News Release
CONSPIRARE APPOINTS WILL CULBERTSON AS PRODUCTION MANAGER
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Conspirare has named Will Culbertson as Production Manager for the company, overseeing all aspects of Conspirare’s production requirements for performance.
Mr. Culbertson began work with Conspirare on April 1, 2008. He recently served as a Box Office Events Manager for Austin’s Paramount Theatre. From 2005-06 he was General Manager of the Nova Singers in Galesburg, Illinois. Prior to that, he was Operations Assistant for the Knox-Galesburg Symphony. In addition to his choral and conducting background, Mr. Culbertson is an accomplished instructor in martial arts. A native of Illinois, he graduated with a B.A. in music and theater from Knox College in Galesburg, where he was a member of both the Knox College Choir and the Knox College Chamber Singers.
About Conspirare
Now in its 16th performance season, Conspirare combines outstanding vocal artistry with innovative programming to create a unique and dynamic choral art. Under the leadership of Founder and Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare is comprised of three performing ensembles: a professional chamber choir of singers from around the country that is presented in an annual concert series in Austin and other central Texas cities and tours internationally; a symphonic choir of both professional and volunteer singers that presents at least one large choral/orchestral work annually; and the Conspirare Children’s Choir, a training program for young singers, ages 9-16, which, next season, will expand into two ensembles and be renamed Conspirare Youth Choirs.
Conspirare produced its first professional, commercial recording, “through the green fuse,” in 2004. A second CD, “Requiem”, was released in 2006 and received two 2007 Grammy® Award nominations (Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical). A new CD of the music of Tarik O’Regan was recorded in October 2007 at the acoustically-acclaimed Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in upstate New York, with an international release date of August, 2008 on the distinguished Harmonia Mundi label.
Conspirare has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and continues to receive rave reviews and national acclaim. In 2005, the organization received the “Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence,” presented by Chorus America. In 2007, as one of only seven choruses in the country to receive a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for an “American Masterpieces Festival,” Conspirare presented “Crossing the Divide: Exploring Influence and Finding Our Voice.” The four-day festival featured a distinguished gathering of composers and conductors, performances of three world premieres, and a gala closing concert with a choir of 600 singers.
In July of 2008, Conspirare will perform at the “Eighth World Symposium on Choral Music” as the only choir from the United States to be invited to join choral ensembles from around the world for the eight-day festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more information, please visit www.Conspirare.org.