Simon Carrington, choral conductor, (left) is the music director of the Yale Schola Cantorum. Professor Carrington joined the Yale faculty in 2003 from New England Conservatory, where he directed the choral activities from 2001 to 2003. Previously he served for seven years as Director of Choral Activities at the University of Kansas. While at Cambridge University, he co-founded the King's Singers and spent twenty-five years with this internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble. He gave 3,000 performances at many of the world's most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made over seventy recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs (including nine appearances with the late Johnny Carson). Professor Carrington maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and masterclasses all over the world. Most recently he has conducted youth choirs in the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona; the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland; and the Texas All State Choir; in 2005-06 he conducts at the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest, leads workshops at the Choral Festival in Sarteano (Italy), gives the keynote address at the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors conference, and conducts at the 11^th Tokyo Cantat in Japan. Simon Carrington earned the M.A. degree from University of Cambridge.

Marguerite Brooks, choral conductor, (right) holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Temple University. She has served on the faculties of Smith and Amherst College and was also director of choral music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The conductor of the Yale Camerata and Yale Pro Musica, Brooks joined the Yale faculty in 1985 as the director of the choral conducting program at the School of Music and the director of choral music at the Institute of Sacred Music. She is active as a guest conductor and gives master classes sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and the American Guild of Organists, and is director of music at the Church of the Redeemer in New Haven.

Shinik Hahm (www.shinikhahm.com) has conducted major orchestras and opera companies in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He served as music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 2004, when he was appointed Music Director of the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale, the orchestra of the Yale School of Music. Since 1988, he has been music director of various orchestras including the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, and currently is the music director/conductor of the Daejeon Philharmonic and the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras. An active opera conductor, he has performed numerous times with the Silesian State Opera in Poland. Since 1992, he has made annual appearances with the Korean Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and led that orchestra in its 1995 tour of the United States in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean independence. This June, he brought the Daejeon Philharmonic to Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and other major American cities. He has conducted the orchestras of Los Angeles, Warsaw, Fort Worth, Atlanta, Boulder, Bangkok, Louisville, Toronto, Omaha, Hartford, Prague, Bilbao, St. Petersburg, Russia, and many others. Among numerous distinctions, he has won the Gregorz Fitelberg International Conducting Competition as well as the Korean Cultural Medal, Korea’s highest civilian honor. He has earned degrees at Rice University and at the Eastman School of Music.