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Grant Gershon (born November 10, 1960) [1] is a Grammy Award winning American conductor and pianist.He is Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, formerly Resident Conductor of the Los Angeles Opera, member of the Board of Councillors for the USC Thornton School of Music and a former member of the Chorus America Board of Directors.
For Grant Gershon, director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, hallelujah is a perfect word because it can take on different meanings. “It’s this sound that is just so full of possibilities ...
The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a professional chorus in Los Angeles, California, and one of the resident companies of both The Music Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. [1] It was founded in 1964 by Roger Wagner to be one of the three original resident companies of the Music Center of Los Angeles County .
Such performances include The Third Mother/Mothers’ Lament, in memory of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, which was world premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, under the direction of Grant Gershon, and won her the First Prize in the Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition in 2007. [1]
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The work was debuted in December, 2005, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in two performances by the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Composed in three parts and lasting just over 8 minutes, the work is based on an innovative merging of traditional Hebrew songs with up-tempo rock and roll rhythms and harmonic fanfares.
Two movements of the oratorio were later performed by Grant Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. [5] His writing includes the book The Jewish 100, and research into klezmer music and into music in the plays of William Shakespeare. [6] [7]
He was the first composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Neville Marriner, and was most recently part of the music faculty of UCLA, where he was the head of the Visual Media Program. [3] As of 2015, Chihara is on the faculty of New York University as an Artist Faculty in Film Music. [4]