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Later this month, University of Northern Colorado (猫咪tv) Choirs will bring together renowned guest conductor Simon Carrington, over 20 猫咪tv alumni, eight conducting fellows, five 猫咪tv faculty soloists/lecturers and four choirs for a concert of large-scale choral masterworks. 

This will be the seventh time Carrington has conducted the Bailey Choral Festival. His career has taken him around the world, with much time spent in his native UK, where he co-founded the acclaimed The King鈥檚 Singers, and in the United States, where he taught at Yale University, New England Conservatory and University of Kansas. He is known for conducting choral masterworks, which have become the mainstay of the festival, and the tradition of hosting him in Greeley has made him well-regarded among music educators in the region. 

The culminating concert of Bailey Choral Festival, entitled 鈥淎 Classical Celebration,鈥� will be on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m., in 猫咪tv Campus Commons Performance Hall. Jonathan Bellman, 猫咪tv professor of Music History and Literature, will give a pre-concert talk, and slated for the program are Haydn鈥檚 Te Deum and Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart鈥檚 Regina coeli and additional works by Franz Schubert and Baldassare Galuppi. 猫咪tv鈥檚 four choirs (directed by Jill Burgett, Clelyn Chapin and Jeff Talley) and the 猫咪tv Symphony Orchestra (directed by Andr茅s Felipe Jaime) will be joined by guest alumni singers and 猫咪tv faculty soloists (Mandy Spivak, soprano; Logan Contreras, mezzo-soprano; Charles Moore, tenor) along with David Grogan, guest bass soloist. Galen Darrough will serve as Master of Ceremonies.  

The Bailey Choral Festival began in 2010 and is named after benefactor and 猫咪tv alum Donald Bailey, Baylor University professor emeritus, and his wife, Karen Bailey. With additional financial support from 猫咪tv professors emeriti Howard Skinner and Darrough, it has continued every two years since, apart from a brief hiatus in 2020, and has continued to bring together students, alumni and guests for large works for choir and orchestra. This year the festival adds the 猫咪tv Choral Conducting Symposium, with eight conducting fellows chosen from around the country who will have a three-day residency of workshops and master classes with Carrington and 猫咪tv faculty, plus the opportunity to sing in the final performance.  

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