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Boerger, Kristina G., DMA
Music
Associate Professor
 
Office: Shattuck Auditorium B36
Office Phone: 262-524-7183
Email: kboerger@carrollu.edu
 
Education:
B.S., M.M., and D.M.A., University of Illinois
 
Areas of Specialization:
Renaissance performance practice
Chamber vocal coaching
Choral conducting and rehearsal techniques
Choral arranging
 
Scholarly and Professional Achievements:
Guest Director, Chanticleer
Spring, 2012

Recording:  A Voice in the Wilderness:  Mannerist Motets of the Renaissance
By Pomerium, 2012

Guest Conductor:  Madison Early Music Festival, annually since 2011

Guest Conductor: Syracuse Schola Cantorum Summer Workshop (Biennially since 2004)

Guest Conductor: Middle-School Outreach Program of the Kalamazoo Bach Festival Society (annually, 2005-current year)

Guest Conductor: Five College Choral Festival, Pioneer Valley, MA (2010)

Guest Conductor: New York Summer Music Festival (2010, 2009)

Vocal Performance:  Madison Early Music Festival, annually since 2011

Vocal Performance:  Ongoing national engagements with The Rose Ensemble and Pomerium.

Vocal Performance: BBC broadcast premiere, James MacMillan's "St. John Passion", at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, England, with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Cambridge Singers, the BBC Concert Orchestra, and Mark Stone, directed by Stephen Cleobury (2010)

Recording: Vocalist on Bobby McFerrin and Roger Treece's VOCAbuLarieS, Universal Records (2010)

Commission: "again" by David Lang, recorded by Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices, Ars Nova Copenhagen, on
the little match girl passion, Harmonia Mundi 807496
(2009)

Arrangement: Lewis Allen's "Strange Fruit," for a cappella treble chorus, recorded on the Chicago Children's Chorus's Songs on the Road to Freedom, Chicago Review Press (2009); also included in Freedom Song: Young Voices and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Mary C. Turck (2009)
 
Recording: Orlande de Lassus: Motets and Magnificat
Sung with Pomerium (2008)

Recording: Taste of Eternity: Music for the Saturday Morning Shabbat Service, sung with the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble (2008)

Recording: O Beautiful, American Music created for Public Radio International and sung with the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble (2008)

Recording: "Lamentations for a City" by Lisa Bielawa, commissioned for and conducted with the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble, on the CD A Handful of World, Tzadik 8039 (2007)

Recording: The Man in the Moon: Choral Music of Robert Dennis, sung with the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble (2005)
 
Service to Carroll University or the Profession:
Organizer, conductor:  Carroll University’s High-School Folkloric Music Choral Festival, spring 2012.

Board of Directors, Early Music Now

Organizer, conductor, vocalist: Carroll University's High-School Early-Music Choral Festival (10/2010)

Faculty Development Committee Chair

Editorial Board, Choral Journal

Board of Directors, Waukehsa Choral Union

Research adviser, choral contractor, conductor and soprano: Déploration, a Barnard College Centennial Scholars research presentation by Alyssa de Socio (2009)

"Pro Causam Pulchritudinis: Re-thinking Programming for the Treble Chorus" at the Eastern Divisional Convention of the American Choral Directors Association (2006)
 
Honors and Awards:
Faculty Development Grant for the commissioning of Jonathan David’s Stabat Mater

Grants: Wisconsin Arts Board Creative Communities Grant

Arts Waukesha Project Grant
Argosy Contemporary Music Fund

Outstanding Choral Director, 2007-2008:
New York State chapter, American Choral Directors Association

Invited conducting performance with the Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble: Eastern Divisional Convention, American Choral Directors Association (2006)
 
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