We had so much fun at our Early Music Sing-A-Long during the 2024 Cincinnati Early Music Festival that we’re bringing it back in November! Come and spend a Saturday morning singing early music favorites for Christmas and Advent with special guest conductors Earl Rivers, Krista Cornish Scott, and Reina Dickey. No experience required! You can also just sit and listen, if you’d like. Check out the rep list here!
Tickets are not required for this free event, but please register so we know how much coffee to make!
EARL RIVERS is Professor Emeritus of Conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) where over a 50-year career at CCM he served as Director of Choral Studies for 25 years from 1995-2020, He is the Music Director Emeritus of Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, which he led for 20 seasons from 1998-2008. He continues as Director of Music at Hyde Park’s Knox Presbyterian Church where he leads the Knox Choir that has premiered 15 newly commissioned works over the last 25 years and offered Cincinnati choral/orchestral premieres on the Knox Music Series. Rivers has received Choral America’s Michael Korn Founders Award for Development of the Choral Art, honoring a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral arts.
Canadian conductor and soprano KRISTA CORNISH SCOTT earned her Masters of Music in Performance and Literature from the University of Western Ontario. A past prize-winner at Canada’s national Eckhardt-Gramatté contemporary music competition, she continues to support and seek out new music as a singer, conductor, and as co-artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Coro Volante. Krista is an active teacher and lecturer on both early and contemporary music, and has presented at national and international conferences in Canada, Europe and the US. In 2020 she founded Heri et Hodie, an intimate professional women’s ensemble exploring medieval and modern music. In 2024 she spearheaded a relaunch of the Cincinnati Early Music Festival as a celebration of all levels of early music participation from professional to community members.
REINA DICKEY is an Assistant Professor of Music at Miami University and the Artistic Director of MUSE Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir. She earned degrees from the University of Cincinnati (DMA), Temple University (MM), and Miami University (BM). Her research focuses on underrecognized choral works, particularly seventeenth-century Italian nun composers. At Miami, Dr. Dickey directs the Chamber Singers, teaches choral music education courses, and mentors students in academic and professional settings. Through commissioning works by living composers and continuing her research on underrecognized composers of the past, she aims to broaden the choral canon and promote inclusivity in choral music.