Ronald J. Williams

10445 Jellison Way

Westminster, CO 80021

(303) 460-0779 (H) – (303) 946-4173 (C)

ron@ronwilliamsmusic.net

 

Professional Experience

 

August 2000 – June 2008

Broomfield United Methodist Church

Broomfield, CO

 

• Director of Worship and Arts

Full time position with duties that include:  administration of the music department, budgeting, selection of music for the traditional Sunday services, directing the Chancel Choir (traditional), the BUMC Festival Choir and Gabriel’s Horns, the traditional service orchestra.

Responsible for the vision, leadership and direction of the music program, including supervision of the organist, staff accompanists, volunteer adult choir directors, children’s choir directors, hand bell director, volunteer staff, technical staff and several small ensembles.

Arranging and scoring for orchestra for weekly traditional worship services.  Arranging and scoring as needed for Easter, Christmas and special programs.

Selection of major works for concerts and special worship services and the hiring of professional orchestral members and outside soloists as needed. 

 

      Created the following programs at Broomfield UMC:

• Gabriel’s Horns, an orchestra for traditional worship services.
• Madrigal Dinners 2004, 2005
• BUMC Festival Choir, a special events choir that sings major choral works:
  • Fauré Requiem – Good Friday, 2008
  • Rutter Requiem  - Good Friday, 2006
  • Mozart Requiem – September, 2005
  • Mozart Requiem – October, 2001
  • Friday Night Praise! Summer praise concerts.
  • Christmas Festival of Lights – Yearly Christmas concert featuring all adult choirs, hand bells and orchestra.
  • Come Blow Your Horn, a program to build a wind ensemble from former high school and college wind players. 
  • Daytimers, a Wednesday morning women’s chorale.

 

Colorado Repertory Singers

Community Chorale

January 2002 – present

Broomfield, CO

 

• Music Director (part-time)

Founder of the Colorado Repertory Singers, a community chorale in Broomfield, Colorado started in January 2002.  Responsible for all artistic and musical decisions of the chorale as well as planning and conducting three concerts per year, selecting and purchasing music, auditioning new members, and selecting soloists, guest artists and instrumentalists as needed for performances. 

Prepared chorale and four other choirs and conducted a performance of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré at Carnegie Hall, June 11, 2006.

Prepared Chorale to sing Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna at Carnegie Hall, June 2004, under the direction of Dr. Tim Sharpe of Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.  

 

See Appendix for list of concerts.

 

Broomfield Choral Festival

Community Chorale

January 2006 – present

Broomfield, CO

 

• Music Director (summer only)

Founder of the Broomfield Choral Festival, a summer only community chorale in Broomfield, Colorado started in January 2006.  Responsible for all artistic and musical decisions of the Broomfield Choral Festival as well as planning and conducting its one concert per year, selecting and purchasing music, selecting soloists, guest artists and instrumentalists as needed for performances. 

 

See Appendix for list of concerts.

 

August 1995 – August 2000

Park Hill United Methodist Church

Denver, CO.

 

• Music Director

Duties included selection of music for all services, worship design for both contemporary and traditional services, Taize services, bulletin preparation for the contemporary service, direction of the Chancel Choir and the Youth Choir.

Responsible for the vision, leadership and direction of the music program, including supervision of the organist, children’s choir director, handbell choir director, paid soloists and volunteer staff. 

Selected major works for concerts and special worship services.  Hired professional orchestral members and outside soloists as needed.  Arranged and scored parts when additional instrumentalist were used.

Served with other staff members as a director and teacher in the two-week Park Hill United Methodist Church Summer Arts Camp and the annual summer Youth Music Retreat.

 

      Special presentations at Park Hill United Methodist Church under my direction:

• Rutter Requiem with orchestra  (Good Friday, 2000)
• Vivaldi Gloria with orchestra (December, 1999)
• Duke’s Place – A Tribute to Duke Ellington (October 1999)
• Brahms Requiem with combined Park Hill United Methodist Chancel Choir and the Arvada Center Chorale with members of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra  (May 1999)
• Handel Messiah, Part 1 with orchestra  (December 1998)
• Night of Glory, Park Hill United Methodist Church Chancel Choir with Up Close and Musical, musicians of the Colorado Symphony (December, 1998)
• Mozart Requiem with orchestra  (April, 1998)
• Park Hill Presents – a series of concerts that I created that included monthly Second Saturday Jazz  program and Concerts on the Lawn, a series of summer outdoor concerts.

