Tim Harbold
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Over his career Tim Harbold has conducted a wide range of collegiate, community and church choirs.  His repertoire is remarkably diverse, and his choirs have sung classical and folk music spanning 10 centuries, 6 continents, over 35 countries, and over 30 languages, plus chant, spirituals, gospel music, jazz standards, shape note singing, and a variety of American  vernacular traditions.

Currently Tim serves as Professor of Music and Choral Director at Wheaton College in Norton, MA, where he has directed the Chorale and Chamber Singers since 1995.

FEATURED VIDEO:  Wheaton Chamber Singers present and past join to sing Whitacre's Go Lovely Rose. 


Professor of Music and Choral Director
Wheaton College, Norton, MA
  • Wheaton College Chorale
  • Wheaton College Chamber Singers
Additional choirs have included
  • Oure Pleasure Singers, Attleboro, MA
  • Old South Church Gospel Choir, Boston, MA  (with soloists Sayida Rivers Farmer and Jordan Pettis, and the Willie Sordillo jazz trio)
  • Old South Church Choir, Boston, MA
  • UMass Dartmouth Chorus, Chamber Singers and Gospel Choir

Collegiate Choirs
Wheaton College Chorale & Chamber Singers

Overview of Wheaton choral program:

New England Conservatory Chorus

with soloist Karen Tobin pianist  Phillip Woods.

Community Choirs
​Oure Pleasure Singers


Church Choirs
​Old South Church in Boston

with soloists Sayida Rivers Farmer and
Jordan Pettis, and the Willie Sordillo jazz trio


Instrumentals

Recording Sessions

Pickup-choirs to record my arrangements and composition.

Repertoire

Recordings samples above provide just a small sample of Tim Harbold's diverse repertoire, which covers 10 centuries, 6 continents, over 35 countries, and over 30 languages.

At Wheaton College, musical exploration often takes place in the context of Visiting Artist residencies, in which guest experts bring music of their own, and the Wheaton choirs learn additional music in related genres.  Visiting Artists in recent years have incuded Skylark Vocal Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, the King's Singers, Rockapella and Take 6, Tatiana Sarbinska (Bulgarian), Celia Malheiro (Brazilian jazz), Dominique Eade (vocal jazz), Donnell Patterson, Jonathan Singleton and Phillip Woods (gospel), Karan Casey (Celtic fok), Issa Coulibaly (West African), Orchid Ensemble (southeast Asian), Valerie Naranjo (Native American), and more.

Shorter Works (classical)
Works of Adams, Adler, Barber, Bartok, Bateson, Belmont, Bennet, Bernstein, Boulanger, Brahms, Byrd, Cage, Chilcott, Cima, Costeley, Convery, Darke, Distler, Dowland, Dufay, Duruflé, Eccard, Encina, Gabrieli, Gallus, Gastoldi, Gramann, Grieg, Guastavino, Harbold, Hassler, Haydn, Hensel, Hildegard of Bingen, Holst, Howells, Jannequin, Janowski, Josquin, Kim, Lauridsen, Madkour, Marenzio, Marshall, Martinson, Mendelssohn, Morley, Morrison, Mozart, Mundy, Navok, Palestrina, Parry, Pärt, Patriquin, Persichetti, Poulenc, Praetorius, Purcell, Rabuck, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rutter, Sherck, Schickele, Schütz,  Senfl, Stanford, Susa, Tallis, R. Thompson, Vandervelde, Van Ness, Vaughan Williams, Victoria, Vulpius, Walker, Walther, Whitacre, Willan, Work, and much more



Larger Works, partial listing
Bach, Der Herr denket an uns (Cantata 196)
Bach, Johannespassion BWV 245
Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Cantata 61)
Bach, Magnificat BWV 243
Bach,  Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Cantata 140)
Barber, Reincarnations
Bartok,  Slovak Songs
Beethoven, Mass in C
Beethoven, Ninth Symphony Choral

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem

Brahms, Fest’ und Gedenkspruche
Brahms, Liebeslieder
Brahms, Schicksalslied
Brahms, Zigeunerlieder
Britten,  Ceremony of Carols
Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb
Cooman, There Will Be Stars
Corigliano, Fern Hill
Duruflé, Requiem
Fauré, Requiem
Dove, The Passing of the Year
Durante, Magnificat
Handel, Messiah (Part 1)
Handel, My Song Shall Be Always (Chandos Anthem 7)
Harbold, Song of My Heart
Haydn, Missa Brevis Saint Joannis de Deo
Haydn, Missa in Tempore Belli
Kim, Some Thoughts on Keats and Coleridge
Lauridsen, Chansons des Roses
Madkour, Lovers’ Tales (premiere)
Mozart, Requiem K626
Mozart, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore
Near, Cum Novo Cantico
Orff, Carmina Burana
Persichetti, Flower Songs
Persichetti, Winter Cantata (selections)
Pinkham, Christmas Cantata
Pinkham, Wedding Cantata
Poulenc, Chansons Françaises
Purcell, Come, Ye Sons of Art
Ramirez, Navidad Nuestra
Ravel, Trois Chansons
Ray, Gospel Mass
Schubert, Mass in G
Stravinsky, Mass
Susa, Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest
Tallis, Spem in alium
Thompson, Frostiana
Vaughan Williams, Five English Folk Songs
Vaughan Williams, Mass in G Minor for Double Choir
Vivaldi, Gloria
Vivaldi, Magnificat

Whitacre, Five Hebrew Love Songs
Whitacre, Flower Songs


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