The Carillon Women’s Chorus is an auditioned group of female singers from Northern Rhode Island and neighboring Massachusetts communities. Now in its 20th year, the group hosts two major concerts a year and performs at many other local events. We rehearse on Sunday evenings at Glad Tidings Community Church (111 Victory Highway, Chepachet, RI) and welcome women ages 16 and beyond. The chorus is not church-affiliated, and our varied repertoire ranges from classical to folk, gospel to contemporary. Vocal technique, diction, sight-singing, and musicianship are the focus of our weekly rehearsals.
 Dr. Christine Noel, Artistic Director
Director of Choral Activities at Clark University and Founding Artistic Director of the RI Children's Chorus, Christine Noel received a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from Boston University, where she has studied with Ann Howard Jones and David Hoose. She was the 2008 recipient of the Boston University Women's Council Scholarship, the 2007 recipient of the Conducting Faculty Honors Award at BU and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. A member of the American Choral Directors Association, she chairs the Children’s Choral Activities for ACDA in Rhode Island and conducted the RI Children's Chorus at the 2010 Eastern Division Convention of ACDA in Philadelphia. Dr. Noel also conducted at the 2009 Eastern Division Convention of the Music Educators' National Conference (MENC). She recently served as Musical Director for productions of Our Town and A Christmas Carol at Trinity Repertory Company.
Fluent in the Italian language, Dr. Noel studied at the Istituto Italiano in Florence, Italy and attained the highest level of Italian studies at the University of Florence. She is also a graduate of the Kodály Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary. While living in Italy, she served as assistant conductor and vocal coach for two Italian choirs, Animae Voces and Coro Polifonico di Caricentro and performed with them as soprano soloist throughout the country.
Dr. Noel is the Associate Conductor of the Providence Singers, which she prepared for performances of Messiah, Carmina Burana and Mahler Symphony No. 3.
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