William R. Green, Artistic Director

 

     A successful leader in choral music for over twenty years, William R. Green

is Assistant Professor of Choral Music

at Lee University, where he conducts the Choral Union and Chorale, and also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting. He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting

from the University of Kentucky, and

the Master of Music from Georgia State University. Dr. Green performed and recorded with Robert Shaw as a member of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus. His doctoral research addressed Mr. Shaw’s techniques on rhythm and phrasing, specifically in relation to the works of J.S. Bach.

     Dr. Green has served as Artistic Director and Conductor for Choral Arts

of Chattanooga since 2004. This exceptional ensemble provides professionally trained singers the opportunity to perform the finest choral masterpieces and contemporary literature.

Of his work with this ensemble, Ruth Cartlidge of The Chattanooga Pulse said, “Green’s touch with the waves of sound in Brahms’ Nänie was simply lovely. There is an aura of suppressed energy in his pianissimos that would make many choral directors envious.”

       Green has collaborated with many of the leading conductors of our time, including John Rutter, Yoel Levi, Ann Howard Jones, Jefferson Johnson, and the late Robert Shaw. He has led performances of many of the major works for chorus and orchestra, including Handel’s Messiah, the Requiems of Mozart and Faure, Brahms’ Ein Deutches Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mass in C Major, Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music, and the works of Bach, Britten, Poulenc, Vivaldi, and Schubert, among others. Dr. Green is active nationally and internationally as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician most recently working with choirs from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and South Carolina. He has presented workshops throughout the United States, as well as in Central America and Israel.

       William resides in Cleveland, TN with his wife, Twyla Daugherty Green, and their two children, Jonathan and Mary Beth.