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David Schofield is currently involved in the formation of Sistine Voices, a new professional all-male vocal ensemble which he will direct. Sistine Voices replicates the performance practice of the Papal Chapel in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and performs the rich repertory sung for the Popes. He serves as Music Director of the St. Francis Singers and conducts the Schola of St. Saviors Anglican Community in San Francisco, which performs latin mass settings of the renaissance during the sacred liturgy. He continues his work as General Editor of the NDC Editions for C.F. Peters Corporation, which provides scores of the renaissance repertory for modern usage. David Schofield was appointed Director of Music and Liturgy at St. Dominic’s Church and Music Director of the Arts at St. Dominic’s concert series in San Francisco in 1999. Directing the Musicians of St. Dominic’s, he was responsible for providing a choral setting of the ordinary at the Solemn Mass each week and for providing several concerts for the concert series and throughout the region. His chosen repertory encompassed a wide variety of style periods Palestrina, Mozart, Britten and Bruckner and newly composed works. Under Schofield’s tenure, the ensemble performed notable works such as the Mozart, Faure and Howells Requiems, and gave the first modern U.S. performance of the Richefort Requiem, a little known masterwork of the fifteenth century French court, in a new edition prepared by Ralph Buxton. Schofield premiered the Millenium Mass by jazz artist Dmitri Matheny, scored for chorus, jazz orchestra, gospel soloist, percussion and organ, commissioned for New Year’s Eve 2000 and recorded the work for Monarch Records. In 2001, Schofield commissioned and premiered Mass of Celebration, for chorus, brass, percussion, electric guitar and organ from New York based composer George Boziwick. Directing the Musician’s of St. Dominic’s, he recorded Palestrina’s Missa Brevis released on Globe Records. Schofield founded the Notre Dame Choir, an ensemble of select singers at Columbia University in New York in 1985 and has conducted numerous concerts with this ensemble, notably at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University and the Westminster Choir College in Princeton. The repertory, grounded in latin polyphony of the renaissance, also included notable standard repertory works. In 1988 he was appointed Chaplain’s organist at Columbia University and Director of the Sacred Concerts, also at Columbia. He served as Music Director of the Ars Choralis Chorus and Orchestra from 1988-1990. He conducted the Schola Nova, a group dedicated to chant and organum from 1996-1999, giving performances at Trinity Church, Wall Street, and a lunchtime chant concert series at St. Malachy’s Actors’ Chapel in Times Square. |
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