Joshua Habermann, appearing in TRANSCENDENCE with Sandra Lopez, is associate professor and program director of choral studies at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he conducts the Frost Chorale and other choral ensembles. He is music director of the Miami Master Chorale and the Desert Chorale (Santa Fe, NM). He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed doctoral studies in conducting with Craig Hella Johnson. He has also studied under Helmuth Rilling (conducting), Scott Fogelsong (piano) and David Jones (voice). He has appeared in conferences and festivals, including international engagements in Cuba, Germany, Czech Republic, China and France. As a singer (tenor) he performs with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, where he can be heard on the Grammy-Award-winning recording of Krzystof Penderecki's Credo and others. Dr. Habermann also maintains an interest in the Hawaiian choral tradition, and sings periodically with Kawaiolaonapukanileo, an ensemble dedicated to performing and preserving this unique repertoire. Other research interests include Latin American and Nordic music. His dissertation on the a cappella works of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara was a Julius Herford Prize finalist for music research in 1997.

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Santa Fe Desert Chorale