York Choral Society. Ms Rose became the Artist-in-Residence and conductor of the Seminary Choir at Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1982 and since then has conducted the premieres of a number of works commissioned for the Choir. Ms Rose previously served as Music Director for the Berkshire Bach Society, conducting the B minor Mass, St John Passion, and a series of cantatas at Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. From 1986 to 1992 she was Director of Music at the First Congregational Church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and conductor of the Stockbridge Festival Chorus. Repertoire included Bach's Magnificat, a special dance concert performance of the African mass, Missa Luba, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. As Director of Chapel Music, Ms Rose directs the Chapel Choir, which numbers 75 singers who audition for membership. The choir has sung a wide variety of music, including Lauda per la Nativita by Respighi, Bach's St John Passion, Duke Ellington's Music from the Sacred Concerts and Dave Brubeck's The Gates of Justice with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Chapel Music encompasses many aspects in addition to the choir--organ concerts every Wednesday at mid-day, Jazz Vesper Services once a month and Music for Meditation, late in the evening once a week. Ms Rose's career has included extensive work in the theater as musical director, conductor and pianist. Her work in this area includes the Circle in the Square NYC production of The Marriage of Figaro, The Fantasicks at the Sullivan Street Theatre, NYC, On the Twentieth Century at the St. James Theatre, NYC, plus productions at the Papermill Playhouse, NJ, Darien Dinner Theatre, CT, and Tom Eyen's Theatre of the Eye, NYC. Ms Rose graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education from Michigan State University and holds a Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

PENNA ROSE, Director of Chapel Music at Princeton University, is a conductor, organist, pianist, composer and vocal arranger. From 1987 to 1992 she was assistant conductor and pianist for the New York Choral Society. Ms Rose became the Artist-in-Residence and conductor of the Seminary Choir at Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1982 and since then has conducted the premieres of a number of works commissioned for the Choir. Ms Rose previously served as Music Director for the Berkshire Bach Society, conducting the B minor Mass, St John Passion, and a series of cantatas at Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. From 1986 to 1992 she was Director of Music at the First Congregational Church in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and conductor of the Stockbridge Festival Chorus. Repertoire included Bach's Magnificat, a special dance concert performance of the African mass, Missa Luba, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. As Director of Chapel Music, Ms Rose directs the Chapel Choir, which numbers 75 singers who audition for membership. The choir has sung a wide variety of music, including Lauda per la Nativita by Respighi, Bach's St John Passion, Duke Ellington's Music from the Sacred Concerts and Dave Brubeck's The Gates of Justice with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Chapel Music encompasses many aspects in addition to the choir--organ concerts every Wednesday at mid-day, Jazz Vesper Services once a month and Music for Meditation, late in the evening once a week. Ms Rose's career has included extensive work in the theater as musical director, conductor and pianist. Her work in this area includes the Circle in the Square NYC production of The Marriage of Figaro, The Fantasicks at the Sullivan Street Theatre, NYC, On the Twentieth Century at the St. James Theatre, NYC, plus productions at the Papermill Playhouse, NJ, Darien Dinner Theatre, CT, and Tom Eyen's Theatre of the Eye, NYC. Ms Rose graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education from Michigan State University and holds a Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

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