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Press Kit for Voces Unidas Tour to Guatemala & Mexico, August 2009
Click on the link below for background information on the Yale Alumni Chorus
(English and Spanish); Jeffrey Douma, Musical Director (English and Spanish); Soloists; Chorus Members; Program Notes for the concert program.
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JEFFREY DOUMA
Director, Yale Alumni Chorus
 Jeffrey Douma is Director of the Yale Glee Club and Associate Professor of Choral Music at the Yale School of Music. Prior to his appointment at Yale he taught at Carroll College, where he was Director of Choral Activities, and also served on the conducting faculties of Smith College and St. Cloud State University.
Douma led the Yale Alumni Chorus on the 2004 Gift of Song Tour to South America, the 2006 Traditions Tour to England and Freedom Tour to The Netherlands, and the 2009 Voces Unidas Tour to Guatemala and Mexico. He has appeared as guest conductor with ensembles on five continents, including the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra, Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, Bahian Symphony Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Choir, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and Windsor Symphony Orchestra. Choirs under his direction have performed in Leipzig’s Neue Gewandhaus, Dvorak Hall in Prague, Argentina’s Teatro Colon, Sydney Town Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for performances under such eminent conductors as Valery Gergiev, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir David Willcocks, Shinik Hahm, Anton Nanut, Constantine Orbellian, Toshiyuki Shimada, and Krzysztof Penderecki.
Active with musicians at all levels, Douma served for four years on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, America’s premier training ground for high school age musicians, conducting the Concert Choir, Women’s Choir, and Festival Choir, and frequently serves as clinician for festivals and honor choirs.
An advocate of new music, Douma has established the Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition and Fenno Heath Award, and has premiered new works with the Glee Club by such composers as Dominick Argento, Lee Hoiby, and James Macmillan. He also serves as editor of the Yale Glee Club New Classics Choral Series, published by Boosey & Hawkes.
A tenor, Douma has appeared as an ensemble member and frequent soloist with the nation’s leading professional choirs, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce of Chicago, the Arcadia Players, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus under Helmuth Rilling, and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers under the late maestro Robert Shaw.
In the spring of 2003, Douma was one of only two North American conductors invited to compete for the first Eric Ericson Award, a new international competition for choral conductors, advancing to the semifinal round in October 2003, and appearing in Uppsala and Stockholm as conductor with four of Sweden’s leading choirs.
Jeffrey Douma earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from Concordia College, nationally renowned for its choral music program. He holds both the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Michigan.
In all its years, the Yale Glee Club has had only six previous directors: Gustave J. Stoeckel (1861-1873), Thomas G. Shepard (1873-1905), G. Frank Goodale 1889 (1905-1921), Marshall Bartholomew ’09 (1921-1953), Fenno F. Heath, Jr. ’50 (1953-1992), and David H. Connell DMA ’91 (1992-2002).
Edward J. Greenberg
President, Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation
 Ed became President of the Yale Alumni Chorus Foundation in 2010. He previously served on the Board as Vice President and a member of the Financial Aid Committee. Ed also participated in producing YAC Tours to South Africa and Cuba. He has sung with the Chorus since its inception in 1998 and has been on every YAC tour with the exception of “Kremlin II.”
Ed graduated from Yale with a B.A. in 1959 and received his M.B.A. from Columbia in 1961. He sang in the Freshman, Apollo and Yale Glee Clubs and is an active Yale volunteer. He is a Fellow of Trumbull College and was elected a member of the 1959 Whiffenpoofs in 2010. Ed retired as a Managing Director of Bear Stearns private client services in 1995 and is a past president and active singing member of the University Glee Club of New York City. He lives in Stamford, Connecticut with his wife Sue, also a YAC volunteer. The Greenbergs have three children and seven grandchildren including son Joe ’83, daughter in law Claire ’84, and granddaughter Margaret ’12.
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