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Music Leadership Award Winner
2009 - Kevin Riehle
The Houston Alumnae Chapter is proud to announce that Kevin Riehle is our 2009 Music Leadership Award Winner. He will be presented the award at our annual American Musical which will be held on Sunday, April 19, 20009at 4PM at Bethany United Methodist Church, 3511 Linkwood , 77025.
Kevin Raymond Riehle, is founder and Artistic Director of CANTARE Houston, a 28-member professional chamber choir which has won critical and popular acclaim throughout the city. The choir has collaborated with Houston’s Mercury Baroque Ensemble in the Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall and has been featured at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in “traveling concerts” of music pairing great art and great a cappella choral music. Its annual “Christmas at MFAH” concerts are a perennial sell-out. Celebrating its Sixth Season, “Distinctions,” and through creative and adventuresome programming, CANTARE has won the hearts and minds of concert-goers across Houston and beyond.
Kevin Riehle has enjoyed a long and varied career as a conductor and choral musician, having prepared choirs for concert and liturgy for nearly 30 years. At home in a wide range of musical genres, his work has earned critical and popular praise throughout the country. In the summer of 2008 Kevin was Chorus Master for Houston’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society. He served as Director for Music ministries in Lubbock, Tyler and Houston. He founded and was the artistic director of the Marvin Concert Series at Marvin Methodist Church of Tyler, bringing guest artists and concert productions to the church and city. Kevin was Director of the Lubbock Civic Chorale from 1984-87 and prepared choruses for the Lubbock Symphony and East Texas Symphony Orchestras. Last season’s masterworks included Durufle’s Requiem and Handel’s “Judas Maccabeus” and major choral cycles of Benjamin Britten.
In the fall of 2008 Kevin was named head of choral music for James E. Taylor High School in Katy Independent School District where he oversees and directs nearly 200 students in six ensembles. His work with the choirs has already earned Sweepstakes Awards and Festival Competition “Best in Show” awards.
He made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 2001 directing Beethoven’s Mass in C and returned in 2003 to lead choral and orchestral performances of Te Deum settings by Holst and Haydn. He has conducted much of the standard choral repertoire including the major mass and requiem settings, cantatas, motets and newly-commissioned works. He is frequently serves as guest clinician for choir festivals, all-state choirs, general choral training, vocal workshops and consultations.
His interests extend beyond liturgy and concert hall to include stage productions of Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” “Godspell,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” “Snoopy,” and “Seussical the Musical.” He has conducted the Rodger’s and Hammerstein classic “The King and I” and Seussical the Musical for HITS Theatre at Miller Outdoor Theatre. He is a successful voice teacher and vocal coach/accompanist and works with singers at Houston Baptist University and throughout Houston.
As a composer, Riehle’s works have found a regular place in the choral repertoire in the US and abroad and are listed in the catalogues of Oxford University Press, Choristers Guild, and Abingdon Press.
He holds degrees Ohio Northern University, Southern Methodist University, with post-graduate work at Texas Tech University. He participated in the Robert Shaw Choral Institute at Carnegie Hall. He is currently completing coursework for the DMA degree program in Choral Conducting at the University of Houston.
He is married to Norma Riehle, Director of Communications for Christ Church Cathedral, a graphic designer and collaborator with CANTARE Houston. Together they have six children and one grandchild.
--from the Cantare Houston Website at http://www.cantarehoustonsingers.org/director.html.
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