 | Jeffrey Douma |
Jeffrey Douma has been appointed as the new director of the historic Yale Glee Club.
Currently director of Choral Activities at Carroll College, Douma will be the seventh director in the group's 142-year history. He will assume his new post on Aug. 1.
"Jeffrey Douma is a choral conductor of considerable talent," says Robert Blocker, dean of the School of Music and chair of the search committee for the new director. "Students, faculty, alumni and the search committee were enthusiastic about his musical abilities and interpersonal skills. I am confident he will provide exemplary leadership for the Glee Club."
Douma is on the conducting faculty at Interlochen National Arts Camp. Previously, he taught at Smith College and St. Cloud State University (Minnesota), and he served as chorusmaster and guest conductor of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Ontario.
A professional singer, Douma is a member of Chicago's renowned chamber choir, Bella Voce. His vocal performances have been under the baton of such eminent conductors as Helmut Rilling, Sir Neville Mariner, Robert Shaw and Dale Warland.
Douma earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College, nationally renowned for its choral music program. He holds both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Michigan. At both Concordia and Michigan he held choral conducting assignments.
The Yale Glee Club began as 13 men of the Class of 1863, singing folk and school songs locally and on tour with the accompaniment of banjos and guitars. Cole Porter, perhaps its most illustrious alumnus, was president of the Club in 1913. Over the years, it grew into a 90-member chorus of men and women; its traditional program includes motets and madrigals, folksongs, spirituals and songs of Yale.
The Glee Club has sung in every principal city in the United States, taking annual winter tours of five or six cities. Frequent summer tours have taken the Glee Club abroad to South America, Asia, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. The 2002 summer tour was a groundbreaking trip to Africa, with performances in Senegal, Morocco, Namibia, South Africa and Mauritius.
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