Bach Festival 2008 Season: July 19 – August 9 credits \ © 2006 Carmel Bach Festival

Andrew Megill – Conductor/Director
Choral Activities

Andrew Megill has had an outstanding career as a choral conductor, including serving as the Conductor for Fuma Sacra since 1989, a professional vocal ensemble specializing in Renaissance and Baroque choral music. Highlights of the group’s history include three recordings, a 1990 European debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy (and later performing the first mass sung under the newly restored Filippo Lippi frescoes in the Spoleto Cathedral), performances at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, a recording of American music for European broadcast by the BBC, American and regional premieres of significant new music (by such composers as Peter Maxwell Davies, Robert Heppner, Joanne Metcalfe, Arvo Pärt, Steven Stuckey, Augusta Read Thomas, and Jon Zehnal), and modern premieres of older music (by Guerrero, Isaac, Pachelbel, Telemann, and Zelenka). Fuma Sacra is acclaimed as “one of the country’s premiere ensembles specializing in early vocal music” [Classical New Jersey]

Dr. Megill, as choral conductor for the Spoleto Festival, has had a distinguished record of preparation of choruses for a long list of well-known conductors, including Jules Rudel, Richard Bradshaw, Joseph Flummerfelt, Dennis Russel Davies, Zdenek Macal, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Pierre Boulez, Neeme Jarvi, Charles Dutoit and Kurt Masur.

Dr. Megill received training at the Westminster Choir College, America's pre-eminent choral training institution where he now holds a post as Professor of Choral Conducting. 

“The singing is joyful, the articulation is sheer perfection….”
– Peggy Conkling INTERMISSION MAGAZINE