InConcert - January 2020

COMMUNITY EVENT
MARGARET CAMPBELLE-HOLMAN
Celebration Youth Chorus Director
Margaret Campbelle-
Holman is founder
of the MET Singers and
executive director of Choral Arts Link. Toward
the end of her 29 years in public schools,
she founded the MET Singers (1997), which
evolved to her current status as executive
director of Choral Arts Link (2004), a nonprofit
devoted to fostering choral legacies for Middle
Tennessee singers. She is author of two K-8
music series and two eBooks on Tennessee
music published by McGraw-Hill Education.
Campbelle-Holman was recently called a
paradigm shifter; her arts access collaborations
and creative resource partnerships have
effectively linked singers to Nashville cultural
institutions. Through this network-building,
the MET Singers have performed as the
Celebration Youth Chorus during Nashville
Symphony’s Let Freedom Sing concert since
1998.
Her vision and strategic planning continue
leading the way, offering Middle Tennessee
a model of choral artistry for children and
youth that meets and exceeds the Nashville
Symphony’s high standards.
RODERICK GEORGE, tenor
Distinguished
American tenor
Roderick George made his
New York Lincoln Center
debut as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah at David
Geffen Hall with the National Chorale, and he
has appeared at Carnegie Hall as a featured
soloist for the Gotham Sings Choral Showcase.
Regularly engaged as a soloist in major concert
and oratorio works, his repertoire spans from
Bach’s Magnificat and Mozart’s Requiem,
through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and
Rossini’s Stabat Mater, to Carl Orff 's Carmina
Burana and contemporary works by Adolphus
Hailstork and H. Leslie Adams.
George’s 2019/20 engagements include a
return to the Alabama Symphony for Messiah,
Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes for his
debut with the Nashville Symphony, Messiah
with the Shoals Symphony, and Dett’s Chariot
Jubilee for the Eighth National Convention of
the National Collegiate Choral Organization
in Baltimore, Maryland.
George has made appearances at numerous
international festivals and venues, including
Festival Internacional de Musica Sacra in
Ecuador, La Folle Journée in France, Festival
Internacional de la Porta Ferrada and Festival
Internacional de Santander in Spain, the
Cayman Arts Festival of the Grand Cayman
Islands, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the
American Cathedral in Paris, Lensoveta Palace
of Culture in St. Petersburg, the Royal Dublin
Society and Wexford Opera House in Ireland.
He has performed a diversity of leading lyric
tenor opera roles.
A champion of American art song and an
avid song recitalist, George specializes in art
song repertoire set to the texts of Paul Laurence
Dunbar and Langston Hughes.
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