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Kelley Bureau
  • Class of 2012
  • Claremont, NH

Local residents perform in "A Baroque Christmas," concert at St. Michael's College

2008 Nov 21

Kelley Bureau, daughter of Brenda and David Foley of Claremont, is a member of the Saint Michael's College Chorale which is performing "A Baroque Christmas" in the SMC Chapel of Saint Michael the Archangel on December 5. The 40-voice performing group is joined by soloists, organist, oboe, trumpet and violin, all under the direction of SMC associate professor of music, Dr. Nathaniel G. Lew, a scholar-musician, educated at Juilliard, who sings himself in an acclaimed Vermont ensemble called Counterpoint.

Bureau is a first-year student, sociology major at Saint Michael's, a liberal arts residential Catholic college, located in the Burlington area of Vermont. She graduated from Stevens High School before coming to Saint Michael's.

"A Baroque Christmas" will include performance of the Gloria of Antonio Vivaldi and excerpts from Messiah by George Frederic Handel. College Organist Susan Summerfield will play works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Soprano Jess Voyer, alto Linda Radtke, tenor Robert Dockstader, and an instrumental ensemble, will also be part of the concert.

The widely popular Christmas concert has become one of the highlights of the holiday season in the Burlington area, drawing an SRO audience from throughout the region to the acoustically superb 1,200-seat chapel. Director Lew was educated at Juilliard, Yale, Cambridge and the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate.

Saint Michael's College, www.smcvt.edu, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns, and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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