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First Parish Music StaffMusic Director, Laura Stanfield Prichard Since moving to Massachusetts in 2003, she has directed gold and silver medal-winning student choirs in Cambridge, Lexington, Lynn, and Marlborough and was the Director of Fine Arts for the Arlington Schools in 2008-09. Ms. Prichard led the Newton-based Sharing a New Song Chorus on collaborative concert tours of South Africa and Vietnam and conducted the Yale Alumni Chorus in Moscow and the Netherlands. From 2003-2006, she conducted the award-winning Sängerchor Boston, the oldest German-language choir in the US, and is a Vocal Diction Coach and Accompanist for the New World Chorale and Longwood Symphony. She and her husband Mike perform regularly with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the New World Chorale, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign,
she was a tenured faculty member in music and dance at California State
University-East Bay (Hayward) and San Francisco State University for eight
years, and has presented lectures at the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco
Opera, and New Century Chamber Orchestra since 1996. This is her seventh
year as Director of Music for First Parish Arlington, and she would be
happy to hear from you if you'd like to contribute to our program. Organist and Pianist, Sarah Haera Tocco Ms. Tocco has made concerto appearances with the Moorpark College Symphony and the California State University Los Angeles Symphony and given solo recitals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and repeat performances for the acclaimed concert series at the Newton (MA) Free Library. She holds both undergraduate and master's degrees in Performance Piano from the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Ms. Tocco performs frequently through out New England area, both as soloist and accompanist, and currently has her debut CD release with the music of Brahms, Chopin and Schubert -- an offering that is becoming a music lover's favorite. She continues to demonstrate her deep, expressive interpretation of Romantic music on stage, and is currently working with four choral groups: the Broad Cove Choral, Unicorn Singers, Sharing a New Song, and Boston College High Choir which tours Itally in November 2008, along with her frequent solo and chamber recitals. Her most recent solo concert at First Parish Arlington was Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Sarah Tocco directs the music program at the Cyrus Dallin School in Arlington and teaches privately in Newton where she lives with her daughter, Annabelle. |
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