About Theodore Thorpe, III
Theodore Thorpe III is a leading voice and contributor to the music field in the Washington area, with experience ranging from conductor to vocalist, pianist, organist, composer, clinician, arranger, and choral master. He has performed as an artistic director, conductor, and soloist at major performing arts centers including Carnegie Hall, the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, the Strathmore Music Center, and the John F. Kennedy Center. He is currently music director at the historic Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, VA, an artistic director for Washington Performing Arts, and director of choral activities at Alexandria City High School. The Alexandria Times noted he is “Inspiring students to soar!” The school’s choral groups have consistently received superior ratings and first place at local and national competitions. They have also performed for the U.S. president in “Christmas in Washington” and “Kennedy Center Honors” nationally televised productions, opened for the cast of the television show “Glee,” and performed at the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Recently, he was selected as one of the 40 educators in the Yamaha “40 under 40” Class of 2023 for his outstanding contribution to music education. For more information, visit www.3tmusic.com.
About Nolan Williams, Jr.
An award-winning producer, arts manager, artistic director, composer/lyricist, and cultural curator, Nolan Williams, Jr. has dedicated his professional career to the curation of works that illuminate issues of civil rights, social justice, and cultural curiosities.
Named the inaugural Social Practice Resident at the Kennedy Center REACH in 2019, Nolan believes in the fundamental power of music and the arts to effect positive change. Over the course of the past 19 years, he has forged his NEWorks Productions into one of the nation's premier creators of inspirational-arts projects, producing educational initiatives, music, cultural festivals, concert events, videos and documentaries, theatrical productions, art exhibitions, community dialogues, and other signature works that reflect the change he seeks in our world.
About Scott Tucker
Scott Tucker has prepared choruses for many of the best-known orchestral conductors in the world including Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Joanne Falletta, Erich Leinsdorf, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Gianandrea Noseda and Michael Tilson-Thomas.
During his tenure as Artistic Director of The Choral Arts Society of Washington (2012-2022), he prepared the chorus for over two dozen appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. In 2018, a reviewer for the Washington Post described the Choral Arts role in Britten’s War Requiem as “…the most moving choral singing I have heard in a quarter-century’s residence in Washington.”
Tucker also prepared Choral Arts for guest appearances with several other orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis.
In addition to his collaborations with major symphony orchestras, Tucker took to the podium to conduct a wide range of choral-orchestral works including classics by such composers as Bach, Brahms and Verdi, as well as deserving lesser-known works such as Bacalov’s Misa Tango, Schmitt’s Psalm 47. And Geter’s An African American Requiem.