Paul Caldwell will take over as artistic director for Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus, starting August 2016. Currently the artistic director for Windy City Performing Arts in Chicago, Caldwell has provided leadership and vision for both the Windy City Gay Chorus and Windy City Treble Quire. He is also artistic director for the Youth Choral Theater of Chicago, a community-based after-school program enrolling 200 young people in Chicago’s northern suburbs. Caldwell’s work with youth earned him the Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
Caldwell composes and arranges music collaboratively with Sean Ivory. Their choral works have been telecast on PBS and A&E and performed at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Caldwell and Ivory recently collaborated with guitarist Steve Vai to create a choral-rock fusion song, Book of the Seven Seals. Paul Caldwell made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 2014, leading concerts comprised entirely of music he composed. He has also been artistic director for the ¡Canta! Costa Rica festival in San Jose. He returns to the Sing A Mile High choral festival in Denver biennially. For information: www.seattlechoruses.org.
