Donald Teeters, Music Director The Boston Cecilia
October 13 and 15, 2006

Music Director Donald Teeters is in the forefront of historically-oriented New England musicians. He was the first Boston choral conductor to engage players of period instruments for pre-19th century works. He conducted the Boston period-instrument premiere of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers in 1979, and the first American period-instrument performance of Bach's St. John Passion in 1981. Teeters' two-decade exploration with Cecilia of the Handel oratorios in period-instrument performances has undoubtedly contributed to this area's reputation as a world as a center for Handel studies.

In 2001, The Boston Globe's Richard Dyer wrote of Samson, "the orchestra, seated in an oval around the conductor, as in period etchings, played with purpose in style, and Teeters had trained the chorus wonderfully well — it sang with security, balance, and involvement... (Teeters) cast all inhibition aside to explore the farthest emotional reaches of this all-embracing music."

Of the recent Brahms Requiem, Dyer cited for praise Teeters's "lucid, transparent, flowing, and deeply felt performance."

Teeters' interest in earlier music has not led him to neglect music of his own time. in 2002, he conducted the first performance of Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Jubilations, a work composed for and dedicated to Teeters and Cecilia. Music by Donald Martino, John Harbison, Robert Sirota, James Woodman, and others have figured prominently in Cecilia's recent programming. In 1994, Teeters led the world premiere of Scott Wheeler's The Angle of the Sun, which was commissioned by Cecilia in honor of Teeters' 25th anniversary as director.

In addition to his work with Cecilia, Donald Teeters is also music director at All Saints Parish in Brookline, a church with a celebrated music tradition.

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