NovicaCSULB’s Bob Cole Chamber Choir in Ljubljanski madrigalisti v Ljubljanski stolnici

One of America’s most celebrated collegiate choirs, California State University Long Beach’s Bob Cole Chamber Choir has won the Pavarotti Trophy and Choir of the World at the Welsh Isteddfod and First Prize at the Internationalar Chorwettbewerb at Spittal, Austria. They have performed at an astonishing eight conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, and at many other festivals and conferences around the world. Comprised of an extraordinary collection of collegiate musicians, the Chamber Choir tours yearly and has concertized throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Alums of the Chamber Choir are teaching throughout California, running collegiate choral programs of national importance, leading worship, and are currently under contract as singers with the Metropolitan, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Philadelphia Operas.

Recipient of the President’s Award from the California Music Educators Association honoring “extraordinary accomplishments in music education,” Dr. Jonathan Talberg serves as Director of Choral Activities at the Bob Cole Conservatory, where he is conductor of the international award-winning Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir and the University Choir.

A passionate advocate for choral music education, Dr. Talberg is regularly engaged to conduct honor choirs across the US, including numerous all–state choruses, and the National Association for Music Education conference choirs. His choirs from Long Beach State have performed in venues throughout Europe and Asia, including the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter’s, and the Great Hall of the People in China. His professional experience includes appointments as Director of Music at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Bach Festival. He also served as Conducting Assistant to the Cincinnati Symphony and the Aspen Music Festival and as principal choral conductor at Arrowbear Music Camp in Southern California. A past–president of the California Choral Directors Association, he serves as an editor at Pavane Music Publishing, where a choral series dedicated to outstanding quality, collegiate–level music is published under his name. Of the many hats he wears each day, the one he is most proud of is mentor to the next generation of choral musicians. Alumni of the Bob Cole Conservatory Choral Studies program are teaching at elementary, middle and high schools, churches, community colleges and four–year universities throughout the country. Scores of alumni are professional singers—in opera, musical theater, choirs, church music, jazz and pop. Recent Bob Cole Conservatory graduates have finished their doctorates in choral music at the University of Michigan, the College–Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Iowa. Dr. Talberg received his BM in Choral Conducting from Chapman University, where he received the Outstanding Alumnus in the Arts award in 2014. He earned his MM and DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati’s College–Conservatory of Music and completed a post–doctoral fellowship with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops, and the May Festival Chorus. His conducting teachers include Roger Wagner, William Hall, Earl Rivers, John Leman and Elmer Thomas.

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