MEET THE SOLOIST: Providence Singers, Christine Noel, Artistic Director

Providence Singers perform Handel's Messiah
December 12, 2021 at 3PM

Background: Founded in 1971, the Providence Singers, under the direction of Christine Noel, celebrates choral art through concerts of masterworks and contemporary works, creative collaborations, recordings of American choral treasures, new music commissions and education programs. In addition to an annual concert series, the Singers has made frequent guest appearances throughout the region, including annual concerts with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. The Singers performed with Kronos Quartet at FirstWorks, Dave Brubeck Quartet at Lincoln Center and Newport Jazz Festival, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, New Haven Philharmonic, Aurea Ensemble, Brown University Chorus and New Bedford Symphony. New choral works are commissioned through the Wachner Fund for New Music. Opportunities for community education and participation include vocal workshops, concert discussions and community sings. The Providence Singers supports emerging talent through its Fassett Fellowships for young adult singers and through the annual Young Men’s Choral Festival.

Background: Christine Noel recently conducted the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Providence Singers in Handel’s Messiah, and has enjoyed rich collaborations with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, having prepared the chorus for Larry Rachleff and Bramwell Tovey. She has led the Providence Singers through world premieres, commissions and the organization's fourth commercial recording — Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living. She has served on the music faculty and as director of choral activities at Clark University, Worcester, MA, and as musical director at Trinity Repertory Company. Dr. Noel is the Founding Artistic Director of the Rhode Island Children’s Chorus, an award-winning choral organization for youth ages 7-18, which recently made its Carnegie Hall debut. She has conducted the Rhode Island Children’s Chorus at national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the National Association for Music Education.

An active guest conductor, festival clinician, and adjudicator, she holds a master of music and a doctor of musical arts in conducting from Boston University, where she studied with Ann Howard Jones and David Hoose. Passionate about language study, she lived in Florence, Italy, for two years, where she completed the superior level of Italian studies at the University of Florence. She also served as assistant conductor and vocal coach for Italian choirs Animae Voces and Coro Polifonico di Caricentro di Firenze. Dr. Noel holds an undergraduate degree in music education from Rhode Island College, where she was the recipient of a Ridgway Shinn Fellowship for study at the Kodály Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary (1998-1999).

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