CHAPTER PROGRAMS 2020-2021
Emerging voices: Tips for helping our choirs reengage
Dr. Kenney Potter
John Wesley United Methodist Church
626 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407
Sunday, October 24, 2021
4:00-5:30 pm
Kenney Potter is the Artistic Director of the Charlotte Master Chorale and serves as the Director of Choral Activities at Wingate University. His choirs have received wide-spread acclaim including winning the Grand Prix for best choir in the Pärnu International Choral Festival in Pärnu, Estonia. In recent years, he has conducted Handel’s Messiah with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and collaborated with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra in performances of the Mass in B minor and St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. As a performer, he has been a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall, and was choir soloist for the Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival choir as well as the International Bach Academy, con-ducted by Helmuth Rilling.
In addition to his work at Wingate and with the Charlotte Symphony, he serves as Choral Conductor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a clinician, Dr. Potter has conducted state-wide festival choirs for NAfME and ACDA in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia as well as in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. His compositions are published by Hinshaw Music, Choristers Guild, and Santa Barbara Music Publishing and he is founder and editor of Wingate University Music Press, which publishes Folk Songs of South Africa, a series of pedagogical resources that he co-authored with Dalene Hoogenhout, conductor of the Wits Choir of Johannes-burg. He holds degrees from Florida State University, Portland State University, and the University of North Carolina at Greens-boro and resides in Charlotte with his wife, Heather, and their children, Syl and Calvin.
John Wesley United Methodist Church
626 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407
Sunday, October 24, 2021
4:00-5:30 pm
Kenney Potter is the Artistic Director of the Charlotte Master Chorale and serves as the Director of Choral Activities at Wingate University. His choirs have received wide-spread acclaim including winning the Grand Prix for best choir in the Pärnu International Choral Festival in Pärnu, Estonia. In recent years, he has conducted Handel’s Messiah with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and collaborated with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra in performances of the Mass in B minor and St. John Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. As a performer, he has been a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall, and was choir soloist for the Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival choir as well as the International Bach Academy, con-ducted by Helmuth Rilling.
In addition to his work at Wingate and with the Charlotte Symphony, he serves as Choral Conductor at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a clinician, Dr. Potter has conducted state-wide festival choirs for NAfME and ACDA in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia as well as in Nairobi, Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa. His compositions are published by Hinshaw Music, Choristers Guild, and Santa Barbara Music Publishing and he is founder and editor of Wingate University Music Press, which publishes Folk Songs of South Africa, a series of pedagogical resources that he co-authored with Dalene Hoogenhout, conductor of the Wits Choir of Johannes-burg. He holds degrees from Florida State University, Portland State University, and the University of North Carolina at Greens-boro and resides in Charlotte with his wife, Heather, and their children, Syl and Calvin.
Meet and Greet Opening Dinner
Ms. Rose's Fine Foods & Cocktails
1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd, Charleston, SC 29407
Monday, September 13, 2021
6:15 pm cocktails
7:00 pm dinner
Click here to reserve your place: eleroy44@gmail.com
Menu: Pesto Linguine ($15), Fried Chicken ($16), Shrimp and Grits ($18), and Smoked Brisket ($22). Guests can opt for an additional salad ($4) and a dessert (Cookie Brownie Pie $7 or Cheesecake $9). Bring a check to reimburse the chapter which has to pay the bill with its bankcard.
1090 Sam Rittenberg Blvd, Charleston, SC 29407
Monday, September 13, 2021
6:15 pm cocktails
7:00 pm dinner
Click here to reserve your place: eleroy44@gmail.com
Menu: Pesto Linguine ($15), Fried Chicken ($16), Shrimp and Grits ($18), and Smoked Brisket ($22). Guests can opt for an additional salad ($4) and a dessert (Cookie Brownie Pie $7 or Cheesecake $9). Bring a check to reimburse the chapter which has to pay the bill with its bankcard.
