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Temple University
Alan Harler, Conductor
The
Temple University Concert Choir has won the praise of critics, the
public, and the musical world alike. The Temple University Concert Choir
is committed to the performance of new American choral music and has
presented many Philadelphia premieres including Robert Moran's Hagoromo,
Alfred Schnittke's Requiem, Arvo Pärt's Passio Nostri Jesu Christi
Secundum Joannem and music of Temple composers Jan Krzywicki, Cynthia
Folio, Jay Krush, Richard Brodhead, and Maurice Wright. In recent years,
the Concert Choir has performed in major concert halls in the Republic
of China, Hong Kong, Venezuela, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Alan Harler, Conductor
Alan
Harler serves as Laura H. Carnell Professor and Chairman of Choral Music
at Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance. He is an active
conductor outside of Philadelphia, having performed regularly at the
Festival Casals in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Aspen Choral
Institute, and has given master classes and conducted performances in
Taiwan and China under the sponsorship of the Taiwan Philharmonic
Association. In 1988, Alan Harler was named music director of
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, only the twelfth person to hold that
position in the chorus's 133-year history.
Alan Harler is a strong advocate for new American music. He was founder
and director of the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble of Indiana. During his
tenure with Mendelssohn Club, he has commissioned and premiered
thirty-three new compositions, including such major works as Robert
Moran`s Requiem: Chant du Cygne (1990), Charles Fussell`s Specimen Days
(1992), Robert Stern`s Returning the Song (1994), Cynthia Folio's Touch
the Angel's Hand (1994), Jan Krzywicki's Lute Music (1995), James
Primosch's Fire Memory/River Memory (1998), Charles Fussell's High
Bridge (2003), and Andrea Clearfield's The Golem Psalms (2006). He
conducted Mendelssohn Club in a critically acclaimed recording of the
Moran Requiem for Argo/London Records in 1994. With the Temple
University Concert Choir, he has presented many Philadelphia premieres,
including Moran's Hagoromo, Alfred Schnittke's Requiem, and Arvo Pärt's
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Joannem. Maestro Harler has
prepared choruses for many of the country's leading conductor's,
including Riccardo Muti, Klaus Tennstedt, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta,
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Lorin Maazel, David Robertson, and Wolfgang
Sawallisch.
Last revised
June 26, 2010