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		Earl Rivers Professor of Music; Division Head, Ensembles & Conducting; Director of Choral Studies Phone: 513-556-2696 Email: Earl.Rivers@UC.edu Building: Dieterle Vocal Arts Center Room: 113
Area of Instruction: Conducting Faculty Since: 1973 Credentials: BME, MM, Indiana University School of Music; DMA, University of Cincinnati Biography: CCM’s graduate conducting program has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report as among the top five in the U.S.A. CCM’s Choral Program holds the Dale Warland Singers Score Library and Archives. The Choral Program hosted the fall 2008 national conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) and in winter 2010 hosts the Central Division convention of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) with the collegiate premiere of Penderecki’s Credo and Augusta Read Thomas’s Ring out, wild bells. Music Director and Conductor from 1988-2008 of the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati (VAE), a professional chamber choir, Rivers and the VAE received two ASCAP-Chorus America Awards for “Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music.” Rivers has conducted CCM’s choral and orchestral forces in acclaimed university and regional premieres of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 5 and Tan Dun’s Water Passion after St. Matthew. He has led the CCM Chamber Choir and Philharmonia Orchestra in the cycle of J.S. Bach’s masterworks –Christmas Oratorio, St. John Passion, St. Matthew Passion and B Minor Mass (the latter with Bastian Clevé’s film, The Sound of Eternity), on a concert tour of Portugal, and before National and Central Division Conventions of ACDA. Recent guest conducting includes the Korean premiere of Arvo Pärt's Berliner Mass with South Korea's Inchon City Chorale and Mozart's Coronation Mass and John Rutter’s Requiem in Carnegie Hall. In spring 2009 he guest conducted at the Sichuan Conservatory in Chengdu, China, and he recently taught at the Taipei International Choral Festival in Taiwan, in Seoul, South Korea, and at The Juilliard School. He is a recipient of Choral America’s “Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Choral Art,” honoring a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral art. Rivers is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of Chorus America, the national service organization for professional, volunteer, symphony/opera, and children’s choirs. Faculty, CCM since 1973. Personal Links: Ensembles & Conducting Division Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati