Timothy Newton

Timothy Newton is a versatile musician whose passion is vocal music, and especially dramatic music. While teaching at the American School in England, he sang with several symphonic choirs including the London Symphony Choir, the BBC Symphony Chorus, the Philharmonia Chorus and Chamber Chorus (London), and the Chelsea Opera Group. Stateside, he has sung early music with the Boston Bach Ensemble, Baroque Artists of Champaign, and the nine-voice Capella Alamire broadcast on WGBH in Boston. Tim served as an apprentice pianist and conductor with Pittsburgh Opera, sat under rehearsals with Antonio Pappano at the Royal Opera House, and has served as a pianist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and accompanist for many voice recitals.

He trained as a pianist, conductor and vocal coach at the Ithaca College School of Music under Mary Ann Covert and Larry Doebler among many others. He holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois in choral conducting and literature. He was the first choral conductor to receive the Nicholas Temperley Award in musicology for his dissertation on a collection of 17th century sacred vocal concertos which also received the Julius Herford Prize from the American Choral Directors' Association. He has taught and conducted at several colleges including the University of Illinois, Dartmouth College, and Grinnell College and his choirs have toured throughout the continental United States, England and Japan.

Tim is presently Assistant Professor of Music and Music Industry at SUNY Oneonta where he conducts the Chamber Singers, the Chamber Orchestra, serves as music director for the annual operetta production, teaches theory and coaches singers. He is the Music Director of the Catskill Choral Society and is a conductor for the New York Summer Music Festival as well as area All-State and All-County festivals.

Carl Johnegen

Dr. Carl Johengen is a multi-talented artist who has earned a reputation of excellence as a conductor, singer, voice teacher, and composer. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, as well as the Master of Music degree in Conducting from the Ithaca College School of Music, where he was a student of Lawrence Doebler. He has been active as a church musician, conductor, and clinician since 1987. He has conducted festival choirs in Syracuse and Rochester, and recently has been in demand as a guest conductor for high school Area All-State and All-County festivals.

Dr. Johengen served on the Voice Faculty of the Berkshire Choral Festival between 2000 and 2007, working with such renowned conductors as Robert Page, Jane Glover, Tom Hall, John Alexander, Vance George, Philip Brunelle, Kathy Saltzman Romey, Grant Gershon, Donald McCullough, John Rutter, Nicholas Cleobury, Dennis Keene, David Flood, Duain Wolfe, Gary Wedow, David Hayes, Maria Guinand, and Craig Hella Johnson. He served as Founding Music Director of the Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus from its inception in 1991 to 1997, and again from 2004 to 2007, leading the group in two major concerts annually, as well as over a dozen road concerts and appearances throughout New York State. He led SGLC in its debut performance at the quadrennial Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses Festival in Montreal in July 2004. Other past positions include: Assistant Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus; Chorus Master for Syracuse Opera Company; and Diocesan Director for Music for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse.

Dr. Johengen has a great love for chamber choral singing; he has performed with Rochester's Madrigalia, the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble, and the 8-member early music ensemble Musica Intima, based in Buffalo.

A highly regarded teacher, Dr. Johengen has been a member of the Ithaca College voice faculty since 2007; prior academic appointments have been at the Crane School of Music of SUNY Potsdam, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Nazareth College of Rochester, Hamilton College, and Syracuse University.

A tenor, he has performed in recital, concert, and opera, in diverse repertoire spanning Monteverdi and Bach to Lou Harrison and Arvo Pärt. Major orchestral appearances have included the Syracuse, Hartford, Milwaukee, and Green Bay Symphonies, and the Rochester Philharmonic. He has soloed at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Halls and at the Boston Early Music Festival. A frequent guest with regional and collegiate oratorio societies, he has been heard in numerous works of Purcell, Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Honegger, among others. On the operatic stage, he has appeared as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, as Beppe in I Pagliacci, and in leading roles in several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Dr. Johengen's singing has received accolades and awards in several national and international competitions, including those of the Concert Artists Guild, The National Opera Association, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Dr. Johengen's sacred and secular choral compositions have garnered him several awards, and are published by five prestigious publishing houses.

Lawrence Doebler

Lawrence Doebler served as the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble's third music director for nine years (1999-2008). He is professor of music at Ithaca College where he serves as director of choral activities. With over twenty years of teaching at the college to his credit, his duties include conducting the Choir, Madrigal Singers, and Choral Union and teaching conducting, choral techniques, and choral literature. Early training in keyboard, strings, voice, and brass led to degrees in conducting from Oberlin Conservatory and Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Doebler began his professional career in 1969 at Smith College. From 1971 through 1978 he taught and conducted at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Mr. Doebler has received awards for research and teaching excellence from the University of Wisconsin and Ithaca College, and has appeared throughout the eastern and midwestern United States as a clinician and guest conductor. As an editor of "no barline" Renaissance music, Mr. Doebler's editions are published by the Lorenz Company in the Roger Dean catalogue. In addition to his academic appointments, he has served as director of music at churches in Cleveland, St. Louis, Madison, and Ithaca (First Presbyterian Church).