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Robert Gurney 
Robert Gurney, Music Director Founder and Music Director Robert Gurney is Organist-Choirmaster at San Francisco's historic Trinity Episcopal Church, Organist at Marin County's Temple Rodef Sholom, and one of the Museum Organists at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. A resident of San Francisco since 1978, he has been an active church musician, organ recitalist, vocal coach, and has served as Assistant Conductor-Accompanist for the San Francisco Choral Society, Sonoma City Opera and the Contra Costa Chorale. A native of Ohio, he received his education at Youngstown State University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying conducting with William Slocum. At Youngstown, he served as Student Assistant Conductor of the Concert Choir which won first place in a college choir competition sponsored by the BBC. In Summer 1997, he was invited to participate in an international choral music festival Music Of Our Time, held in Parthenay, France, and directed by John Poole, Conductor Emeritus, BBC Singers. Robert Gurney has directed the San Francisco Lyric Chorus in innovative performances of little known works by composers of exceptional interest. The Chorus' Discovery Series has introduced an eight-part Ave Maria by Tomás Luis de Victoria, the West Coast premiere of Four Motets To The Blessed Virgin Mary, by Robert Witt, and music of Amy Beach, including her monumental Grand Mass in E Flat and the Panama Hymn, written for San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. |
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