Michael barrett, MUSIC DIRECTOR
Michael Barrett is a Boston-based conductor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and teacher. He serves as music director of The Boston Cecilia, Convivium Musicum, and the MIT Meridian Singers. Michael is also an Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music, where he teaches courses in conducting and European music history, and was recently appointed as Interim Director of the Five College Early Music Program, where he directs the Five College Collegium.
Michael has performed with many professional early music ensembles, including Blue Heron, the Boston Camerata, the Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Luminis, the Handel & Haydn Society, Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Netherlands Bach Society), Seven Times Salt, Schola Cantorum of Boston, and Nota Bene, and can be heard on the harmonia mundi, Blue Heron, Coro, and Toccata Classics record labels.
He holds degrees in music (AB, Harvard University), voice (First Phase Diploma, Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands), and choral conducting (MM, Indiana University; DMA, Boston University).
KEVIN NEEL, ACCOMPANIST
Kevin Neel enjoys a versatile career as organist, collaborative pianist, conductor, and singer. He has been heard at the organ in numerous venues including Symphony Hall (Boston), Old South Church, Trinity Church Copley Square, Old West Church, Methuen Memorial Music Hall, as well as numerous venues in the Southeast. He also has appeared as organ and piano accompanist for multiple choral ensembles in the New England area. In December 2016 he co-founded “et al.,” a choral ensemble whose mission is to tell stories through diverse, thoughtful programming performed at the highest level. As a singer, he has sung with Emmanuel Music, Cantata Singers, Marsh Chapel Choir, and VOICES 21C.
He is Director of Music and Organist at All Saints Episcopal Church in Worcester, where he directs the All Saints Choir (choristers and adults), manages the Music Series, oversees music education programs, plays the Rice Memorial Organ (IV/132 Aeolian Skinner Op. 909), and collaborates with Worcester-area music and arts organizations. He previously served as Organist and Chapel Choir Director at Emmanuel Church in Boston. He was named in the Diapason Magazine's 2019 Class of "20 under 30" which recognizes young talents in the fields of organ and harpsichord performance, organ and harpsichord building, carillon, and church music. He holds degrees from Boston University in Choral Conducting and Indiana University in Organ Performance and is originally from the Charlotte, NC area.