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Michael Kemp serves as Upper School Choral and Adult Performance Division Director of Germantown Academy in Ft. Washington, Pennsylvania. He conducts the 100-voice student Singing Patriots and a smaller, auditioned chamber choir. He is the Founding Conductor of the school's two adult ensembles, the Academy Chorale and the Academy Chamber Society, a 60 piece semi-professional symphony orchestra. Formerly he was the Director of Music Ministries of Abington Presbyterian Church in Abington, Pennsylvania, after other significant church music positions in Nashville, Tennessee and Arlington, Texas. While in Texas, Kemp founded and conducted for 11 seasons the Arlington Choral Society, which critics placed "on the top rung of choral music in the Dallas Metroplex". During that time he was also a regular choral and church music lecturer at SMU. Throughout his education at Oklahoma University, Westminster Choir College and the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague, Holland, Michael studied equally in all three areas of voice and viola performance and conducting. He also studied privately with renowned choral authorities Paul Salamunovitch, Phillip Brunelle and Alice Parker, and is a Fellow of Melodious Accord. Michael has been an internationally respected choral, orchestral and church music clinician for 30 years, conducting and lecturing in some 300 workshops and festivals in 40 states and 5 Canadian provinces. He has twice been the guest clinician for conductors throughout Jamaica, and his choirs have toured extensively abroad. Kemp also has the distinction of having served as clinician for the national music conferences of 13 different church denominations in the United States and Canada. His expertise encompasses choral and orchestral conducting, with both adults and youth, in both concert repertoire and church music. He has conducted 250 masterworks of the standard orchestral repertoire, e.g. symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saens, Prokofiev and Copland, including also most of the standard choral/orchestral masterworks. He teaches AP Music Theory, is a published composer, and a regular contributor to professional journals. He and his wife Janice, also a music teacher, have three children, all musicians, which has been a Kemp family tradition for generations! Besides music, he is passionate about tennis, table tennis, volleyball, and landscaping, and is an avid reader. |
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