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For over thirty years, Carol Kozak Ward has been an educator, performer, conductor and specialist in the Hebrew choral repertoire. Her most recent presentations on Jewish choral music were at the annual Colorado convention of ACDA, the American Choral Directors Association (2005), and the national conference for the Universal Unitarian Ministers of Music (2005).In addition, Ms. Ward is an advocate of contemporary choral music, having commissioned such composers as Gerald Cohen, Martin Bresnick, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Aaron Jay Kernis, and includes works of the present day in her programs. Ms. Ward has also taught at a variety of public, private and parochial schools and universities, both in the U.S. and abroad, and is presently on the faculty of the Montessori School of Denver. Ms. Ward holds a Master of Music degree in Choral Conducting from the Yale University School of Music as well as an M.A. in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. As an undergraduate at New York University, she majored in Near Eastern Studies and spent her junior year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Ward and her family lived in Haifa, Israel for six years before relocating to Colorado in 1991.
Travis Yamamoto has worked as a pianist and/or musical director for Country Dinner Playhouse, the Carousel Dinner Theatre, Heritage Square Music Halll, the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Littleton Town Hall, and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Active as a composer, he is the winner of a composition award from the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, has had two works featured on the required repertoire list of the Junior Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and has been the recipient of awards from the ASCAP Standards Awards Panel. Mr. Yamamoto holds degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Southern California. |
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Carol Kozak Ward
Travis Yamamoto