 

September 1998 – 2001

Arvada Center Chorale

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

Arvada, CO.

 

• Music Director (Part-time)

Responsible for the artistic and musical decisions of the Arvada Center Chorale, a community chorale in Arvada, CO, as well as for planning and directing three concerts per year, selecting and purchasing music, auditioning new members, and and selecting soloists, guest artists and instrumentalists as needed for performances. Worked closely with the President, Manager and Chorale Council to ensure continued growth.

Prepared Chorale to sing with the National Repertory Orchestra under the direction of Carl Topilow at the Breckenridge Music Festival.  Works included: Beethoven Mass in C, Rutter Gloria and Borodin Polovtsian Dances.

 

January 2000 – May 2000

Ryan Elementary School

Westminster, CO.

 

• Taught elementary school music, grades 1 – 6 as a full-time substitute (one semester).

 

August 1996 – May 1999

University of Colorado

Boulder, CO.

 

• Adjunct Faculty – Sophomore Aural Skills and Graduate Theory Review, 1998-99
• Nominated for Teaching Assistant of the Year award, 1998
• Teaching Assistant – Sophomore Aural Skills – 1996 – 1998
• Teaching Assistant – Computer Assisted Music Lab- 1995 – 1996

 

September 1995 – August 1996

Celebration Community Church  

Louisville, CO.

 

• Music Director

Duties included selecting all music, directing the choir and playing electronic keyboards for service music in a contemporary setting.  Responsible for producing annual Christmas and Easter programs.

 

1980 – 1995

Grace United Methodist Church  

Lake Mary, Fl.

 

• Music Director/Organist

Duties included selecting all music, training singers, directing the choir and playing the organ for all service music.  Responsible for producing annual Christmas and Easter programs as well as other special programs.

 

      Major works presented at Grace United Methodist Church under my direction:

• Handel’s Messiah (Part 1) with combined Grace United Methodist Church and First United Methodist of Sanford choirs with orchestra.

 

1989-1993

Stetson University

DeLand, Fl.

 

• Served as a rehearsal director for the Stetson University Choral Union under the direction of Dr. Duncan Couch.
• Conducted the Stetson University Concert Choir, under the direction of Dr. Duncan Couch, in Christmas Candlelight concerts.
• Served as a rehearsal director for the Stetson University Chapel Choir
• Served as a substitute teacher for music theory classes.
• Served as a substitute teacher for Sixteenth Century Counterpoint classes.

 

 

 

Education

 

1995 – 1998

University of Colorado                                         

Boulder, CO.

 

• Master of Music

Composition

Studied with Luis Gonzales and Richard Toensing.   Master class with Joan Tower and private lesson with George Crumb.

 

 

1989-1993

Stetson University

DeLand, Fl.

 

• Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude

Major in Music Theory/Composition

Voice principal

Piano secondary

 

• Achievements

Pi Kappa Lambda Honorary Music Society

Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society

Commencement Recital Soloist

Presser Scholar Award

Scholarship to study at the Atlantic Center for the Arts

Outstanding Sophomore Award

Outstanding Freshman Award

 

 

1984-1986

Rollins College

Winter Park, Fl.

 

• Master of business administration
• Achievements

The Executive Scholar Award for highest GPA (3.91)

Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Business Society

 

Other

 

• 2008 Heart of Broomfield award for the arts, Broomfield, CO, April 2009
• Nominated for Grammy Award for Nightwinds in 2006
• Member – American Choral Directors Association.
• Member – American Composers Forum
• Member – American Music Center
• Member – ASCAP
• Member – MTNA (Music Teachers National Assn)
• Past Board of Directors member of Colorado ACDA.
• Past Church Music R&S Chairman of Colorado ACDA.
• 28 years experience in choral conducting.
• Proficient on keyboards – piano and organ
• Voice teacher and coach.

