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Dr. Brady R. Allred, Conductor
For eleven seasons Dr. Allred was the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, where he was praised for developing the choir into “one of western Pennsylvania’s premiere concert choirs.” Through his “artistic, teaching, and management skills,” the choir doubled in size and a touring choir was established. He produced and conducted five CD recordings of the ensemble, the most recent “Cantate Hodie: Sing Forth This Day” receiving international distribution on the Clarion Label. In 2004 he was named Artistic Director and Conductor of the Salt Lake Choral Artists and has been the Artistic Director of the New York State Summer School of the Arts where he has conducted the School of Choral Studies in concerts at the Rockefeller Center for the Arts and at the Chautauqua Institution for five seasons.
Dr. Allred earned the degrees Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music and the Bachelor of Music degree in Theory/Composition and Flute Performance from Brigham Young University. As an undergraduate flutist and composer, he was a winner in the Utah State Fair competitions, was a soloist with the Utah Symphony in their Salute to Youth Concert, winner of the Mayhew Composition Prize, and was named a Karl G. Maeser Scholar. As a graduate student at the Eastman School of Music, he was awarded the Performers Certificate in Flute and the Jesse Kneisel Prize for Piano Accompanying. He has performed with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers and with the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus. Honored in Pittsburgh Magazine for “Excellence in the Arts,” he has toured as a conductor and performer throughout the United States, Russia, Israel, and India, and was nominated for a Creative Achievement Award as an “Established Artist” by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. He and his wife, Soprano Carol Ann Allred, traveled and performed in Italy, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira Island as Artistic Ambassadors for the United States Information Agency. They have four daughters and they make their home in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Dr. Brady R. Allred has developed “an international reputation for excellence.” Under his energetic leadership, Dr. Allred’s choirs have completed seven international tours of Europe, including 13 countries, and a concert tour of Canada. Honors he has received include Grand Prize at the Florilčge Vocal de Tours 2005 International Choir Competition, Tours, France and First Prize at the Marktoberdorf International Chamber Choir Competition with additional prizes for Best Interpretation of 20th Century Music and the Conductor’s Prize. The University of Utah Singers won the Grand Prize at the 2006 European Grand Prix International Choral Competition in Tolosa, Spain. His ensembles, known around the world for exquisite choral singing, have been invited to participate in major festivals such as the Musica Sacra Festival, Marktoberdorf, Germany; the Nancy International Choral Festival, France; the Mica and Olomouc Summer Music Festivals, Czech Republic; and the 46th International Eucharistic Conference, Wroclaw, Poland.
In the United States, Dr. Allred’s choirs have toured extensively, including performances at the Division
Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association in Salt Lake City (2006), Pittsburgh (2002) and
Philadelphia (1996); the Music
Educators National Conference
Eastern Division Conventions in
Baltimore (1997) and New York City (1999) and the 2006 National
Convention in Salt Lake City; the
Pennsylvania Music Educators
Association State Conference as Convention Headliners in Erie, PA (1998); and at the National Convention
of the American Choral Directors Association in New York City at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2003).
Dr. Allred was the Music Director and
Conductor for the Butler Symphony Orchestra
for three seasons, the Director of Choral
Activities at Duquesne University for fourteen
years, and he has been a guest conductor for
the Duquesne University Symphony Orchestra
and Contemporary Ensemble, the
Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, the
Schumann Chamber Orchestra in Florence,
Italy, the Wroclaw Philharmonic in Poland, and
the Symphonic Orchestra of the Russian
Ministry of Defense. Twice the guest conductor
for the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir for
the radio and television broadcast, Music and
the Spoken Word, he is considered “among
the upper echelon of choral conductors in the
country” by Tabernacle Organist, Richard L.
Elliott and rated “in the top 1% of the choral
conductors/educators that I know” by
Tabernacle Choir Music Director, Craig D. Jessop.