Concerts 2022-2023

MMC’s “Spirit and Hope” will feature Paul Basler’s “Song’s of Faith” written for choir and horn solo, with Dr. Paul Basler as our guest horn soloist. We are thrilled to have him with us!  Mark your calendar for Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:00 p.m., Morrison United Methodist Church, 1005 West Main Street, Leesburg, Florida.   

Do you enjoy spirituals and gospel songs? American composers? This is the concert for you! Millennium Master Chorale will perform the music of Paul Basler, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Florida; David Brunner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Central Florida; and Andre’ Thomas, Professor Emeritus at The Florida State University; along with a variety of other select American composers and arrangers.

You are cordially invited to “Spirit and Hope” on March 31, 2023 with tickets available through any chorus member, at the door, or online by clicking on the link below. We look forward to seeing you!

 Paul Basler is Professor of Music at the University of Florida where he has been on the faculty since 1993. Prior to his appointment at UF, he served as the Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Music at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, taught at Western Carolina University, and was the North Carolina Visiting Artist in Residence at Caldwell Community College. Basler is a frequent guest performer, lecturer, and composer at national and international music festivals, horn society workshops, and educational institutions. He has been a member of the Brevard, Charleston, Valdosta, Greenville, and Asheville Symphonies and continues to maintain a busy performing schedule throughout the United States and abroad. Basler has received American Cultural Affairs Specialist Grants from the U.S. Department of State and for ten years served as Visiting Artist with the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture and National Conservatory of Music. 

Basler's compositions have been performed throughout the world and have received performances at Carnegie Hall, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Festival Internacional de Música de Cantonigròs, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, the Kennedy Center, the Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, and by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.  His music is published by Carl Fischer, Colla Voce Music, jamesnaigus.com, Walton Music, Hinshaw Music, WaveFront Music, ALRY Publications, Veritas Musica Publications, and the IHS Press.

Basler received his B.M. degree from Florida State University, M.M., M.A. and D.M.A. degrees from Stony Brook University and has garnered teaching awards from the University of Florida, Western Carolina University, the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture, and the Kenyan Office of the President’s Permanent Music Commission. Basler's horn teachers have included William Purvis, William Capps, and Barry Benjamin, and his composition teachers have been John Boda, John Downey, Bülent Arel, John Lessard, and Billy Jim Layton.