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Eastern Choral Ensembles
Concerts, Featurettes and Previews
EIU :: Choral Ensembles :: Cathedrals, Castles, and Colonies (2014) from Tempestas et Caelum Films on Vimeo.
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Eastern Symphony Orchestra :: Ovations (2014) from Tempestas et Caelum Films on Vimeo.
Concert Choir
Concert Choiris an auditioned, select choir consisting of 35-45 voices that performs a wide variety of short and medium-length choral compositions by significant composers from early classics to notable contemporary works. The repertoire encompasses a unique variety of primarily a cappella music and/or music accompanied by light instrumentation.
University Mixed Chorus
The University Mixed Chorus is an ensemble of mixed voices that studies and performs a variety of choral literature from early Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque classics to notable contemporary works and large Oratorio works accompanied by the Eastern Symphony Orchestra and/or the Eastern Symphony Chamber Orchestra. Open to all university students interested in singing. Music majors and minors may count up to six semester hours toward graduation. Non-music may count four semester hours toward graduation.
Richard Robert Rossi
A native of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, Richard grew up in Virginia Beach, VA, where he began to carry on a family tradition of making great music. His father, Anthony F. Rossi, studied opera at the Julliard School of Music and sang professionally in a number of Broadway musicals. In fact, Anthony met his soon-to-be bride, Barbara Winfield, while the couple toured together in the Broadway touring production of South Pacific.
Richard holds a DMA in Conducting from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, an MFA in both orchestral and choral conducting from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, a BM in music education with a concentration in piano and organ from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA, and a Master of Divinity from Saint Vincent Seminary. Over the years, Richard has studied with many renowned maestros including (in alphabetical order): Vance George, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Dennis Keane, Don Moses, Robert Page, Donald Schleicher, Fred Stoltzfus, and Sandra Willetts.
TCPFilms Production Team:
Director: Cameron Douglas Craig
Location Directors: Nathan N. Page and Scott Wilkinson
Editors: Scott Wilkinson, Nathan N. Page and Cameron Douglas Craig
Videographers: Nathan Page, Kole Rushmore, Scott Wilkinson, Tran Ngoc, Ben Hoene, and Cameron Douglas Craig
Executive Producer: Cameron Douglas Craig and Pete Grant
Further Information
Cameron Craig, cdcraig@eiu.edu