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| Eric R. Riley |
Eric R. Riley is Director of Music and Organist
at Market Square Presbyterian Church, a position he assumed
in November 2007. He is also conductor of the Central Pennsylvania Oratorio Singers and newly-appointed artistic director of the Wheatland Chorale. Previously, he held the post of Director of
Music/Organist at First United Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, for fourteen
years. Riley has held other church positions in Syracuse, New York, Nashville, Tenn.,
Richmond, Va., and Canton, Ohio.
Riley has
lead the Metropolitan Chorale of the Metropolitan School for the Arts in
Syracuse, New York; has been conductor of the Walsh University Chorale in North Canton,
Ohio; and was, for ten years, the Associate Artistic Director of Voices of Canton,
Inc. (VOCI), formerly Canton Civic Opera, of Canton, Ohio. He has also been
accompanist to the chorus and harpsichordist for the Canton Symphony Orchestra.
Riley holds the Master of Church
Music degree in choral conducting and organ from Scarritt Graduate School
(Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, Tenn., and the Bachelor of Music degree in
organ performance from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
He has studied conducting with G. Burton Harbison at Syracuse University, Larry
Doebler at Ithaca College, and Sandra Willetts at Scarritt Graduate School. He
has also studied Renaissance choral style with Peter Phillips, conductor of The Tallis Scholars, in Rimini, Italy.
It is Riley's love of Renaissance and other ancient musical forms that led to the formation of Market Square Singers for this once-in-a-lifetime musical tour of Italy. "The response from area singers and their devotion to learning and performing the contrasting pieces in the program have been intensely gratifying," Riley says."It will be my honor to present them to Italian audiences."
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