Category: Herring Chamber Ensemble

Bingham Vick, Jr. is in his fortieth season as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Greenville Chorale. Since 1981 he has expanded the repertoire of the Chorale and excited the Chorale’s ever-growing audience with highly acclaimed performances of great choral-orchestral literature. In 1997 he founded and continues to conduct the professional Herring Chamber Ensemble. Dr. Vick retired as Professor Emeritus from Furman University in May, 2010. He was Director of Furman Singers for forty years. A native of Charlotte, NC, he earned degrees from Stetson University and Northwestern University, where he was a student of Margaret Hillis and Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. He sang for several years in the Robert Shaw Festival Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Mrs. Smith is completing her sixteenth year as Chorale and Herring Ensemble accompanist. She is a graduate of Furman University (B. Music) and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.C.M.). She was a member of the music faculty at The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville for 17 years where she taught AP music theory, aural skills, class piano, and served as vocal coach/accompanist. For 9 years, Mrs. Smith was part-time lecturer at Furman University where she taught piano and music theory…