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James K. Bass, three-time Grammy nominated singer and conductor, is the director of choral studies at the Herb Alpert  School of Music at UCLA. He was previously on the faculty at Western Michigan University and the University of South Florida and served as the artistic director of The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. Bass received his doctor’s of musical arts degree from the University of Miami–Florida, where he was a doctoral fellow, and master’s of music and bachelor’s of science degrees from the University of South Florida. He is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy. Bass was selected by the master conductor of the Amsterdam Baroque Soloists to be one of only 20 TIMOTHY PETER Guest Conductor for The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay 36 THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA | 2016-2017 singers for a presentation of Cantatas by J.S. Bach in Carnegie Hall. He has appeared with numerous professional vocal ensembles including Seraphic Fire, Conspirare, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Apollo Master Chorale, Vox Humanae, and Spire. He is one of 13 singers on the Grammy nominated disc, A Seraphic Fire Christmas. As bass soloist, he made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 2016 and has appeared with the New World Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, Grand Rapids Symphony, Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra, Firebird Chamber orchestra and the Sebastians. Bass is a bass member and associate conductor and director of education for Seraphic Fire, the Miamibased professional vocal ensemble. During the summer of 2011, he co-founded the  Professional Choral Institute at the University of South Florida. In its inaugural year of recording, Seraphic Fire and PCI received the Grammy nomination for Best Choral Performance for their recording of Johannes Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. JAMES K. BASS Baritone Timothy Peter is director of choral activities at Stetson University. He is a native of Minnesota, received his undergraduate degree from Luther College and completed his doctorate of musical arts degree at the University of Arizona. Previously, he was professor of music at Luther College and served as the head of the music department. He has been a high school choral director and church musician in Minnesota, Iowa and Arizona. Peter conducts the Stetson Concert Choir, which is the university’s touring SATB ensemble, comprised of select upper-class singers. In addition, he conducts the Stetson Men and teaches choral conducting and choral repertoire courses. He is involved in the National Collegiate Choral Organization and the American Choral Directors Association, having held positions as the divisional chair for repertoire and standards for college and universities and the state and divisional chair for men’s choirs. His choirs have been selected to perform at the 2011 National ACDA Conference and four Divisional NC-ACDA conventions. His off-campus teaching, adjudicating and conducting includes numerous appearances as a convention presenter, festival clinician and allstate conductor across the United States. He has prepared choirs and orchestras for performances at Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Orchestra Hall and Rockefeller Chapel in Chicago, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, the Holland Center in Omaha, the TWA Center in St. Louis, the Overture Center in Madison, the Alamodome in San Antonio and the Seoul Foreign School Center for the Performing Arts. He has conducted in Germany, Namibia, Oman, South Africa and South Korea.


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