About Dr. Clayton Parr
Ensemble Alioni of Chicago
Folk Music from the Republic of Georgia
Dr. Parr - Artistic Director
Dr. Clayton Parr is Director of Choral Activities at Albion College, Albion, Michigan. A native of Detroit, Dr. Parr graduated from Albion College with degrees in music and physics, and taught in the public schools in Michigan and New York before earning his MM and DMA at Michigan State University. Before his appointment at Albion, he served on the faculty at DePaul University in Chicago and Miami University in Ohio.
Dr. Parr's choirs have performed at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, Illinois Music Education Association, Ohio Music Educators Association, Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses and the College Music Society. His choirs have completed several international tours and have won prizes at the International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales on two occasions.
Dr. Clayton Parr is Director of Choral Activities at Albion College, Albion, Michigan. A native of Detroit, Dr. Parr graduated from Albion College with degrees in music and physics, and taught in the public schools in Michigan and New York before earning his MM and DMA at Michigan State University. Before his appointment at Albion, he served on the faculty at DePaul University in Chicago and Miami University in Ohio.
Dr. Parr's choirs have performed at conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, Illinois Music Education Association, Ohio Music Educators Association, Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses and the College Music Society. His choirs have completed several international tours and have won prizes at the International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales on two occasions.
Dr. Parr is active as a performer in Chicago, with Music of the Baroque, the Grant Park Music Festival and Bella Voce, and has appeared with the Cincinnati Opera, Oregon Bach Festival, the Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble. His most recent solo appearances have included Carmina Burana with the National Music Center Symphony Orchestra in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is Artistic Director of Ensemble Alioni, a Chicago- based choir dedicated to the performance of Georgian folk song.
His activity as guest conductor, lecturer, adjudicator and performer has taken him to 23 states and 18 foreign countries, including the Republic of Georgia, where he was a Fulbright scholar for the 2005-2006 academic year at the Sarajishvili State Conservatoire. He has served in various leadership positions with the American Choral Directors Association, and is currently Executive Secretary of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses. His articles have been published in the Choral Journal, Music Educators Journal, and International Choral Bulletin, and he is editor for the series “Music of the Republic of Georgia” for earthsongs publishing.
He can be reached at [email protected]
His activity as guest conductor, lecturer, adjudicator and performer has taken him to 23 states and 18 foreign countries, including the Republic of Georgia, where he was a Fulbright scholar for the 2005-2006 academic year at the Sarajishvili State Conservatoire. He has served in various leadership positions with the American Choral Directors Association, and is currently Executive Secretary of Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses. His articles have been published in the Choral Journal, Music Educators Journal, and International Choral Bulletin, and he is editor for the series “Music of the Republic of Georgia” for earthsongs publishing.
He can be reached at [email protected]