 

 

 

 

         References available upon request

 

Appendix

                   Concerts 

 

*      Coronation Mass (Mozart)– Broomfield Choral Festival Choir and Orchestra   September, 2008

*      Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)– Broomfield Choral Festival Choir and Orchestra   September, 2008

*      Classic Hits  – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                     May, 2008

*      Requeim (Faure)  – Broomfield UMC Church Festival Choir and Orchestra           March, 2008

*      Hit Parade  – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                               March, 2008

*      Holiday Cheer  – Colorado Repertory Singers                                            December, 2007

*      Mass in C (Beethoven) – Broomfield Choral Festival Choir and Orchestra        September, 2007

*      Choral Fantasy (Beethoven) – Broomfield Choral Festival Choir and Orchestra,   September, 2007

*      Requiem – G. Fauré – Carnegie Hall                                                                   June, 2007

*      CRS Favorite Hits – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                           March 2006

*      Messiah – G. F. Handel – Colorado Repertory Singers with orchestra                     December 2006

*      Requiem – J. Brahms – Broomfield Choral Festival with orchestra             September 2006 

*      Requiem – J. Rutter – Broomfield UMC Church Festival Choir and Orchestra        April, 2006

*      From Bach to Blues – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                             May, 2006

*      Spiritual, the Music of Deliverance  – Colorado Repertory Singers                                    March, 2006

*      Gloria – Antonio Vivaldi – Colorado Repertory Singers and Orchestra            December 2005

*      Requiem – W. A. Mozart – Broomfield UMC Church Festival Choir and Orchestra    Sept. 2005

*      As American as Apple Pie – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                   May, 2005

*      From Stage to Silver Screen – Colorado Repertory Singers                                               March, 2005

*      A Night of Glory – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                      December, 2004

*      Mass in C – L. Beethoven – Colorado Repertory Singers and Orchestra         November, 2004

*      Lux Aeterna – M. Lauridsen – Colorado Repertory Singers                                May, 2004 

*      Broadway Revue – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                              March, 2004

*      Rock’n Rossini and Other Classic Hits – Colorado Repertory Singers                      May, 2003

*      Music, the Language of Love – Colorado Repertory Singers                                           March, 2003

*      A Holiday Celebration – Colorado Repertory Singers                                  December, 2002

*      Stars and Stripes Forever – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                    June, 2002

*      Swing is in the Air – Colorado Repertory Singers                                                           April, 2002

*      Messiah – G. F. Handel – Colorado Repertory Singers and Orchestra                     December, 2002

*      Requiem – W. A. Mozart – Broomfield UMC Church Festival Choir and Orchestra    Oct. 2001

*      A Night of Musical Comedy – Arvada Center Chorale                                          March, 2001  

*      Gloria – John Rutter – Arvada Center Chorale and Brass Ensemble           December, 2000

*      Gloria – A. Vivaldi – Arvada Center Chorale                                                        December, 2000

*      Once Upon A Time – Arvada Center Chorale                                                      June, 2000

*      Requiem – John Rutter – Park Hill UMC Chancel Choir and Orchestra                          April, 2000

*      America Sings – Arvada Center Chorale                                                                    March, 2000

*      Gloria – A. Vivaldi – Park Hill UMC Chancel Choir and Orchestra            December, 1999

*      Christmas Heart and Soul – Arvada Center Chorale                                     December, 1999 

*      A Tribute to Duke Ellington – Park Hill UMC Chancel Choir/Arvada Center Chorale                                                                                                                                           October, 1999

*      Requiem – J. Brahms – Park Hill UMC Chancel Choir , Arvada Chorale and Orchestra                                                                                                                                                          May, 1999

*      Swinging in the Bubble Room – Arvada Center Chorale                                        March, 1999 

*      A Holiday Celebration – Arvada Center Chorale                                                      December, 1998 

*      Messiah (Part 1) – G. F. Handel – Park Hill UMC Chancel Choir and Orchestra       Dec. 1998

*      The Seven Last Words – DuBois – Park Hill United Methodist Church                           April, 1997

*      Messiah (Part 1) – G. F. Handel – Grace UMC Chancel Choir and Orchestra           Dec., 1993