Our Assistant Directors
Doctoral Candidate Stephen Caldwell
Stephen Caldwell has received critical acclaim as a singer, conductor, and composer alike, and appears regularly in concert, recital, and stage performances throughout the country.
He is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting at Rutgers University. Additionally he is the Artistic Director of the Rainbow Chorale of Delaware, and next year will guest conduct the Lehigh University Choral Arts program in Bethlehem, PA. In addition to Rutgers, he has lectured in voice and vocal pedagogy at both Temple University and The College of New Jersey. He is a vocal consultant for choral programs at many local public schools specializing in presenting seminars about the changing male voice.
An accomplished conductor, in the past year alone he has prepared choirs for many leading conductors and ensembles including a world premiere work with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the annual New Year's Eve Bash with the Delaware Symphony.
A singer and composer in addition to his conducting, he has been heard in concert, recital, and opera throughout the country. His interpretation of leading man Frederic in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance delighted sold-out houses at Philadelphia's historic Academy of Music this past spring. Locally he has been heard with the Savoy Company, The Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, The Philomel Baroque Orchestra, and the Temple University Orchestra and Choirs, among others.
His original, award-winning, compositions and arrangements have been performed throughout the World, by middle school, high school, university, community, and professional choral ensembles. Comfortable in many different genres, his pieces have received premieres at the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, National Collegiate Choral Organization, Music Educators National Conference, and Colorado Music Educators Association. His choral cycle, Midnight's Silence, went on to become a beloved piece of the Taiwanese National Children's Chorus, and his arrangement of The Boar's Head Carol is a perennial favorite during the Holidays. He has been commissioned by the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Kennedy Library in Boston, and many leading American universities. High school choirs have competed and won in national a cappella competitions with his arrangements of Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight, and the Indigo Girls' Galileo.
He holds a BME from the University of Northern Colorado, a French Language Certification from the University of Paris - Sorbonne, and two Master's Degrees, in Vocal Performance and Choral Conducting, from Temple University.
Doctoral Candidate Daniel Spratlan
Mr. Spratlan, a native of Amherst, MA, is in his first-year of doctoral studies in choral conducting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Along with his conducting he is an active professional singer in New York and Philadelphia, performing solo and ensemble music from all time periods. This year he will be performing with the New York Philharmonic, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the American Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Choral Artists, the Crossing Choir, Fuma Sacra, Choral Arts Philadelphia, Opera New Jersey, Piffaro, the Philadelphia Bach Orchestra, and many others. These professional engagements have granted him the opportunity to sing under some of the great conductors of our time including Neeme Järvi, Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Alan Gilbert, and Joseph Flummerfelt.
The Rutgers University Glee Club