Baldwin UFSD Welcomes Shoshana Hershkowitz as Guest Conductor for Annual Choral Festival
Students from Baldwin High School, Middle School, Brookside, and Lenox Perform
Baldwin School District recently held their annual Choral Festival, featuring the highly esteemed Mrs. Shoshana Hershkowitz as a guest conductor. Performances included Baldwin High School's Concert Choir and Women’s Choir, the Bruin Singers from the middle school, as well as the special choirs of Brookside and Lenox elementary schools. The event culminated with the performance of "Shine On Me" (arr. Rollo A. Dilworth) by all of the choral groups combined and conducted by Mrs. Hershkowitz herself. Leading up to the festival, in addition to working with the students, teachers trained with Mrs. Herschkowitz for additional professional development.
About the Conductor
Ms. Shoshana Hershkowitz holds degrees in music education and vocal performance from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. She is an artist in residence at Stony Brook University, where she conducts the Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers, and prepares choirs for the opera productions. She is the founding conductor of MYO’s Suffolk Symphonic Choir, a county wide high school ensemble, which debuted in 2013.
For ten years, Mrs. Hershkowitz taught at Commack High School, where she directed mixed and women’s choirs. As a guest conductor,Mrs. Hershkowitz has conducted choirs of all age levels for NYSSMA, Vermont American Choral Directors Association,Vermont Music Educators Association, Nassau Music Educators Association, Suffolk County Music Educators Association, and the Hamptons Music Educators Association. As a clinician, Mrs. Hershkowitz has presented workshops for NYSCAME, SCMEA, the Society for Ethics in Education, and the Balanced Mind Conference, as well as with school choirs and choral directors across Long Island. Mrs. Hershkowitz is a proud member of the eVoco Voice Collective, a semi-professional chamber choir.