Other Music Faculty at Yale

Marguerite Brooks

Bio: Marguerite Brooks, choral conductor, 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, 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.
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Simon Carrington

Bio: Simon Carrington, choral conductor, 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 11th Tokyo Cantat in Japan. Simon Carrington earned the M.A. degree from University of Cambridge.
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Jeffrey Douma

Bio: Jeffrey Douma, choral conductor, is director of the Yale Glee Club, currently celebrating its 145th year.  Before coming to Yale in 2003, he served on the conducting faculties of Carroll College, Smith College, and St. Cloud State University.  Choirs under his direction have appeared in Leipzig's Neue Gewandhaus, Prague's Dvorak Hall, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Sydney Town Hall, Christchurch Cathedral, Avery Fisher Hall, and Carnegie Hall, and he has prepared choruses for such conductors as Sir David Willcocks, Anton Nanut, Constantine Orbelian, Shinik Hahm, and Krzysztof Penderecki.  He recently established the new Yale Glee Club Emerging Composers Competition and has premiered new works with the Glee Club by such composers as Lee Hoiby and Dominick Argento. He is active as a guest conductor and clinician with musicians at all levels and serves on the conducting faculty at the Interlochen National Arts Camp.  He has performed with many of the nation's leading professional choirs, including the Dale Warland Singers, Bella Voce, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus, and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers.  He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., and both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Choral Conducting from the University of Michigan, where he held several conducting assignments.
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Thomas C. Duffy

Bio: Thomas C. Duffy, composer and conductor, is Director of Bands at Yale University   He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee, a member of the Tanglewood II Symposium planning committee, and was member of Harvard University's Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (2005). He has served as president of the New England College Band Directors Association, and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Eastern Division, editor of the CBDNA Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees, and has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program. He is a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, and BMI. An active composer with a D.M.A. in composition from Cornell University, where he was a student of Karel Husa and Steven Stucky, he has accepted commissions from the American Composers Forum, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Field Band, and many bands, choruses, and orchestras. Deputy Dean of the School of Music from 1999 to 2005, he served as Acting Dean in the 2005-06 academic year. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.
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Shinik Hahm

Bio: Shinik Hahm 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.
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