The University of Central Florida Chorus is comprised of 70 singers from the music department and the university at large. They rehearse throughout the school year and present concerts in the Orlando area each semester. They have performed major works with the University Orchestra, including the Bach Magnificat, Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Johannes de Deo, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Schubert’s Mass in Eb, the Faure Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Ravel’s L’enfant et les Sortileges, and both the Poulenc and Rutter Glorias. In addition, they have performed Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and the 9th Symphony with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Edo de Waart, with the Russian State Symphony, and at the International Cathedral Music Festival at Canterbury Cathedral and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Other performances include the New York premiere of David Brunner’s Ode to the Present and Future Days at Carnegie Hall in 2003, the Bach Magnificat and premiere of Cantate Domino by John Rutter under the composer’s direction at Lincoln Center, and a production of Aida with the Orlando Opera Company.

They have been featured on 90.7 WMFE’s Central Florida in Concert; sung for national conventions of the American School Board Association, the American Bankers Association and the National Consortium for Academic Excellence in Sports, the Florida convention of the American Choral Directors Association, the Florida ACDA Collegiate Choral Festival; and performed the national anthem at homcoming football games of UCF’s Golden Knights.

They have worked with conductor Doreen Rao, composer David Dickau, and Dalcroize specialist David Frego, and premiered new works by Francisco Nunez and Stella Sung. This season they collaborate in a new production of Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Orlando Opera and Cirque du Soleil.

Membership is open to all students of the university by audition.

David L. Brunner is one of today’s most active and versatile conductors and composers.  He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Central Florida and well known for his work with singers of all ages, conducting throughout the United States and appearing internationally in Canada, the U.K, Australia, Japan and Europe.

As an inspired teacher, he is also a popular clinician at choral festivals and educational workshops throughout North America and Europe, including the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference and American Guild of Organists, the Association of British Choral Directors and the Kodaly Societies of Canada and Australia, the International Cathedral Music Festival at Salisbury and Canterbury, the International Honor Band and Choir Festival at the Hague and Brussels, and the Choral Music Experience International Institute for Choral Teacher Education in England, Scotland and Wales.

Brunner is an imaginative composer who has received numerous ASCAP awards and in 2000 joined a prestigious group of American composers when he was named Raymond W. Brock Commissioned Composer by the American Choral Directors Association.  The New York Times has noted him as a “prolific choral writer whose name figures prominently on national repertory lists,” his work having been performed and recorded worldwide in venues such as Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls (London), Canterbury Cathedral, Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), EPCOT and Carnegie Hall.

He is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.

Last year he conducted choirs from Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China at the Asian Pacific Activities Conference Choral Festival in Kobe, Japan, All-State choirs in Virginia and North Dakota, and returned to Carnegie Hall for a sixth time, conducting a concert of his works for chorus and orchestra.  He also appeared as a clinician in Kansas, Oregon and Virginia. New works premiered in Florida, Indiana, South Carolina, Michigan, England, Scotland and the Netherlands, and at national conventions of ACDA and the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts.

This year he conducts in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Alabama and Louisiana, and is a clinician in Florida, Chicago and Washington, D.C.  New works premiere in Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, Louisiana and Florida.  In 2010 he will write a new work for a consortium of thirteen choirs from across the U.S., Canada and Scotland.

A complete resource of Dr. Brunner’s work can be found at www.davidbrunner.com.

He has presented for the American Choral Directors Association, Music Educators National Conference and American Guild of Organists, the Association of British Choral Directors and the Kodaly Societies of Canada and Australia, the International Cathedral Music Festival at Salisbury and Canterbury, the International Honor Band and Choir Festival at the Hague and Brussels, and the Choral Music Experience International Institute for Choral Teacher Education in England, Scotland and Wales.