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Ellingboe
has been on the faculty of the University of New Mexico since 1985,
where he is Professor of Music and Regents Lecturer. He
has served as Chairman of the Department of Music. In the fall of
2005 Ellingboe assumed the title of Director of Choral Activities.
He is also Director of Music at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Albuquerque.
Ellingboe is
a graduate of Saint Olaf College and the Eastman School of Music
and has done further study at the Aspen Music Festival, the Bach
Aria Festival, the University of Oslo and the Vatican.
Ellingboe is
well known as a composer of choral music, with over 90 pieces in
print. His choral music is widely sung and is published by Oxford,
Augsburg, Hal Leonard, Mark Foster, Choristers Guild, Concordia,
and particularly the Kjos Music Company, for whom he edits two series
of choral octavos. His largest work, the Requiem for choir and orchestra,
was premiered in 2002. Since its premiere it has been done nearly
100 times across the United States.
Ellingboe has
won annual awards for his choral compositions from ASCAP, the American
Society of Composers, Arrangers and Publishers since 2000. His music
has been performed and recorded by such groups as the Santa Fe Desert
Chorale, Philip Brunelle's VocalEssence, the Saint Olaf
Choir, the Harvard Glee Club, Craig Hella Johnson's Conspirar, and
the choirs of the University of Michigan and Luther College, among
many others.
He has prepared
choirs for such luminaries as Dave Brubeck, Moses Hogan, Alice Parker,
Morten Lauridsen and Robert Ray. At the request of composer Libby
Larsen the UNM Women's Chorus Las Cantantes recorded all Larsen's
music for treble chorus. Ellingboe has led festival choirs and workshops
in 33 states and 10 European countries.
As a bass-baritone
soloist, Ellingboe has sung across the United States and in Japan,
Korea, Norway, England and Mexico. He has appeared under such distinguished
conductors as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling and Sir David Willcocks.
In 2005 Ellingboe
joined the national board of the Chorister's Guild. The UNM
University Chorus, which Ellingboe has directed since 1985,
won the Albuquerque Arts Alliance "Bravos Award" for musical
excellence in 2006.
Professor Ellingboe
is the editor of Choral Music for Sundays and Seasons (2004),
published by Augsburg Fortress Press. He is also editor of two books
of songs by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, which have been
widely hailed as significant additions to the understanding of Grieg.
For his efforts on behalf of Norwegian music, Ellingboe was awarded
the Medal of Saint Olav by His Majesty King Harald V of Norway.
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Ellingboe's Web Page.
(11/7/2006)
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