2024 TREBLE CHORUS FESTIVAL
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
Deadline: January 27, 2025
Music Educators: Please read the updated 2025 Handbook for all information. Please do not register your students before thoroughly reading the updated handbook.
Deadline: January 27, 2025
Music Educators: Please read the updated 2025 Handbook for all information. Please do not register your students before thoroughly reading the updated handbook.
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REHEARSAL #1
Friday, April 4, 2025 4:00 PM-7:30 PM Location: TBA |
Rehearsal #2 & FESTIVAL DAY
Saturday April 5, 2025 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM - Concert at 3:00 PM Location: TBA |
2024 Northeastern District Treble Chorus Conductor
Eric WIlliamson
As a conducting apprentice of Dianne Berkun-Menaker, Founder & Artistic Director of the Grammy-Award-Winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Eric is emerging as a distinct, powerful, and inspiring voice in the choral community. As conductor with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, he has helped assist in preparing the chorus for highlight collaborations, including Home Alone Live at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic; NY Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts; recordings with William Britelle on his Spiritual America project; the Brooklyn Youth Chorus self produced album Silent Voices; Tosca with New York City Opera; and a special performance Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream with NY Phil Conductor Alan Gilbert.
On his own, he has prepared the chorus to perform at Broadway Fights for Freedom, where the chorus sang backup for Shania Taub.
In addition to his work with BYC, he has also conducted the several honors and all county choirs, and while singing in Italy, he also served as Assistant Choirmaster to Maestro Stefano Vignati and Rebecca Steinke in a production of Suor Angelica. Choirs under his direction have performed in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. As an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, Music Educators Association of New York City, and the Gospel Music Workshop of America, he has performed at both regional and national conferences.
Eric is committed to continuing the legacy of great Black musicians who came before him. As a student of Dr. Anthony T. Leach, Founder of Essence of Joy & Artistic Director of Essence of Joy Alumni Singers, he has a thorough knowledge of music by African & African-American choral music of the Sacred & Secular traditions.
Additionally, in a show of his commitment to EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) work, he currently serves as the ADEI (Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Chair for the New York Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
On his own, he has prepared the chorus to perform at Broadway Fights for Freedom, where the chorus sang backup for Shania Taub.
In addition to his work with BYC, he has also conducted the several honors and all county choirs, and while singing in Italy, he also served as Assistant Choirmaster to Maestro Stefano Vignati and Rebecca Steinke in a production of Suor Angelica. Choirs under his direction have performed in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. As an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, Chorus America, Music Educators Association of New York City, and the Gospel Music Workshop of America, he has performed at both regional and national conferences.
Eric is committed to continuing the legacy of great Black musicians who came before him. As a student of Dr. Anthony T. Leach, Founder of Essence of Joy & Artistic Director of Essence of Joy Alumni Singers, he has a thorough knowledge of music by African & African-American choral music of the Sacred & Secular traditions.
Additionally, in a show of his commitment to EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) work, he currently serves as the ADEI (Access, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Chair for the New York Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.