Did you love singing Victoria's “O Magnum Mysterium” in high school? Do madrigals make you happy? Maybe it’s Renaissance rounds you love? Early music is the BEST to sing, so we’re bringing back this popular event from the old Cincinnati Early Music Festival! Come and spend a Saturday morning singing rounds, madrigals, motets, and more with special guest conductors from around Cincinnati: Anthony Nims, Stella O'Neill, and Joe Rivers.
We’ll have music available as both hard copies and digital versions. Please register below so we know how much music (and coffee) we’ll need. No experience required! You can also just sit and listen, if you’d like.
Curious what we’re singing? Here you go!
Don't just listen to early music this month. Be a part of it!
Tickets are not required for this event, but please register!
ANTHONY NIMS is the Director of Choral Activities at Walnut Hills High School, where he has taught since 2013. He conducts the four curricular high school choirs and the extracurricular Chamber Choir and assists with one of the four junior high choirs. He taught vocal music at Anderson High School from 2000-2004 and was Director of Choral Activities at Lakota West High School from 2006-2013. His choirs consistently earn superior ratings at OMEA Adjudicated Events and have performed such large works as Haydn’s Creation, Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Carmina Burana by Orff, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, the Mozart Requiem, and the Rossini Stabat Mater. His Chamber Choir is a regular participant in the Cincinnati Early Music Festival Tapestry Concert.
Anthony holds the Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Westminster Choir College, where he studied with Joseph Flummerfelt, James Jordan, and Andrew Megill. As a choral singer, Anthony has performed under such renowned conductors as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Helmuth Rilling, and Anton Armstrong. His Bachelor of Music degree in music education is from Ohio Wesleyan University.
STELLA O’NEILL, an organist and choral conductor in the Cincinnati area, earned her Bachelor of Music in piano performance at the University of Minnesota. Stella continued on to pursue a Master of Music at the University of Florida in organ performance, where she also began work in harpsichord accompanying and continuo playing. She earned her doctoral degree in organ performance at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati where she also was organ scholar at Christ Church Cathedral. Stella is currently Director of Music at St. Rose of Lima.
JOSEPH RIVERS is the Director of Choral Activities at Taylor High School in Cleves, OH. He leads the three high school choral ensembles: Bel Canto, Taylor Glee Club, and Senior Choir. In addition, Joseph works with the 8th grade choir, middle school bands, high school marching band, and musical theatre program. Previously, he served as the Director of Choral Activities at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, KY and Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, OH.
Outside the classroom, Joseph is an active performer and conductor. He has sung with a variety of professional choral ensembles in the Greater Cincinnati region including the Vocal Arts Ensemble, Collegium Cincinnati, and Coro Volante. He is particularly interested in early music, extended works, and supporting living composers. In the realm of musical theatre, he has directed and played lead keyboard for many high school, community, and regional theatres including Footlighters Inc., Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, and Commonwealth Artists Student Theatre (CAST).
Joseph holds degrees from Morehead State University (BME) and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (MM in Music Education). He pursued additional graduate work at the doctoral level in Choral Conducting at CCM. He is a proud member of the National Association for Music Education, American Choral Directors Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America.